It is all so predictable and so treasonable and so ignored by the media..

[TruthIsAll]

and the (D)elinquent (L)apdog (C)ongress

The Hart-Rudman Report, the product of a thorough, multi-year study, was provided to Bush soon after he stole the office.
So what does Bush do? He thrashes it, saying Cheney would do a new study.

Clinton advisor Berger tells Condi that BushCo will need to devote a great deal of time to fighting terrorism.
So what does Bush do? He ignores the problem.

FBI investigator O'Neill believes that the source of terrorism resides in the Saudi-Bin Laden money trail.
So what does Bush do? He orders the FBI to layoff the investigation.

Tenet warns Bush of terrorist attacks on Aug. 6, 2001.
So what does Bush do? He stays on his month-long vacation, says not a word, and doesn't implement airport security measures.

Bush learns about the first plane hitting the WTC immediately.
So what does Bush do? Goes into the Booker School to read about goats.

Bush learns about the second plane hitting the WTC while reading about goats with the children.
So what does Bush do? He sits there and continues to read about goats.

Most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis.
So what does Bush do? He declares that he will get Bin-laden and goes to war in Afghanistan.

Bush needs to convince Congress that Saddam was an imminent threat to the U.S.
So what does Bush do? He declares that Saddam has a slew of WMD, from nuclear to chemical to biological, which can be launched in 45 minutes. All lies. Congress gives him the power to launch pre-emptive war, provided that he gets the U.N. to go along.

The U.N. inspectors are making progress in their search for WMD. They are pretty sure there are no WMD but need a few more months to finish the job.
So what does Bush do? He defies the Security Council and goes to war.

Saddam had no WMD. Pakistan, China, India, Russia, Israel and North Korea have WMD.
So what does Bush do? He declares that Saddam is an imminent threat and goes to war in Iraq.

The 9/11 report includes intelligence which indicates that the Saudis financed the attack.
So what does Bush do? He declares that he will not release the twenty-eight pages because of the need to protect Sources and Methods..

Joseph Wilson states that his investigation proved there was no Uranium contract between Niger and Saddam.
So what does Bush do? In retaliation, he has the WH leak to Novak that Wilson's wife is a CIA operative, putting at risk Sources and Methods.

It is determined that many lies, mistatements and exaggerations pervade the 2003 SOTU.
So what does Bush do? He first states that it is CIA Director Tenet's fault, for not deleting the wording he wanted to delete in the first place and insisting on doing so, against Bush's desire to keepo it in.
So it is Tenet's fault that he let the WH lie.

It is obvious the WH is complicit in the insertion of the Niger lie.
So what does Bush do? He has Condi's assistant accept full blame.

Many of our troops in Iraq are demoralized, thirsty, dirty, tired and in fear for their lives, but assumed their stay would soon be over.
So what does Bush do? He extends their tour of duty to a full year.

The Iraq War, presumably fought to remove the imminent Saddam threat, has destroyed the infrastructure, the museum artifacts have been looted, thousands of Iraqis have died, along with hundreds of Americans.
So what does Bush do? He sends Cheney's Halliburton, Schultz's Bechtel and Poppy's Carlyle to rebuild Iraq.

Iraq and Saddam are the focus of virtually every Bush speech or statement, before the war and to this very day.
So what does Bush do? He rants about Saddam's WMD, which are nowhere to be found, but never mentions the word O-I-L, which is overflowing in Iraq.

Yesterday we were warned about terrorist plans for another 9/11 event before the end of the summer.
So what does Bush do? He prepares for his annual month long vacation.

And what else does Bush do? To save money, Air Marshals will not be utilized on certain international flights.

And what else does Bush do? He has Poindexter at the Pentagon draw up the most outrageous system - the Terror Futures Market, so that a select group of investors can bet on assassinations, terror attacks, nuclear war, coups, starvation, Gulf Syndrome, Armaggedon and the Rapture. Just like they did when they purchased airline puts right before 9/11.

And what will we all do? We will just have to suffer through the agony of another interminable media onslaught, in which terror alerts will be raised, old people will be scared to death...and Bush ratings will rise from the depths.

And that is all I'm going to say about this.

[whoYaCallinAlib]

1. This is an absolutely fantastic post.

I learned one hell of a lot. Thanks for putting this together. It looks like you put a tremendous amount of effort into this. Wonderful work. Thanks again.

