Reply #20: I have wondered all along...

[chookie]

I have wondered all along -- are they simply incompetent, or is everything going exactly according to The Plan?

It is documented that smirky and Condi were briefed on a number of occasions that Muslim terrorists were planning a dramatic attack on a high profile American target, and that terrorism was the greatest threat to American national security.

But instead of taking pragmatic action against this clear threat, in 2001 the Bush administration were talking about the need for missile shields and were staging tests of new technologies (which were shown to be deeply flawed).

During the same year, we all watched in horror while Israel/Palestine exploded into horrific violence -- all without comment or action from within the White House, except a qutoe from an unnamed source "It's time that the Israelis and Palestinians act like grownups."

*Why* did they ignore the intelligence -- which was certainly alarming and persuasive if not exactly precise as to dates and targets -- that a major terror strike was being planned -- and put their emphasis on such vagaries as missile shields? Why did they ignore the conflageration in Israel/Palestine that year?

More money to be made with missile shields? Getting the real threat to national security totally ass-backwards? Having a policy of doing the opposite of what Clinton did? Total disengagement from reality? Utter incompetence? Or were they deliberately ignoring the real threat to American national security -- because they wanted a spectacular event to galvanize the American people to get behind a plan they had laid out years before?

You just can't think this stuff away. It's all right out there in front of our faces. But it's so big, so terrible, that most people can't bear to face it, don't want to believe that this is happening to our country in our lifetimes. Bush is one of the greatest gamblers of world history -- he has staked *everything* on people going along with The Big Lie.