New NSA docs contradict 9/11 claims

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16. People tend to forget

The Republicans were claiming the Clinton administration was exaggerating the treat of Islamic terrorism to distract the country from the Lewinski scandal. They railed about a million dollar missile taking out a ten dollar tent and called them "Monica Missiles". The movie "Wag The Dog" was all about a president using a war to distract everyone from his criminality and the Republicans kept repeating that crap until it became a FACT in their bubble. Any word about terrorism coming from any agency was seen as former Clinton loyalists trying to cover for their ex-boss. The attitude was one of, "Didn't you get the memo? That whole "terrorism" thing is over. We're in charge now.". Bush probably thought it was also a personal insult and purely a political move to try to pin anything on a member of the bin Laden family because of his ties to them.

Their focus was on finding an excuse to invade Iraq for multiple reasons:

Bush could stop the criticism against his family for not "finishing the job" during Desert Storm.

The Neocons were all set to go with their plan to take power over the world's oil and Cheney was carving up Iraq like a side of beef with oil company execs.

Then there was Bush's good buddies the Saudis who saw Saddam was trying to get the sanctions lifted by fully cooperating with the UN. Iraq was about to become a major threat by opening up untapped reserves that would flood the market and drop the price of oil globally which would make Saudi and Texas oil less profitable.

9/11 came at just the right time. Bush's poll numbers were at an all time low because of his domestic policies and ties to Ken Lay and his defending the accounting tricks in the Enron scandal. His tax cuts for the rich were wildly unpopular and he was pushing unneeded and unwanted Reagan Era SDI programs even though the Soviet Union didn't exist anymore. To top it off, word was about to come out that Gore actually got more votes in Florida so Bush didn't really win the election after all.