Bush Administration Makes Allies of America’s Worst Enemies.
And our enemies their greatest benefactors.
Last week, President Bush announced a plan to
sell $20 Billion in “military equipment” to Saudi Arabia. The week prior to that, Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama refocused attention back to the fact that President Bush’s ineptitude allowed Osama bin Laden to escape capture at Tora Bora into neighboring Pakistan in late 2001. He also announced (to much criticism) his willingness to enter the country with or without approval if we had actionable intelligence that OBL was hiding in the “No-mans’ Land
between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
This/Sunday morning at the GOP Debate in Iowa, Gov. Mitt Romney said Senator Obama “seems confused as to who are our friends and who are our enemies.” A number of events have made one fact of the Bush Presidency startlingly clear
: the countries Bush calls our “allies” are in fact our greatest threats, and enemies of the U.S. have been the greatest benefactors of a Bush Presidency. Fifteen of the Nineteen 9/11 hijackers were Saudis. Two were from Yemen, one from Lebanon and one from Egypt… all four countries, U.S. allies. They weren’t from Iraq. They weren’t from Iran. They weren’t Palestinian. Neither were they poor and they didn’t cross over the border into the U.S. illegally from Mexico. Let’s start with the countries President Bush calls our “friends” first because it’s a much shorter list:
Friends:Pakistan - Nuclear power (...) giving sanctuary to al Qaeda. (...)
Saudi Arabia - (...) 15 of the 19 hijackers (...) largest source of foreign fighters in Iraq (at 45%) (...)
Sudan (purveyors of the genocide in Darfur) - bin Laden’s primary home before 9/11 (...) President Bush’s “Special Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan”, Andrew Natsios (
yes, THAT Andrew Natsios) was criticized last April for telling a group of Georgetown University students that the “term genocide is counter to the facts of what is really occurring in Darfur.”
Ahmed Chalabi… Bush’s Pentagon paid Chalabi $340,000 a month (over $40 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR) to head a group they called the “Iraqi National Congress” so he could feed us false intel on Saddam's WMD's. (...) As time went on and the search for WMD’s was starting to look more and more like a fools errand, to save face, the Bush Administration declared that Chalabi was in fact “an Iranian spy” that had duped the Bush Administration. (...) Then he was appointed “Oil Minister” by the new Iraqi government. Before you could say “Black Gold”, Chalabi was back to being our “friend” again.
Think-Tanks like “The Project for the New American Century”...
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Enemies:Iran - The Bush Administration did the Iranian government the biggest favor ever by taking out Saddam Hussein and replacing him with a primarily Shia led, Iranian-friendly, government. (...) Skyrocketing oil prices due to the war (helping Iran's bad economy). (...)
Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda & The Taliban - the war in Iraq has turned into one giant recruiting poster for al Qaeda. In addition to allowing OBL to escape into Pakistan where he is likely planning new attacks against the U.S. according to a report released by the White House last week, an investigation by the FBI last June found that bin Laden himself may have been the person that arranged those flights that spirited his family out of the U.S. two days after 9/11. (...)
the Taliban and al Qaeda are back to their pre-9/11 Summer 2001 strength.North Korea - Bush Administration... give NK back its $25 million in drug/gun money (to get inspectors back in). (...)
Enough to make one wonder “just whose side is the President on?”
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