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In reply to the discussion: New NSA docs contradict Bush Administration 9-11 claims [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)81. Bush 43 had zero intention for peace.
Bush 41 was the same way - including the time he ran the show for Pruneface.
George Bush Takes Charge: The Uses of "Counter-Terrorism"
By Christopher Simpson
Covert Action Quarterly 58
A paper trail of declassified documents from the Reagan‑Bush era yields valuable information on how counter‑terrorism provided a powerful mechanism for solidifying Bush's power base and launching a broad range of national security initiatives.
During the Reagan years, George Bush used "crisis management" and "counter‑terrorism" as vehicles for running key parts of the clandestine side of the US government.
Bush proved especially adept at plausible denial. Some measure of his skill in avoiding responsibility can be taken from the fact that even after the Iran‑Contra affair blew the Reagan administration apart, Bush went on to become the "foreign policy president," while CIA Director William Casey, by then conveniently dead, took most of the blame for a number of covert foreign policy debacles that Bush had set in motion.
The trail of National Security Decision Directives (NSDDS) left by the Reagan administration begins to tell the story. True, much remains classified, and still more was never committed to paper in the first place. Even so, the main picture is clear: As vice president, George Bush was at the center of secret wars, political murders, and America's convoluted oil politics in the Middle East.
SNIP...
Reagan and the NSC also used NSDDs to settle conflicts among security agencies over bureaucratic turf and lines of command. It is through that prism that we see the first glimmers of Vice President Bush's role in clandestine operations during the 1980s.
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And they did business with terrorists.
And got away.
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The odd thing here is that the CTC budget more than quadrupled 1997-9/11. What happened is
leveymg
Jun 2012
#22
Black, at least, is doing well these days. Oh well, there's still real hope for...One Day: Justice!
Octafish
Jun 2012
#26
Black was the nuts and bolts guy - look up the chain of command at who authorized all this, and why.
leveymg
Jun 2012
#86
Actually Cole bombing happened under Cheney (privatized logistics in 91) and his KBR (Halliburton)
blm
Jun 2012
#10
I never believed the Cole was anything but deliberate by the fascists involved with Bush-Cheney
blm
Jun 2012
#65
I never really figured out what The Cole was all about, other than a provocation
leveymg
Jun 2012
#69
Jim Hatfield wrote Bush afraid of bin Laden aerial attack at G-7 summit in Geneva in April 2001...
Octafish
Jun 2012
#28
Just as more alert citizens have been saying for over a decade now. Too bad the most comprehensive
blm
Jun 2012
#8
Yep, report is getting no traction, just like they planned when they kicked up FandF's faux outrage
blm
Jun 2012
#42
I have always figured there is enough dirt in Government archives to shut down Republicans.
gordianot
Jun 2012
#9
The right will attack this disclosure as politically motivated in order to divert attention from the
Citizen Worker
Jun 2012
#15
Me, too, Doctor. Amazing how much criminality is made plain, yet nothing happens to the crooks.
Octafish
Jun 2012
#41
Looks to me like the intelligence community wants to set the record straight...
ljm2002
Jun 2012
#23
The PNAC is still pursuing its agenda. It's been delayed a little because as you said, Iraq
sabrina 1
Jun 2012
#61
Profound. So, what have you to say regarding the CIA data dump showing Bush knew and did nothing?
Octafish
Jun 2012
#54
Bush isn't the issue, or did you miss that? Well, you weren't around here during the Bush years
sabrina 1
Jun 2012
#68
A WAR CRIMINAL THAT COMMITTED TREASON IS TERRIBLE TO BEHOLD-WORSE IS THE UNACCOUNTABILITY.
bobthedrummer
Jun 2012
#72
I haven't forgotten the Texas vacations of that war criminal nor who and what his "top advisors"
bobthedrummer
Jun 2012
#40
I'd like to silently feed them, breakfast and lunch-slide the tray through the slot into their pod!
bobthedrummer
Jun 2012
#57
Did Brian Williams report it on NBC yet? Did Diane Sawyer of CBS report it? That other guy on ABC?
Major Hogwash
Jun 2012
#47
Diane SAWYER is with ABC; btw, she was mentored by Nixon's Press Sec Ron ZIEGLER n/t
bobthedrummer
Jun 2012
#58
We all learn something everyday, Major. Otherwise we'd be dead, imo. No coincidences in politics!
bobthedrummer
Jun 2012
#71
So, 'bin Laden determined to strike in the United States' wasn't the only time Bush heard.
Octafish
Jun 2012
#78