Michael Moore: The unholy alliance between the Bushes and the Saudis

[wyldwolf]

RollingStone Magazine excerpt from "Dude, Where's My Country?"

The questions I have about the attacks on September 11th, however, are not about how the terrorists got past our defense system, or how they were able to live in this country and never be detected, or how all the Bulgarians who worked at the World Trade Center got a secret communique to not show up to work that day, or how the towers came down so easily when they were supposedly built to withstand earthquakes, tsunamis and truck bombs in their parking garage. These were all questions that a special commission investigating September 11th was supposed to answer. But the very formation of that commission was opposed by the Bush administration and Republicans in Congress. Reluctantly, they finally agreed -- but then they tried to block the investigative body from doing its job by stonewalling it on the evidence it sought.

Why wouldn't the Bush people want to find out the truth? What were they afraid of? That the American people would learn that they screwed up, that they were asleep at the wheel when it came to terrorist threats, that they belligerently ignored the warnings from outgoing Clinton officials about Osama bin Laden simply because they hated Clinton (Sex! Bad!)?

http://www.rollingstone.com/features/featuregen.asp?pid=1992

[onebigbadwulf]

1. Bought it yesterday

I've read Moore's other two books. Now I'm working on this one. As far as I can tell it is the best ammo any presidential candidate can offer.

[screaming_meme]

2. This is ultra-important

The cozy relationship between sauteed arabia and the US has led to the biggest disaster since Pearl Harbor. No factor was more important. The Bush family's closeness with the Sauds is especially disturbing, example being Barbara Bush's consolation of the Saudi Princess when it was learned she gave direct financial gifts to the Saudi national who hosted some 9/11 terrorists in San Diego.

This shitty arrangement with the scum of Saudi Arabia was extant long before the Bushes took office. Our relationship has to be terminated, the Sauds should be deposed. They are worse than our enemies. They are enemies who pose as friends.

[RC]

3. No, the real problem is that

they aided and abetted the atrocities on 9/11/01. They were not just asleep at the wheel.