Blair: World Slept After 911......What a crock of shit.

[spanone]

Tony Blair said the world has slept since 911. That is one of the most asinine statements I've ever heard. It appears to me that the fucking world has been engaged in a damned war that had nothing to do with 911, diverting men and resources from the true enemies of freedom. I am so damned sick of politicians blaming everyone but themselves for the shit we are in.

~snip~ LONDON, England (CNN) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday that much of the world had dropped its guard to the threat of terrorism after the "wake-up call" of the 9/11 attacks of 2001.

Blair was speaking after meeting opposition leaders to discuss anti-terror legislation set to be introduced in the wake of this month's London bombings.


http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/26/london.politicians/index.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I am not into animal cruelty, but that is one poodle that needs a

rolled up newspaper applied to his nose.

[Montauk6]

2. I'm telling you!

He's dickering for that really HUGE riverfront-view suite at the Carlysle (and I DON'T mean the hotel).

[Richardo]

3. Damn...that bullshit from Crawford is rubbing off on him...

...how could the world fall asleep with the WH and their poodles in the RW media giving us terror warnings all the time?

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. I think he has a point.

Isn't that what we've been saying for four years? That we should be dealing with terrorism, not picking fights with two-bit dictators that don't threaten us?

We HAVE been asleep to the threat posed by real terrorists, in our national obsession with the made-up terrorists of Iraq.

That's why the war has made us more vulnerable, rather than more safe.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. But that's not the point Poodle-boy was making....

...you do understand that, don't you?

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. Oh, yeah, I do understand --

it's the stopped clock syndrome. It's bound to be right twice a day, whether it means to or not.

Irony abounds.

[walkon]

5. Heard this on way to work this a.m.

He actually said that 9-11 had been a wake-up call but "the people" had gone back to sleep. THE PEOPLE! WTF! What a bunch of sorry-ass, irresponsible, cowardly, jokers we have "running things". THE PEOPLE went back to sleep! I could not believe my ears!

[maxrandb]

7. Not the USA Baby!! Our Prez Was Sleeping Long Before 9/11 n/t

[leveymg]

9. Blair Ignored Most Obvious Lesson of 9/11

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/7/26/101845/102
by leveymg
Tue Jul 26th, 2005 at 07:18:45 PDT
Roll up known cells, and keep "friendly" Intel agencies on a very short leash.

Tony knows damned well why 9/11 happened. During the summer of 2001, the CIA, the Saudis, and the Israelis were running several loosely-coordinated penetration operations against al-Qaeda and each other inside the US. Other intelligence services were watching. The President was given the option of rolling up the UBL cells - but, for his own reasons, Bush declined to issue that order.

So, in order to keep the game going, US counter-terrorism accepted the risks of allowing the 19 to enter the country -- the regular "gumshoe" FBI were intentionally kept out of the loop, and the Bureau liaison at CTC was ordered not to put out alerts. Not knowing what the hell else to do, FBI HQ basically stalled all ongoing CT investigations. The WTC and Pentagon attacks proceeded unhindered.

The lessons were clear. All those double-agents, agents provocateur, consensual monitoring, and simulations created a huge opportunity for someone to put together a workable operational plan. You remove the opportunity by rounding up everyone who might be taken down. You watch the rest very closely. You lock out opposing intelligence services, and keep allies on a very short leash.

Tony Blair ignored these obvious lessons, and the London Bombings occurred as a result. The second wave of attacks - with the unexploded minitions - were something else, something perhaps more sinister.

The buildup to 7/7 involved several US double-agents. This is almost pathetically obvious. Just read between the lines below, you'll see exactly what happened.

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[DemBones DemBones]

10. The world has slept BADLY since 9/11.

Nobody forgot about terrorism.

[Deja Q]

11. I wholeheartedly agree. So asleep it dreamed of eminent domain...

and acted on it.

Nobody is blameless.

[goodboy]

12. He figures that trick works for Bush when he's in trouble, so why not

invoke 911 to see if it can get him out of trouble.

[mr blur]

13. Actually, he's partly correct.

Isn't at least half of America still asleep?