Philzone.org Discussion Board: Archive 2004: Politics Archive 2004: More 9/11 OUTRAGE cont.

Another apparent option is a strike on Iran, maybe preceded
by a stateside
assault blamed on Tehran. A raving Washington Post column
(July 23 2004)
summed it up with:

"Did we invade the wrong country? One of the lessons being
drawn from the
Sept. 11 report is that Iran was the real threat. It had
links to al Qaeda,
allowed some of the Sept. 11 hijackers to transit and is
today harboring al
Qaeda leaders; If nothing is done, a fanatical terrorist
regime openly
dedicated to the destruction of the 'Great Satan' will have
both nuclear
weapons and the terrorists and missiles to deliver them. All
that stands
between us and that is either revolution or preemptive
strike."

Of course, the recent Pentagon spy scandal (in which
top-secret presidential
policy papers on Iran were reportedly leaked to Israeli
officials) may put a
damper on this alternative. The scandal highlights the
neocons' power
struggle with other administration members, and until that
battle is
decided, there won't be consensus enough to invade Iran. But
if Israel does
decide to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, then chances are
strong Bush will
jump in too, and we could be looking at WWIII.

As a sidelight, there's an interesting connection between
the Pentagon spy
scandal and September 11th: allegations that Israeli
intelligence may have
known about the 911 attacks in advance and not told the
United States. In
December 2001, Fox News ran a four-part series suggesting
that Israeli
intelligence may have had prior knowledge of the attack,
through its spying
on Arabs in the United States. The series was quickly yanked
from the Fox
web site, although a spokesman said, "We stand by the
story."

So where does all of this leave us as the third anniversary
of 911
approaches? With more questions than answers. Whodunnit?
Should we blame
Osama and the hijackers, Saudi funders, Israeli intelligence
agents, the
Bush administration or some combination? And Whatdunnit? Was
it airplanes,
bombs, missiles, or some combination? And when will we ever
learn the truth?

Following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and the ensuing
cover-up, the
Army's Chief of Staff reportedly told other officers,
"Gentlemen, this goes
to the grave with us."

Unfortunately, today it seems that the president and his
staff are busily
digging our graves in order to satisfy their own grandiose
power grabs.

This outrage must stop.

ay'rock .. ay'ran
>>did we invade the wrong country?
perhaps .. due to a spelling error? OR a typo?