Reply #15: Adding to your questions... [View All]

[davekriss]

...and why, after hearing that a plane crashed into the WTC, did General Meyers go in to Max Cleland's office for a friendly chat over coffee, only to come out after the second WTC hit and the third jet plowed into the Pentagon?

...and why, after hearing about the first hit on the WTC, did Bush continue to the school? Why, after hearing of the second hit, did Bush remain at the school for 20 minutes placidly listening to a story about a pet goat?

It certainly appears that these two stood down from their responsibilities that morning. Maybe it's just me, but if I were either of them I would have been on top of things like bees onto honey. Especially since I received a briefing on August 8 that Al Qaeda had been planning a major attack for the week of September 9, that it would involve hijackings, and hey I'd heard before that terrorists might plan to drive hijacked jets into buildings.

So here we are: Wouldn't you or I launch a full public hearing on September 12? With no arbitrary deadlines? Without pauperizing its budget? Hell, we can spend $57 million on Whitewater even after the first Republican Special Prosecutor reported there was no evidence of wrongdoing, why then budget a paltry $3 million to investigate 9-11?

I grant you that the truth most likely lies somewhere between Incompetence-LIHOP-MIHOP, but note that there's nothing positive on that continuum. Why has no one been fired? Why has no one even been reprimanded?

Maybe it's just me. Just the tinfoil. Just my left progressive way of interpreting events. But where there's smoke there's often fire! The question is, will we ever know? It's the conquerors who get to write the history books. And it does appear we've been conquered, folks!