The controversy surrounding President George W. Bush’s Air National Guard record is about as relevant to this year’s presidential election as is candidate John Kerry’s sex life. What does either have to do with the issues? And what are the issues? When will the campaign focus on our abolished Bill of Rights via the USA Patriot Act? When will the debates home in on the unbelievable record spending by Republicans that is propelling our nation, our children and grandchildren into irreducible debt? How can tax reduction make sense in a perpetual war economy created by an administration that has proclaimed the right to conquer and rule the world?
We are terrorizing all other nations on the planet. We are indeed the most powerful and most dangerous threat to world peace. Where once American government was the culprit, the nations of the world are now convinced that it is the government of the United States propped up by its supportive masses that comprises the total threat. Hence, 9-11, the terrorist act warranted by American belligerence in the Middle East, and capitalized upon by our own government to direct the anger of the masses at Iraq and Saddam Hussein, was the payback.
In his recent article posted on WorldNetDaily on February 16th, Patrick J. Buchanan quotes an outraged Al Gore. His article entitled, “Have the neocons killed a presidency?” Buchanan opens, “‘George W. Bush betrayed us,’ howled Al Gore. ‘He played on our fear. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure, dangerous to our troops, an adventure that was preordained and planned before 9-11 ever happened.’”
Buchanan relates, “Hearing it, Gore’s rant seemed slanderous and demagogic. For though U.S. policy since Clinton had called for regime change in Iraq, there is no evidence, none, that Bush planned to invade prior to 9-11. Yet, the president has a grave problem, and it is this: Burrowed inside his foreign policy team are men guilty of exactly what Gore accuses Bush of, men who did exploit our fears to stampede us into a war they had plotted for years.”
The article goes on to list the names of the members of the secret PNAC cabal that has been forging our destructive war hawk policy of “might makes right.” It is a stupid, foolish, self-destructive policy that will eventually lead to our nation’s demise. The situation in Iraq is worsening, and like it or not, Saddam’s ruthless dictatorship kept competing, warring factions at peace. Our wrongful invasion has brought al-Qaeda into Iraq where it previously did not exist, and we have now provided both Iraqi secularists and Muslims with a common enemy, “The Great Satan,” which can be made war upon patriotically and on a daily basis. They have met the enemy, and it is US.
Buchanan cites the reflections of one of the PNAC conspirators, David Wurmser: “On Jan. 1, 2001, nine months before 9-11, Wurmser called for U.S.-Israeli attacks ‘to broaden the [Middle East] conflict to strike fatally … the regimes of Damascus, Baghdad, Tripoli, Teheran and Gaza … to establish the recognition that fighting with either the United States or Israel is suicidal. Crises can be opportunities,’ added Wurmser. On Sept. 11, opportunity struck.”
The anti-Iraq plot thickens when considering 9-11, and does so in a horribly twisted fashion. Buchanan cites Paul Wolfowitz: “On Sept. 15, according to author Bob Woodward, Paul Wolfowitz spoke up in the War Cabinet to urge that Afghanistan be put on a back burner and an attack be mounted at once on Iraq, though Iraq had had nothing to do with 9-11. Why Iraq? Said Wolfowitz, because it is ‘doable.’”
All of this points to only one conclusion. Considering the bald-faced lie delivered by National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice when addressing the press and offering that the United States government had no knowledge of the strong possibility that international terrorists might hijack passenger and fuel-laden airliners and “use them as missiles” and fly them into buildings, facts exist that prove that the United States government had been aware of this kind of threat since 1993, and did nothing about it! The only sad conclusion is that THEY INTENDED IT TO HAPPEN!
This observation may seem hideously absurd and insanely grounded in partisan vindictiveness, but is it? Since 1993, intelligence reports from police in the Philippines and from intelligence bureaus in Germany provided ample warnings to our government. And the 1993 WTC bombing showed clearly the terrorists’ intent to bring down the building. And with the subversion by Washington DC headquarters of FBI field office reports documenting the large number of unusual pilot training programs being undertaken by aliens with and without visas, the so-called bureaucratic fumbling by both the CIA and the FBI offers more than just bureaucratic incompetence as regards the success of 9-11.
