5-Minute Video of George W. Bush on the Morning of 9/11The man responsible for
http://www.taylormarsh.com/image.php?id=421&size=large">their deaths is still on the loose.
Passenger Manifest of ' Bin Laden Family Airlift' Out of US One Week After 9/11 Attack (PDF)
Senator Lautenberg Releases Passenger Manifest of ' Bin Laden Family Airlift' Out of U.S. One Week After 9/11 AttackLautenberg, Schumer: Why Was a Charter Plane Also Rented by White House Used to Fly Bin Laden Family Out of USA After 9/11? "The 9-11 Report concludes that none of the Saudi flights 'took place before the reopening of national airspace.' But that misses the point.
The issue with the 'Bin Laden flight' of 9-19 is not whether the airport was open at the time – it clearly was. The issue is whether the Bush Administration and the FBI should have let these Bin Laden family members leave the country so swiftly and without interrogation.
The 9-11 Report makes clear that no interrogation was conducted. Rather 'interviews' were conducted at the airport by an FBI Agent from the Baltimore Field Office.As the Report indicates, the FBI agent cleared them after passengers claimed that they had 'no recent contact with Osama Bin Laden' and 'knew nothing about terrorist activity.' The passengers were not under oath, they were not interrogated, but were simply interviewed at the airport. If Muhammad Attah was asked such questions on his way out of the country, would he have answered yes?
The 9-11 Report also indicates that two passengers on the 9-19 flight had, in the late 1990's, been under investigation by the FBI for links to terrorism. Despite this, they were allowed to leave, after a cursory, insufficient interview.
The men responsible for
their deaths are still telling lies!
The lies of
Donald Rumsfeld:
"We said from the outset that there are several terrorist networks that have global reach and that there were several countries that were harboring terrorists that have global reach. We weren't going into Iraq when we were hit on September 11. And the question is: Well, what do you do about that? If you know there are terrorists and you know there's terrorist states -- Iraq's been a terrorist state for decades -- and you know there are countries harboring terrorists, we believe, correctly, I think, that the only way to deal with it is -- you can't just hunker down and hope they won't hit you again. You simply have to take the battle to them. And we have been consistently working on the Al Qaeda network. We've captured a large number of those folks -- captured or killed -- just as we've now captured or killed a large number of the top 55 Saddam Hussein loyalists."
Source: Meet the Press, NBC (11/2/2003).
The lies of
Dick Cheney:
"In terms of the question what is there now, we know for example that prior to our going in that he had spent time and effort acquiring mobile biological weapons labs, and we're quite confident he did, in fact, have such a program. We've found a couple of semi trailers at this point which we believe were, in fact, part of that program."
Source: Morning Edition, NPR (1/22/2004).
The lies of
George Bush:
"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
Source: President Delivers "State of the Union", White House (1/28/2003).
Never let them forget, hold them accountable:
Donald Rumsfeld – the man who should have been fired as Secretary of Defense long ago – Donald Rumsfeld recently gave a low and ugly speech in which he smeared those who dissent from a catastrophic policy, and then spoke of “moral confusion.”
Well, there certainly is a lot of moral confusion around these days.
It is immoral for old men to send young Americans to fight and die in a conflict without a strategy that can work – on a mission that has not weakened terrorism but worsened it.
It is immoral to lie about progress in that war to get through a news cycle or an election.
It is immoral to treat 9/11 as a political pawn – and to continue to excuse the invasion of Iraq by exploiting the 3,000 mothers and fathers, sons and daughters who were lost that day. They were attacked and killed not by Saddam Hussein but by Osama bin Laden.
Snip...
After all the tough talk of “Wanted Dead or Alive,” after the Administration bragged and boasted – they meekly backed off in the mountains of Tora Bora. Osama bin Laden escaped because the administration held back the best military in the world – our’s – and outsourced the job to local militias. Since then Al Qaeda has spawned a vast and decentralized network operating in 65 countries. Only Dick Cheney could call this a success.
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“Staying the course” isn’t far-sighted; it’s blind. Leaving our troops in the middle of a civil war isn’t resolute; it’s reckless. Half of the service members listed on the Vietnam Memorial Wall died after America's leaders knew our strategy would not work. It was immoral then and it would be immoral now to engage in the same delusion.
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We must start treating our moral authority as a precious national asset that does not limit our power but magnifies our influence. Only this week did the Administration finally recognize that the protections of the Geneva Convention had to be applied to prisoners in order to comply with the law, restore our moral authority, and best protect American troops. Let me say it plainly: No American president should be for torture before he’s against it.
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John Kerry September 9, 2006
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