Bush and Co. can
shed all the tears they want on the podium, but 9-11 was their wet
dream and they reacted with a racist and imperial ferocity that makes
Americans and world people less secure today than ever.
The third big Republican Convention lie is an indirect
one, collateral to lies one and two. It claims that Republicans think
9/11 was a regrettable national tragedy - a sad and tragic moment in
American history. Again and again, Republican officials and speakers
will speak in highly emotional terms about the horrible events of
September 2001, making reference to the lives that were lost on the
terrible day. Beneath this show, the dark reality is that Republican
leadership and especially the White House foreign policy cabal was
delighted by the carnage. For them the jetliner attacks were a great
windfall, a coveted "opportunity" (Bush's word and Condaleeza Rice's
too), a "blessing" (Rumsfeld)...the "new Pearl Harbor" that they craved
and found enormously useful - by pre-arranged design, many think - for
acting upon their underlying lust and longstanding schemes to expand
empire and inequality at home and abroad. [more ]
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