The Neocons Conjure up More Lies
by James Buchanan
The neocon think tanks and certain collaborating talk radio show hacks have launched a new offensive just days before the 911 anniversary. The neocons have drawn up a laundry list of alleged Clinton-era failures and why not? After all, they have every right to criticize the Democrats. Their man, George Bush acted swiftly and decisively when he got a warning August 8th, 2001, about Bin Laden wanting to strike… —uh wait a minute. Bush didn’t do anything when he got that warning. He didn’t deport foreign students, not even the ones in flight school!! The Bush administration even classified that report so that they could hide it from the American public until Condi Rice had to admit its existence during questioning before a Congressional committee.
But then Bush has every right to point fingers at the Democrats especially after capturing Osama bin Laden so quickly and destroying al Qaeda –uh wait a minute again. Bush captured Saddam Hussein, who had nothing to do with 911. Bush still hasn’t caught bin Laden. With the resources of the most powerful nation on the planet at his disposal, Bush has failed to capture the one man whom our government tells us is responsible for the deaths of almost 3,000 Americans.
Not only is Bush’s record on terrorism badly lacking, Americans increasingly don’t believe the “official” 911 story. A recent Zogby poll found that 42 percent of Americans don’t believe the 911 attack took place as advertised. They find various conspiracy theories more believable than the tall tale about bin Laden plotting the whole thing from a cave in Afghanistan. The percent of Americans who believe the government’s version of 911 is virtually tied with the conspiracy crowd and the rest are undecided.
Another poll finds that “More than one-third of Americans suspect federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East… The survey also found that 16 percent of Americans speculate that secretly planted explosives, not burning passenger jets, were the real reason the massive Twin Towers of the World Trade Center collapsed.”
And there’s the other issue that al Qaeda is probably a phony or “controlled” terrorist organization. The MOSSAD was caught trying to set up a phony al Qaeda cell in Palestine. How much would you bet, their first target would have been Americans? Doubts about governmental complicity in 911 are at an all-time high. Thanks to the Internet and a better-informed public, Americans are beginning to connect the dots. Why weren’t F16s scrambled to intercept the hijacked planes? Who in the Bush administration gave the order to ground those jets? Why were over 140 Israeli spies posing as art students (and living in the same towns as the hijackers) let go so soon after 911? Why was the Israeli film crew that videotaped the 911 attack -live- allowed to leave the US? (If anyone should be locked up indefinitely at Guantanamo, they should be. The goat herders, we rounded up in Afghanistan, didn’t know anything about 911.)
The neocons are trying to blame the 911 disaster on Bill Clinton to effect the 2006 election. Meanwhile, Americans are beginning to suspect the neocons had a hand in bringing on the 911 attack. The neocons hijacked the Republican Party to carry out their mad plans for war and a world empire. We are still paying the price for that neocon empire as our soldiers die in Iraq today.