Tuesday, February 15, 2005
The Emperor Has No Clothes (in case you hadn't noticed).
Robert Scheer has a withering rebuke of Georgie & his gang of Radical Republicans in a LA Times Op-Ed. Scheer ends his piece with this indictment of the current residents of the White House:
9-11 wasn't quite the intelligence failure Georgie & Company want us to think it was. It was a failure of character, judgment, and priorities. Only a self-indulgent and lazy President would remain on vacation after receiving a report titled, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike US." It was a failure of judgment and priorities as Rice was scheduled to give a speech on missile defense on Sept. 11, 2001. Despite numerous warnings that Al Qaeda was a threat, Georgie Bush and his team failed to take them seriously. None of this, of course, absolves al Qaeda and bin Laden for their actions.
As Scheer notes, the recently released "secret" 9-11 report "exposes the administration as woefully incompetent if not criminally negligent." It is now clear why Georgie, Big Daddy Cheney, et al resisted the 9-11 commission, failed to support its work in any meaningful way, and then kept its full report from public view until well after the election. High Crimes and Misdemeanors indeed! Instead of getting ourselves in dither over the dismantling of Social Security, we should be drafting Articles of Impeachment for Georgie and his gang.
Robert Scheer has a withering rebuke of Georgie & his gang of Radical Republicans in a LA Times Op-Ed. Scheer ends his piece with this indictment of the current residents of the White House:
The terrible fact is that the administration took none of the steps that would have put the protection of human life ahead of a diverse set of economic and political interests, which included not offending our friends the Saudis and not hurting the share prices of airline corporations.As we all now know, the FAA and Condoleezza Rice (who lied to the 9-11 Commission about there not being a smoking gun) knew that almost half (52 of 105) of the FAA daily intelligence reports mentioned al Qaeda, Osma bin Laden, hijacking plans, and using those hijacked planes as suicide bombs. Remember it was Rice who, under oath mind you, claimed that no one had imagined anyone, anywhere using planes as weapons. This person is now Sec. of State. Again and again, we see Georgie Bush's penchant for supporting failures (unless those "failures" happen to benefit the poor).
9-11 wasn't quite the intelligence failure Georgie & Company want us to think it was. It was a failure of character, judgment, and priorities. Only a self-indulgent and lazy President would remain on vacation after receiving a report titled, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike US." It was a failure of judgment and priorities as Rice was scheduled to give a speech on missile defense on Sept. 11, 2001. Despite numerous warnings that Al Qaeda was a threat, Georgie Bush and his team failed to take them seriously. None of this, of course, absolves al Qaeda and bin Laden for their actions.
As Scheer notes, the recently released "secret" 9-11 report "exposes the administration as woefully incompetent if not criminally negligent." It is now clear why Georgie, Big Daddy Cheney, et al resisted the 9-11 commission, failed to support its work in any meaningful way, and then kept its full report from public view until well after the election. High Crimes and Misdemeanors indeed! Instead of getting ourselves in dither over the dismantling of Social Security, we should be drafting Articles of Impeachment for Georgie and his gang.