Enough Blame for All

Newsweek - get some self-respect. This article is crap from headline to finish - just like the 9/11 Commission's report.

"Enough Blame" indeed - it was Bush, not Clinton who took more vacation time in his first year than most presidents take in an entire term, and Rice who ignored Richard Clarke's numerous dire warnings. There is convincing evidence that these people WANTED and NEEDED just such an attack to further their agenda. Planes alone did not cause 3 buildings to collapse that day. 18 bandits did not catch the entire US military and air command off guard - the attack was permitted, and enhanced dramatically with means FAR BEYOND what a few thugs with box cutters could accomplish.

The 9/11 Commission's primary mission was to obfuscate and diffuse blame. It did very well. It failed to indict Giuliani for no-bid contracts to Motorola for the radios that failed the firemen in their final hour, for the eight years that Giulian didn't plan a rapid evacuation of the twin towers, for the eight years that Giuliani didn't re-locate the Emergency Command center, which forced him out onto the street on 9/11, making him look like the hero that he wasn't.

History Repeats Itself Yet Again. The president back then knew about Pearl Harbor before it happened,
And president George Bush jr. knew about 9/11 before it happened. The President isn't as dumb as he
looks he's from texas, and he knows a good opertunity for free oil. so he let 9/11 happen,only afterwords
make an excuse to go to war. just for the oil. The government knows what it's doing, do you?

History Repeats Itself Yet Again. The president knew about pearl harbor just before it happened.
and bush knew about 9/11 before it happened.being that the government thinks that people are
ignorant, bush let 9/11 happen just so he could have a reason to go to the middle east, and get
his hands on free oil. the government knows what it's doing. do you?

This is just another piece of propaganda ment to make gullible people believe that those towers were brought down by airplanes. By making it seem that the government ignored "terrorists threats" this liar is implying that these "terrorists" actually existed.

WAKE UP AMERICA! THE CRIMINALS OF THE CENTURY MEET EACH MORNING IN THE OVAL OFFICE AND NO ONE IN CONGRESS HAS THE COURAGE TO ARREST THEM.

WHAT A BUNCH OF COWARDS.

Thank god you can vote out the republicans. Vote for change or the SAME "OLD" THING. vote.

We are not through this yet. Unfortunately, Osama Bin Laden is trying to blame Jews and Christians. This is not a religious problem. This is from men who want to kill off all religions and cultures and have a new world order with them being the only ones to supply all the world their goods. It is more about totalitarian domination than it is a religious fight, and it is happening around the world to all religions, not just Islam. The problem is that Al Qaeda is blaming the wrong faction, and is trying to make this into a religious holy war, but in fact it is not that at all, it is a movement among some very high powered men to erradicate all religion everywhere, and suppress civil rights of freedom of religion altogether and they are using the tactic of degradation of religions to get the religious believers all angry and blaming another religion, when in fact the problems aren't between the religions, it is between the overtaking of the State and the method by which they are choosing to desecrate and erradicate the religions for power and jurisdiction over them.....unfortunately, we are caught in this, and it is far from over, and it is happening all over the world. Religious observers, monks, semitic Akkadians, Jews, Buddhists, Christians, and Moslems are being slaughtered each and every day. I think President Bush and his "new world order" is going to throw us into WWIII and doom us if we as a global entity do not come to some sort of "peaceful coexistence" with one another. I believe in world peace, and all I see is created chaos...............skd500

Isikoff also wants us to ignore Zilikow's egregious conflicts of interest because Lee Hamilton, the Democratic vice chairman of the panel, said that Zilikow ???was totally dedicated to a full airing of the facts"? Really? The same Lee Hamilton that Isikoff holds up as a character witness for Zelikow was the man in charge of the investigation in 1992 into what was called the ???October Surprise??? ??? an alleged operation by members of Ronald Reagan???s election team to concoct a deal with the Iranians who were holding our embassy personal hostage to delay releasing them until after the election campaign and to thus deny President Carter the credit for their release.

The investigation into this that finally happened years later was winding down when numerous sources - including operatives from both French and Russian intelligence as well as former CIA member, Charles Cogan ??? came forward with new detailed evidence supporting the allegations. It was Lee Hamilton who denied an extension of the deadline of the report to further investigate and substantiate these claims. All of this is detailed by journalist, Robert Parry, who was able to gain access to the boxes of evidence available to Hamiton???s panel (see this link for more information: http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/013108.html).

