9/11: A Grand Scheme for War Profiteering?

[spooked]

In John Dean's WORSE THAN WATERGATE, he wrote something that caused me to do a little more digging, and what I found amazed me.

John Dean said that when Bush* became President, the Hart-Rudman Commission on Terrorism was about to present its findings (THEY are the ones who came up with the idea of a Homeland Security office)

Instead, Bush disbanded the Commission, and CHENEY wanted to be put in charge of Terrorism. This Cheney "Commission" on Terrorism never met ONCE before 9/11.

Cheney then did something no one had ever done before. He put FEMA in charge of Terrorism.

Guess who was Head of FEMA on September 11th??

Joe Allbaugh. Who is Joe Allbaugh?

Joe Allbaugh was George W. Bush*'s Chief of Staff in Texas and
Head of his National Campaign Manager for Bush*'s 2000 Presidential Election.

Guess what Joe Allbaugh is doing now??

Joe Allbaugh resigned from FEMA in 2003 and just became Chairman and Director of a company called New Bridges Strategies
http://www.newbridgestrategies.com/bios.asp

What does New Bridges Strategies do?

According to their web site:

"New Bridge Strategies, LLC is a unique company that was created specifically with the aim of assisting clients to evaluate and take advantage of business opportunities in the Middle East following the conclusion of the U.S.-led war in Iraq."

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Is anyone else alarmed at this?


BUSH REJECTS REAL PLAN TO COMBAT TERROR

CHENEY TELLS BUSH TO PUT HIM IN CHARGE OF TERRORISM

CHENEY MAKES FEMA AND ALLBAUGH FIRST IN LINE TO RESPOND TO TERROR

9/11 HAPPENS AND CHENEY'S HALLIBURTON MAKES A KILLING

ALLBAUGH IS NO LONGER NEEDED AT FEMA SO NOW HE'S A WAR PROFITEERING MIDDLE MAN FOR COMPANIES WANTING TO "TAKE ADVANTAGE OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES" IN IRAQ

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I don't know about you, but to me it looks like the fox were guarding the henhouse on 9/11, and it was deliberately set up that way.




Here's more on Bush*'s rejection of the Hart Rudman recommendations:
http://mahabarbara.tripod.com/themahablog/id10.html

The Hart-Rudman Commission recommended the formation of a cabinet-level agency to combat terrorism, called for better intelligence gathering and sharing between agencies, and urged that steps be implemented right away...

But in May, President Bush shot it all down by announcing that he would turn the issue of national security over to Vice President Cheney, who would come up with a new plan. "Bush announced his plan almost as if the Hart-Rudman Commission never existed, as if it hadn't spent millions of dollars, 'consulting with experts, visiting 25 countries worldwide, really deliberating long and hard,' as Hart describes it," Jake Tapper wrote in Salon (We Predicted It, September 12, 2001) In particular, Bush resisted the idea of creating a cabinet-level national security agency. Once Cheney came up with a plan, implementation could be handled by FEMA. No problem.

[Syrinx]

1. it's all very strange, isn't it?

But it's just a conspiracy theory, so anyone who asks questions should be ignored.

[T Bone]

4. strange how the COINCIDENCES pile up and benefit Bush's friends,

cronies, associates, and fellow-travellers, huh?

Nothing to see here now. Move along.

[MrSlayer]

2. I've been MIHOP for a long time now.

They boldly proclaim their intentions in "Rebuilding America's Defenses" on the PNAC web site. Page 63 of the .PFD.

[DCdem87]

3. Well....

I don't think that they perpetrated the attacks on 9/11...but they certainly did nothing to prevent it with overwhelming evidence in their faces. This can be attributed to there heavy involvement with private defense corporations whom benefit greatly through our wars and military involvements. It is absolutely war profiteering and they knew this when they took our country in circles in order to make sure we spent as much money as possible to increase the threats on our country while seemingly trying to solve the problem of terrorism. What they have done is create a cycle in which we let the terrorists get more powerful and we continue to fight them in vain due to poor planning so that we keep a constant demand for the products of these national defense corporations to which the bush administration holds so much loyalty. It is despicable and unfortunately because of our media, almost no one knows about it, unless they went to go see Fahrenheit 9/11.

[Zan_of_Texas]

6. Good work, spooked.

I just pulled the article off my wall that I cut out on this when it came out -- May 9, 2001 - Houston Chronicle.

"Bush adds terrorism to FEMA's task list"

There is not even a mention of the Rudman committee in the medium long article.

The thing that attracted my attention; When Bush was governor, he had three top advisers: Karen Hughes(the mouth), Karl Rove (the brain), and Joe Allbaugh (the brawn -- they may have called him the muscle). That Allbaugh was heading up FEMA was curious to me. (Allbaugh had been seen in action in Austin -- he is a tall guy, with a military-type crew cut -- he would physically intimidate people who strayed from Bush's wants or programs.)