[Gloria]

2. Great post on the unfolding of the Bush era.....I'm saving it for

future reference

[IDUDOYOU]

3. We know, we know

How about a letter to the editor of your local newspaper with this info.
You are trying to convert the converted here.

[are_we_united_yet]

7. I Disagree

The information presented in this format chronologically reinforces our suspicions that the administration is disingenuous. I don't think he meant to convert any of the DU'ers. I think it does more to energize a group of folks who feel betrayed by the media and Corporations

[Abe Linkman]

4. Powerful mind at work here. Thank you.

n/t

[kentuck]

5. That about says it all...

right up to the minute. TruthIsAll is right on!

[since72]

8. That about says it all

Great post! this is going in the notebook I keep, it is entitled "Why we fight" and i keep it to use as a debating tool and a rabble rouser.
Thanks Again

[never cry wolf]

6. bravo and kudos

excellent rant. everyone should send it to their local paper.

[linazelle]

9. Outstanding post...I'm archiving it for use as future ammo

Thanx for sharing it.

[TruthIsAll]

10. Glad you all liked it. I am submitting it as an article at DU..

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[ConsAreLiars]

11. Great job!

Much appreciated. One suggestion:

"Many of our troops in Iraq are demoralized, thirsty, dirty, tired and in fear for their lives, but assumed their stay would soon be over."

You might, as a reminder, want to include reference to the much repeated "motivational message" given to the troops through the chain of command that "the road home goes through Baghdad." They assumed they would be going home soon because they (and the rest of us) were told so repeatedly in the runup to the invasion and the during the beginning stages.

[OneBlueSky]

12. you give good post! . . . n/t

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[KeepItReal]

13. Truer words have never been spoken

Thanks for putting the pieces together in your post.

[bodhisattava]

14. Just remember the acronym PNAC

This acronym will explain every one of your listed statements of fact.We have a PNAC puppet in the White House who is dancing to the tune set by his masters at the PNAC.So no matter what we see in front of us or hear said, there is a hidden agenda whose results appear from nowhere.

If we elect a democrat, we will still have a PNAC puppet ( think Joe Lieberman)so get used to illusory change of administrations even if we do have one.Doesn't the fact Clinton supports Bush's policy in Iraq after all the revelations tell us anything?

Sorry to be so depressing so early in the morning.After reading your excellent list I had an epiphany and simply had to share it.

[cthrumatrix]

15. You can add.."supporting the military"...and cutting their benefits.

[Minstrel Boy]

16. "had I known...

"...that the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people." - George W. Bush

Izzat so?

John Dean, former Nixon counsel, writes that the recently released report of the Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11, and Bush's tenacity in withholding the contents of a CIA briefing document from August 2001 warning of imminent al Qaeda attacks, leads to an ugly conclusion:

"Bluntly stated, either the Bush White House knew about the potential of terrorists flying airplanes into skyscrapers (notwithstanding their claims to the contrary), or the CIA failed to give the White House this essential information, which it possessed and provided to others.

"Bush is withholding the document that answers this question. Accordingly, it seems more likely that the former possibility is the truth. That is, it seems very probable that those in the White House knew much more than they have admitted, and they are covering up their failure to take action."
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030729.html

And the August 6, 2001 Daily Brief wasn't the only such warning.

"One such CIA briefing, in July 2001, was particularly chilling and prophetic. It predicted that Osama bin Laden was about to launch a terrorist strike 'in the coming weeks,' the congressional investigators found. The intelligence briefing went on to say: 'The attack will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties against U.S. facilities or interests. Attack preparations have been made. Attack will occur with little or no warning.'"
http://www.msnbc.com/news/907379.asp?0cv=CB10

"A key point in unraveling why the FBI failed to follow up leads on Al Qaeda terrorism now centers on the Bureau's contemptuously brushing aside warnings from French intelligence a few days before 9-11."
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0222/ridgeway2.php

"Weeks before the terrorist attacks on 11 September, the United States and the United Nations ignored warnings from a secret Taliban emissary that Osama bin Laden was planning a huge attack on American soil."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=331115

"Egyptian intelligence warned American officials about a week before Sept. 11 that Osama bin Laden's network was in the advance stages of executing a significant operation against an American target, President Hosni Mubarak said in an interview on Sunday."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/04/national/04WARN.html

