9/11, 2007, thoughts 6 years on
September 11th 2007 16:16
I turned on the telly this morning (MSNBC) and there appeared to be a really long Rudy Guliani campaign ad. After a couple of minutes I realized that it was a real-time replay of the 9/11 attacks of 2001 on. The "Today" show feed, with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric. You'll forgive my confusion. Several things struck me.
At 1106 am EST, Tom Brokaw said "we have a report here that Osama Bin Ladin, who is often identified as the world's leading terrorist, warned three weeks ago that he and his followers would carry out an unprecedented attack on U.S. interests." Sounds remarkably similar to the government report given to the Bush Administration in August 2001 saying that Osama was "determined" to strike in America. The 9/11 attacks were enormous in scale, yet just a short time after the attacks, the culprit was fairly obvious. No wonder Mr. Bush was in Florida reading a children's book and his father secured quick transportation for the Bin Ladin relatives in the U.S.
Some comments have been made recently about the film Michael Moore film "Fahrenheit 9/11." Some like it, some hate it. My thinking is that Mr. Moore is on to something. I don't know how deep the knowledge went. I do think that the Bush Administration at that time wanted some "political capital" desperately. The response on that day was so lackluster and unfocused that it could seem the reactions were delayed. Hard to say.
Six years on, the 9/11 attacks are the well the President goes to more than any other, and six years on, it is the primary event propelling the presidential bid for more than one candidate. I'm not saying that the president or his Administration was directly involved. I do think they knew something was coming, and yes, maybe even hoped for it. And they did not hesitate to use it for political gain after the fact. It is time for real investigations into what happened, before the attacks and since.
Oh, and I was reminded of something else. Six years on, Iraq is in shambles, Saddam is dead, along with hundreds of thousands of other people. And the war drums are being beaten for an attack on Iran. Oh, and Osama Bin Ladin is still at large.
At 1106 am EST, Tom Brokaw said "we have a report here that Osama Bin Ladin, who is often identified as the world's leading terrorist, warned three weeks ago that he and his followers would carry out an unprecedented attack on U.S. interests." Sounds remarkably similar to the government report given to the Bush Administration in August 2001 saying that Osama was "determined" to strike in America. The 9/11 attacks were enormous in scale, yet just a short time after the attacks, the culprit was fairly obvious. No wonder Mr. Bush was in Florida reading a children's book and his father secured quick transportation for the Bin Ladin relatives in the U.S.
Some comments have been made recently about the film Michael Moore film "Fahrenheit 9/11." Some like it, some hate it. My thinking is that Mr. Moore is on to something. I don't know how deep the knowledge went. I do think that the Bush Administration at that time wanted some "political capital" desperately. The response on that day was so lackluster and unfocused that it could seem the reactions were delayed. Hard to say.
Six years on, the 9/11 attacks are the well the President goes to more than any other, and six years on, it is the primary event propelling the presidential bid for more than one candidate. I'm not saying that the president or his Administration was directly involved. I do think they knew something was coming, and yes, maybe even hoped for it. And they did not hesitate to use it for political gain after the fact. It is time for real investigations into what happened, before the attacks and since.
Oh, and I was reminded of something else. Six years on, Iraq is in shambles, Saddam is dead, along with hundreds of thousands of other people. And the war drums are being beaten for an attack on Iran. Oh, and Osama Bin Ladin is still at large.
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Comment by Winston
Small Thoughts on Big Questions
Comment by Jeff Musall
Secular Humanity
Comment by Damo
Just an unexpected attack that shocked the world at the time.
My other opinion is that post 911 give the opportunity for the NeoCon to promote their extreme plans against the better interests of the American public.
If anyone had have been in the whitehouse that day other than Bush then that person would also be shot to instant stardom too. Bush got lucky, in a perverse way.
Was he the best man for the job or fool being led around by hidden ideologue or a cunning polititian trading on fear?
Track record may answer this question.
Bin Ladin still at large
War in Afganistan still going
Invasion of Iraq on false pretexts
War in iraq still going
No end in site
Talk of itaking millitary action in Iran
De ja vu