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get sucked in by their flak-catchers' talking points--i.e., "Junior and his cronies believed that Clinton and everything he did was bad."
I think Bush is a puppet--and is not the president, in any real sense, and never has been. I don't think he's his own man, so to speak. If he was, he would have dumped both Cheney and Rumsfeld some time around the end of 2003 (for their cooked intel on Iraq WMDs, and for outing Plame and the CIA's entire counter-proliferation network, Brewster-Jennings), and they would have been lucky to escape treason charges. But I don't think Bush has or had the power to dump them. Talk about "wag the dog." They wag Bush, not the other way around.
They put him in office, as their puppet. They--Cheney and Rumsfeld--are the front men for war profiteers and oil profiteers. This Cabal fixed both elections, '00 and '04. The first by massive election fraud, circa '00, and by fixing the Supreme Court. The second, '04, by taking direct control of vote-counting through two rightwing Bushite electronic voting corporations, Diebold and ES&S, using "trade secret," proprietary software in the new voting systems installed during the 2002-2004 period.
Think for a moment about the 7 minutes of "My Pet Goat." Did that look like a man in charge? Nope, that looked like a punk rich kid who knew that "Daddy" was "fixing" things for him. He'd been very bad. He and his pals had kicked the crap out of that little fat kid with glasses down the street, who was in intensive care, with one lost eye and the other in danger, and his life nearly snuffed out. "Daddy" was arranging an alibi for his gangster son. And buying some cops and judges. Junior would be whisked off to an exclusive boys camp in Switzerland, where he would learn to take out his aggressions by raiding good companies and destroying them, and firing all their workers, and getting filthy rich.
A mean, nasty, guilty little boy caught in the headlights. That's what that look was. And all he had to worry about was playing his part.
Cheney and Rumsfeld and the Cabal didn't believe that "Clinton and everything he did was bad." Good/bad?--a matter of complete indifference to them. Saddam was bad, and they had supplied him with chemical weapons. And Clinton had his uses. NAFTA, for one. And sicking the Darth Vader troops on the 50,000 anti-globalist Americans protesting in Seattle. But Clinton was a mixed bag--he had a social conscience--and had to be prevented from achieving universal health care, or any other beneficial national policy. Thus, they hounded him mercilessly and found his one weakness, and used it to distract him with a witch-hunt. He also had to be prevented from tracking the Al Qaeda money trail. Al Qaeda was a Bush Cartel project, initiated by the CIA and run through the secretive bin Laden family and Saudi royals. Under Clinton, FBI agent John O'Neill had followed it to Yemen. After the Supreme Court coup of '00, one of Cheney's first moves was an "investigation" of the Clinton FBI. (Remember that? Summer of '01. And one of the investigators was Gary Condit, member of the House Intelligence Committee, and a "blue dog" Democrat--a White House favorite--who, two days after his lover Chandra Levy disappeared, voted in favor of the Bush Junta's first tax cut for the rich, in a very close vote. Two months later, Condit disclosed his schedule for the week of Levy's disappearance, which included a meeting with Cheney on the day she disappeared, during what turned out to be the very hours of her disappearance. In early August, Newsweek disclosed that the FBI had never asked Cheney about this meeting (Condit's only alibi during those hours), not even to verify that the meeting had actually taken place.) During that same summer, leading up to 9/11--as the House "investigation" of the FBI proceeded, John O'Neill was forced out of the FBI and his investigation of the Al Qaeda money trail shut down. (He went to work as head of security at the WTC the week it was attacked, and died in the attack.) Another thing that happened--during the "investigation" of the FBI (summer '01)--was that FBI agent Colleen Rowley's routine request for a warrant to get into Zacharias Moussaoui's computer was denied by her superiors in DC.
And, of course, just preceding all of this (spring '01), there were Cheney's secret energy meetings, at which the oil giants carved up the map of the Iraqi oil fields among themselves. Heavy summer, that.
Taken all in all--the numerous "hair on fire" warnings about Al Qaeda, ignored, and the plain obstructions of tracking Al Qaeda (described above) that the Cabal was engaged in, and a few other facts, like the NORAD stand-down on 9/11 (Rumsfeld), and orchestration of events from the bunker, keeping Bush out of it (Cheney)--I'd have to say that LIHOP (they let it happen) was quite likely, and their purpose was to invade Iraq (and following that, Iran) to get control of Mideast oil. Bush, I would guess, is only dimly aware of the ways that this Cabal arranges things for him--whether making him into a "war president" with 9/11, or fixing the 2004 election with "trade secret" vote counting software. He is almost completely lacking in skills or talent, and has no understanding of how government works. His role is to read "My Pet Goat" (his dimwitted, pre-programmed Orwellian phrases) to the kids (us--or rather, to the war profiteering corporate news monopolies' version of "us" as hate-filled 'christian' yahoos whose kneejerk response to flag-waving is to kick the shit out of fat little kids with glasses, brown immigrants, fags, and peace protesters.) (This Cabal and its news monopolies are into insulting us, I believe.)
