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protect freedom impeach bush now Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 12:00 PM
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flashback 12/01: Bush 'doctored' bin laden tape, omitted Saudi tie
flashback 12/01: Bush 'doctored' bin laden tape

here's how the Bush family of Oil tried to hide the Saudis connection once again -
Newsday - December 23, 2001
Diagnosis: It's All About Oil
by Jimmy Breslin

excerpt -

"It's all about oil," the doctor said.

Suddenly, on Friday, the government's tape of bin Laden boasting about the World Trade Center plane crashes was revealed as having deliberately withheld footage that was at least vital. Here was a Saudi Arabian cleric telling bin Laden about other immans in Saudi Arabia who had praised the attack on the World Trade Center. Donations usually follow sermons.

When the first tape was issued by our government, President George W. Bush said it was idiotic for anyone to say that it was a fraud or had been doctored. This was directed to Arabs. Nobody ever thought that Bush's government would be jobbing the American public. It was inconceivable that anybody in Washington would cut, clip, confiscate something that we should see, but would not because it would make Saudi Arabia look bad. The whole Bush family has done big beautiful being around with Saudi Arabia.
Their second man, Cheney, first hurt his back by bending over to pick up the money he made with Saudi Arabia. How could anybody say that men this big would take a videotape and turn it into a lie of omission?

Our government knows as well as people who had relatives at Cantor Fitzgerald or firefighters that Saudi Arabians were the murderers on the planes on Sept. 11. The leader was this guy Atta, from Saudi Arabia, and he flew the plane into the north tower.

Listen to the tape that finally got out Friday, here is a cleric saying with exuberance that people in Saudi Arabia thought bin Laden had done a great thing, killing all those people in New York.
"The Washington people are trying to say that they didn't want to show it because the Saudis are giving us such great intelligence. They didn't want to insult them," I said to the doctor in Phoenix.

"It's all about oil," he said.

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nybres232521056dec23.column?coll=ny%2Dnews%2Dcolumnists
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 12:19 PM
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1. Collective memory had drawn a curtain over certain ugly realities
But now the hour has arrived. Let the curtain be removed.

May the truth emerge. May justice prevail.
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tibbiit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 12:44 PM
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2. I like your reposting these
Reports that never got traction back when they should have.
With all of our new "guests" from the pubby "elite" coming thru here, maybe they will read some of these things and grab a fucking clue to the nasty evils they prop up and support!
Thank you for digging into the vault:)
We should all keep these older reports kicked.
tib
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