Bush Lied (Misrepresented Facts) Again, And Our UK Neighbors Saw Through It

Independent Online Edition > Americas

"Once again, President George Bush finds himself in deep political trouble. And, once again, he has chosen to invoke the spectre of a terrorist attack on US soil, only to draw immediate suspicion about his motives at the start of what promises to be a long, bruising mid-term election campaign."

Hey folks! This is from a paper in the United Kingdom. If they can see these dynamics across the pond, we ought to be able to see them when they occur in our own government... and by the actions of our own president. I have friends and colleagues from different parts of the world and from different political walks of life. All of them are smelling something rotten in Washington... and it seems to be our leadership.

"The President's announcement last Thursday that al-Qa'ida had considered attacking the tallest skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles more than three years ago generated some eye-catching headlines. It may even have helped himto build public support for a once-secret domestic counter-terrorist wire-tapping programme that critics in both parties have denounced as unconstitutional."

Yes, there seems to be a lot of skepticism about this revelation. Why, for instance, is this information being released now? (Could it be because there is a mid=term election that may swing some of the power away from the Bushies?) Can we rely upon the truthfulness, integrity and completeness of that information? (Doubtful, given the record of the Bush administration for twisting, turning and spinning information it releases.)

"But there are also signs that the political strategy that worked so well in the 2002 mid-term elections, helped to sell the war in Iraq and got Mr Bush re-elected in 2004 - that is, appealing to the country to stand by its President as he strives to protect them from outside attack - may be wearing distinctly thin."

Thin? It's already crashed through the ice and we are in danger of drowning!

"President Bush claimed in his speech that the US, in concert with foreign governments, had 'faced down a relentless and determined enemy' and 'stopped a catastrophic attack on our homeland'. He said the plot was orchestrated by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind behind the September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, who recruited four Asian men to board a plane, breach the cockpit door with shoe bombs and then fly into the tower. (It did not help matters that the President called it the "Liberty Tower" instead of the Library Tower.)"

Make note of these claims... and ask yourself if these are real...

"The President's domestic security adviser, Frances Townsend, soon told reporters, however, that the attack on LA was originally conceived as part of the 11 September attacks but was postponed because al-Qa'ida did not have the resources to pull it off."

Bush's own advisors are offering a view of these events that a)exposes the length to which this administration is willing to stretch the truth to spin PR; b)exposes the incompetence of this president to accurately analyze, use and report information to the public; c)the willlingness of this president and administration to lie to us; and d) the willingness to say or do anything to continue the exaggerated environment and atmosphere of fear that keeps us from demanding our civil rights be faithfully observed.

"Several security experts said that they did not believe the plot ever went past the conceptual stage before it was disrupted by a series of arrests in Asia after 9/11. South-east Asian experts told the Associated Press that the man recruited to fly the plane into the Los Angeles tower, a Malaysian engineer called Zaini Zakaria, pulled out of the plot after he saw the scale of the destruction and death at the World Trade Center in New York. He later gave himself up to Malaysian authorities."

Again, there was ABSOLUTELY NO use of warrantless wiretapping involved in this case. In fact, there was no wiretapping at all. There was no violation of the Constitution, no breach of human rights, and no criminal disregard of our Constitution. Isn't it amazing what good old fashioned law enforcement and reliable use of "ordinary" intelligence can do for us!