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Bremer said bush waiting for major incident { April 30 2004 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/whitehouse/la-na-bremer30apr30,1,7739281.story?coll=la-news-politics-white_house http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/whitehouse/la-na-bremer30apr30,1,7739281.story?coll=la-news-politics-white_house THE NATION Bremer Warned Bush Was Lax on Terrorism The Iraq administrator said in a speech six months ahead of Sept. 11 attacks that the administration was 'paying no attention.' From Associated Press April 30, 2004 WASHINGTON — L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, said in a speech six months before the Sept. 11 attacks that the Bush administration was "paying no attention" to terrorism. "What they will do is stagger along until there's a major incident and then suddenly say, 'Oh my God, shouldn't we be organized to deal with this,' " Bremer said at a McCormick Tribune Foundation conference on terrorism Feb. 26, 2001. Bremer spoke at the conference shortly after he served as chairman of the National Commission on Terrorism, a bipartisan body formed by the Clinton administration to examine U.S. counterterrorism policies. The remarks drew attention on the same day President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney appeared before the Sept. 11 commission to explain the precautions they took to prevent a terrorist attack after taking office in January 2001. White House spokesman Scott McClellan did not comment on the Bremer remarks directly. "The actions we took prior to Sept. 11 demonstrate that we took the terrorist threat seriously," he said. "The first major foreign policy directive was a comprehensive, aggressive strategy to eliminate Al Qaeda." The foundation is a charitable organization founded by Robert McCormick, former editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune. The Times is a Tribune Co. newspaper. At the speech, delivered in Wheaton, Ill., Bremer, whose diplomatic jobs included a stint as ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism, said a war against terrorism would be unending. "If you call it a war, you suggest there's a victory," he said. "I would argue there is no final victory in the war against terrorism any more than there is in the so-called war against crime."

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