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Who Created the "Terrah" Problem?
Posted by dpbrown in General Discussion
Thu Aug 17th 2006, 11:26 PM
Who is our enemy?
In the fall of 1999, the Defense Department-chartered Hart-Rudman Commission determined that terrorism was such an imminent threat that "Americans will likely die on American soil, possibly in large numbers."
Bush administration officials told former Sens. Gary Hart, D-Colo., and Warren Rudman, R-N.H., that they preferred instead to put aside the recommendations issued in the January report by the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century. Instead, the White House announced in May that it would have Vice President Dick Cheney study the potential problem of domestic terrorism -- which the bipartisan group had already spent two and a half years studying -- while assigning responsibility for dealing with the issue to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, headed by former Bush campaign manager Joe Allbaugh.
The Hart-Rudman Commission had specifically recommended that the issue of terrorism was such a threat it needed far more than FEMA's attention.
But declaring a "national emergency" and invoking FEMA allows the suspension of civil liberties.
On August 6, 2001, Bush got a Presidential Daily Briefing entitled "Bin Laden determined to strike in US." He didn't read it.
Reagan Created bin Laden
Osama bin Laden was trained by the CIA, as part of a policy of arming a multi-national coalition of Islamic extremists in Afghanistan during the 1980s - well after the destruction of the Marine barracks in Beirut or the hijacking of TWA Flight 847, by a jolly actor who played the role of President and was good for TV ratings. So bin Laden, along with a small group of Islamic militants from Egypt, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestinian refugee camps all over the Middle East, became the "reliable" partners of the CIA in its war against Moscow.
But that war ended in 1989, and since then bin Laden has been the very picture of a reckless CIA project gone wrong. He has used his Saudi construction fortune and any other money he's gotten to attack U.S. interests anywhere he could from his Taliban-sponsored haven in Afghanistan.
George "W" Bush - World's Largest Supporter of the Taliban
Bin Laden launched two devastating attacks on American embassies in Africa from Afghanistan in 1998. Despite that, this administration gave the Taliban, arguably the most repressive regime in the world, and the government harboring the most dangerous terrorist in the world, $43 million for declaring that growing opium is "against the will of god." This made the United States, in 2001, the world's greatest monetary supporter of the Taliban.
So this administration was specifically warned, officially, by a Defense Department Commission, yet purposefully turned its back on those recommendations. It blindly pursued the "drug war" mentality of Bush I and the "star wars" mentality of Reagan. It declared itself oblivious to the current state of the world in its thrall with isolationism.
While this administration was killing innocent Japanese schoolchildren on corporate submarine joyrides, gutting our domestic regulations, planning on ruining our drinking water, plowing up our last wild lands, spoiling our last Alaskan wilderness, and looting the treasury of the United States for its rich friends, the world was moving on. Dangerously so.
Reagan Created the Threat - Bush Let it Happen on His Watch
This administration had specific, credible evidence that something was going to happen. It wasn't a matter of if, it was a matter of when.
This administration was busy spending all its time, though, bending America over for its corporate donors instead of making our country and the world a safer place.
This administration was spending all its honeymoon capital on pissing off the world by rejecting everything cooperative that the civilized countries of the world had worked for for years, for generations, for centuries - NO anti-nuclear, NO anti-poisonous gas, NO anti-child slavery, NO anti-global warming, making the United States a rogue state in its unilateral pursuit of some glorious corporate utopia.
This administration was "uniting" by polarizing this country between the haves and the have-nots, just like Reagan did. This administration was demonstrating how committed it was to creating a national religion-fueled corporate aristocracy and a permanent lower working class to exploit.
The attack in 2001 should not have happened. This administration was clearly and strongly warned. The Clinton administration and the Defense Department invested two and a half years in exploring how to keep our country safe from EXACTLY that kind of terrorist attack. It caught and prosecuted and imprisoned the people who attacked the WTC earlier. The commission charted by the Defense Department presented its stark and frightening findings and highly specific recommendations to this administration.
This administration threw the Hart-Rudman report out the window and said, "No thanks. Well let Dick take care of it."
Thanks, Dick.
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