People in charge that sat on their hands: Paul Wolfowitz

[John Doe II]

Right now the lack of action of Bush, Rumsfeld, Myers and also Winfield has regained the attention of DU. There is another person in charge that sat on his hands, saw no reason to take any action, to take responsability and to do what his oath required him to do: defend his country. I'm talking about Paul Wolfowitz who IMO needs to be added to list of people that should be put on trial for their unexplicable lack of action. Read his own words of what he did the morning of 911 and how he considered the events:

Wolfowitz: We were having a meeting in my office. Someone said a plane had hit the World Trade Center. Then we turned on the television and we started seeing the shots of the second plane hitting, and this is the way I remember it. It's a little fuzzy.
Q: Right.
Wolfowitz: There didn't seem to be much to do about it immediately and we went on with whatever the meeting was. Then the whole building shook. I have to confess my first reaction was an earthquake. I didn't put the two things together in my mind. Rumsfeld did instantly.
Q: Did he really?
Wolfowitz: Yeah. He went charging out and down to the site where the plane had hit, which is what I would have done if I'd had my wits about me, which may or may not have been a smart thing to do. But it was, instead the next thing we heard was that there'd been a bomb and the building had to be evacuated. Everyone started streaming out of the building in a quite orderly way. Congregated on the parade ground basically right in front of the Pentagon which would have been about the worst place to have a crowd of a couple of thousand people in that moment if we'd again had our wits about us. But we were out of the building anyway.
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030509-...

Now, let's get this straight:
He sees the second attack and has the guts to state "There didn't semm to be much to do about it"??? Give me a break: Maybe let's talk about defending the country and now about defense spending???
And with a nonchalance he doesn't mention that the small word "then" means 34 minutes later. Does he seriously want to tell us that for 34 minutes he didn't do anything about taking action nor that ne was informed of anything approaching the Pentagon? (His words clearly imply that he stayed with Rumsfeld btw).
And then he even has the guts to declare that after two planes hitting the WTC his first thought when the building shook was that of an earthquake??
Sorry, this stinks. And whatever one wishes to say to his defense. A simple thing remains: HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. They all had to sit around and stall

until the attack was over.

All of the planes were supposed to take off by 8:00 AM. If the planes had all taken off on time, the attack would have been over by 9:00 AM and Rummie, Wolfie and the rest of the gang wouldn't have been caught with their pants down waiting for the attack to finish. Instead, they would have looked and acted like heroes trying to defend America from the bad, bad terrorists.

If anyone hasn't noticed, not one single person at the top level of command reacted appropriately to the attack. Not a single one.

[spooked911]

2. Their excuse, was that the hijackings were a law enforcement issue,

not something that the military needed to get its hand dirty with.

It's NOT A GOOD excuse, in fact I think it is a terrible excuse, but I think it's their excuse-- and they are sticking with it!

[dbeach]

4. Law enforcement issue that started 3 wars:Iraq,.Afi,,GWOT

or ya could say one continuing war called GWOT

VN was initially a Police action..so I was deputized BUT Never did arrest anyone....

it would be fine if Law enforcement actualy did their job and did not allow evidence from the crime scene at WTC to be sold off to China

But whadda ya expect from the Yale U grad who received ' "gentlemans C's "for grades from his intimidated professor's..

Privleged elites = parasites on the World's financial and psychological health

9/11 = continuing trauma on the masses for corporat profit..

[spooked911]

7. But if this was their excuse, WHY THE FUCK WERE THEY RUNNING A HIJACKING

EXERCISE and PLANE INTO BUILDING EXERCISES ON 9/11????

And why had they previously run hijacking exercises and plane into building drills if it was merely a law-enforcement issue.

Obviously they are fucking lying their asses off and the media won't call them on it (and neither will the Dems unfortunately).

[Bismillah]

10. If so, why was the CRIME never investigated by the police?

Er...wait a minute... it was "a law enforcement issue" while it was happening... then, after it had happened, it became "a national security issue". And we can't have the police sniffing around in that kind of stuff, now, can we? The cops can't all be trusted to keep their mouths shut.

Simple really, when you think about it.

[spooked911]

11. Good point!

[BeFree]

3. Curious.... and odd

Odd that these are the same people who are now in charge of the Iraqi liberation. Lets see.... they failed to do the right thing that day yet they now have the duty of seeing that our billions of dollars and thousands of troops in Iraq are handled properly.

It's as if we hired arsonists to put out a house fire. Well, as this story suggests, all they do is sit around and watch it burn.

Curious too, that the whole Iraqi fiasco is nothing more than a huge, Big Governement Program. And all we hear is keep doing what we are doing: Throw more money at it and keep it all a secret. Whatever happend to keeping government employees accountable?

[spooked911]

5. Whatever happened to keeping government employees accountable?

Are you kidding? That's only when the Democrats are in power!

Anything goes if you're a Republican!

[StrafingMoose]

6. Amazing isn't it?

Those guys have the power to launch illegal wars against 3rd world countries that are REALLY shaking the geopolitical boat (seizing 10% of the world's know oil resource, and owning 25% of it just beside it) that 25 years ago would have probably risked a nuclear exchange between the Soviet Union and them. They can seize the American people's asset to invest it into the biggest defense budget ever. Yet they can't overide various agencies and say "Wtf?! We need fighters, send them right the @&*!^ now!".

[spooked911]

8. Yep, well put.

And welcome to the 9/11 forum!

:toast:

[StrafingMoose]

9. Thnx :P