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I am not usually one to hold to conspiracy theories, but the events surrounding 9/11 are far too suspicious to believe that the administration did not truly know what was going on.
If 4 planes were hijacked, why in the world did the President so non-chalantly continue to read a story to a group of grade-schoolers after the first rammed the Trade Center?
Why were there no warnings issued to the people in the second building?
Why did the administration turn a blind eye to their own intelligence operatives? Regardless of what Clinton did or did not do, warnings were given to the Bush administration.
Perhaps the administration needed the events of 9/11 in order to justify their actions in going to war. They understood the American psyche and used 9/11 to stage an attempt to achieve a "utopia". The Iraqi people would be ecstatic over their new found freedom, they would be better off as the nation's oil resources were redistributed more fairly, and there would be enough profits to satisfy both the oil industry along with the Iraqi people.
As most Americans generally disapprove of the idea of having young blood spilled for profit, 9/11 had to be "linked" to Saddam. 9/11 was used to prove that Saddam was indeed a tangible threat. America bought the whole thing, hook, line and sinker.
We as Americans can be grateful that our founding fathers had the foresight to separate the powers of government as they did. America flirted with the same disaster that befell the Germans with Hitler and the Nazi party's rise to power.
Had the same kind of power that was given to Hitler been given to Bush, Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, could the outcome for the neocon U.S. been any different than for Nazi Germany?
Is the attempted censoring of a film like Fahrenheit 9/11 any different than the book burnings in Germany? Censorship is censorship and the attempted suppression of ideals and opinions. No matter the form, the attempted outcome is the same.
When writers at prominent newspapers lose their jobs for being critical of the President at the start of the war, that is censorship plain and simple.
It was Mahatma Gandhi who once stated that the ends do not justify the means. Any person who justifies the use of evil in order to accomplish "good" becomes evil.
Did Bush really desire the present outcome in Iraq? I can't believe that he did. I do believe that he honestly believed that America as a whole would be better off along with the Iraqi people.
However, he justified the use of evil to attempt to accomplish "good". He allowed the events of 9/11 to play out. He chose to sacrifice many of America's young men and women to wage a war that was supposed to have changed the world for the better. He chose to sacrifice thousands more Iraqi civilians. He chose to pursue ruthlessness in interrogations in order to extract information from prisoners. Many of whom were guilty by being in the wrong place at the wrong time, not because they truly committed any crime. And it is Bush who refuses to admit any wrong doing in any of this. He chooses to blame the junior enlisted soldiers in the Army for the prison abuses. He chooses to blame the intelligence agencies instead of admitting that it was his own wishful thinking that lead our nation down the road to perdition.
We now have a nation in chaos. Greed rules the day above all else. To hell with the environment, to hell with health care, to hell with education, and to hell with personal responsibility.
We have major disasters brewing with the economy, world politics, the environment, and with the physical health of our own species. All of this in order to secure a flow of cheap oil for America and a source of fantastic profits for Bush's corporate cronies. Not to mention the impending disaster of mad cow disease, never ending threat of terrorism, the destabilization of Pakistan with the handover of its nuclear capability to religious radicals, and the threat of massive climate change from all of the greenhouse gasses that oil consumption brings. Add to that the decimation of the earth's forests which might help to scavenge some of the excess CO2 and secure it into cellulose.
The world's public sees through the Bush facade. The American public is finally beginning to wake up to the gravity of the situation also.
One thing remains, however. Bush has shown no intention of turning from the evilness of his ways. Unless he and his cabinet have a major change of heart, he WILL attempt to keep hold of his position and power in any way he can. Continuing to justify his actions through the old adage of justifying the use of the means to achieve the desired "good" ends. After all, in a kind of sick and twisted way, he still believes that he can turn this whole thing around. He just needs more time. And if the American public won't give it to him, he will find it necessary to use whatever means he can in order to keep the Presidency.
Should a man like John Kerry win the Whitehouse, everything that Bush attempted will come to an end. Bush believes that he cannot let that happen. In Bush's delusional reasoning, America and the planet will ultimately be better off if he can only be given more time in order to achieve his vision. In Bush's mind, Kerry will undo everything the present administration has worked to achieve.
If anyone believes that Bush doesn't honestly believe that Kerry is bad for terrorism, I have some sobering news. Bush and his team aren't just using it as a campaign slogan to win the election. They honestly do believe that Kerry's approach will foster further terrorism. In their own twisted world, their way is the ONLY right way.
Hence, it is time to rethink our approach to Bush. He is a delusional man. He really believes that if he can accomplish his vision, a utopian world will result. It is that kind of thinking that is the most dangerous of all. It allows him to justify to himself and those around him, any action (no matter how good or bad) that is necessary to see his plan achieved.
Hopefully, our government can hold him at bay long enough for the people to give their vote. Bush, Rove, Cheney and the rest can then go and get some desperately needed psychiatric help.
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