Re: Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush
Well, dunno... I'm afraid the flaws of the US gov run much, much deeper than "the Prez" and his "Veep"... Prez GW Bush was just a pawn, however important, back in September 2001. I'm sure he wasn't clued in on 911 --911 was a bigtime cointelpro scheme that had been set in motion a year earlier. The first US "casualty" of 911 was actually FBI agent Robert Hanssen in February 2001, that is, when Bush was still "President-elect".... The (big) problem of the US is that, while elected leaders --such as the Prez, Veep,...-- are mere transients in the US political landscape, the US bureaucracy, and particularly the sprawling military apparatus, is the real "boss" that keeps calling the shots.
Of course, that's a highly subversive analysis of mine since it basically means that the American democracy is... a joke! It means that 50% of the US electorate routinely indulges in some big presidential boondoggle that results in filling executive posts with mere puppets. I've already broached that issue in the following posts:
Message 19572803
Message 19573044
So, would it have been totally different with a Democratic administration, with Gore/Lieberman instead of Bush/Cheney? I don't think so: remember what happened on August 7, 1998.... the simultaneous bombing of two US embassies in East Africa --death toll: 272, that's 80 more than Madrid's... and the US prez at the time was Democratic Bill Clinton.
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