Hamilton???s task force then finished up work on a report that reached the opposite conclusion from what the new evidence indicated. The task force report claimed there was no credible evidence to support the long-standing allegations that the Reagan-Bush campaign had interfered with the 1980 hostage crisis. And this guy knows about ???full airing of the facts??????

But, thank God another conspiracy theory was nipped in the bud. And we get another fine example of the U.S. media asleep at the switch.

Isikoff wants us to overlook the overwhelming amount of evidence of Bush Administration incompetence because there was ???more than enough blame to go around???. Really? We have evidence that there were some things that could have been handled differently ??? such as doing something about the long-established wall between the CIA and the FBI ??? during the Clinton Administration but the overwhelming evidence is that 9/11 was a catastrophic failure by the Bush Administration. They were warned time and again and did nothing. And, like everything involved with this corrupt band of thieves, they have been effective in covering it up. Philip Shenon has just uncovered one of many chapters in that story.

And who would have had more motive to aid the cover-up than the very man responsible for demoting Richard Clarke, a credible and knowledgeable veteran of both Republican and Democratic administrations, who was one of several key insiders whose warnings were ignored?

And, then we have the likes of Isikoff rudely dismissing any inference of a ???conspiracy??? as if the critics are a bunch of tin foil hat wearing nutcases. Yes, it???s hard to ???sustain??? a conspiracy theory when the press ??? even the better journalists like Isiskoff ??? don???t bother to look beneath the surface.

For instance, as part of Isikoff???s dismissal of the ???conspiracy theorists???, he mentions that ??? Zelikow exchanged at least four phone calls in the early stages of the inquiry with White House political adviser Karl Rove??? but fails to report that Zelikow tried to have the record of his calls kept secret and that the four calls that were revealed are only his incoming calls. The number of his outgoing calls and his cell phone calls weren???t recorded - and he was reported to make most of his calls from his cell phone. So, we have no idea how much contact was make with Rove but we know that the record we do have is very much lacking and that the number of calls is much higher. And, of course, we have the suspicious and incriminating behavior of trying to keep his contacts secret. And we???re supposed to swallow his incredible excuse that all these calls were about University business? With Karl Rove??

You???d think someone reporting ???no evidence??? would look deeper.

Credible or not:

http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2006/12/are-people-who-question-911-credible-or.html

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Credible or not:

http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2006/12/are-people-who-question-911-credible-or.html

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" Clarke, it turned out, had bombarded national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice in the summer of 2001 with impassioned e-mails and memos warning of an Al Qaeda attack" What else do you really need to know ?

there are 2 ways history goes down by accident or by conspiracy!this is a fact

I find it interesting that Isikoff reacts so quickly to the report of the book without having read the entire book and operating off reports only. I noted that he used the term "mole" to refer to Zelikow. Was this the term used in the book or was he told to use this term by others? Are we to believe that Rove and Zelikow were discussing academic issues related to UVa.? Rove-academic, I don't think so! From the start, Bush refused, then delayed cooperation with the study. His first choice for a commission chairman was Kissinger but once he realized they would be exploring his numerous connections to Turkey and Israel via the same connections discovered by Sibel Edmonds, Kissinger decided to pull his name from the list. Lee Hamilton as co-chair? Give me a break. Look at his history of collusion with Cheney on the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980's. Lee makes a great granddad but he doesn't have the backbone to stand up to the scandals involved with 9/11. Michael, you should be ashamed for continuing to throw rose petals onto the path of the Bush/Cheney. I expected more from you.

Tom Kean's connections to GHWB and the Iran/Contra affair shows more to what this Commission was going to do ;Kean's own book states that Card ,Rove ,Bush put Zelikow in that position and the commission had no say on it ;but Kean does not reveal his secret phone calls with Administration except in his book ,"Without Precedent ".pages 1 thru 30 and this is a self confession of his sins . Tom Wicker in his book ,"george Herman walker bush ". gives the deatails of Bush / Kean connection .P 78 and his Nuclear war is winnable ,p 57 ,, James Risen ,State of War ,mentions a DR< Sawson Ahlidad ,of Cleveland ,who is asked to go to Iraq and talk to her brother and see what he knows about WMD. (Saad Tawfiq ) abritish trained Elwectrical Engineer ,;He told her there were no Weapons but the CIA did not belive themand went a haed and lied bellinhand woburn ma 01801

President Bush failed to anticipate the threat or adequately prevent it even though he had ample warnings including the CIA briefing of August6, 2001. Bush then used the 9/11 attacks as a springboard to launch an assault on our civil liberties. History will judge Mr. Bush harshly as an incompetent and unprepared president. He will be remembered as one of the worst U.S. presidents who brought misery and disaster to our great nation.

