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Bush's "Energy Crisis," 9/11, And The Oil Wars. Connecting The Dots
So... I guess despite the Bush administration's siccing the FBI on them, the Senate Intelligence Committee managed to find out a few things. Apparently there were warnings morning, noon and night, warnings big and warnings small, warnings in black and white, warnings in color, warnings every day of the week and twice on Sundays. As opposed to Condi Rice's claim that no one imagined that 'airliners would be used as missiles,' there were any number of warnings they would be used as such, specifically against American targets, warnings as late as August of 2001. Plenty of people had 'imagined.' (And why has the 'terror assessment' never been explained for which John Ashcroft stopped flying commercial at the end of July?)
And why does Condi Rice still have her job? She claims she 'doesn't remember' being briefed by Sandy Berger about the Al Qaeda threat - what is her job again? National Security advisor? She 'doesn't remember?' She 'couldn't imagine' such a threat?
But then again, maybe SHE'S JUST LYING. Gee, d'ya think? The White House refuses to divulge what the administration knew, though the Senate Committee says the important warnings were known 'at the highest level of the government.' And as has been noted, the White House has set the FBI on the Committee to try in some measure to shut down the investigation.
The Senate Committee's report offered the sole caveat that the exact time and date of the attacks weren't known. Well, the exact date and so on could well have been inferred from the Al Qaeda transmissions intercepted by the NSA.....but not translated until after 9/11....because 'Al Qaeda transmissions weren't a priority,' as the White House explained.
So, just so I understand, there were enough warnings to fill a phone book, John Ashcroft has stopped flying commercial because of a 'threat assessment,' (and Bush and Cheney both left town for the hinterlands during the month of heaviest threats) and yet translating Al Qaeda transmissions 'weren't a priority.'
While we're at it, why does the administration continue to insist that French Intel provided only 'sketchy' intelligence on Zaccarias Moussaoui, while the French insist they provided a very substantial dossier? Why did FBI headquarters' re-write Coleen Rowley's FISA request, so that all mention of the French confirmation of Moussaoui's Al Qaeda status was removed, helping to insure the defeat of the request? Why did the Bush administration's 'reforms' include removing protections for whistle-blowers like Rowley?
And the Senate Committee quite politely didn't even mention what Tom Simons said to the Taliban representatives in Berlin that summer. Nor of why FBI counter-terrorism chief John O'Neill quit that same summer.
Other interesting tid-bits in the news - the California 'energy crisis' was a complete hoax. There's even video tape of one of the energy companies telling a plant to shut down without cause. A video tape the Bush administration has sealed and refuses to release. Somewhat in the spirit of Dick Cheney's energy meetings, you might say. He's still in contempt of the court order to release that material, isn't he?
Remember the California 'energy crisis?' The Bush administration was in office about twelve minutes before it announced a huge new 'energy crisis,' bad or worse than the 70's, and pointed to California as the proof. Remember the proffered solution? More oil!
You know, ol' Dick Cheney's quite the enterprising fellow. In the waning days of the first Bush administration, Cheney authored a Defense Planning Guide that stated that America's goal should be global dominance, a dominance of natural resources, naturally, and markets, enforced by unilateral military dominance. And in his interim between government service at Halliburton, Cheney took time off from playing with employee's pensions and selling equipment to Saddam Hussein to address an oil industry meeting in 1998, wherein he said 'the Caspian oil region is the most important strategic region to have arisen in my memory.' The Caspian oil and gas that becomes available to American companies after transit through a pipeline laid across Afghanistan. (See ref. to Tom Simons above.)
So, let's connect a few dots, shall we? The Bush administration arrived in office with a pre-existing agenda to exert military dominance over the world's oil reserves. To create a perceived need for this, it may have colluded with the energy companies to create the appearance of an 'energy crisis' that would have to be solved. (Still uninvestigated so far is the doubling of the pump price of gasoline that accompanied the spike in electricity prices, even though the wholesale price of oil was unchanged.) (But then, that's probably one reason why Cheney won't release those records.)
With the switching of Sen. Jeffords, the administration could no longer control the Congressional agenda, and hence the line of narration over its issues - the 'energy crisis' suddenly vanished and was never heard from again.
How to create justification for the military action against the strategic oil fields? Well, the Bush administration had been negotiating with the Taliban for this and that. The Clinton administration had developed and passed along a plan to destroy the Al Qaeda in Afghanistan - the Bush White House took this plan and 'expanded' it, and as the story goes, it was on Bush's desk the morning of the 11th. (Even though he was in Florida.) How was it 'expanded?' Well, the U.S. military is building bases in Central Asia wherever these oil pipeline routes are planned. Cool, huh?
And now we're going to invade Iraq, which has the world's second largest reserves of oil.... --Kent Southard, Sept. 23, 2002 |
