Bush Didn't Try to Get Bin Laden and 9-11 Was a Consequence
By Mario deSantis, September 25, 2006

Last night I watched on CTV an excerpt of the Chris Wallace's interview with former President Bill Clinton and I was astonished at the pretentious stance of Wallace when he asked “Why didn't you do more to put bin Laden and al Qaeda out of business when you were president?“[1] The interview was supposed to focus on the efforts to raise $7 billion to combat global warming and yet Wallace focused his questioning on the efforts by the Clinton administration to hunt down Bin Laden.

What is incredible is that this questioning comes after the supposed documentary 'The Path to 9-11' was aired by ABC[2] and in which, prior to the last minutes editing, the 9-11 attacks were partially blamed on Clinton's distraction on world events as he was more concerned with his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky. This fictional documentary was based on the 9-11 commission report and the chairman of the commission Thomas Kean worked as a consultant for this fictional documentary as well. By the way, if you, readers, want to know about the non-fictional path to 9-11 you can read the related commentary in the Bush Watch internet magazine[3] [4] [5].

I must say, yes, I was astonished at Wallace's rudeness in questioning Bill Clinton, however, when I reflect to the ideological chronic lying of the Bush administration[6] and the parroting of the conventional media[7] then I have a sense of a conspiratorial plot by the Bush administration to manage the conventional media and to rewrite history in accordance to the Bush's conspiracy of extending his irresponsible FREEDOM to wage wars abroad[8].

Bill Clinton defended his administration efforts to hunt and eventually kill Bin Laden and he told Wallace that his efforts were not enough “because I didn't get him (Bin Laden). But at least I tried. And that's the difference in me and some, including all the right-wingers who are attacking me now. They ridicule me for trying. They had eight months to try. They did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed. When I failed I left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy and the best guy in the country, Dick Clarke, who got demoted.”

The difference between Clinton and Bush is this, while Clinton tried to get Bin laden, Bush never tried to get him, and the difference between trying and not trying is the 9-11 attacks, it is as simple as that: Bush didn't try to get Bin Laden and therefore Bush himself and his administration are the culprits of the 9-11 attacks. And this is why the Bush administration focus is not in trying to do good, but in covering their assets plundered in their wars against terror, the last cover up being that America is safer and winning the war on terror[9]. America is not safer and is not winning the war on terror[10].

References

[1] Taped interview of Chris Wallace with former President Bill Clinton, Fox News Broadcasting September 24, 2006 http://mediamatters.org/items/200609240002

[2] Shales, Tom “ABC's Twisted 'Path to 9/11'”; Washington Post, September 9, 2006 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/08/AR2006090801949.html

[3] Bush Watch “Bush's Path to 9/11: How Bush Dismantled National Anti-Terrorism Protections, Without Replacements, Part 1: Condi's Speech”; September 13, 2006 http://www.bushwatch.net/bush.htm#part1

[4] Bush Watch “Bush's Path to 9/11: How Bush Dismantled Antiterrorism Protections, Without Replacements, Part 2: Bush Downgrades Antiterrorism”; September 14, 2006 http://www.bushwatch.net/bush.htm#part2

[5] Bush Watch “Bush's Path to 9/11: How Bush Dismantled Antiterrorism Protections, Without Replacements, Part 3: Pre-9/11 Dire Warnings With Little Response”; September 15, 2006 http://www.bushwatch.net/bush.htm#part3

[6] Morford, Mark “The Incredible Lying BushCo”; Information Clearing House http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5115.htm

[7] Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/about_us/

[8] DeCosse, David “Bush, Freedom, Responsibility”; Markkula Center for Applied Ethics http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/ethicalperspectives/freedom-responsibility.html

[9] Fox News “Bush: America Is Safer and Winning War on Terror”; September 08, 2006 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,212727,00.html

[10] Glaister, Dan “Campaign in Iraq has increased terrorism threat, says American intelligence report”; The Guardian, September 25, 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1880275,00.html