Larisa Alexandrovna: Tomorrow is Zero Hour

[kpete]

Larisa Alexandrovna
Tomorrow is Zero Hour (3 comments )

The Bush cabal uses 911 so brazenly and so often to skirt oversight and play outside the boundaries of the law that one has to wonder if the tragedy holds any real meaning for them at all. Think about it, if your child died, would you play on that death to get a promotion at work?

Then how could roughly 3 thousand deaths be used for political shenanigans of the sort this administration indulges in? That, I suppose, is a moral question that cannot be answered by anyone on the outside and is probably never even considered by anyone on the inside of this administration.

For this brand of compassionate conservatives, humility, moral courage, and especially truth have no place. Power is the absolute and singular currency for the people who cavort in this tiny bubble of criminal privilege.

The Bush/Cheney cabal continues to build and enlarge their all-powerful, Soviet-like government - all built on the false premise that "911 changed everything." The heartless repetition of that slogan has enabled them to replace a Democracy with a near-authoritarian state in five short years while the rest of us were busy grieving.

Lots More
And I HIGHLY Recommend Reading the WHOLE THING AT:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/tomorrow-is-zero-hour_b_20950.html

[Roland99]

1. Watched Good Night, Good Luck last night & was thinking along these lines.

And today I come across this picture on Newsweek



and it struck me. That's an image of the end of an administration. This is zero hour for the worst traitors of democracy since McCarthy. We are all Edward R. Murrow and it's time to take back our country!

[michael_1166]

2. How I wish a Dalek would be in that room, right in front of them ;-)

Anyway, what we see here is 90 % of the world's scum in one place.

[SoCalDem]

3. September 11th, September 11th, September 11th..

September 11th, September 11th, September 11th..

Posted by SoCalDem in General Discussion
Sat May 06th 2006, 04:21 AM


George Bush's presidency BEGAN that day, and also ENDED that day. he will forever see that as his personal highlight. Sad isn't it, that the "leader of the free world" looks at a day of carnage and sorrow as his "crowning glory".. The myth of that day is smoke & mirrors when it's looked at literally..

Where WAS George ON that day? He bailed and let his handpicked flunkies "run the store"..

Who can forget the 'deer-in-headlights' look on the faces of his 'wimminfolk' who ran to microphones & cameras to reassure us all.? We had Karen Hughes making statements, and Condi-in-the blue-dress with flop-sweat oozing from every pore, stating her total ineptitude for all to see. It still amazes me that the NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER apparently was blindsided and actually HAD no idea what her job even entailed.

The cock & bull story created to make us all think that Air Force One was a target, was just that...a story. The truth was that our president was SO inept, that it took several stops along the way home to get him up to speed.

FIVE FULL YEARS LATER, September 11th is still the raison d'être for EVERYTHING they do. Every congressional hearing, every senate hearing, every news conference, every speech has to have some reference to September 11th.

It always reminds me of a child being scolded. Mom is reading the kid the riot act for some infraction, and he/she has to interrupt to remind Mom about the time they cleaned up their room without being asked, or the time they were desperately ill in the hospital. It's a distraction ploy to remind everyone how "brave" he was, and what a "good little president" he has been.

It boggles the mind to even think of all the horrific things that have occurred during the reign of King George II, and yet he still must focus on September 11th, because he and his cadre of sycophants have convinced themselves that they are blameless in that event and they behaved bravely. It was their finest moment.

It will forever remain an iconic moment in our history, but no more so than many others we have endured. A hundred years from now, who knows how many OTHER iconic moments will be added to the list? Other nations have had catastrophes, and the successful leaders have LED their people BEYOND the tragedy, and into an enlightenment. The leaders who insist on always looking back have led their people into chaos. The middle east is a classic example of this. Massacres and battles that happened 900 years before are still festering just below the surface, ready to erupt at any moment.

A country's worth is measured by how they respond to events. Things will always "happen", and to hold a country hostage to a single moment in time is to freeze that country in place.. ..in a bad place.

I almost wish that a senator/congressperson with a "Colbert-ish" sense of humor would show up at every hearing with an air horn, and every time someone uttered 9-11 or September11th, they would give that horn a blast..

[enough]

4. Alexandrovna makes an important specific point:

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On September 10, 2001 for example - a day before the attacks -the NSA experienced a major human error under the leadership of the very same man who went on after the attacks to construct the most massive and illegal domestic surveillance program in US history, all to correct a problem his own resignation would have easily solved.

'Heard 9/10: 'Tomorrow is Zero Hour' By John Diamond and Kathy Kiely, USA TODAY WASHINGTON -- Conversations intercepted the day before Sept. 11 caught al-Qaeda operatives boasting in Arabic, "The match begins tomorrow" and "Tomorrow is Zero Hour." But U.S. intelligence didn't translate them until Sept. 12, congressional and administration sources disclosed Wednesday. The failure of the National Security Agency to translate the conversations until the day after the terrorist attacks became the focus of an eight-hour closed hearing on Capitol Hill. Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden, head of the NSA, and CIA Director George Tenet told a House-Senate investigative committee that the intercepted communications were too vague to be of use, according to officials familiar with their testimony."

Was any employee of the NSA, up the chain of command and including Hayden, in any way reprimanded for failing to do their job? How was this massive failure - HUMAN FAILURE - addressed by this administration?
Hayden and the NSA were given more power, more technology, and more access to more private information to fix in a post-911 world the very things that worked correctly in the pre-911 world. The people failing to do their jobs, however - that is, the things that did not work correctly - were allowed to operate outside of the law and with almost no oversight.

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The original includes link to the USA TODAY article

[Roland99]

5. It's like pouring more and more money into a pyramid scheme