If Bush Passed Out The Box Cutters, Did Condi Rice Assign The Seats?
By Debbie Daniel (04/13/04)
Isn’t that exactly where the Bush-haters are leading this lie? I’m starting to get into this accusing game. Just how far do you think we can take this mindless scheme of blame?
Why, if George Bush knew all he’s been accused of knowing before 9/11, I bet he probably had all the guys (terrorists) out to the ranch in Crawford, Texas to help draw up plans for the infamous “concoction” of war.
I expect Hillary to be making her despicable “It’s a vast right-wing conspiracy” speech any day now. And if you think I’m sounding absolutely absurd and utterly ridiculous, you ought to listen to yourselves. The mockery we are making of this country is a tragedy.
We’re starting to show ourselves as being the self-indulged, finger-pointing, pompous, and greedy people the terrorists abhor and want to kill. We are proving their point. And they hate us for it. They hated us before 9/11, and they hate us even more now.
Just put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I’ve heard enough from this 9/11 Commission to make me ill – enough to turn me away from politics forever. Maybe that’s what the opposition wants – if they can wear us down with all this “blithering blame,” then maybe we won’t go to the polls and vote for a President in November. Hark! What a grand idea. Let’s all stay home . . . NOT!
I keep asking myself: “What does it profit us as Americans if we spend endless energy assigning blame for 9/11 and not be ready for the next attack?
We will NEVER be prepared for another 9/11 because we have not yet learned how to “unite” as a team – much less a nation. As long as we try to lay responsibility on someone else, we will forever be entangled in this web of equivocation.
Unity is necessary to win this war and we’re not even close.
Some of our most esteemed leaders have become part of Hitler’s regime that perfected the “big lie” technique. They have taken an issue with some element of truth to it; then distorted it beyond recognition, then repeated the distortion over and over again until the lie became the “truth.”
Who do we think we are? Do we really believe we are above having some “thugs” come into our country, commandeer our planes, and ram them into buildings killing our friends and loved ones? Well, if you didn’t notice . . . it happened.
One more time . . . IT HAPPENED!!
That’s what hate did. People who resent us, and are jealous of everything we have, want it for themselves. They did this to us.
But, oh no, we want to put Dr. Condoleeza Rice and the President of the United States on the witness stand as criminals and scourge them unmercifully as if they were the ones that flew those planes into the Twin Towers.
You’ll never make me believe questions were asked of Bill Clinton and Al Gore with the same vehement nastiness as was shown to Dr. Rice.
I didn’t see us putting together a commission over the WTC bombing in 1993. Did anyone care then? Or does the magic number of 3,000 motivate us to retaliate, to accuse, and to distort the truth?
Why do I emphasize the 3,000? Because every time a soldier is killed, there is an uproar that we’ve lost another soldier. But I didn’t hear you clamoring when 18 American troops were killed in a savage gunfight in Somalia in 1993. No one stood up and accused Clinton of malfeasance when ONE American was dragged through the streets of Mogadishu as the people cheered. Clinton just ordered everyone to come home. Tuck tail and run.
Even Osama bin Laden said: “We realized more than before that the American soldier was a paper tiger, and after a few blows, ran in defeat.”
In 1995, five Americans were killed and 30 wounded by a bomb in Saudi Arabia. Clinton didn’t do a thing – didn’t even form a commission.
On June 25, 1996, a terrorist truck bomb exploded outside the northern perimeter of the U.S. portion of the Khobar Towers housing complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The explosion killed nineteen servicemen and wounded hundreds of others, including civilians of several nationalities, but did we try to find out why? No, nothing was done.
In August 1998, the search for survivors of the bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi, Kenya ended officially with the death toll set at 247, and 5,436 injured. Another 10 people died and 70 were injured in the simultaneous bombing of the US embassy in
Dar es-Salaam, in neighboring Tanzania, bringing the combined death toll to 257.
Several US and Israeli sources, including ABC News and the Tel Aviv newspaper Ha'aretz, reported that a US informant in Kenya had warned the American government two weeks before the blast that the Nairobi embassy had been targeted for a bomb attack.
Did Clinton know? Did we set up a commission to find out what he knew, when, and what he did to prevent it? Absolutely not.
Disturbing questions leading up to the bombing and the role of US and Israeli intelligence agencies were raised, especially when they both had advance warning, but that’s all it was . . . just a little disturbing.
We didn’t form a commission after the Oklahoma City bombing? Couldn’t we have gotten to the bottom of why 168 innocent people were killed? Did we not have any intelligence that gave us a clue as to something like this happening?
Or do we only have selective commissions set up when it suits us politically? Just pick and choose the killings you want to emphasize. Yes, I realize 3,000 people dead is horrific, and so is one soldier. You did nothing before, so why NOW!
Is it politically expedient to finally do something about people dying at the hands of terrorists?
If it’s right to do it now, it was right to do it then. And no one did.
Maybe if we had called together a commission after any one of these incidents, 9/11 would have never happened?
We’re just too proud a people to believe that a group of “thugs” could actually pull this off, so we must place the blame on President Bush so we can hold him accountable and get on with our lives. That’s our entitlement mentality.
The Bible says: Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. (Proverbs 16:18)
I don’t know about you, but that’s hitting pretty close to home. We just don’t have the “guts” to admit . . . “It’s NO ONE’S FAULT,” but we’re determined to lay blame at the feet of someone.
We have become such a litigious society that we know of no other way to live but to blame, blame, blame. It’s become our culture . . . it’s not my fault.
EVERY major leader in the free world underestimated the threat of these terrorists, but George Bush should have known every detail of what was about to transpire. How dare him!
If we truly recognized the fact this happened and there is nothing we can do about it, we can move forward. But we are paralyzed in this thinking that someone could actually take advantage of us like this, and get away with it. We were robbed, but more importantly, we were robbed of our sanity.
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