Today’s Topic: The Quality of the American Presidency
I often wonder how we’ve come so far from the spirit that still echoes across time when America stood for what was good about society. Not only about society, but for society.
What happened to the time that an American President could approach the French President with evidence of Soviet missiles in Cuba and the French President didn’t require proof? The word of Kennedy meant enough in the world for the world to believe him. The word of an American President was good enough for the world to believe him.
Now it is tough to tell whether there is any truth in what our government says, not only to the world, but to our own people.
I recall a conversation with my father a few years back and we were discussing the possibility of our government bugging the populace in unwarranted eavesdropping, and he was totally nonchalant about the prospect, saying that he had nothing to hide.
He missed my point, as has a still significant portion of the American public who sit back complacently as this administration heaps one illegal act after another on the people. The point is really very simple. In a world where terrorists are such a small portion of the world’s population, it is counterintuitive to waste the resources both in people and in dollars to try to watch people who are no threat to national security. This includes anti-war organizations and other policy dissidents who were targeted not only by numerous Homeland Security departments, but infiltrated by the military all the way down to local police departments, who, btw, constantly agitated these peaceful dissidents toward illegal and dangerous actions.
In today’s America our government is holding data mined since 9/11 to the tune of having a database of over 700,000 names of suspect individuals. Now knowing the inability of the government to actually institute a program that is extremely efficient, I am positive that somewhere around a 20% portion of those names are duplicates or slightly different spelling of names or have different addresses, etc.
The real problem is that we now have evidence that it WAS NOT 9/11 that was the turning point where this administration instituted illegal wiretapping, but within the first month in office of George W. Bush. How people can continue to sit back while this new information confirms a truly dastardly change in ignoring the laws of America is beyond me.
But if one steps back to 2001 pre 9/11, and tempers their current knowledge with the additional evidence of the administration’s desire to overthrow Iraq’s despotic dictator from day one, it is easy to see that the hidden agenda of eavesdropping on American citizens was a necessary precursor to this outrageous plot. And I call it a plot because too many factors of what occurred from the day George W. Bush was inaugurated until 9/11 itself fits the mold of a written presentation for global hegemony. Unsurprisingly virtually all of those who created this documentation became either high level Bush appointees delegated greatly exaggerated powers, or highly visible conservative media pundits who quickly sprang into action to support their ideals.
How the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) document plays into the actions of this administration during the early days prior to 9/11 is more peculiar than virtually any fiction novel written.
One fact in evidence is Colin Powell’s statement in February of 2001, the same month the Bush administration requested the large telecomms provide customer records sans proper warrants, when the Secretary of State said emphatically that there is no evidence that Saddam Hussein possessed any weapons that would jeopardize our national security.
Within days Condi Rice, then National Security Advisor, backed up Secretary Powell’s statement, again emphatically noting that Iraq did not present a problem to our national security.
But now we know that the cadre known as the Neo-Cons already had Iraq in their sights in 1998 (well, now MORE people know but the information was there for the looking prior to 9/11), and lo and behold they had the power to initiate the overthrow of Saddam. Not only the power, but they thought they had the plan to overthrow Saddam.
However, more reality creeps back into the picture when we look at the Neo-Con’s proposed deposing of Saddam and move back to Dick Cheney’s super secret Energy Commission meeting, comprised of major oil CEOs and power brokers such as the now deceased Ken Lay. From information leaked we know that this commission was already planning to divide up Iraq’s oil fields, garnering operating fields for the consumer industry and projected fields for the companies highly invested in oil exploration. So we only have a difference of a detailed and documented plan for regime change in Iraq in 1998, and a detailed breaking up of all Iraq’s oil resources in March of 2001.
And in between we have the requested but unwarranted request for telecomms to provide subscriber information in the name of national security.
The facts continue to build.
President George W. Bush gave short shrift to any suggestions that terrorism was a threat to the United States. He and his cabinet gave no heed to outgoing President Clinton’s suggestion that terrorism was going to be the biggest threat to national security and Condi Rice only a month before 9/11 decided to pay any attention at all to both National Counterterrorism Czar Richard Clarke’s warnings.
So in our rearview mirror we have a group of individuals who wished to remove Saddam Hussein and have just recently moved into positions of vastly inflated power, and we have the cohorts of the powerful planning dividing up the spoils of that removal.
