[Vision2020] One reason to not be happy with Bush

[James Reynolds]

The war in Iraq is only one of the problems that the current Federal Administration has dumped on US citizens. A very small force of Islamic fundamentalist was able to enact their plan largely because the Administration dropped the ball. The opportunity for the terrorists to strike was presented by an administration more intent on pillaging the US treasury (tax breaks for the wealthy and visions of sugarplums) than in maintaining the type of National security emphasis needed to prevent such terrorist plans from becoming reality. Richard Clark, the former counterterrorism czar for both Clinton and Bush wrote down his observations of how the current administration dropped the ball by not following up on the al Qeada threat.  A number of Bush administration proponents have tried the tactic of blaming the Clinton administration for the attack on 9/11. This is of course only a child’s game of passing responsibility. The Clinton administration was vigorously countering the al Qaeda and seeking out Osama; the Bush administration dropped the ball and the al Qaeda saw the opportunity.

After these 19 terrorists were able to walk in and cause such damage the Bush administration suddenly became very concerned, Unfortunately their concern rotated around how this devastating calamity could be used to take over Iraq’s oil fields rather than how they could prevent future terrorist attacks. It was known by intelligence that al Qaeda was positioned in Afghanistan and Pakistan and that it primarily garnered recruits from the Islamist fundamentalist schools in Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Jordan. The reason this mess has not yet been cleaned up is because there wasn’t any interest in solving the problem within this administration. Instead of taking care of the al Qaeda threat the administration went into Afghanistan briefly; scattered the al Qaeda into hiding, put a puppet Government in power of a small portion of Afghanistan, left a completely insufficient force behind to “clean up” then turned their attention to a place known to not have anything to do with the 9/11 attack. 

Putting this scenario into perspective. A small (19 men), very poorly armed (box knives), group of terrorists were able to stage a major attack on the most powerful nation in the world and that nation was unable to remedy the situation because the political leaders didn’t have the resolve to take care of the problem but instead used the attack as an excuse to take the most powerful military into a no-win situation in a nation unrelated to the attack. Afghanistan and Pakistan are still the problems they were when it all began on 9/11. Nothing has been accomplished; no gains have been made. Nearly 2500 US military personnel have been killed and nearly 20,000 seriously wounded in the diversionary, unnecessary, war of choice that was started by our administration.

Anyone who blindly backs such incompetence in our government has a serious problem with powers of observation.

James   
  

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