There are a few simple steps to make you wonder just what the FUCK is going on with the Bush Administration.
Step One:
It all gets down to PNAC (Project For A New American Century). Grab yourself a copy of PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" as a PDF and do a search on the document with the keywords "Pearl Harbor". (
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf)
On page 63 (of the 90 page document), you will find this lovely tidbit:
"Further, the process of transformation,even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor."
The "process of transformation" is the Neocon view of attacking countries with oil (like Iraq) and taking over the resources.
If you have a few brain cells in your skull, you might remember about what the events on September 11, 2001 presented. Some say that 9/11 is easily as profound as the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Now, look at who is with PNAC. You might find that major members of the media and the Bush administration are members. Check out:
http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Project_for_the_New_American_CenturyYou will find the major members of PNAC in the Bush administration are directly related to the policy of attacking Iraq. You will also find that they are profiting from the war with their connections to Halliburton and other oil companies, defense contractors and others complicit in wanting the war to happen for profitable means. Look no further than people like Dick Cheney, Paal Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush (who helped get Bush into power by being governor of Florida in 2000 election), Donald Rumsfeld and MANY others.
Connect these first dots. PNAC needs a "Pearl Harbor-type" event to occur to invade Iraq.
Step Two:
Look at the ignored warnings that an impending attack on the United States BY Al Qaeda AND Osama Bin Laden.
If you need Republicans to say that Bush dropped the ball, look no further than these quotes:
"They don't have any excuse because the information was in their lap, and they didn't do anything to prevent it."
- Senator Richard Shelby, then ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee; member of the joint intelligence committee that investigated 9/11
"I don't believe any longer that it's a matter of connecting the dots. I think they had a veritable blueprint, and we want to know why they didn't act on it."
- Senator Arlen Specter, a Republican member of the joint intelligence committee that investigated 9/11
More here:
http://archive.democrats.com/elandslide/petition.cfm?campaign=911Additionally, remember that Bush did not want ANY investigation into the events leading up to 9/11. None. When he finally gave in, remember that he and Cheney made statements that were NOT recorded, did not have a transcript and were not reviewed by any members of the 9/11 investigation.
There is so much more detail to get into that has filled volumes, but these initial links should get anyone with half a brain to question the intentions of the Bush administration...and if you are awake, you'd see the obvious reasons to hang these bastards for treason.
Note: I was responding to another thread, which became locked...so I figured we thread on about this.