You say that that state of mind--the rightwing talking point that warnings about terrorist attacks were a Clinton thing--"was still with them when they took office in January 2001." That may have been true of Rove and his PR flaks, and of Bushite underlings, but it was not true of Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Corporate Oil Cabal. They were/are well outside of, and behind, the bullshit that is shoveled out for public consumption. Their obsessions are money and power. Clinton hatred was for the peons. Some power-players on the right--Kenneth Starr comes to mind; and Howard Ahmanson (the rightwing billionaire funder of the Diebold spinoff, ES&S, who also supports groups that tout the death penalty for homosexuals, among other things); and maybe Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity--may have a real and visceral hatred of the Clintons. Cheney, Rumsfeld and Cabal couldn't care less. It was CONVENIENT for them to have underlings who hated Clinton, and dissed everything he did, and ignored all of his peoples' warnings about Al Qaeda. But they would have ignored those warnings ANYWAY, and would have found another excuse for doing so.
Now try again to imagine what a REAL president would have done, in the situation that presented itself in early 2001. 1. He would have quickly realized that his vice president had ill intentions (those secret energy meetings), and was out to feather his own nest, and would have isolated him from all serious policy- and decision-making, and planned to dump him from the ticket in '04, and possibly even force his resignation before that. 2. He would have encouraged the FBI and the CIA to track Al Qaeda funding wherever it led and shut it down, tightened security at ports of entry and barred the hijackers, and sent a message to these agencies that would have empowered Colleen Rowley, John O'Neil and others to pursue their investigations. 3. He would have immediately called for a fast-track program of conversion to alternative energy, to get us off Mideast oil and keep us out of that quagmire, and to ALSO address global warming in a worldwide cooperative effort--and would also have forced the Israelis and Palestinians to the table for a FINAL settlement (justice for the Palestinians, safety for Israel); overtures to Iran (to make up for our having destroyed its democracy in 1954), and successful pressure on the Taliban to give up OBL and put him on trial for the Cole and embassy bombings. 4. A thorough look at NORAD and air defenses, to make sure everything was working right. 5. Meetings with airport officials and airline pilots and employees, to improve commercial airplane security. 6. There are many other positive and useful things a real President would have done--for instance, using the alternative energy goal to re-invigorate the economy and re-inspire American ingenuity, and get us out of the doldrums of corporate monopolies (whose idea is to hoard resources, and enrich the few--not creativity and real prosperity), or supporting the new democracy movement in Venezuela--a very positive development--to have a secure source of oil outside of the Middle East, for the transition period to alternative fuels.
We could ALL think of POSITIVE measures that may well have prevented 9/11. And, if 9/11 had occurred anyway (--hard to imagine without insider cooperation (the first WTC attack was more in line with Al Qaeda's real capabilities--limited damage), but say that it did), the NEXT move would be to REDOUBLE the efforts described above (get off Mideast oil, tighten ports of entry, settle the Israeli/Palestinian dispute, etc.), and enlist the world's support in solving these multiple political, diplomatic, resource and security problems. The world was willing to help. The entire world was with us at that point. A real president would have taken full advantage of that univeral offer of cooperation. Even Saddam would have cooperated. He hated OBL and Al Queda, and feared Islamic jihad in Iraq. As for Saddam, sanctions and no-fly zones had crippled the country, and only a bit of bluster and threat was needed to get full UN inspections. 95%% of Saddam's WMD capability was gone, destroyed. The UN could handle the rest, and it was about time to lift the sanctions, which were only hurting the poor--and start getting things headed in a more positive direction in Iraq and throughout the Middle East, so that we could disentangle ourselves from it. Our relations with the sultans of Saudi Arabia and others like them were a disgrace to our democratic principles. This, and our failure to insist on fairness to the Palestinians, were constantly aggravating the Islamic masses. This hatred could be stopped, or at least greatly mitigated, if we had the will to do so.
Think of a real President--or even a half-real one, one who would have taken at least SOME of the above measures--given the warnings about Al Qaeda, and the previous attacks.
Now think of our "My Pet Goat" President.
We did not HAVE a president during that period (and we don't have one now). We had an Oil Cabal, bending every policy to its own profitable ends.
And I just don't believe that its frontmen, Cheney and Rumsfeld, bought into the rightwing blather about Clinton. If anything, I think they were aware of his effectiveness as a president, on the matter of Al Queda. He wasn't as brilliant and visionary as described above, but he was doing his job. The first WTC attackers were convicted and in jail. The FBI was tracking down their money, and closely watching other potential operatives. And stopping these attacks was Clinton's top national security priority. Cheney and Rumsfeld didn't disdain those Clinton measures--in any kneejerk rightwing way. They wanted to STOP them.
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