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They Let it Happen
Tj Templeton
March 12, 2005
Let's face it. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to put the evidence
together. They Let it happen. 9-11 was not only preventable, but allowed to
happen.
Let me begin by asking a question: If you were President of the United
States on September 11th, would you initiate an investigation to determine
what security lapses had occurred to allow such a tragedy to unfold? Of
course you would. The only reason you would try to prevent an investigation
is if you had something to hide. If your house was broken into and your
family murdered, would you ask the police to not investigate and try to
block the investigation? NO. Unless you were somehow involved. How could
anyone not wish to investigate what had allowed the 9-11 attacks to
transpire?
This is exactly what George W Bush did. The Bush administration tried to
prevent the formation of the 9-11 committee.(1) Why would the president not
feel it was necessary to investigate this? George W. Bush tried to prevent
the 9-11 investigation from happening. When that fight was lost Bush tried
to appoint Henry Kissinger to head the commission. After worldwide howls of
outrage and plenty of conflicts of interest questions about Kissinger,
Kissinger was replaced by Thomas Kean. Bush then took steps at every turn to
hinder the investigators.(2) At times, Bush even prevented the committee
from having access to their own notes.(3) He even tried to prevent his
National Security Advisor from testifying. When he finally relented on that,
he tried to prevent her from being required to testify under oath.(4) Why
would you ever set standards for ones testimony to not include the promise
to tell the truth unless the truth would somehow be damaging to your
official story? Finally, Condoleeza Rice did testify under oath. Of course,
we know how much that oath means to this administration. President Bush has
appointed several people to prominent government positions who have already
proven their willingness to lie to Congress. Appointing convicted felons to
government offices is bad. Appointing convicted felons guilty of lying to
Congress (5) is to spit in the face of the American people and a blatant
display of the disregard this administration has for our very democracy,
Congress, Constitution, and the rule of law.
Of course, not everyone who testified was required to swear to tell the
truth. Similar to the hemming and hawing over getting Rice to testify,
George Bush and Dick Cheney were quite a pair. First they said they wouldn't
testify. Eventually they gave in and agreed to testify only under certain
conditions: only in secret, only in the company of each other, and (of
course) without swearing to tell the truth. only in secret, only in the
company of each other, and (of course) without swearing to tell the truth.
(6) Word was never released if George was actually sitting on Dick's lap,
but I have my suspicions. Is this the behavior of two men who have nothing
to hide and have the best interest of the country at heart?
When George Bush was appointed to the Presidency, one of his first acts was
to demote and reassign the man that President Clinton had promoted to a
cabinet level position as terrorism czar. Under the Clinton presidency, this
man, Richard Clarke, held weekly cabinet level meetings specifically on the
threat of Osama Bin Laden. Those meetings we subsequently cancelled and Dick
Cheney himself has been quoted as saying "Richard Clarke was kept "out of
the loop".
Shortly before her performance for the 9-11 commission, (7) Rice wrote a
March 22, 2004 column in The Washington Post (8) that said "No al-Qaeda
threat was turned over to the new administration,". However, a January 25,
2001 memo penned by Richard Clarke (9) clearly states "We urgently need such
a principals-level review on the al-Qaeda network" "We urgently need such a
principals-level review on the al-Qaeda network" (9.5). Under oath,
testifying before the 9-11 Commission, Condoleeza Rice claimed "...no one
could have imagined planes being used a weapons..." (page 12) (10). We had a
reference to the August 6th Presidential Daily Briefing entitled "Bin Laden
determined to attack inside the United States". Rice referred to this as an
"historical document'. We were led to believe that this was the only
warning. It comes out now, that she was lying. Lying 52 times (11) over. It
has now been learned that Condi didn't disclose that they had, in fact,
received 52 warnings (12) in the months leading up to September 11th. Yes,
Condi lied under oath to a Congressional commission. With our knowledge of
this administration's penchant for people willing to lie to Congress, it
comes as no surprise that this National Security advisor who lied to
Congress and oversaw the worst lapse of national security in the history of
this country would now be promoted to Secretary of state.
So here we have an administration trying to prevent an investigation,
stonewalling the investigators once the committee is formed against their
best efforts, and outright lying under oath about having received 52
separate and specific warnings. What more could you possibly need?