We also have a refusal of the administration to pay attention to heightened "chatter’ that suggested our counterterrorism people should at least have been paid heed.
Now we jump back to December, 1998, I believe, when Donald Rumsfeld himself suggested that any acceptance of such actions as the PNAC document recommended, America "would have to suffer a catastrophe such as a new Pearl Harbor",
Suddenly one looks at 9/11 in a new light. Had the administration placed the highest priority on pursuing the "chatter" on the terrorists, then perhaps 9/11 would not have been so traumatic. However, we have the Department of Defense filled with individuals whose very efforts towards regime change in Iraq included the true knowledge that America would need to have people die in order for the plan to be enacted. We also have to understand that many of the prime money movers for the Bush elections we also those included in the secretly held Energy Commission’s meeting.
One question I have is whether Dick Cheney was playing the role of Vice President at this meeting, or in fact he held some type of defacto "CEO Emeritus" status for Haliburton. Certainly we know that Haliburton received the first open-ended NO BID contract directly prior to our invasion of Iraq. But I digress.
So what we continue to see is that the time span between the publishing of the PNAC statement of policy through to 9/11 have implications that suggest something is wrong in the average American’s perception of events. We also continue to have new information that fills in the blanks this administration has been pleased that more attention was not placed on this string of events.
The problem is that we see one thing of fact that most people simply do not wish to even contemplate, and that is too many events have coalesced into a comprehensive whole which follows exactly what appears to be a total plan initiated in the mid 90s. In fact, if one takes chaos theory to the extreme, even in the extreme it is highly improbable that these factors could fall together so neatly as to present a completed jigsaw puzzle of the timeline we now consider to be our own.
To be honest no one could have predicted that George W. Bush WOULD be elected President, but it is hard to say that George W. Bush WAS elected. In fact, he was SELECTED by a partisan majority of the US Supreme Court. Considering the elevation of the Florida elections results to the US Supreme Court by the Bush election team can easily fall into the area of probability when extremes are the excepted range of values.
Still, there are probabilities that couldn’t be expected in 1998 when PNAC presented their foreign policy document and 2000 when George W. Bush’s election would be tied up in court. But the show stopper is the plain and simple fact that virtually all of the PNAC players were placed in exactly the slots necessary for them to help ignore 9/11 intelligence. And this whilst immediately upon obtaining office preparing the military for the invasion of Iraq, and for the unwarranted wiretapping requested in February 2001.
I actually had another subject in mind when I started this blog, but sometimes the facts just want to jump out and say "look at me you dumbass". And the facts won.
In all of the possible outcomes based on chaos theory, there is no possible way that the period between 1998 and 9/11/2001 could have happened in just the way it did without concerted effort on the part of all the players to make it happen just the way it did.
One may look at the facts and say this is a coincidence of epic proportion, but this is an unlikely set of circumstances which resembles a once in 500 year storm or drought. But we aren’t talking about 500 years, we are talking about something less than three years for all of these factors to come into play and then play out exactly the way they did. In chaos theory even this possibility exceeds any probability imaginable.
Don’t get me wrong. An improbability does not imply an impossibility, but one doesn’t name a once in 500 year storm as such without knowledge of the factors that results in a once in 500 year storm. So there is no real good reason to accept that so many extraneous circumstances could come into play in just the right timeframe.
And for anyone to think I’m suggesting a conspiracy of some sort, let us just look at that possibility.
For plain simple luck to be implicit within all the possible permutations, the odds go towards a one in a million year storm. We’re talking about probabilities that would produce the big red storm on Jupiter, and there are obvious ramifications of such a collusion of factors causing that storm as well as a history of why that particular storm is still brewing.
This particular storm coalesced in a period of three years, and required such a number of circumstances to be in place that coincidence no longer is even a consideration. Just such a impossible storm may well continue to brew in this country far after the "impossible storm" that allows for the (s)election of George W. Bush, pre 9/11 unwarranted eavesdropping, secret energy policy commissions, a plan for dividing the oil spoils of Iraq, ignoring imperative intelligence information that apparently led to 9/11 and the ultimate declaration of war on terrorism and subsequent invasion of Iraq.
After all, the big red storm on Jupiter is at least 400 years old. Do you want America to follow the logical outcome?
3:10:27 PM 
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