BUSH KNEW

Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean is currently getting a lot of flak for suggesting that some people believe that Bush had advance knowledge of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Never mind the fact that this flak amounts to a political smear because Dean didn't actually suggest that Bush knew: Bush, in fact, did know. Dean, and everybody else who doesn't have his head up inside his nether regions, ought to just come right out and say so. Bush knew--if he didn't know, he's retarded (he might be retarded, anyway, but that's another story). Check out this post from AlterNet:

Yes, we were warned, said the Bush administration, but who could have conceived of terrorists using airplanes for suicide bombings?

A lot of people, actually.

According to a Time Magazine story that appeared on Friday, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice is balking at requests to testify before Thomas Kean's September 11 commission under oath. She also wants her testimony to be taken behind closed doors, and not in public. The crux of her hesitation would appear on the surface to be her comments of May 16 2002, in which she used the above-referenced excuse that no one "could have predicted that they would try to use a hijacked airplane as a missile." If that excuse is reflective of reality, why does she fear to testify under oath?

Perhaps Ms. Rice fears testifying because too many facts are now in hand, thanks in no small part to the work of 9/11 widows like Kristen Breitweiser, which fly in the face of the administration's demurrals. For example, in 1993, a $150,000 study was commissioned by the Pentagon to investigate the possibility of an airplane being used to bomb national landmarks. A draft document of this was circulated throughout the Pentagon, the Justice Department and to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In 1994, a disgruntled Federal Express employee broke into the cockpit of a DC-10 with plans to crash it into a company building in Memphis.

That same year, a lone pilot crashed a small plane into a tree on the White House grounds, narrowly missing the residence. An Air France flight was hijacked by members of the Armed Islamic Group, which intended to crash the plane into the Eiffel Tower. In September 1999, a report titled "The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism" was prepared for U.S. intelligence by the Federal Research Division, an arm of the Library of Congress. It stated, "Suicide bombers belonging to al Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and Semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the CIA, or the White House."

And there's more: click here.

It's a pretty chilling thought, I know, but I now fully believe it to be true. President Bush's administration is absolutely the most criminal in US history: the blood of thousands, both the 9/11 dead and the Iraq war casualties, are on their hands. They must face justice.

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