There's another piece of the puzzle that has bothered me for a few years. I think now it provides some circumstancial confirmation of the New Pearl Harbor scheme.
In order to stand down for an impending hijacking attack, it only requires a few people to be sure that intelligence is either passed or choked as the situation requires. The Office of Special plans was already in position to do exactly this. This small group, loyal for decades, is relatively easy to keep together and not rat each other out. Bush Jr. wasn't even in on the group, he just received the cherry-picked data and was manipulated by it.
Now here's the puzzle. Once Cheney and the neocons got their New Pear Harbor (and 9/11 was probably a whole lot bigger than they expected) they had to put in a token effort in Afganistan before going on to their real objective, Iraq. All they neede was a few WMDs, the slam-dunk of the case, and they would have silenced the critics whether in France, Berkley, or Crawford. So... why didn't they just plant some chemicals?, or a few notebooks?, a bomb trigger? or even a vial of germs?
The administration went to great lengths to stage the fiction of capturing Saddam in a spider hole when he had in fact been captured by the Kurds, drugged, and placed underground for the photo-op. They certainly wouldn't have been shy about planting some evidence. So why didn't they?
I think the answer may be that the conspiracy was just too small. The neocons who were so sucessful at paper shuffling us into war did not have the manpower to carry a WMD to Iraq, nor the knowledge of where to get one to plant. They dared not risk expanding the cell-size of their scheme because the secret they guarded, setting their country up for attack, could very likely result in a charge of treason.
Ultimately the whole plan is unraveling because none of them could trot over to unobserved enough to leave even a token stash. |
