"He [George Bush] is not an intellectual. He is not what I
guess would be called a deep thinker"--Bob Woodward, 60
MINUTES’ interview with Bob Woodward, April 18, 2004
I have a headache as I ponder on the 60 MINUTES’ interview with
Bob Woodward and as I read articles and commentaries related to
Bush’s plan to attack Iraq. It is an entangled story of a decisive
George Bush who doesn’t have enough brains to critically think for
himself and who relies both in God’s will to make his simple
decisions and in God’s forgiveness if his decisions turn to be
wrong. There is no room for Bush to ever apologize for his possible
wrongs since he is above people and since he carries the divine
message of God to liberate the people of the world. Welcome to the
new Christian prophet and CEO of the United States.
The main three issues of Woodward’s book "Plan of Attack" have
been listed as:
- the reprogramming of $700 million from the legislatively
appropriated fund to fight terrorism in Afghanistan,
- the disclosure of the war plan against Iraq to Saudi
ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan before even secretary of
state Colin Powell would be notified of Bush’s decision to go to
war.
- the promise by Prince Bandar to lower world wide oil price
to help the American economy by pumping more Saudi oil before
the November election.
A portion of those $700 million were disbursed by CIA’s agents to
bribe Iraqi spies and we don’t know how much cash these spooks could
have lost in their pockets as they made their way into Iraq. It is
certain though that as these spooks were in a hurry to finish their
cash delivery work in North Iraq, they used stashed $100 bills with
the result that the lack of small change caused cups of coffee to go
for $100 and create a local inflation.
Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar is called the dean of the
diplomatic corps since he has been in Washington to peddle the
interest of the Saudi Royals for the past two decades. The Bush
family has been very close to the House of Saud and therefore it
shouldn’t surprise anyone if Bush confided the top secret Iraqi war
plan to his friend Prince Bandar. Author Craig Unger writes that the
House of Saud could have channeled at least $1.477 billion to the
House of Bush. Maybe, this family closeness could explain why
fifteen of the nineteen 9-11 hijackers were Saudis; why members of
the Saudi Royals and members of the Osama bin Laden family were
flown out of the United States immediately after 9-11 while all
commercial flights were grounded; and why at least $27 million in
suspicious transactions have been identified in the bank accounts of
the Saudi embassy in Washington.
American interest rates are very low and Paul Krugman writes
today that they are bound to rise pretty soon. Is it matter of
chance that the Saudis have supported a recent cut in oil production
to raise oil prices with the possible intention to pump more oil and
reduce the price of oil before the November election?
We all can be involved into the circular debate of "I say, you
say, he/she says, you say, we say, they say" but what I find scary
is Bush’s disregard for history and for his own possible wrongs.
Bush, the Armageddon fundamentalist, says "I haven't suffered
doubt. History, we won't know. We'll all be dead."
References
60 MINUTES Woodward Shares War Secrets (PDF)
April 18, 2004 CBSNEWS, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/15/60minutes/main612067.shtml
Burns, Margie Why Were Saudi Passengers Flown Out of the Country
After 9-11? (PDF)
April 9, 2004 The Baltimore Chronicle, http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/040904SaudiCIA.shtml
Craig Unger Did the Saudis buy a president? March 12, 2004,
Salon.com, http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/03/12/unger_2
Craig Unger HOUSE OF BUSH, HOUSE OF SAUD: THE SECRET
RELASHIONSHIP BETWEEN THE WORLD’S TWO MOST POWERFUL DYNASTIES
http://www.houseofbush.com/files.php
Isikoff, Michael Exclusive: New Questions About Saudi Money–and
Bandar (PDF) April 12
issue, Newsweek, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4661093/
Isikoff, Michael and Evan Thomas (with Jamie Reno in San Diego,
Dan Klaidman and Mark Hosenball in Washington and Christopher Dickey
in Paris) The Saudi Money Trail (PDF)
December 2, 2002 Newsweek, http://www.msnbc.com/avantgo/839269.htm
Krugman, Paul Questions of Interest (PDF)
April 20, 2004 The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/20/opinion/20KRUG.html
Thomas, Evan 'I Haven't Suffered Doubt': Bush wanted to invade
Iraq. What's striking, Bob Woodward's new book reports, is how
little he discussed it with anyone April 26 issue, Newsweek, http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4767542 |