Apple, Pear, Banana. Bush, Madoff, Enron.
Bless the souls lost on 9/11 and those of our soldiers and allies who have sacrificed their lives to defend the free world.
A related catastrophic casualty has also been suffered by us, though it cannot measure in any way to the loss of innocent lives, and the grief their families feel to this day and likely will for their entire lives.
President Bush's repeated false warnings about security breaches, which were manipulated for his political advantage, each time sidelined our economy. Much deeper though is the psychology of the man himself. He was floundering at the beginning of his tenure so much so that his true self was apparent―incompetent and shallow.
However, as a result of 9/11, President Bush found an identity he could hold on to and so constructed a persona as a “war president.” I believe Mr. Bush was asleep at the wheel on September 11th. Anybody with his security clearance would have been aware of Al Queda. President Clinton personally briefed him during the transition. That summer’s NSC memo “Al Queda Determined to Strike” briefed him.
Let’s not continue to participate in a cover-up still a year and a half since he left office because we don’t want to hurt Mr. Bush’s feelings or the prospects of his supporters. Those who lost their lives and those still risking their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan deserve better.
George Bush was asleep at the wheel. Rather than admit this, he over-reacted with measures to throw us off the scent of an utterly indefensible vulnerability he had placed the country in. He over-compensated for his lacking similarly to how a bully over-compensates for deep insecurities.
Included in this over-compensation was a deliberate broadening of Al Qaida’s impact by emptying our consumer driven economy to rev-up a war economy for his pre-determined invasion of Iraq. Even though the economy showed early signs of bouncing back within weeks of 9/11, instead he kept his foot on the economic brake to hold the nation lurching, then stopping, lurching, then stopping again and again while he staged a personal make-over. He broke our economic engine and it is still in repair in our deep recession now.
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