An Alternative to LIHOP and MIHOP: RBOHCMAN

[Plaid Adder]

OK, the acronym is not snazzy, but this has always been my take on Bush & 9/11:

Responsible Because Of His Criminal Misconduct And Negligence

In other words: I don't believe, and it would take a lot to convince me, that Dubya's goons WANTED this to happen. Trifecta or no trifecta, the results of a thing like this are just too unpredictable, to say nothing of how sitting down and cold-bloodedly planning the murder of thousands of your own citizens and buddies in the Pentagon is different from hailing this windfall as a gift from the dark lord and gleefully perching on their bloodied corpses and feeding off the tragedy until you explode, which is clearly what happened.

However, the 9/11 report should make it clear that if Bush and his team had their priorities straight, they would have had a better shot at preventing this. But, alas, they were too busy cheating, stealing, and covering up the nefarious activities of their cronies to pay attention, and here we are.

In terms of impeachability, I don't see why RBOHCMAN shoudl be that much less potent than LIHOP. (MIHOP, of course, is a giant step up from that level of responsibility.) Also, I might point out that by redacting the document in order to cover their own asses, they are preventing the American government from understanding what led to 9/11 and doing something about it, so the next time something like this happens, it will be clear that Bush is RBOHCMAN.

It sucks either way, of course.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[Zero Gravitas]

1. LIHTI

I don't beleive any of this LIHOP/MIHOP stuff, it just doesn't make any sense at all IMO. I do believe in LIHTI: Let It Happen Through Incompetence. YEah they were busy acting like the greedy corrupt pigs that they are, but they still should have been paying attention to national security. We know Botch* was briefed that bin Laden was planning to attack the US and was planning to hijack airliners. Instead of, say, stepping up security at airports the dishonorable undignified weasel went on vacation for a month.

[Plaid Adder]

2. Much better acronym!

Thanks!

The Plaid Adder

[bpilgrim]

4. that sounds like the CCCC

Catastrophically Contagious CLUSTERFUCK Conspiracy :evilgrin:

been around awhile... ;-)

peace

[Beetwasher]

3. I think they got played

It's obvious they had the intelligence agencies back off investigations and also ignored any evidence sent their way. I don't think it was necessarily incompetence as much as it was doing favors for the Saudi's. IOW, they were in business together and got played. They were told by their business partners to back off certain people (The terrorists) and told not to worry about it.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

5. I pretty much agree

I wonder if the Saudis didn't outsmart Bush. He can't really do anything to them, since they are some of his biggest backers.

[bpilgrim]

7. and that explains why they are protecting them now

:crazy:

peace

[suegeo]

9. Saudis role in Iran Contra

I read in an actual book that the Saudis were the largest financial contributor to the Iran-Contra crimes of the 1980s. If I can find the source and the quote, I'll post it.

[GregW]

6. Hey Shrub! BOHICA!

Bend Over, Here It Comes Again!

[Tansy_Gold]

8. CSI;DT

Could've Stopped It; Didn't Try.

Incompetence suggests inability even to know what was going to happen or even imagine something close. But there were too many warnings to suggest incompetence or ignorance; there had to be something more.

Rice's classic flub, about not ever imagining planes would be flown into buildings, gave it all away, IMHO. They had many, many, many reasons to suspect something awful would happen, and they did nothing, absofuckinglutely nothing, to stop it. Even beefing up airport security, the red flags raised by the one-way tickets bought with cash, failure to scramble air defenses. Nah, sorry, you're not gonna convince me they didn't know something. If they'd been totally ignorant and it came as a complete surprise, why no scrambled planes? Two planes flown into the WTC, two more with transponders off, one on some kind of weird flight path, and no air defenses in action? Sorry, I didn't buy it then and I'm not buying it now.

LIHTMN -- Let It Happen Through Malign Neglect -- maybe, but nothing better, and it's too hard to pronounce anyway. I'm still more likely to go with LIHOP or even MIHOP.

[Redleg]

10. Sounds good to me. That is pretty much my take on it.

EOM

[whoYaCallinAlib]

11. No doubt about it. He could have done more.

I don't know if it would have saved any lives, but there is no doubt in my mind that the Bush administration could have done a better job pre 9-11. Who knows how many lives could have been saved if he was paying more attention to the theat of terrorism. Even one life would have been worth the extra effort.