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Jackson Thoreau's latest Essay - Excellent Must Read & Share


Very Long but well worth it

http://www.geocities.com/jacksonthor/know911.html

II. Bush Joked While the World Trade Center Burned - Then He Let the Saudis Off the Hook

Did the Ghosts of Operations Northwoods and Orpheus and Our Anti-Soviet Afghan Operation Return to Haunt Us on Sept. 11, 2001?

By Jackson Thoreau
Feb. 7, 2004

snip to the end:

I looked out across the Potomac River to Arlington Cemetery, where my older sister was buried. The words of a poem I wrote in 1984 during another cross-country march for various causes came back:

What seems so cold is the waste of potential
What that says about your society when the seeds
that are planted fail to yield abundant fruit for all
Do we just continue making it more hostile
Building up fear and prejudice through more unnecessary weapons
Haunted by nuclear nightmares
Or do we attempt to get to the root of our problems
To alleviate the fear with trust
the lies with truth
the hatred with love
the hostile weapons with friendly, open arms
To come to a nonviolent reconciliation of our conflicts?
That fallen president once said,
‘Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind’
Which will we choose?

The words I read in the New Yorker article by Hersh also stuck in my mind. A Middle Eastern oilman told Hersh: “The war was declared by bin Laden, but there are thousands of bin Ladens. They are setting the game - the agenda. It’s a new form of war. This fabulous military machine you have is completely useless.” 95

Was the war really declared by bin Laden? Or was it declared long before Sept. 11, 2001, in the nearby Pentagon, the headquarters of the CIA and other intelligence agencies, and related structures that needed some more bogeymen to keep the cash and power flowing?

I knew my answer. I rose and walked towards a subway station. It was time to go home and refuel.

Jackson Thoreau is an American writer. This essay is part of a book, The Strange Death of the Woman Who Filed a Rape Lawsuit Against Bush & Other Things the Bush Administration Doesn’t Want You to Know, scheduled for publication in 2004. To read some other chapters, go to http://www.geocities.com/jacksonthor/know.html .