...What happened was no "accident". It was the result of
(a) total incompetence
(b) criminal negligence
(c) purposeful government policy
(d) all of the above
Take your pick (answer "d" is correct)
Posted on 07/16/2004 4:48:35 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Friday, July 16, 2004
By Joseph Farah
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
The Senate Intelligence Committee has issued a report telling us what we all already knew – that U.S. intelligence agencies have let us down.
I thought we all knew that on Sept. 11.
Is it really a shock that the most profound failure of U.S. intelligence since Pearl Harbor wasn't fixed a year later, two years later or even three?
It's not shocking to me.
But the report is being exploited to the max by politically desperate adversaries of the Bush administration.
Instead, what should be happening is all Americans – everyone who loves this country, who cherishes their freedom, who values the lives of their children – should be uniting as we did after Sept. 11 to fix the system that let us down.
I don't expect that to happen – not in a political season. But it does make the world a more dangerous place if we go no further than finger-pointing.
Ironically, those pointing the fingers are most to blame for the problem. Those charging they were misled by not getting accurate information are the very people who discounted the need for good intelligence during the Cold War and after.
U.S. intelligence agencies were dismantled and discounted beginning in the early 1970s. President Clinton met exactly once with his James Woolsey, his own Central Intelligence Agency director during his first term in office. John Kerry told Larry King last week he didn't have time for a national security briefing on the latest terror threat while he spent hours at a fund-raiser headlined by Whoopi Goldberg. Evidently talking to Larry King was more important than knowing what was going on.
And what about the Senate Intelligence Committee itself? Isn't that the committee charged with overseeing U.S. intelligence agencies? By finding that they were not doing their job, they are indicting themselves for ineptitude, too.
There's plenty of blame to go around.
But, unless Americans want to see more Sept. 11s, it's time to go beyond the blame game. It's time to fix the system.
There's also plenty of disinformation being spread by the blame-gamers.
They seem to be suggesting the following:
All of those conclusions are dead wrong – 100 percent provably in error. We're drawing the wrong conclusions yet again based on faulty intelligence.
In his brand new book, "The Secret History of the Iraq War," the man I consider to be among America's foremost intelligence experts – Yossef Bodansky, former director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare – writes that, in the fall of 2002, Saddam Hussein supplied operational weapons of mass destruction to Osama bin Laden's terrorists.
He also concludes that Iraq's intelligence services provided extensive military assistance to al-Qaida beginning n the early 1990s.
He also, once again, shows that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, as well as most of its program to develop more, had left the country prior to our invasion.
America is going to be attacked again by al-Qaida and other terrorist groups.
Why are we wringing our hands and fighting among ourselves fully knowing that this attack is an inevitability?
Why aren't we focused like a laser beam on the only objective that really counts – heading off the next deadly assault?
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We got good intel on Saudi Arabia to....but arent allowed to act on it....
They are the terrorist breeding ground and sanctuary...
Where did the majority of cut throat murderering hijackers from 09-11come from...
Petrol dollars have greased alot of our politicans to look the other way....on the muslim
invasion and takeover of the USA....which is still going on...regardless of which 'party' runs the show
The dems are back alley whores while the pubbies work the higher priced johns
imo
Are you implying that Saddam's Iraq was extensively involved with al Qaeda and that Saddam's Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? If this is true, then the leading Democrats must know this to be to true and are deliberately being dishonest with the ignorant, "to lazy to research" part of the American electorate to regain power. No way!
...What happened was no "accident". It was the result of
(a) total incompetence
(b) criminal negligence
(c) purposeful government policy
(d) all of the above
Take your pick (answer "d" is correct)
I guess the first hit on US soil (trade towers)didn't count...or the Cole....or the Embassies...or 9-11. In other words, the lives of "our innocents" means cr** to him.
Clinton bombed the Chinese Embassy for cripes sakes!!
I doubt Clinton did. If he did then we all may be wrong about him.
That was most likely operational -- they targetting the building sending out the signals aiding anti-aircraft fire. Just turned out to be the Chinese communist Embassy.
9/11 was caused by fanatical militant Islam. Saddam, Assad, Mubarak are dictators who are fighting fanatic militant Islamists. The money, ideology, jihadists for militant Islam are provided by Saudi Arabia and Iran. Our policy to destroy secular Iraq to get one dictator is foolish. We should have had all these "semi-secular" dictators to get together and fight fanatic Islam for us. Deposing Iran and Saudi Arabia's barbaric governments is the ONLY way to curb the jihadists. Messing with Assad, or Saddam is just that - messing around! I am sure President Bush learned his lesson. I hope we focus now on Iran!
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