'C' stands for Crawford,Shrubs school grades and Castor seed poison needed to take out the Cunt. If the White House is empty, it must be August. With presidents like this, who needs enemies? Download attached file: prettyvacant. (mimetype: image/pjpeg )The World This Week: Pretty Vacant If the White House is empty, it must be August. http://www.newmassmedia.com/nac.phtml?code=har&db=nac_fea&ref=21531 By Alan Bisbort Published 08/08/02
After bringing America to the brink of economic collapse and hammering out the framework of his permanent police state, George W. Bush is taking August off for vacation. The rest of us who have to work for a living can expect absurd photo ops to abound (e.g., Bush is the only person in Texas who chops wood in the middle of August). While Bush putters about on his ranch in his golf cart, dressed in silly cowboy duds, the nation should take a collective sigh of relief. With presidents like this, who needs enemies? While there's a break in the inaction, let's flash back to last August. That is the month W. chose to be -- paraphrasing his Poppy -- out of the loop. Too bad for us, because that's the month when intelligence reports were coming in as fast and furious as Scud missiles about al Qaeda's plans to hijack planes and use them as missiles. Indeed, Osama all but Fed-Ex'ed a hand-delivered, gilt-edged notice to Bush's ranch about his plans. And yet, Condi Rice "assured" us that they could not "connect the dots." Even if hindsight is 20/20, it's as clear as a summer day last August in Crawford, Texas that George W. Bush was driving completely blind in the month before the terror attacks. Bush insists that he took all necessary measures to prevent an attack from occurring, but I went back and examined every issue of Time and Newsweek from Aug. 6 through Sept. 10, 2001 -- and I would warrant that the same pattern would be seen were one to pore over daily editions of, say, the New York Times and the Washington Post. I examined these magazines, in part, out of native curiosity. I did it also, in part, because I was given this challenge by one of my readers: "To my knowledge, no one has yet asked or answered the question: 'What were Bush and Cheney doing during that month that they regarded as more important than dealing with and passing along a terrorist threat that wound up costing more than 3,000 lives in the first attack upon the soil of our sovereign nation? Were they gerrymandering environmental laws to help their cronies make money? Were they meeting with Enron execs so that these soiled crooks could set energy policy? What were these two fellows, still so highly regarded by the American public for their strength of character, doing during that crucial month while the al-Qaeda suicide hijackers were making their final plans?" It seems the press did not connect the dots, either. During the five weeks prior to Sept. 11, America's two widest-circulating news magazines did not carry a single story on domestic terrorism, bioterrorism, vigilance at America's airports or even the slightest hint that anyone on Bush's staff, from Colin Powell to John Ashcroft to Rove, Card, Rice and Cheney gave even a nod, wave or shoulder-shrug to the possibility of a domestic terrorist attack. They may insist that all of their "preparedness" was being done behind the scenes (don't want to tip the old hand to wily evildoers like Osama and Saddam, now, do we?), but a complete lack of forewarning has been remarked upon by the pilots' association, air traffic controllers, business travelers, and even Rudi Giuliani (who, instead of trying to prop up Bush, should stand alongside the people of his wounded city, rightfully demanding answers). My point: Even if they were working behind the scenes, they did not share the information with the very people who would have been in the best position to save American lives. It is now impossible to draw any other conclusions than this overridingly obvious one: This five-week period of what will, in hindsight, be regarded as one of the most important in U.S. history, offers "real time," crystal clear documentation of appalling laziness and abject failure, from the White House all the way down to the White House press corps. What will Bush miss during his August nap this year?
