[Peace-discuss] 9/11 Commission Report: Bushwellianism that brings reminders of the Warren Commission

[ndahlhei at uiuc.edu]

Our democracy and civil liberties are really at threat, as 
the official 9/11 report from the 9/11 Commission calls for 
further government repression and erosion of precious civil 
liberties and civil rights.

Read this from onlinejournal.com dated July 26, 2004.

URL:  
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/072604Conover/07
2604conover.html

The 9-11 Commission Report: the greatest whitewash since the 
Warren Commission's report

By Bev Conover
Online Journal Editor & Publisher

July 26, 2004—Everyone is to blame and no one is to blame, 
according to the twisted logic of the 9-11 Whitewash 
Commission. 

So who is talking about logic in this Bushwellian land? 
Surely not the 9-11 victims' families, who were bought off 
for an average of $2 million each, that are patting 
themselves on the back for forcing the Bushies to set up 
this travesty of a commission, comprised of handpicked 
cronies.

Having spent several hours—hours that could have been better 
used—going through the 567-page "report," we agree with Kurt 
Nimmo that it is a "fantasy novel."

The only dots it connects are the ones in the Official 9-11 
Legend, which will now stand alongside the Warren Whitewash 
Commission Report on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. 
Only this time, instead of Arlen Specter's "pristine bullet" 
theory, we have all these Arab men flying in and out of the 
US—some with dodgy passports or expired visas—meeting with 
their cohorts around the world, between learning how to fly 
airplanes at flight schools around the US, while telling 
their flight instructors they could skip the parts about 
taking off and landing the crafts. And no one noticed? Not 
even when they were told about these antics? When some of 
these alleged hijackers were on "terrorist" watch lists?

Yet, millions of our ignorant fellow Americans—especially 
those in the corporate media—will buy into the fantasy. ABC 
News' John Donvan called this work of fiction the greatest 
thing since the Warren Whitewash Commission's work of 
fiction.

If that isn't scary enough, now the corporate media, the 
knuckleheads in Congress and the dolts on the street who 
appear on camera are clamoring to implement the commission's 
recommendations to keep them "safe" from brown-skinned 
Muslims out to kill them. Hey, we don't need no steenking 
freedom. Hello, police state.

Why NBC's flagship station, WNBC, in New York announced it 
is going to run a daily countdown until the final elements 
of the police state are in place.

The New York Times offered up this bit of 
Bushwellianism: "As expected, the commission called for 
creation of a new national intelligence director to supplant 
some functions now performed by the director of central 
intelligence, who heads not only the Central Intelligence 
Agency but supervises the work of a dozen or more agencies 
scattered through the government. 'No one person can do all 
these things,' the commission said." 

Let's see, no one person can do it all, so let's have a 
spook czar—a cabinet level spook czar. Got it? Does that 
mean there will be some divine intervention in the choice of 
the political hack to "do all these things" that the CIA 
director can't do? Drat, there we go with logic again.

Not exactly, according to the next paragraph in the same NYT 
article: "It called, too, for creation of a national 
counterterrorism center that would both unify strategic 
intelligence-gathering against Islamic terrorists and 
operational planning against them. But the report emphasizes 
that the enemy is not Islam, 'the great world faith, but a 
perversion of Islam.'

Aha, another multi-billion dollar agency. And only to 
gather "intelligence" against "Islamic terrorists?"

What about the perversion of Christianity and Judaism? You 
know, those Christian terrorists who torch abortion clinics 
and kill doctors? What about those Zionist terrorists who 
are slaughtering Palestinians and threatening those of us 
who speak out against the genocide? What about those 
Christians terrorists who are aiding and abetting the 
Zionist terrorists in the hope of bringing about Armageddon, 
and, if successful, plan to kill all the Jews, along with 
all others, who refuse to accept Christ as their savior?

Yes, this shameful work of fiction goes on for pages in a 
thinly veiled indictment of Muslims, particularly brown-
skinned Muslims, for the horrific acts that should be laid 
at the feet of the Bush administration. Then, this is a work 
of fiction.

The commission has the audacity to falsely talk about the 
failure of "imagination." The imagination was there, but the 
commission chose not to mention Operation Northwoods, dreamt 
up by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1962, which laid out a 
scenario similar to what happened on 9-11, as a way of 
conning the American people into going to war against 
Castro. Nor did the commission make any reference to the 
Project for a New American Century, which said the US might 
need a "new Pearl Harbor" to achieve global hegemony. 

Nowhere does the commission point out that Osama bin Laden 
was the CIA's point man in Afghanistan, during the time the 
Reagan administration was bent on pushing the Soviets out of 
that country. Nor does the commission note that al Qaeda is 
a creature of the CIA, born out of the Afghan Mujahadeen, 
which it armed and financed. Yes, we loved those "Muslims" 
when they were doing our dirty work, but they have served 
their purpose and now they are "evildoers."

While the commission admitted there were no ties between al 
Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, it failed to mention that Saddam 
also was the recipient of US largesse and weapons of mass 
destruction, when the double-dealing Reagan administration 
wanted him to win the war with Iran. What the Reaganites 
didn't tell him was they also were trading arms for hostages 
with Iran at the same time, in order to illegally finance 
the Nicaraguan Contras.

But the commission didn't see it as its job to connect those 
dots, so people would understand who was really behind 9-11, 
how 9-11 was used to strip us of our freedoms and illegally 
invade Afghanistan and Iraq. If it had, and had laid blame 
at the feet of the real perpetrators, the American people 
would have the big picture of this failed mad scheme that 
cost this country what little respect it had left in the 
world and why there are now people who truly hate us.

Had the commission stepped back and reflected on the 
nightmare we're in, it would have seen that the way out is 
not with "intelligence" czars, national counterterrorism 
centers, taking away more of our freedoms, preemptive 
strikes on sovereign nations, labeling other 
people "terrorists" and "evildoers" and a bogus "war on 
terror." The way out is by changing our attitude toward the 
world; by reeling in the corporations that exploit other 
peoples and their resources; by respecting other peoples and 
the sovereignty of their nations. But that wasn't the 
commission's job, either. Nor could we expect the corporate-
connected commissioners to bite the hand that feeds them.

The commission was tasked with shoring up the Bushwellian 
Official 9-11 Legend for the consumption of the ignorant, 
without causing those responsible for the dastardly deed to 
be brought to justice, and persuading the people to trade 
the rest of their liberty for "safety." If Benjamin Franklin 
were still with us, he would say that people who would do 
that are deserving of neither liberty nor safety.