The WAR ON TERROR hasn't been mentioned much lately.
The Congressional election saw some dragon puffs erupting out of the Long War President and some GOP members, telling us that a vote for the Democrats was a vote for the terrorists.
Wasn't that a most ridiculous and insulting allegation?
These shameless enunciations (and denunciations) about terrorists were intended to scare and to garner votes and approval for this shameless and sham administration.
They were self-serving, crooked and dishonorable.
When the Russians were coming (and they were always coming), the Pentagon was able to keep its till full.
Now that the terrorists are coming and coming (especially during elections) the Pentagon's till remains full.
The terrorists are coming in greater numbers now as a result of George W. Bush’s premeditated, self-made, pre-emptive, unnecessary war.
If (and this is a Mighty IF) we are to believe many critics these days who allege that 9-11 was both stoppable and possibly permitted to happen, then the War on Terror is as much its own homegrown danger as it is an outside threat.
The term "New Pearl Harbor" was taken directly from the declaration of principles in the neo-con "Project for the New American Century." The document said, in order to succeed in their project, a significant amount of money needed to be funneled to the military annually, and this would be a slow process, save a "catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor."
Daniel Boniface (editorial@boulderweekly.com)
A few things are still quite puzzling and troubling about September 11, 2001:
Why didn’t the leadership of our mighty nation order attack planes to shoot down the terror-planes?
[NOTE: Norman Mineta is former Secretary of Transportation]
MR. HAMILTON: I wanted to focus just a moment on the Presidential Emergency Operating Center. You were there for a good part of the day. I think you were there with the vice president. And when you had that order given, I think it was by the president, that authorized the shooting down of commercial aircraft that were suspected to be controlled by terrorists, were you there when that order was given?
MR. MINETA: No, I was not. I was made aware of it during the time that the airplane coming into the Pentagon. There was a young man who had come in and said to the vice president, "The plane is 50 miles out. The plane is 30 miles out." And when it got down to, "The plane is 10 miles out," the young man also said to the vice president, "Do the orders still stand?" And the vice president turned and whipped his neck around and said, "Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?"
MR. HAMILTON: With respect to Flight 93, what type of information were you and the vice president receiving about that flight?
MR. MINETA: The only information we had at that point was when it crashed.
MR. HAMILTON: I see. You didn't know beforehand about that airplane.
MR. MINETA: I did not.
MR. HAMILTON: And so there was no specific order there to shoot that plane down.
MR. MINETA: No, sir.
MR. HAMILTON: But there were military planes in the air in position to shoot down commercial aircraft.
MR. MINETA: That's right. The planes had been scrambled, I believe, from Otis at that point.
[From the NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORIST ATTACKS UPON THE UNITED STATES
Public Hearing
Friday, May 23, 2003
Hart Senate Office Building
Room 216
Washington, DC]
Why was all of the debris from the Twin Towers shipped away…without any analysis?
1.8 million tons of debris removed
(108,342 truckloads)
3.1 million hours of labor spent on cleanup
Why was a passport of a purported terror-pilot found, but none of the black boxes (THAT ALWAYS SURVIVE CRASHES)?
If the impact destroyed the planes’ supposedly crash-proof flight-recorder black boxes, how was the FBI able to find, in perfect condition, the passport of Satam al Suqami, one of the alleged American Airlines Flight 11 hijackers?
[From The Ground Zero Grassy Knoll
By Mark Jacobson
New York Magazine
March 27, 2006]
The Congressional election saw some dragon puffs erupting out of the Long War President and some GOP members, telling us that a vote for the Democrats was a vote for the terrorists.
Wasn't that a most ridiculous and insulting allegation?
These shameless enunciations (and denunciations) about terrorists were intended to scare and to garner votes and approval for this shameless and sham administration.
They were self-serving, crooked and dishonorable.
When the Russians were coming (and they were always coming), the Pentagon was able to keep its till full.
Now that the terrorists are coming and coming (especially during elections) the Pentagon's till remains full.
The terrorists are coming in greater numbers now as a result of George W. Bush’s premeditated, self-made, pre-emptive, unnecessary war.
If (and this is a Mighty IF) we are to believe many critics these days who allege that 9-11 was both stoppable and possibly permitted to happen, then the War on Terror is as much its own homegrown danger as it is an outside threat.
The term "New Pearl Harbor" was taken directly from the declaration of principles in the neo-con "Project for the New American Century." The document said, in order to succeed in their project, a significant amount of money needed to be funneled to the military annually, and this would be a slow process, save a "catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor."
Daniel Boniface (editorial@boulderweekly.com)
A few things are still quite puzzling and troubling about September 11, 2001:
Why didn’t the leadership of our mighty nation order attack planes to shoot down the terror-planes?
[NOTE: Norman Mineta is former Secretary of Transportation]
MR. HAMILTON: I wanted to focus just a moment on the Presidential Emergency Operating Center. You were there for a good part of the day. I think you were there with the vice president. And when you had that order given, I think it was by the president, that authorized the shooting down of commercial aircraft that were suspected to be controlled by terrorists, were you there when that order was given?
MR. MINETA: No, I was not. I was made aware of it during the time that the airplane coming into the Pentagon. There was a young man who had come in and said to the vice president, "The plane is 50 miles out. The plane is 30 miles out." And when it got down to, "The plane is 10 miles out," the young man also said to the vice president, "Do the orders still stand?" And the vice president turned and whipped his neck around and said, "Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?"
MR. HAMILTON: With respect to Flight 93, what type of information were you and the vice president receiving about that flight?
MR. MINETA: The only information we had at that point was when it crashed.
MR. HAMILTON: I see. You didn't know beforehand about that airplane.
MR. MINETA: I did not.
MR. HAMILTON: And so there was no specific order there to shoot that plane down.
MR. MINETA: No, sir.
MR. HAMILTON: But there were military planes in the air in position to shoot down commercial aircraft.
MR. MINETA: That's right. The planes had been scrambled, I believe, from Otis at that point.
[From the NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORIST ATTACKS UPON THE UNITED STATES
Public Hearing
Friday, May 23, 2003
Hart Senate Office Building
Room 216
Washington, DC]
Why was all of the debris from the Twin Towers shipped away…without any analysis?
1.8 million tons of debris removed
(108,342 truckloads)
3.1 million hours of labor spent on cleanup
Why was a passport of a purported terror-pilot found, but none of the black boxes (THAT ALWAYS SURVIVE CRASHES)?
If the impact destroyed the planes’ supposedly crash-proof flight-recorder black boxes, how was the FBI able to find, in perfect condition, the passport of Satam al Suqami, one of the alleged American Airlines Flight 11 hijackers?
[From The Ground Zero Grassy Knoll
By Mark Jacobson
New York Magazine
March 27, 2006]
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