How about a document signed by all of the people appointed to the top levels
of the Whitehouse and Pentagon stating their agenda for invading and
controlling the Middle east and their need for some sort of terrorist attack
in order to facilitate the public support needed for such an agenda? Well,
we have that too.
The Project for the New American Century was established in 1997 by Robert
Kagan and William Kristol and funded by three foundations closely tied to
Persian Gulf oil and weapons and defense industries. Calling themselves,
"Neoconservatives" this small group of ideologues penned a Statement of
Principles (13) outlining their plan for a New American Century wherein the
United States, as the world's lone superpower would use its military might
to topple regimes in the middle East and elsewhere that were unfriendly to
U.S. corporate interests. On their website you can read their document
Rebuilding America’s Defenses(14) ( .pdf format ). According to this
document (page 52). "The process of transformation," the plan said, "is
likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -
like a new Pearl Harbor." American Free Press asked Christopher Maletz,
asst. director of the PNAC about what was meant by the "need for a new Pearl
Harbor" According to this document (page 52). "The process of
transformation," the plan said, "is likely to be a long one, absent some
catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor." American Free
Press asked Christopher Maletz, asst. director of the PNAC about what was
meant by the "need for a new Pearl Harbor" (15): "They needed more money to
up the defense budget for raises, new arms, and future capabilities," Maletz
said. "Without some disaster or catastrophic event," neither the politicians
nor the military would have approved. The first leg of the PNAC
imperialistic agenda was to secure the oil supply of the Middle East. As far
back as 1998 The PNAC was pressuring President Bill Clinton (16) for the
invasion of Iraq. Who belongs to this neoconservative think tank?
Dick Cheney Vice President
Donald Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense
Paul Wolfowitz Deputy Secretary of Defense
Elliott Abrams Deputy Secretary of state
William J. Bennett Presidential speech writer
Jeb Bush Governor of Florida
I. Lewis Libby Vice President Cheney’s Chief of Staff and Assistant to the
Vice President for National Security Affairs.
Aaron Friedberg Vice President Cheney’s deputy National Security advisor
Frank Gaffney Pentagon's Defense Policy Board
Fred C. Ikle Pentagon's Defense Policy Board
Eliot A. Cohen Pentagon's Defense Policy Board
Henry S. Rowen Pentagon's Defense Policy Board
Paula Dobriansky Undersecretary of State
So here we have the top levels of the Whitehouse and Pentagon appointed by a
President who displays a blatant disregard for Congress and the rule of law,
who belong to a powerful and well funded organization who's agenda centers
around the necessity of a "new Pearl Harbor" to fulfill their agenda,
letting our defenses down in the face of 52 warnings of an impending
terrorist attack, lying about it before Congress and the American people. If
this doesn't exemplify every bit of evidence you would need to assume that
the 9-11 attacks were allowed to occur, I don't know what else you could
possibly need.
On a personal note, I don't believe that The Bush administration had
knowledge of just how bad the destruction of 9-11 would be. I believe that
they probably assumed that the attacks of 9-11 would be more on the level of
the attack on the USS Cole. I don't have any reason to believe this, but I
need to believe it. Just as many people need to believe that the Bush
administration wouldn't consider the loss of human life as the cost of doing
business. Unfortunately, by our observations of the invasion of Iraq and the
coup in Haiti, (17) we know that is not the case.
(1)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/15/attack/main509096.shtml
(2)
http://foi.missouri.edu/terrorintelligence/911attack.html
(3)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A64628-2004Jan30¬Found=true
(4)
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/mar2004/rice-m30.shtml
(5)
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/bushco/bushcontra.htm
(6)
http://www.voicesofsept11.org/911ic/archive/0404.php
(7)
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/002112.php
(8)
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/condi_art.htm
(9)
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,12216311^401,00.html
(9.5)
(10)
http://firstpeoplescentury.net/Rice01.htm
(11)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1480093,00.html
(12)
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/52_warnings.htm
(13)
http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm
(14)
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
(15)
http://www.americanfreepress.net/12_24_02/America_Pearl_Harbored/america_pearl_harbored.html
(16)
http://www.channel4.com/news/2003/special_reports/pnacletter.html
(17)
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/aristide.htm
See also: September 11 hijackers were being carefully watched more than a
year before the attacks
Tj Templeton is the founder and director of the Project for the Old American
Century.
http://www.oldamericancentury.org and can be
contacted at oldusa100@gmail.com
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