More Rice Ramblings. Has made me wonder about LIHOP

[Imperialism Inc.]

I had previously decided against any Let It Happen On Purpose scenarios but Rice yesterday has made me wonder again.

She was constantly referencing this wider plan Bush supposedly had. But, she also noted on several occasions that the Bush plan, for domestic changes in the FBI, CIA and for the world in general (read Iraq), could not be accomplished in a pre 911 atmosphere. That begs the obvious question, Then how were planning on implementing those plans you guys had been working on for 7 months?

Were those planning sessions to be an exercise in futility? A plan without a backer (the people)?

[Junkdrawer]

1. Absolutely. See my thread...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1377769

[Beetwasher]

2. Unfortunately, Cover-Ups Inevitably Make One VERY Suspicious

What are they hiding?

[RBHam]

3. More cover-up and lies

By Barry Grey
9 April 2004
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/apr2004/rice-a09.shtml

Thursday’s hearing of the national commission to investigate 9/11, which took testimony from Bush’s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, was a bipartisan exercise in cover-up and duplicity. It was all the more grotesque, occurring as it did against the backdrop of US war crimes in Fallujah and other Iraqi cities that have already taken thousands of civilian lives, and led to more deaths and injuries of American soldiers who have been fed a non-stop diet of lies by those in Washington who authored the colonial enterprise.

That Rice could claim, “Today, along with many allies, we are helping the people of Iraq and Afghanistan to build free societies...to spread the blessings of liberty and democracy as alternatives to instability and terror,” without being challenged by a single member of the commission—Democratic or Republican—points to the real purpose of the commission. Its primary political task is to conceal from the American people the connection between the tragedy of September 11, 2001 and US imperialist policy in general, and the conspiracy hatched by the Bush administration to invade and occupy Iraq and seize its oil resources, in particular.

With the US government engaged in murderous actions that are inflaming public opinion throughout the Muslim and Arab world, Rice’s contention that the “war on terror” is staunching the growth of Islamist terrorism and enhancing the safety and security of ordinary Americans would be laughable, were not its implications so catastrophic.

The real question before the commission is not some “intelligence failure” prior to 9/11, but to what extent the Bush administration and top-level figures in the intelligence and military establishment pursued a deliberate policy of allowing a hijacking to occur, in order to create the pretext for implementing a pre-existing agenda of using military force to establish US imperialist hegemony in the oil-rich Persian Gulf and Caspian regions.

[jimshoes]

5. They sure had that USAPATRIOT ACT ready in a

frickin hurry. What was it.... 3 days or something like that.

[bobthedrummer]

4. LIHOP.

LIHOP, LIHOP, LIHOP, LIHOP.

[tom_paine]

6. LIHOP

almost certain, giver Rohrbacher's statement and Sllezy's non-testimony.