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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (10015)	2/17/2005 6:20:40 AM
From: boris_a	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

danieldrezner.com Tuesday, March 30, 2004 The VP and the NSC One of my great white whales has been the Bush team's poor management of the foreign policy process. I had suggested two months ago that one cause of this was the fact that the Vice President had inserted himself into the National Security Council process in a way that deliberately or accidentally sabotaged the decision-making process: [T]he difficulty is that even cabinet-level officials can be reluctant in disagreeing with him because he's the vice-president. This leads to a stunted policy debate, which ill-serves both the President and the country. U.S. News and World Report has a story this week confirming this fear. The highlights: [Richard] Clarke's insider account opened a new window on policymaking at the National Security Council and on [Condoleezza] Rice's role there--and the view isn't pretty. "This is the most dysfunctional NSC that ever existed," says a senior U.S. official. "But it's not Condi's fault. The person that's made it so dysfunctional is Cheney." For the first time, a vice president is sitting in on meetings with other NSC principals and is constantly involved in the policymaking. A copy of every NSC memo goes to the vice president's staff, so that Cheney can play an active role on issues that interest him. There was also a Anti-Terror Special Task Force under Cheney installed sometime in Jun 01, I remember. Actually, the special task force never met. The safest way to make institutions dysfunctional is by creating new, badly structured hierarchies. Cheney, the prominent representant of the military-industrial complex was involved in everything of these NSC procedures. He was also maange the fake WMD-"intel".

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (10015)	2/17/2005 6:51:14 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Gus > Now we don't have any evidence of phone conversations between President Bush and military brass on 911 and I think we'll never find any because Bush probably didn't want to handle that crisis over the phone and managed to stay out of the loop until it was over (that is, until noon). Since you wish to speculate about it, it is conceivable that Cheney had not officially been appointed Commander in Chief and when approached by the generals he told them to wait until the Commander, himself, becomes available. Why should he have assumed responsibility for making decisions on that fateful day when someone even better -- namely, nobody -- was available? With W in the school, and then missing, Cheney ducking responsibility and complaining of chest pains, the National Security Adviser locked in the bathroom preening herself in the mirror, and Rumsfeld putting out fires and hiding in the smoke at the Pentagon, the "terrorist" attack could go ahead as planned -- and without anyone around to blame. > who is the Commander-in-Chief of the US military? Yours truly, of course. hereinreality.com > Who was the US Commander-in-Chief on September 11, 2001 specifically? Yours truly, of course -- and doing his special trick -- missing. In fact, he was probably even told to hide away because his life was in danger. >>Bush would offer no explanation for his absence and, as he had throughout the campaign, refused to discuss his military service during the Vietnam War. Why would a man who was running for the office of Commander and Chief of the US Armed Forces refuse to discuss his service in the military? Why didn't the public and press take notice? Their attention that day was focused on something else. <<