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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

9/11 and the American Empire: How Should Religious People Respond? :: 9/11 CitizensWatch :: We are concerned citizens challenging the official story o

9/11 and the American Empire: How Should Religious People Respond? :: 9/11 CitizensWatch :: We are concerned citizens challenging the official story of 9/11

please read this. draw your own conclusions. i don't know what i believe right now; i am about halfway through reading this story. i clicked to it from another site from another site etc., starting with the story about blair and bush having a secret meeting in which they agreed that there would be war on iraq. etcetera

an excerpt from the speech given at the University of Wisconsin and broadcast on C-Span:

Shortly before the current Bush administration took office, a document entitled Rebuilding America’s Defenses was published by an organization called the Project for the New American Century,44 founding members of which included Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald Rumsfeld. This document focused primarily on getting more tax money allocated for the technological transformation of the US military, with the centerpiece of this technological transformation being the US Space Command’s project to weaponize and thereby control space. Because this transformation of the US military will be very expensive, the document said, it will probably proceed very slowly--unless America suffers “some catastrophic and catalyzing event--like a new Pearl Harbor."45 It is interesting that on the night of 9/11, President Bush reportedly wrote in his diary, “The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today.”46

In any case, earlier that evening, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld was on message. We might assume that he would have been disoriented by the fact that the Pentagon had just, on his watch, suffered an unprecedented attack. Instead, he was ready to use the attacks to obtain more money for the US Space Command. In front of television cameras, Rumsfeld berated Senator Carl Levin, then chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, saying:
Senator Levin, you and other Democrats in Congress have voiced fear that you simply don’t have enough money for the large increase in defense that the Pentagon is seeking, especially for missile defense. . . . Does this sort of thing convince you that an emergency exists in this country to increase defense spending . . . ?47

This strategy worked. Congress immediately appropriated an additional $40 billion for the Pentagon. Since then, furthermore, the president has gotten every additional appropriation he has sought for the so-called war on terror.

- posted by barbara @ 5/11/2005 07:56:00 PM

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