Considering the wanton disregard for human life demonstrated by PNAC types such as Wurmser and Wolfowitz, individuals who see “crises as opportunities,” and unnecessary, unjust and unconstitutional wars as necessary, just, and constitutionally irrelevant due to their being “doable,” how much of a stretch is it really to go just a bit further in terms of their sick and convoluted minds? Remember, our airlines and defense systems were notified very early on that fateful day, yet these terrorist were airborne and in command of four aircraft for ONE HOUR! And only one appears to have been shot down – Flight 93 in Pennsylvania. Where are that aircraft’s black boxes?
Of course, government officials can proclaim all this as absolutely hideous thinking, totally ridiculous, and unjust speculation, but the outrageously transparent “investigations,” commissions, panels, and redacted reports, along with the intelligence screw-ups, do little to dissuade any reasonably intelligent observer from coming to such a conclusion. Reasonable, decent individuals, with morals and a high level of integrity would never stoop to allow the horror of 9-11 to deliberately happen thereby sacrificing 3,000 American lives.
But people who see crises as “opportunities,” and wars as being justified because they’re “doable,” have neither morals nor any modicum of integrity. To them, the ends justify the means, and might makes right. And no one in America elected any of these war criminals!
And all this now brings us to our nation’s current chief executive, President George W. Bush. The chief executive of our nation cannot logically be expected to oversee the entire operation of the massive United States government. Just as in the case of a CEO of a major corporation, such as the ill-fated Enron, it is totally possible for executive underlings to engage in evildoing without the top executive knowing what’s going on.
But to the average guy and gal on the street, even if they never completed a basic high school bookkeeping course, can distinguish the difference between an isolated accounting anomaly or localized embezzlement versus creative accounting designed to enrich the organization via legalistic corporate trickery. This trickery morphs to corporate policy, and that is most definitely the responsibility of the chief executive.
The prosecution of war against Iraq was committed Bush administration policy. It wasn’t the case where the PNAC cable had free rein. They could easily have deliberately shunted intelligence information to fool the president, and could most certainly have plotted to allow 9-11 to go down unimpeded by our defense systems. But if Bush was fooled before the fact, what’s his excuse for not actively and aggressively presenting the American people with one) a detailed and comprehensive explanation, and two) the symbolic ritual of divestiture of responsible underlings after the fact?
Why weren’t FBI Director Robert Mueller III and CIA Director George Tenet fired? Why hasn’t Bush apologized for the wrongful war in Iraq? Why hasn’t he apologized or explained how it wasn’t possible for America’s defenses to protect the American people? We are supposed to accept intelligence failures and the Bill of Rights as causative factors?
Peggy Noonan in her recent articles in the Wall Street Journal wants us to understand that President Bush is only good at articulating philosophy, but not too good reciting from “talking points” while being cross-examined by hostile reporters. NBC’s Tim Russert didn’t come across as hostile, but Bush was flushed and stumbling. If he were on the witness stand, he would have come across as a horrible liar. And it has been said of Bush that he doesn’t inform himself, but gets all news and information from advisors. And that’s just the way he came across in his recent Meet the Press interview.
Buchanan sums it up nicely: “Now the WMD case has fallen apart. Powell has egg on his face. And the president must persuade Tim Russert and the nation that Iraq was a ‘war of necessity’ because we ‘had no choice when we looked at the intelligence I looked at.’ But, sir, the intelligence you ‘looked at’ was flawed. Who gave it to you? To its neocon architects, Iraq was always about empire, hegemony, Pax Americana, global democracy – about getting hold of America’s power to make the Middle East safe for Sharon and themselves glorious and famous. But now they have led a president who came to office with good intentions and a good heart to the precipice of ruin. One wonders if Bush knows how badly he has been had. And if he does, why he has not summarily dealt with those who misled him?
“Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this notice and hyperlink intact.”