Bush found clueless as regards 9/11

Wed Mar 24 22:26:05 2004

Gerry,
I finally have reason to regret only having basic cable, and finding a job--I would love to stay home and watch the CNN broadcast of the hearings. The question you pose is hard to ask. "What are your alibis, er, reasons for being out of town on Sept. 11?" Some crack reporter could possibly ferret out this information and create a chart of comings and goings. Sometimes things look more telling when they can be charted or time-lapse animated, like someone did with the 9-11 airplanes showing flight plans, times of take off, with changes of course after the hijackers took control of the planes and flew them to their hideous rendezvous with destruction. It was a dramatic depiction. How about a chart for Harper's with the pictures, destinations, with dates and times of absense. It would be interesting to see if an unusual pattern emerges.
Another area of concern is discovering those who sold American Airlines short in the stock market. At one time there were allegations that thousands of investors did it at once shortly before the crash. 
The Bushaviks were so hot to go to war, "ignoring the warnings" could have been more than just sloppy competitive agencies, and flawed communication--perhaps the terroristic act could provide them with motive/justification for war. Hmmmm. What did they think and when did they think it? Hard to convict, crimes of thought and ignorance.
Frances

 --- On Wed 03/24, Gerry Storm  mesmo@gilanet.com  wrote:
From: Gerry Storm [mailto: mesmo@gilanet.com]
To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:55:12 -0700
Subject: Re: Bush found clueless as regards 9/11

Frances, The question no one is asking (so far) is why were all the highest ups out of town that morning? Coincedence? Did they have a date from some foreign intelligence tip? Just playing it safe? Porque? BTW there is a lengthy article on your guru Martha in the March 22 New Yorker. And a really funny R. Crumb comic strip. Didn't realize he has been in the south of France for a 13 years, near Gilbert no doubt. He did one last year about he and his wife Aline attending a high fashion show in NYC, hilarious. Sometimes you get a New Yorker so full of good stuff you don't find it all for a week. G ----- Original Message ----- From: Frances Morey <frances_morey@excite.com> To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 3:51 PM Subject: Re: Bush found clueless as regards 9/11 I recall hearing a report about a possible terrorist attack on NPR a few weeks before 9-11. The word was out there, the administration chose not to know about it. I 'm still alarmed that Bush would continue his elementary school visit for thirty minutes after he heard about the crash. What was he thinking? Frances --- On Wed 03/24, Wayne Johnson cadaobh@shentel.net wrote: From: Wayne Johnson [mailto: cadaobh@shentel.net] To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:25:18 -0500 Subject: Re: Bush found blameless as regards 9/11 Phaw. Apparently Condy Rice was told there was terrorist trouble afoot by Clarke and others. Personally, I believe Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld triumvirate would have happily sat on their collective ass while innocent Americans died horribly just so they could then declare a "mandate" for increased Federal/Executive powers. Let us not be naive about how these people operate. Nothing, but nothing is too immoral or unethical to be beneath these guys and their corporate backers. What is the cost? A few thousand lives? Who gives a shit when there are billions to be made? Take a look back at good ole Herman Kahn and Thinking about the Unthinkable for a good insight into how the US military would view "acceptable casualties". Something on the order of the entire population of New York City or the state of Missouri would be ok, that is "survivable". Definitely worth the risk. All the projected horrors of Reaganism are beginning to coalesce and come true, witness the latest Executive grab for complete "evesdropping" capability on the InterNet. Or the gradual "decisions" to, get this, remove or de-emphasize "reading" from many public schools curricula. What does this say for Democracy and the American Way. Sieg Heil, mein Glorious Leader of the Fatherland! Trivia question: Where does the phrase "Ford knows" come from? wj ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele@ando.pair.com> To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>; <byronmarshall2001@yahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 9:56 AM Subject: Bush found blameless as regards 9/11 I read in the autobiography of a Russian literature professor from Harvard who worked in the Reagan White House that everyone continually plays turf wars there and no new policy is easily implemented. Usually initiatives just bog down and disappear into a black hole. Listening to the testimony of Albright, Cohen, Rumsfeld, Powell, I found the continuity of nothing much getting done from administration to administration about Osama not surprising, not surprising at all. So that blame of Bush for dereliction of duty before 9/11 is misplaced. It was peace time. The military was asleep and the CIA FBI were feuding as usual. How is that Bush's fault? Nothing he could have done about it. Now as for Iraq, that's a different story. As we have learnt from various 
 insiders now on the outside, the Bushies were bent on invading Iraq as soon as excuse could be invented.