Submitted by Bgilmore on October 3, 2006 - 3:15am.George W. Bush | September 11, 2001
An open message to George Bush on why he is America's Enemy Combatant No. 1, an accessory to 9/11, and why he's against us, not for us.
ON SEPTEMBER 29th, you, George Bush, ACCUSED YOUR CRITICS OF WANTING TO GO BACK TO THE OLD DAYS OF "WAITING TO BE ATTACKED - AND THEN RESPONDING."
Wrong again, George. It was YOU who waited to be attacked. Everyone else was trying to prevent it from happening. They were also trying to get YOU involved in that. But you preferred to keep stalling....waiting to be attacked. You and your team of negligent and incompetent misfits -- criminally so.
As a matter of fact, there were scores of people in America desperately trying to do something about the warnings. These patriots were anxiously trying to get YOU, as the president and commander-in-chief, to join and support them. Because with those titles, your participation was crucial.
You're now also trying to paint your critics as being in cahoots with "the enemy" by accusing them of using the same propaganda. Nice try, but that pro-torture legislation your shills just passed making you "God" is still transparent crap.
You said something about not wanting to "swat flies," a stupid remark. You weren't being asked to swat flies, but to provide leadership on US security when US Senators were predicting that thousands could die on US soil. But that was asking too much, wasn't it? ...expecting you to act like a real leader, a real President.
Oh sure, Clinton had handed you a war, all planned out with blueprints and upfront democratic approval, but that wasn't BIG enough for you...going after bin Laden and al Qaeda and the Taliban. The Cole bombing was determined to have been bin Laden's work on your watch, not Clinton's, and yet it was all just "swatting flies" to you.... it was beneath you. Or maybe it had to do with hosting the Taliban leadership at your presidential ranch in Crawford to talk over a pipeline deal. What was the slogan for that sweetheart deal? Oh, yes, I remember: Sign this deal and receive a carpet of gold, or you'll get a carpet of bombs.
So okay, you weren't interested in war plans with coveted business partners. That goes under policy judgment. That judgment would worsen after invading Afghanistan and the bin Laden wannabe Zarqawi fled to the No-Fly, US-protected zone of Northern Iraq where he set up terror shop; at least according to the Pentagon, which was very worried about reports they were receiving about his camp that included chemical attacks in Europe. THREE times they asked for permission to take it out, and THREE times you refused. So the spin on how the GOP is great on US security is pure poppycock.
And here's where we really run into problems. ... It's not just that you've been awfully quiet about your proxies blaming Clinton for not doing what you refused to do multiple times. You never had any intention of going after a bin Laden, an old family partnership, because he had the stature that matched your fantasies of Big Game and not that silly "fly swatting" the rest of us define as part of your job description. Being a decent civil servant was never on your To Do List. You had Bigger Fantasies to justify Bigger War Mongering and Profiteering Plans. Putting all that aside for a moment.....
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING JUSTIFIES YOUR DISINTEREST IN ADDRESSING THE INADEQUACY OF DOMESTIC SECURITY AND THE NEED TO UPDATE IT. That is JOB ONE for a President. People tried to get you to reform it consistent with the new threats - threats personally brought to your attention - but you had NO INTEREST in protecting Americans by preventing these attacks.
AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, GEORGE? That means you were AGAINST us, not FOR us. Remember your own words? Your behavior and language clearly show you were (a) AGAINST the people trying to get you to improve security, and you were (b) FOR a successful attack on Americans. It was the only way you could launch your Big Plans and Big War. In reality, you were the Big Flop, witness to an event where you don't get second chances. In the litmus test of "You're either for us or against us," you've clearly been against us.
You wasted no time in proving it by demanding YOUR FIRST CHANCE at being America's Savior, the one who would never let this happen again, by stopping any investigation of HOW IT HAPPENED THE FIRST TIME! George, how do you plan to stop it in the future if you don't know how it happened in the first place? You don't have to answer that, George. This is the moment when the light bulbs flash on in the minds of all the jurors, and over and over their mind's eye screams the word "guilty, guilty, guilty......"
You AGGRESSIVELY avoided the appeals of those civil servants who, unlike you, WERE trying to fulfill their duties to Americans. You actively WORKED to avoid them, stall them, stop them. It had become a high-level game of CAT AND MOUSE with a pattern of behavior backing it up. Let's count the times you were an accessory to murder.....
