GWB stole the 2000 election, Ignored 911 warnings and then used 911 to attack Iraq
Where would we be today if Al Gore was in the Whitehouse during those years? If Al Gore was making policy about climate change instead of documentaries about climate change.
The first 3 minutes of this film re-opened the wound. It is incredible to think that Fox News, owned by the Saudis and that Australian fascist, had the power to do this much damage to America but those 8 years of hell are all the evidence we should need:
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Hillary deleted her emails!
Trump said something awful!
Even many people who are engaged enough to realize that something strange happened in 2000 are oblivious to the anomalies of 2004.
Fool me once...
He wouldn't have ignored the warnings, would have listened to Clark and taken action and this never would have happened. He wouldn't have told the airlines that they were never to stop any Saudi Arabian national from coming into the US, regarless of if they were on a terror list and that would have stopped 4 of the airplane bombers right there. He'd have listened to the FBi reports that there were some strange people taking flying classes who weren't interested at all in landing and stopped some if not all that way. If by some strange twist, it did happen anyway, it never would have gone so far because he'd have had the other planes stopped, one way or the other.
I know this is 
territory, however I do believe from everything that happened that Cheney and probably Bush as well were in on this. America's std. response is 15 seconda from us being hit that airplanes are scrambled. Why wasn't that done until hours later? Why did Bush allow all Saudi Arabians into the US regardless and did this almost immediately upon taking office? Why did Cheney tell Afghanistan that we'd carpet their country in blood if they didn't sign an agreement to give Unocal the right to build an oil pipeline through their country 1 month before 9/11? Why did Cheney have pictures of Iraqui oilfields in his presentation to the oilmen in this country and show them divided between American companies and then fight for years to keep this information secret? Oh, yeah, this too happened mere months prior to 9/11. I will never be convinced that they weren't in on this, so likelihood of this happening under a President Gore is about nil.
Hundreds of "paid GOP crusaders" descended upon South Florida to protest the state's recounts,[1] with at least half a dozen of the demonstrators at Miami-Dade paid by George W. Bush's recount committee.[2] Several of these protesters were identified as Republican staffers and a number later went on to jobs in the Bush administration.[3]
The "Brooks Brothers" name reinforces the allegation that the protesters, in corporate attire, sporting "Hermès ties"[4] were astroturfing, as opposed to local citizens concerned about counting practices.
The demonstration was organized by Republican operatives, sometimes referred to as the "Brooks Brothers Brigade",[5] to oppose the recount of 10,750 ballots during the Florida recount. The canvassers decided to move the counting process to a smaller room and restrict media access to 25 feet away while they continued. At this time, New York Rep. John Sweeney told an aide to "Shut it down."[2][4] The demonstration turned violent, and according to the NY Times, "several people were trampled, punched or kicked when protesters tried to rush the doors outside the office of the Miami-Dade supervisor of elections. Sheriff's deputies restored order." DNC aide Luis Rosero was kicked and punched. Within two hours after the riot died down, the canvassing board unanimously voted to shut down the count, in part due to perceptions that the process wasn't open or fair, and in part because the court-mandated deadline was impossible to meet.[6][7][8]
The controversial incident was set in motion by John E. Sweeney,[9] a New York Republican who was nicknamed "Congressman Kick-Ass" by President Bush for his work in Florida.[10] Sweeney defended his actions by arguing that his aim was not to stop the hand recount but to restore the process to public view.[11] Some Bush supporters did acknowledge they hoped the recount would end. "We were trying to stop the recount; Bush had already won," said Evilio Cepero, a reporter for WAQI, an influential Spanish talk radio station in Miami. "We were urging people to come downtown and support and protest this injustice." A Republican lawyer commented, "People were pounding on the doors, but they had an absolute right to get in."[6] The protest prevented official observers and members of the press from getting in.
The Republican Lawyer was full of horseshit, of course.
What no one ever realized, because the media never brought it up, is that whether or not this was staged, they were all committing a federal offense on at least two counts; tampering with a recount of a national election in a government office and crossing state lines to incite a riot in a government office - the same thing the Chicago Seven were charged with, BTW.
It was an illegal act to force more illegal acts to follow - the SCOTUS interfering in a state-run election, the election not being decided by the American voter, the installation of a dry drunk failure and his profit-hungry energy board member cabinet, the drumming up of War With Iraq merely hours after 9/11 happened . . . and, of course, culminating in one of the largest war crimes of the past 50 years - the blank-check Middle East occupation of aggression based on a load of bat guano.
Whether we liked it or wanted it or not . . .. Bewsh was going to get his presidency and was going to get his annointed wars come hell or high water. The fix was in with the media and the corporations driving the getaway car.
In the immortal words of one Al Jourgensen: "Push the Button Connect the Goddamned DOTS!!"
