I have avoided this subject here so far but it’s again becoming an unavoidable subject. It does no good to work in uncovering the actual forces behind the war in Iraq if we don’t have an honest assessment of who and what the terrorist threat is we face.
I am nobody special, just an average, politics avoiding, middle aged man who doubted the runup to war. I’ll admit selfish motives when I began researching this in 2002 as I didn’t want my kids to be drafted in an unjust war. I have been called a conspiracy theorist more times than I’ve been called patriotic but I’m sure the latter is more accurate.
All of these revelations the MSM are ‘discovering’ have been claimed from the beginning but it is only now that most are listening.
The most disturbing discoveries have been in the history and recent activities of the assumed Islamic terrorist threat that is responsible for so much death and destruction. While it has been a genuine global threat in reality, it has also shown many signs of being controlled, manipulated, financed and exploited by various factions of several countries’ governments.
Credible evidence also consistently arises that some of the main facilitators have been promoted to key positions in the GWB administration. This doesn’t give Clinton a pass although it seems that his folks took the battle seriously and helped keep it in check as much as was within their power. Oklahoma City and the Cole bombings were probably not the same as has been reported, with other forces at work behind the scenes.
I believe that 9/11 was an inside job of sorts in this same manner but at the very least not the product of Islamic terrorists working on their own. Able Danger provides compelling arguments but that’s just one small piece of a huge puzzle. There are simply too many inconsistencies, contradictions and questions to believe the official story.
One issue I’ve had to struggle with is the issue of trust in the intelligence agencies that now run our country and simultaneously investigate the genuine threat while the factions advance the terrorist cause. I have no doubt that every worded message we share goes through series of traps and filters for datamining and analysis. In some strange way, the rights advocate that I am can accept this as long as I know it’s not abused. The only way to achieve that is through a mutual trust between individuals and government. I reached a point (long ago) in speaking out that I have to trust the watchers, in general, to view my dissent as healthy, not threatening. Evidence of incidents over the last 5 years shows this isn’t always the case but I believe that is the work of the isolated factions that have grown in number under GWB. Still, I must trust the alphabet soup of intel (sincere individuals) to also rise up, beside all of us who know that we are on the same side and not opponents.
I know there is a need to know that the public doesn’t need to know but to have that we have to have trust first. That trust has been destroyed and it wasn’t the American public that destroyed it. Now is the time to regain that through some selective honesty and to run the terrorist supporters out of their offices and positions of power.
The truth behind the forces that took us to war will bring more evidence out as it’s uncovered.
I will be happy to provide links to good resources for any discussion on this subject but it’s been my experience that it’s not always well met. I thought I would make the offer first to save a wasted effort.
Here are a few interestings to start with.
Two sources familiar with Able Danger told FOX News that part of its investigative work focused on mosques and the religious ties between known terrorist operatives such as Omar Abdul Rahman (search), who was part of the first World Trade Center bombing plot in 1993.
An independent terrorism analyst pointed out to FOX News that German intelligence had no record of Atta before the Sept. 11 attack; that’s significant because Atta headed up the Sept. 11 Al Qaeda cell in Hamburg. The analyst also questioned how Atta could be connected to Rahman, who was in prison by the mid-1990s.
Smith claims that one way the unit came to know Atta was through Rahman. Smith said Able Danger used data mining techniques — publicly available information — to look at mosques and religious ties and it was, in part, through the investigation of Rahman that Atta’s name surfaced.Able Danger: Third Source Steps Up, Gives Even More Details
Link to a free chapter of Sander Hicks book at his website.
The Big Wedding:
9/11, the Whistle-Blowers and the Cover-Up
Muslim Brotherhood, Team B, PNAC, and the New International Fascist Agenda
Just saw this, thanks!
It might just slide quietly off of the page sidebar and into obscurity.
Most of the really interesting coincidences are the ones both parties’ politicians want to keep buried.
Why were automibles that were used in car-bomb attacks in Iraq able to be traced back to stolen in the US?
vegetables. They need them, but few want them, and even fewer want several servings daily.
Interestingly, the underclass, with generally less formal education, and popularly supposed by the affluent to be less sophisticated, are far more likely to have a more reality-based view of the truth of US policies.
While we watch the pain and agony of the “chattering class” confronting the beginnings of some gentle questioning regarding the crusade in Iraq, this issue, as well as the 911 events and others have not caused any amazement in the warrens and barrios and dingy slums inhabited by the undesirable sector.
The same divide is evident when the subject of Operation Crescent Cleansing comes up. The affluent, even those opposed, have theory upon complicated theory to explain why some of the poorest of the poor down in the Ninth Ward heard explosions right before the levee “broke.”
…and the citizens of the Ninth Ward know that regardless of their local leaders’ color, if the decision was made to breach the levees there to save expensive sections elsewhere, the only color that mattered was green.
I think the awareness is there at the lower levels as a general mistrust of anything the government claims. They’ve been burned consistently by the govt.
The chattering class will dismiss serious claims of electronic voting fraud in the 2004 election but the less affluent know a scam when they see one, no matter which party is behind it.
These are the same folks that don’t need the WSJ to know the utilities are hitting record profits. They can tell by how many fewer days they get to come up with the cash to avoid disconnect.
How about Chertoff both representing an accused terrorist financer, as a private attorney and then having an overlap of a month with his position in the govt for prosecution. I don’t think the $5+ million was ever located but it’s believed to have gone right back to financing the terrorists (bin Laden).
It’s all just as easily explained away by those who don’t want to look closely, have something to lose or can’t bear to doubt the government too deeply.