The whole thing stinks to the high heavens and our "traditional (corporate) media" refuses to devote the time and space necessary to investigate all of these "coincidences".

Rice and Zelikow worked closely together on George H.W. Bush's national security staff in the 1980???s. Zelikow also served alongside Rice as a member of the Bush transition team in 2000- 2001, when he took part in White House meetings on the terror threat. Even after September 11, two days before the invasion of Afghanistan, Zelikow went back to work for the Bush national security staff, as a member of the White House advisory board on foreign intelligence. He was also the author of policy pieces on Terrorism in 1998: Catastrophic Terrorism: Elements of a National Policy and Imagining the Transforming Event. What independent investigation?

With careful crafting the word "conspiracy" has been turned into a pejorative. Sure, I buy it: 19 guys with box cutters out smarted the most sophisticated military in history! Keep swallowing the OFFICIAL CONSPIRACY THEORY. Contrary to an earlier post America didn't get what it deserved on 9/11 but if we let this "my pet goat" theory go unchallenged we will deserve their next false flag operation!

The whole thing stinks to the high heavens and our "traditional (corporate) media" refuses to devote the time and space necessary to investigate all of these "coincidences".

Rice and Zelikow worked closely together on George H.W. Bush's national security staff in the 1980???s. Zelikow also served alongside Rice as a member of the Bush transition team in 2000- 2001, when he took part in White House meetings on the terror threat. Even after September 11, two days before the invasion of Afghanistan, Zelikow went back to work for the Bush national security staff, as a member of the White House advisory board on foreign intelligence. He was also the author of policy pieces on Terrorism in 1998: Catastrophic Terrorism: Elements of a National Policy and Imagining the Transforming Event. What independent investigation?

With careful crafting the word "conspiracy" has been turned into a pejorative. Sure, I buy it: 19 guys with box cutters out smarted the most sophisticated military in history! Keep swallowing the OFFICIAL CONSPIRACY THEORY. Contrary to an earlier post America didn't get what it deserved on 9/11 but if we let this "my pet goat" theory go unchallenged we will deserve their next false flag operation!

The whole thing stinks to the high heavens and our "traditional media" refuses to devote the time and space to investigate all of these "coincidences".

Rice and Zelikow worked closely together on George H.W. Bush's national security staff in the 1980???s. Zelikow also served alongside Rice as a member of the Bush transition team in 2000- 2001, when he took part in White House meetings on the terror threat. Even after September 11, two days before the invasion of Afghanistan, Zelikow went back to work for the Bush national security staff, as a member of the White House advisory board on foreign intelligence. He was also the author of policy pieces on Terrorism in 1998: Catastrophic Terrorism: Elements of a National Policy and Imagining the Transforming Event. What Independent investigation?

With careful crafting the word "conspiracy" has been turned into a pejorative. Sure, I buy it: 19 guys with box cutters out smarted the most sophisticated military in history! Keep swallowing the OFFICIAL CONSPIRACY THEORY. Contrary to an earlier post America didn't get what it deserved on 9/11 but if we let this "my pet goat" theory go unchallenged we will deserve their next false flag operation!

The important questions are how the public wants terrorism dealt with now that the threat is now in the open.
All the historical reasons and conspiracies are irrelevant to the future...unless we fail to plan due to obsessions with the past.

I think it has become apparent that the majority no longer thinks wars of occupation are economical. Perhaps an appropriate policy is an open threat of retalitory bomb on nations that aren't on the US list of making a good faith effort. Pakistan should be on that list given how much foreign aid and how little effort they put in. If Pakistan wants off the list, their public might well want to get motivated to change governments.

Or perhaps the appropriate policy is to just turn the National Guard into a big emergency response team and otherwise ignore responding to successful terrorist attacks against the US. AFter all half the point of terrorist attacks are to get your attention and to get you to make a serious diplomatic mistake in responding.