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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (635244)	9/29/2004 11:59:12 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 769670

"...the Bush Administration placed priorities like tax cuts, "Star Wars," carving up Iraq, anti-porno and anti-prostitution efforts on the front burner, and took anti-terrorism off the stove entirely. No one knows this as well as the families of the victims, the people who forced the administration to investigate 911. Many think the attacks could have been prevented—and unlike our President, they’ve done their homework. Many of them, life-long Republicans, have said that while the Clinton administration may not have done enough, the Bush Administration did absolutely nothing to prevent the attacks. Absolutely nothing. Those not blinded by lifelong loyalty to the GOP know the administration is guilty of far more than doing nothing. Knowingly or unknowingly, they directly aided and abetted the terrorists. The "Visa Express" program, initiated by the Bush administration in 2001, obtained the passports for three out of the eleven of the 911 terrorists—without a background check. The brainchild of a long-time State department appointee, "Visa Express" was instituted during a period in which the administration was struggling to mend fences with our good allies, the Saudis. Bush's palpable disinterest in the middle-east (he joked about the Clinton administration’s strenuous efforts for peace there) had caused a lapse in the usual US / Israeli / Palestinian dialog. Instead of our measured indignation at over-active Israeli reprisals for Palestinian terror, Bush praised Ariel Sharon as a "man of peace." Over and over again. Angered, Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan wrote a scathing letter to the White House, threatening a major rift if the US abdicated its fair broker role in the Middle-Eastern conflict. If we weren't going to pretend to be fair to the Palestinians, the Saudis would take their oil and service contracts elsewhere. The Bush Administration went to appeasement 'battlestations'. Bush ordered FBI, CIA and other national security and intelligence agencies to "back off" investigation of Saudi nationals—including known terror suspects. Assured by Saudi officials that al Qaeda wouldn't strike, the Administration relaxed Clinton-era protections against terrorism and eased pressures on the Taliban. The Bush Administration delivered a letter promising the Palestinians a "viable" homeland. The crisis averted, the Bush family's precious relationship with the house of Saud secure, Bush took time for another well-earned vacation. Weeks later, Saudi terrorists led by Saudi expatriates—supported by prominent wealthy Saudis and funded by Saudi money, educated in Saudi funded fundamentalist Madras schools—killed 3000 innocent Americans. And the administration started blaming Clinton, whose advice vis-à-vis Osama they had ignored. This fact is documented in John Ashcroft’s memo detailing the justice department’s priorities under the new administration. Terrorism was dropped from the list entirely. Under Ashcroft, the FBI and the Department of Justice were more interested in prosecuting pornographers, draping the naughty bits of the statues in his office building, and holding daily prayer sessions than fighting terror. When personally requested to authorize wiretaps in on-going domestic surveillance operations, Ashcroft declined, claiming not to understand the process. After downgrading terror as a justice department priority, he stopped flying commercial aircraft, commandeering the Justice department’s private jet, and monopolizing it. He justified this behavior on the basis of a ‘threat assessment.’ When it came to saving his own skin, Ashcroft could somehow process the information. When it came to protecting his fellow Americans, well, let’s just say that John had other priorities. The People for the American Century, (PNAC) in documents freely distributed on the internet, wished for another Pearl Harbor type attack on the United States, to allow them to realize their Pax Americana in a single generation. When powerful people wish for hideous crimes, they have a tendency to occur. When a mob boss does this, it's called racketeering. When the People for the New American Century, also known as the Bush Administration, wished for another Pearl Harbor, it was called patriotism. And their wish came true...."