Secretary of Fabrication?
by
W. Patrick Lang
This is a partial list of distortions, half truths and outright fabrications provided to the 9/11 Commissioners by Condoleeza Rice. Evidently, she just makes this stuff up. You can see more at
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0408-04.htm. "CLAIM: "There was a discussion of Iraq. I think it was raised by Don Rumsfeld. It was pressed a bit by Paul Wolfowitz."
FACT: Rice's statement confirms previous proof that the Administration was focusing on Iraq immediately after 9/11, despite having no proof that Iraq was involved in the attack. Rice's statement also contradicts her previous denials in which she claimed "Iraq was to the side" immediately after 9/11. She made this denial despite the President signing "a 2-and-a-half-page document marked 'TOP SECRET'" six days after 9/11 that "directed the Pentagon to begin planning military options for an invasion of Iraq."
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From the beginning she has been an enabler of the nuttiness that serves for foreign policy in the Bush Administration. Many in the Administration are pursuing strange Utopian visions in the Middle East. These visions have seek the lighting of a "torch" that would set the region on fire with revolutionary change leading to something like the transformation that the original French Revolution brought to Europe. This is a good thing? I think not, but, one thing such an American policy is surely NOT, and that is, Conservative. I am a Conservative. We Conservatives do not believe in revolution. We believe in evolution in social matters and a decent and prudent respect for the cumulative experience and habits of all peoples. The American War of Independence was more a rebellion against parliamentary tyranny than it was revolution. We Conservatives do not think that the French Revolution was an unmixed blessing for anyone. That Revolution led to many bad things; the Napoleonic Wars, the Communist Manifesto, The Bolshevik Revolution, Communist rule in China, Cuba, and North Korea, etc. The neocons are many things, but one thing they are definitely not, is Conservative. As one of them said to me "the con in neocon is the con part."
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Rice has supported and enabled such foolishness. She continues to do this. There will be a day of reckoning, and she will be remembered.
Pat Lang
more at:
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/secretary_of_fa.html#more
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