Some us weren’t born for a soldier’s life. I am such a person. During my three years in the Air Force keeping the troops healthy so they would be ready if the Druids had a resurgence in England, I developed a theory. The theory was that it was impossible to get depressed in the military, because there are so many completely absurd things going on to laugh about. I had that feeling this week with the news. So much to chortle about that it takes one’s mind off of what’s important. Of course, the most imprtant happening is the Congressional action to destroy habeas corpus and condone torture[there goes my mood]. But the other thing is that in all this news, there’s one story that stands out. Christie of Firedoglake says it well:
After Woodward’s revelation that George Tenet and Cofer Black met with Condi Rice on July 10, 2001, regarding the desperate need for a more concentrated push on al qaeda threats in the United States and abroad, Condi stepped up and said it was "incomprehensible" that such a meeting would have occurred and that she wouldn’t remember it. Well, yes, that would be incomprehensible, that close to 9/11 and just before the CIA PDB entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US" was delivered to the President at his ranch in Crawford…and yet, look what meeting was on your calendar, Condi? Except…ooops…you appear to have left this meeting out of your testimony to the 9/11 Commissioners. Wonder how that happened? And, unfortunately for Condi, Tenet did not forget about the meeting and his warnings to her — and he apparently told the 9/11 Commission about that in his testimony, but I can’t recall reading that in the final report. Anyone know of a reference in there?
This is the big story. The Bush Administration wasn’t just adequately warned. They were warned in Spades, repeatedly, by multiple people. And they lied about it, in Spades, multiple times, multiple officials. For we on-the-streets Americans to have been caught off-guard is understandable. For Bush’s Administration to have been caught off guard is pilot-error, in Spades, multiple times. Nothing, absolutely nothing, can ever make up for their ignoring the warnings. Nothing, absolutely nothing, can explain their lying about being warned. So nothing, absolutely nothing can come from this Administration except it’s apology and it’s getting out of the way so we can relocate ourselves. In all of this glut of news and information, Condoleeza Rice’s meeting on July 10, 2001 is the BIG story. All of the chortle news is actually in the way right now…Update: see the left coaster [9/11 Commission a Sick Whitewash], for the appropriate words.
“So nothing, absolutely nothing can come from this Administration except it’s apology and it’s getting out of the way so we can relocate ourselves.”
This ‘admininstration’ will not apologize. Our choice regarding relocation boils down to physically LEAVING our country [aka shirking our DUTY; ..] OR, simply adjusting our framework to the actuality that they were complicit in the 911 attacks.
RE: “Nothing, absolutely nothing, can explain their lying about being warned.”
(with all due respect)
“just what else was so “secret†about 9/11 that they’d leave something so critical deliberately out!?”
I prescribe a walk through the portal w/FDL as apparently the lights are about to come on for “paradox”… Godspeed to you both
I reckon I should have said “explain away”…
oops, I meant Left Coaster not FDL. hurrying, as usual.
http://patriotsquestion911.com/
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?s=5320002
http://kutv.com/local/local_story_255101109.html
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc7.html