All They Had To Do Was NOTHING

[kpete]

All They Had To Do Was NOTHING
They LET 9/11 Happen

Claim vs. Fact: Rice's Q&A Testimony Before the 9/11 Commission
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0408-04.htm
Planes as Weapons

CLAIM: "I do not remember any reports to us, a kind of strategic warning, that planes might be used as weapons."

FACT: Condoleezza Rice was the top National Security official with President Bush at the July 2001 G-8 summit in Genoa. There, "U.S. officials were warned that Islamic terrorists might attempt to crash an airliner" into the summit, prompting officials to "close the airspace over Genoa and station antiaircraft guns at the city's airport."

CLAIM: "I was certainly not aware of at the time that I spoke" in 2002.

FACT: While Rice may not have been aware of the 12 separate and explicit warnings about terrorists using planes as weapons when she made her denial in 2002, she did know about them when she wrote her March 22, 2004 Washington Post op-ed. In that piece, she once again repeated the claim there was no indication "that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles." (Source: Washington Post, 3/22/04)

All they had to do was nothing; just sit tight and let things unfold. Once everything started happening, they went into fear-monger mode, to scare people into acquiescing to their will.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/03/AR2009050301739.html

I hope you understand that it was a very difficult time. We were all so terrified of another attack on the country. September 11 was the worst day of my life in government, watching 3,000 Americans die.
-Condolezza Rice

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Dr. Rice has admitted why they did so: fear. Not because they wanted to do the right thing, but because they were afraid of bearded terrorists with planes. This is true as far as I'm concerned simply because she has convinced me so. I'll take a stab at something else many of them were afraid of, too: fear that their phony rationales for a war in Iraq might be exposed.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/9/727867/-The-Depths-of-Cowardice:-We-were-all-so-terrified...

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http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushdumbquotes2.htm

GWB: "But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me." —summing up his first year in office, three months after the 9/11 attacks, Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 2001

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Missing White House emails.
Lies as the basis for war.
No bid contracts.
Outing a CIA officer charged with tracking WMD.
Niger forgeries.
Renditions.
Treating other nations like disposable crap.

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the final straw for me this morning, kp:

Hoekstra considers hearings on Pelosi, interrogations
By Mike Soraghan and Jeremy P. Jacobs

“Clearly her left wing is outraged that waterboarding was used,” Hoekstra said. “The bottom line is she and her key staff, they all knew about it.”
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/pelosi-under-renewed-fire-over-interrogations-2009-05-08.html

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over and out, need a break, kp