[Editor’s note: While I do not regard Donald Trump as a flawless candidate, he appears to be head-and-shoulders above the alternatives, where his latest triumph in Nevada has put him in the position to “run the table” on Super Tuesday and all-but-seal the Republican nomination. The establishments of both the left and the right are petrified at the prospect, where The Greanville Post has identified some of the features that make his campaign of extraordinary significance. He is exposing the fraud implicit in the “official account” of 9/11, which invites a more searching exploration further down the road.]
Because of this obsession, warnings from the CIA and counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke about al-Qaeda, which had previously attacked U.S. government assets and the World Trade Center in the 1990s, fell on deaf ears, despite growing signs that “Bin Laden [was] Determined to Strike the US.” Even the prospect of aircraft hijackings was raised.
Thus Bush and his top people ignored al-Qaeda despite warnings from their experts and ominous events such as the arrest of Zacarias Moussaoui, (as Peter Beinart explains). Could the attacks have been prevented had the policymakers paid attention? Who knows? But that does not excuse Bush’s irresponsibility.As for the Iraq war, Bush and his defenders plead innocent on the grounds that everyone thought Saddam had chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, or at least active WMD programs.
“Today, like the Bush administration alumni attempting to duck responsibility, the media blame ‘bad intelligence’ for their conduct. But that will not wash. The dissenting reports of Knight Ridder’s Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay, along with a very few others, show definitively that in 2002–03 solid intelligence information undermining every propagandistic administration claim was readily available to anyone willing to use traditional reporting techniques. Strobel and Landay were mostly ignored. On the rare occasions when the New York Times orWashington Post reported on the doubts intelligence personnel had about the Bush narrative, the stories were buried deep in the paper. (See Bill Moyers’s special “Buying the War” and Greg Mitchell’s book Wrong for So Long.)”
Sheldon Richman keeps the blog “Free Association” and is a senior fellow and chair of the trustees of the Center for a Stateless Society.
[Editor’s note: My hope would be that, once the public begins to reflect upon the implausibilities of 9/11, there will be opportunity to expose the culprits and get serious, which is a prospect that one and only one candidate promotes. See “The Real Deal Ep #103: 9/11–Who was responsible and why (with Dennis Cimino).]
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I disagree. Bush and Cheney and all the top culprits that planned and executed 9-11, need to be held accountable and prosecuted. Simply holding that they were guilty by negligence, or guilty by reason that they should have protected America better, does not wash. They had to have sat in on the 9-ll planning sessions, and in fact, orchestrated the planning. Why has no head of US government been held accountable, AT ALL, for the most massive security failings in US history? I'll tell you why: because if a single one of those "ducks" fell, it would set off a massive chain reaction of criminal prosecutions that would take a hundred years to prosecute. You will have to somehow bulldoze all this aside before you can claim that said heads of state were guilty simply by reason of what they should have known and done but did not by reason simply of being too busy or whatever.
I disagree. Bush and Cheney and all the top culprits that planned and executed 9-11, need to be held accountable and prosecuted. Simply holding that they were guilty by negligence, or guilty by reason that they should have protected America better, does not wash. They had to have sat in on the 9-ll planning sessions, and in fact, orchestrated the planning. Why has no head of US government been held accountable, AT ALL, for the most massive security failings in US history? I'll tell you why: because if a single one of those "ducks" fell, it would set off a massive chain reaction of criminal prosecutions that would take a hundred years to prosecute. You will have to somehow bulldoze all this aside before you can claim that said heads of state were guilty simply by reason of what they should have known and done but did not by reason simply of being too busy or whatever.