Pilger says Bush Administration was MOVING BEFORE 9/11/01 TO ACT AGAINST THE TALIBAN!

John Pilger Archives ^ | November 23, 2001 | John Pilger (Bush hater)

[Roscoe Karns]

Of course Pilger goes on to say Bush wanted an oil pipeline through Afghanistan...

Credit to Tim Blair blog http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/006373.php

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[writer33]

How can this be? I thought President Bush's administration was a bunch of complete, utter morons. :) hA!

[Paul Atreides]

I thought President Bush's administration was a bunch of complete, utter morons.

Those charges change as much as Kerry's stance on any given issue.

[Shermy]

Return to the 6+2 coalition, 9/11 as "second strike" after the Taliban offensive and Massoud assassination....where are those threads anyway???

[expatpat]

Take that, Clarke!

Unfortunately, if this gets general acceptance, the Dem'rats will then flip, and say Bush precipitated 9/11 by his over-aggressive plans to attack the Taliban! You can't win with the libs -- they'll take both sides of an issue, without shame.

[Solamente]

" Well, well, well, well, WELL! UMPH! "

[cwb]

This is a point the media keeps ignoring, as this was even mentioned by Colin Powell in his testimony. As Powell noted, before there could've been any military action against the Taliban, the US had to negotiate, normally with hostile countries, for air-flight rights and foward base deployment. This is why Powell was personally involved with negotiations with both Pakistan and Usbekistan. As he further noted, without these concessions, US soldiers would've been placed at greater risk, because things like search and rescue would've took hours from further locales. We certainly didn't want to "rush to war" without having a plan in place...which as Powell said, was on its way.

[writer33]

"Those charges change as much as Kerry's stance on any given issue."


That's true, but there's always that soft underlying hint that President Bush is a hick, idiot.

[Shermy]

September 22, 2001

Threat of US strikes passed to Taliban weeks before NY attack

among other things worthy of consideration...

"...Russia's president Vladimir Putin said in an interview released yesterday that he had warned the Clinton administration about the dangers posed by Bin Laden. "Washington's reaction at the time really amazed me. They shrugged their shoulders and said matter-of-factly: 'We can't do anything because the Taliban does not want to turn him over'..."

[marron]

Grownups have seen for a long time that we were going to wind up at war with Saddam and the Afghan-based gangs sooner or later. You let your diplomats do their work, you never know what they may turn up, but below the surface you prepare for war. Thats the way it is supposed to work.

If the guys in suits manage to pull the rabbit out of the hat, good for all of us. If not, if we are serious people, we should have the pieces in place to move it to the next level.

I can safely state that the US military has been preparing for war in the mideast and Central Asia for several years. Anyone could see the storms brewing, and we pay smart people to be ready when it hits.

[Paul Atreides]

Yeah, I know. Somehow, the "handlers" of the administration have managed to do what Follywood directors have been unable to accomplish: take a moron and make him into a convincing actor. Apparently, W is too stupid to put one foot before the other, yet, can somehow manage to memorize a script of facts and figures and, pull the wool over the eyes of the entire world.

[mrsmith]

And there was this report in Jane's six months before the WTC attack:

janes.com

15 March 2001
"India is believed to have joined Russia, the USA and Iran in a concerted front against Afghanistan's Taliban regime. ...Several recent meetings between the newly instituted Indo-US and Indo-Russian joint working groups on terrorism led to this effort to tactically and logistically counter the Taliban.
Intelligence sources in Delhi said that while India, Russia and Iran were leading the anti-Taliban campaign on the ground, Washington was giving the Northern Alliance information and logistic support. "

[kcvl]

bttt

[Shermy]

Grownups have seen for a long time

Certainly Clarke knows, but has an arrested development. And he didn't think up that "important, not urgent" and "focus" semantics all by himself. He was fed them. Kerry ops parsing past statements, defining a "dissent" to fit against Bush, and mindful of Kerry's statements.

Thing about the internet, people can fact check on their own and not rely on the media.

Can o' worms I tell ya.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

They think they can get away with redefining the facts!

[Shermy]

They think they can get away with redefining the facts!

Bush not doing much of a job reminding people of them.

[Spotsy]

Unfortunately, if this gets general acceptance, the Dem'rats will then flip, and say Bush precipitated 9/11 by his over-aggressive plans to attack the Taliban! You can't win with the libs -- they'll take both sides of an issue, without shame.

So true! The Dems have all of their bases covered.

[writer33]

I know. It's amazing to see him at work.