"When the hubbub about what the White House did or didn't know before Sept. 11 dies down, Congressional or other investigators should consider the specific warnings that friendly Arab intelligence services sent to Washington in the summer of 2001."
http://www.iht.com/articles/58269.html

"Britain gave President Bush a categorical warning to expect multiple airline hijackings by the al-Qaeda network a month before the September 11 attacks which killed nearly 3000 people and triggered the international war against terrorism."
http://www.sundayherald.com/24822

"Israeli intelligence officials say that they warned their counterparts in the United States last month that large-scale terrorist attacks on highly visible targets on the American mainland were imminent."
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$52PMOXQAAD
W5PQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2001/09/16/wcia16.xml&sShe
et=/news/2001/09/16/ixhome

A Moroccan secret agent, Hassan Dabou, had penetrated al Qaeda for two years, breaking cover the summer of 2001 to warn of “spectacular” attacks in New York in the summer or autumn of 2001. “Secret service chiefs are said to have taken seriously the tip from one of its veteran informants and immediately passed on the details to Washington.” - The Times of London, June 12, 2002

"An FBI supervisor, sounding a prophetic pre-Sept. 11 alarm, warned FBI headquarters that student pilot Zacarias Moussaoui was so dangerous he might 'take control of a plane and fly it into the World Trade Center,' a congressional investigator said in a report Tuesday."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&ncid
=716&e=4&u=/ap/20020924/ap_on_go_co/attacks_intelligence

"U.S. intelligence agencies received many more indications than previously disclosed that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network was planning imminent "spectacular" attacks in the summer of 2001 aimed at inflicting mass casualties."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36754-2002Sep18.html

And then there's David Schippers.

Schippers is the former Chief Investigative Counsel for the US House Judiciary Committee and head prosecutor responsible for conducting the Clinton impeachment.

"Schippers received information from 'impeccable' US intelligence sources, including FBI agents, that a massive attack was being planned by terrorists targeting the financial district of lower Manhattan. (He went public with this two days after the attack in an interview with WRRK in Pittsburgh.) He said he had tried warning Ashcroft and other officials six weeks before the attacks

"According to Schippers, these agents knew, months before the attacks, the names of the hijackers, the targets of their attacks, the proposed dates, and the sources of their funding, along with other information. At least two weeks prior to 11th September, the FBI agents again confirmed that an attack on lower Manhattan, orchestrated by Osama bin Laden, was imminent. However, the FBI command cut short their investigations into the impending terrorist attacks and those involved, threatening the agents with prosecution under the National Security Act if they publicised information pertaining to their investigations.

"The agents subsequently sought the council of David Schippers in order to pressure elements in the US government to take action to prevent the attacks. Schippers warned many Congressmen and Senators, and also attempted to contact US Attorney General John Ashcroft without success, managing only to explain the situation to a lower-ranking Justice Dept. official who promised a return call from Ashcroft the next day. The Attorney General did not return the call despite the gravity of the situation." (The War on Freedom, pg 107)

Schippers is currently representing one of those agents, active FBI Special Agent Robert Wright, who has filed a complaint concerning FBI/Justice Department interference in and mishandling of terrorist investigations.

With those warnings and many more, where was the Air Force on Sept 11?

When golfer Payne Stewart's private jet went off course a year before, a fighter was alongside it in 15 minutes.

Why did elements in the FBI chain of command thwart multiple investigations that could have led to the prevention of 9/11?

But it would be unfair to suggest that no action was taken on account of the warnings received.

"On Sept. 10, NEWSWEEK has learned, a group of top Pentagon officials suddenly cancelled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns." - Newsweek, Sept 13, 2001

[CWebster]

17. Great post

Send to every paper and media outlet in the land.

[TruthIsAll]

18. Iraq defends its right to exist free of Bush rule..so what does Bush do?

In stead of bringing our troops home, Bush certifies to Congress that Iraq is a continuing threat and formally renews U.S. sanctions, citing continued instability in the country, as well as the need to "ensure the establishment of a process leading to representative Iraqi self-rule."

[Beetwasher]

19. BooYa!

Damn good. Can I send it around?

[TruthIsAll]

20. send it...a little truth may go a long way

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