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Who said the "Bush regime" "did" 9/11? This is an extreme simplification. It's like saying the Taliban did 9/11. In fact, according to the official story, it was a cell of terrorists harbored by the Taliban regime, who themselves were caught by surprise. This is not a bad analogy for inside job theory: 9/11 was a covert operation harbored by the Bush mob.
No one claims Bush did anything except follow his instructions to sit tight in that classroom until it was over. Ditto other known regime members. The question is whether their contractors are competent.
The "incompetence" of the Bush regime is the de rigeur excuse for not having to actually think with regard to 9/11. They're so stupid, so they couldn't have pulled it off, and we don't even have to examine the facts.
If the Bush people are so incompetent, how is it that so far they got everything they wanted, generally with the support of Democrats?
Of course, the 9/11 op left a host of loose ends, and the perps surely depended on the knowledge in advance that the unwitting regime members would never question a simple Bin Ladin theory, and that the utterly corrupt corporate media apparatus would serve as a reliable transmission belt and ignore any anomalies, and that (on the level of individual discourse) self-appointed obscurantists like Taibbi (sad to see it, a very fine writer otherwise) would do the job of muddying the waters with strawmen and innuendo, making factual discussion difficult.
Speaking of competence, and just to adopt your nonsensical logic, what do you think about the time Atta and Shehhi couldn't get their Cessna to start, at which point they abandoned it on the runway queue at Opa Locka Airport, walking away without even telling the airport authorities. Wow, if they can't even get a Cessna to start... how the hell did they steer two hits on the WTC in their first ever attempts to pilot a live Boeing?
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Those who call the Bush mob "incompetent" make a fatal error. On some unconscious level, they seem to think that these criminals somehow share any of the goals of decent human beings, and have therefore "failed" to produce good results. But that, of course is the idea that motivates the Bush crime family: to produce results (evil or otherwise) that happen to enrich their own class.
The situation in Iraq for example is not the result of "incompetence." It is all according to plan, which was to destroy that nation.
Over and over we see the awesome competence of the Bush regime in accomplishing their radical plans - at almost every stage very much thanks to the enablers who run the Democratic Party, and who have smoothed the way for the Bush mob in each of their following accomplishments:
Stealing Election 2000.
Trillion dollar giveaway to the rich, intentionally plunging the country into deficit.
9/11. Exactly as desired.
Stealing a sum specified as "2.3 trillion dollars" from Pentagon assets.
Repealing the Bill of Rights in the USA PATRIOT Act.
Getting dozens of other countries to pass their own PATRIOT acts.
Invading Afghanistan. Exactly as planned, years in advance.
Funnelling trillions more legally into the Pentagon.
Establishing a Homeland Gestapo.
Instituting Rule by Fear, color-coded no less.
Railroading the idiot Congress into approving the war in Iraq.
Accepting the assassination of Wellstone by whatever lower-level operative delivered it.
Stealing Election 2002.
Establishing "Total Information Awareness" and getting away with it, even after departure of Poindexter.
Invading Iraq. Killing untold thousands.
Getting the Iraqis into a civil war, with the intent of making sure that country never recovers.
Covering up 9/11.
Using 9/11 as an election device and excuse for everything.
Stealing Election 2004.
Using Katrina as the opportunity to empty out New Orleans and test out long-standing "civil disturbance" doctrines.
Pushing through two right-wing Supreme Court appointments without a filibuster.
Rewiring Americans overnight to believe Iran is now the enemy.
Wow! What a list! A veritable juggernaut of competence.
The Bush mob (almost) always get what they want, and the Democratic "leadership" (almost) always helps them when it counts. Yes, they had to take a loss on the first attempt to steal the entire Social Security fund, but there are many opportunities yet to come.
Yes, it's all at a time of awesome crisis to US-based capitalism, so much of it looks jerry-rigged but so what? It's not like the Bush mob invented the crisis of capitalism. So far, they're getting away with a particular plan to thrive in that crisis, by plundering everything, whether nailed down or not.
Competent at what they do, which is what they've always done: pillage and plunder.
And those who call them "incompetent" sadly serve to excuse and enable their crimes.
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