HOW BUSH CHEAPENED 9/11

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=127&ncid=742&e=13&u=/030911/7/58gi4.html

<snip>The Administration pinned the blame on Osama on the afternoon of 9/11, Woodward writes: "Al Qaeda was the only terrorist organization capable of such spectacular, well-coordinated attacks, Tenet said." They didn't have hard evidence, and no one had claimed responsibility, yet Bush had already decided to attack Afghanistan.

At a 4 p.m. meeting of the National Security Council on September 12, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "raised the question of Iraq. Why shouldn't we go against Iraq, not just Al Qaeda? he asked." No one mentioned that secular Iraq and fundamentalist Al Qaeda were mortal enemies. On September 15, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz "estimated that there was a 10 to 50 percent chance Saddam was involved in the September 11 terrorist attacks." More conjecture.

Despite an absence of evidence that Iraq had been involved with 9/11, Bush's men had decided to take out Saddam years before taking office. After floating a variety of excuses that all turned out to be lies, they got their way in March 2003. Neither America's allies, nor its people marching the streets, nor facts that contradicted Bush's baseless charges, could stop them.

Instead of abandoning standard party-line politics, Bush cheapened the 9/11 attacks by using them to promote Republican platform planks like free trade and huge tax cuts for his rich contributors. Instead of uniting Americans, he smeared Democrats as unpatriotic. Instead of going after the Saudi and Pakistani government officials who contributed to 9/11, he called them allies in a "war on terrorism" that killed and maimed ordinary, innocent Muslims. And he ruined a feeling of post-9/11 national unity that had prevailed among all Americans.

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2. Keep your chin up, Its always darkest befor the dawn

Welcome to DU Tacitean.

Don

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4. Excellent post Tacit...enjoyed it!

[NJCher]

3. not the golden boy, rather the beholden boy

Yes, welcome, Tacitean.

I never thought of bush as a golden boy, but of course the operative word is your post is in the first line: "appeared."

Anybody with any common sense knew that he was only Ivy League because his father got him into the institution and he was only a millionaire because, like his daddy, he's a thief. bush has long been known for being vapid and a corporate puppet. He was a puppet in TX and he's a corporate puppet as the pRez. Texas is the only place with people ignorant enough to vote for him to the tune of a 70% win, which was probably vote rigged anyway. Well, maybe Florida.

The "organization and discipline" routine was just more spin from Rove. It was designed to counteract the open, brainy policy sessions that were characteristic of Clinton. The "adults are in charge." LOL. What a joke that turned out to be.

Bush couldn't lose his soul because he never had one in the first place and the reason things are awry is because his entire cabinet is out of touch with reality.


Cher