New NSA docs contradict Bush Administration 9-11 claims

[ljm2002]

50. Yes I do remember it...

...although of course I, like most people, knew nothing about it until long after 9/11.

The PNAC crowd were pursuing their agenda, their Great Game or whatever they called it, in the Middle East. With Egypt as the ultimate prize. Of course, they also thought that Iraq would be a walk in the park -- 3 months, tops.

The other thing I remember in that regard, was Cheney's secret energy meeting early on in Bush's tenure. The secret meeting was bad enough, and then there was Cheney's public statement, along these lines: "While energy conservation may be a personal virtue, it cannot be part of a comprehensive energy policy." Saaay, WHAT? What a load of horse manure. That angered me at the time and it still does to this day. If we had a media that took its role in our democracy seriously, they would have been all over him, asking why conservation cannot be a part of energy policy? It is unbelievable they would let such a statement slide. But they did, and the public slept through it, apparently, because he was never taken to task for it except for a few angry and bewildered voices on the left. And we all know how much this country listens to its voices on the left. Even though we are proven correct, time and time again.

So here we are, global warming nearing or past the tipping point, the longest wars we have ever pursued in our history, at the biggest cost, which was off the books during Bush's tenure, and the end result of which was huge windfalls for the .01% and a worsening economic crisis for the rest of us. But who cares, there will be a die-off anyway, it's one of the beneficial side effects of global warming, right? Only the little people will be culled, and the rich can buy their way out... or so they believe.