(1) You started STALLING 12 days into your term... the last day of January when you received the bipartisan HART/RUDMAN REPORT predicting that thousands of Americans could die on US soil if reform was ignored. But you proceeded to do just that - ignore it. You said you would assign it to Cheney. But you didn't. And it didn't happen. You lied.
(2) Then in May 2001 Congress was getting nervous about Hart-Rudman and THEY wanted to do so something. By this time warnings were coming in hot and heavy about an imminent attack, with most going straight to you. You knew you had to stop Congress from doing anything productive. So you called a press conference and used the same line you used back in February - announcing you were giving this to Cheney, and they would just have to wait on his task force. Another lie. Even Gingrich was stunned. And then came a new stall tactic...
3) .....Summer, in which VACATIONS took over from face-to-face stalling. Bush-Cheney continued to do NOTHING and Congress heard NOTHING from the phantom task force. Clarke et al were tearing their hair out, but the patriots would just have to wait because now they were being STALLED BY SUMMER VACATIONS!
The CAT AND MOUSE GAME of trying to get Bush to lead continued well into the summer as Bush scurried off to Crawford.
(4) THEN A FUNNY THING HAPPENED.... THE CAT FLEW OVER THE VACATION AND LIGHTED DOWN IN CRAWFORD TO PERSONALLY BRIEF THE PRESIDENT ON THE GROWING DANGER OF AN IMMINENT ATTACK as detailed in the personally delivered 08/06/2001 PDB on bin Laden, which included the hijacking of planes...... But did the mouse hiding in his corner appreciate the effort? This extraordinary demonstration of gravity and concern? No. That's when the mouse said something equally extraordinary, something unthinkable and downright bizarre..... The mouse said to this mid-level civil servant, "Okay. You've covered your ass now." ....which is another way of saying, "Go Cheney yourself." And then he went out and cleared brush, and did nothing.
You see, the mouse was pissed off about the whole visit and the pushing of this memo on him. HERE THEY WERE AGAIN, STILL TRYING TO DO THEIR JOBS AND STILL TRYING TO GET HIM TO DO HIS!
(5) Then you STALLED IN THE CLASSROOM THAT TRAGIC DAY - also the written opinion of a right-wing author in the room, lest there be charges of bias. WHY WERE YOU STALLING, GEORGE? You had to know of the strong possibility this was a terrorist attack in progress, that delay could kill thousands, that fighter pilots might need presidential orders on hijacked planes. Some people think you froze. Or that you were just showing your true colors as an incompetent, or a fake president, a front man, a TPR (TelePrompter Reader). I don't think so, George. I don't think you're as stupid as that. And anybody who could snap, "you've covered your ass" to an unthreatening civil servant has a pretty good idea what's going on, what is important for some, what is being avoided by others, and the utmost seriousness of the issue and its dynamics. So why did you stall, George? You knew that in the event of a terror attack, the script that most people went by called for you to get to battle stations ASAP, to be a president, a commander in chief. What script were you following, George? Why did you stall from January to September? That's an easy question.
BECAUSE YOU WANTED AN ATTACK TO HAPPEN SO YOU COULD HAVE YOUR DESIGNER WAR, not the real one that Clinton talked about, but the fantasy one. The BIG ONE, that ONE THAT WOULD MAKE YOU A DICTATOR AND AMERICA AN EMPIRE, THAT WOULD LAUNCH THE STUPIDLY-NAMED "WAR ON TERROR," A WAR FOR OIL AND POWER, A WAR ON ROOSEVELT AND THE NEW DEAL, A WAR ON AMERICAN PRINCIPLES AS INSCRIBED IN THE CONSTITUTION, THE BILL OF RIGHTS, A WAR ON ALL CRITICS, A WAR ON FREEDOM, and now, after the ignoble Senate destruction of habeas corpus, a convention older than the Magna Carta, A WAR ON WESTERN CIVILIZATION ITSELF. You were an accessory to the crime, you provided the getaway car once and then again at Tora Bora. You are determined to destroy all that is good in American and Western values. Just like the Nazis, you have turned against Western civilization.