The article noted that they would be adding these responsbilities to the agency, while the White House was recommending CUTTING its budget by $200 million (the better to offer the tax cut). I thought that was weird, especially since its head was a favored top aide.

Article says that Cheney will look at new and better ways to counter terrorist attacks. "Cheney's group is expected to report to Congress by October 1."

Well, gee, that date is just a few weeks after 9-11-01.

[spooked]

9. The "Iron Triangle"

Indeed, Rove, Hughes and Allbaugh were known as the "IRON TRIANGLE" and Allbaugh's appointment as Director of FEMA was announced the very same day that Bush announced Rove as his Senior White House Advisor.


http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/stories/01/04/bush.announce/

"Completing the transfer of his "iron triangle" of advisers from Austin to Washington, President-elect George W. Bush on Thursday named longtime aide Joe Allbaugh to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and trusted political strategist Karl Rove as senior White House adviser.

"During the course of the campaign much was made of the so-called Texas iron triangle," said Bush, referring to his troika of most trusted campaign advisers: recently named White House Counselor Karen Hughes, Rove, and Albaugh."

Here's Allbaugh with Rove and Bush


Isn't it CONVENIENT that Cheney was not going to meet until October 1st? Looking back it looks like you intuitively cut out that article for a very good reason.

[Old and In the Way]

5. If we could take a peek at Cheney's secret energy meetings, I think

we will see the grand plan for divvying up Iraq's oil for the benefit of the Republican Party's big contributors.

New Bridges is the New Republican business model.

Use government to invade/occupy foreign countries.
Pay off the backers in the war industry.
Pay off the backers in the reconstruction industry.

See Carlyle Group: "We're in the Construction/Destruction/Re-Construction Business"

Here's an interesting article referencing to a NYT's story:

http://linkthing.com/screed/carlyle_group_cluster.html

Carlyle Group: The Shadow Government for Republican Business <03/05/01> A new $12 billion private equity firm based in Washington “Carlyle is as deeply wired into the current administration as they can possibly be," said Charles Lewis, executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit public interest group based in Washington. "George Bush is getting money from private interests that have business before the government, while his son is president. And, in a really peculiar way, George W. Bush could, some day, benefit financially from his own administration's decisions, through his father's investments. The average American doesn't know that and, to me, that's a jaw-dropper.”

[spooked]

10. Holy Cheney!!! Allbaugh was ON Cheney's ENERGY TASK FORCE!

Allbaugh and the subsequent ties to 9/11 may be what Cheney is hiding on the Energy Task Force!

"...so far Cheney has refused to give up the names of the energy executives and lobbyists he met with."

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0322-11.htm

Company With Ties To VP Cheney's Energy Task Force Faces Criminal Indictment For Gaming California Electricity Market
by Jason Leopold
March 22, 2004

Reliant, along with Entergy and TXU, two other major electricity corporations based in Texas, hired Diane Allbaugh as a lobbyist. Allbaugh is the wife of Joe Allbaugh, “the only member of Bush’s so-called iron triangle of trusted Texas cohorts to have served on the energy task force” and a director of the Federal Energy Management Agency, according to an Aug. 26, 2001 report in the Los Angeles Times.

Reliant, TXU and Entergy each paid Diane Allbaugh $20,000 for consulting work during the last three months of 2000, according to her January 2001 financial disclosure report. It’s unclear whether she lobbied the energy task force on behalf of Reliant, TXU and Entergy, which would have certainly been a conflict-on-interest, but her husband, Joe Allbaugh, “has participated in task force talks with a direct bearing on the energy companies' interests generally, such as environmental rules for power plants and electricity deregulation--a specialty of his wife's,” the Times reported.

“At least twice, Joe Allbaugh was privy to updates from (Bush) economic advisor Lawrence Lindsey (a former member of Enron’s advisory board) on California's malfunctioning market, where Reliant stands accused by the state of overcharging,” the Times reported.

According to evidence obtained by Congressman Henry Waxman, D-California, last year, the energy task force "considered and abandoned plans to address California's energy problems in its report."

Whether Joe Allbaugh or his wife Diane urged Cheney to abandon the issues related to California’s energy crisis is unknown. Neither of them would return calls for comment and so far Cheney has refused to give up the names of the energy executives and lobbyists he met with. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to take up that issue later this year.

[Laura_B_manslaughter]

7. All wars are about money - Always have been

The favored companies make a fortune selling the armaments and then a fortune rebuilding the devestated countries. That's why even a democracy like america is always involved in a war somewhere. And both parties and the media are invariably in support.

[Hidebo]

8. the most amazing thing is that

the so-called 'liberal media' looked into Clinton's pants thoroughly for years and what they are doing now is to suck up to idiot.