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In reply to the discussion: Bob Graham speaking out about 9/11 again. Also 2 archived articles Saudi flights after 9/11 [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)corporate owned as it is, played a huge role in diverting attention away from anything that might interfere with Bush's second theft of an election.
Maybe people forget the atmosphere we were living in back then, but to be in a position where you could reveal anything that might be a threat to the Bush/Cheney crimiinal organization, was likely to put you in a very dangerous position and that is not hyperbole.
Graham did speak out back then. He did what he could from the position he was in to try to inform the public, or to get some of his colleagues in Congress to conduct an investigation into the crimes many of US knew were in progress at the time.
He didn't get much backing from his colleagues who were either totally supportive of the lies, or too afraid to speak out. Kucinich certainly did, and he was attacked and smeared and painted as a loon, even right here on a Dem Forum.
Michael Moore made Fahrenheit 9/11 to cover all the information the Corporate Media covered up, and he too was painted as some kind of nut case, even right here on a Dem Forum.
The American people can NEVER claim they 'did not know' because the information was out there, unlike previous eras where the people actually had not access to information.
The bottom line is the American people chose to allow the 'politics of fear' to influence them and knee-jerk reacted rather than try to determine the facts for themselves, which anyone who tried, could have.
But most to blame imo, are the Democrats who voted for Bush's lies re Iraq because we KNOW as Bob Graham revealed, that they HAD ACCESS to the information they needed to decide whether we were being lied to or not. They chose not to read it so that they could claim a lack of knowledge later on.
So now it's up to the people. Will they vote for someone who, even though she knew she could access information that could have changed her vote, decided not to and voted FOR the lies or will they stand on principle and demand that our Party provide us with a candidate who does not have that stain on their record?
So far I am seeing a lot of people say they will 'hold their noses' if they have to. That makes all of them complicit in the cover up especially since they know what they are voting for.
I know I won't be supporting anyone who participated in that crime. And if everyone else refused to do so, she would not be the candidate in 2016.