So You Want the Truth?
June 24, 2004
The New York Times can be more fickle than a teenager in heat...when it comes to the truth. No sooner had the 9-11 commission released Staff Statement No. 15, than the Times ginned up its “truth machine”. Somehow, the Times read the commission’s single statement that, “We have no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States” and translated it into “...there was never any evidence of a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda....” When did baby Pinch rehire Jayson Blair?
After reading all of the Staff Statements released at the “Twelfth public hearing of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States”, I can only come to three conclusions: (1) It’s harder to gain entry into a third world Caribbean nation to spend two weeks drinking Pina Coladas on the beach than it was for the 9-11 hijackers to enter the U.S.; (2) There is more “proof” linking al Qaeda and Iraq than there is linking Scott Peterson with Laci’s death; and (3) the liberals are more committed to beating Bush than beating terrorists.
The U.S. government’s pre-911resolve to defend this nation resembled the line at a McDonald’s counter before the advent of “Premium Salads”...mostly fat, sloppy and lazy with few bright spots. With billions of intelligence dollars annually spent in the U.S., this country was beaten to the punch by hijacker pilots who needed training in “...how to read airline schedules” and 5’5” “muscle” hijackers who were mostly “...unemployed and lacked higher education.” Well...at least they all received terrorist training in Afghanistan before the State Department illegally granted their visas.
The hijackers first started to arrive in the U.S. during the spring/summer of 2000. Once here, they traveled extensively (even flying “First Class”), owned cars and some even went to flight school. Not to be a bother, they only “...wanted to learn how to control an aircraft in flight...no interest in take-offs or landings.” When their instructor informed them that “they would have to begin training on single engine aircraft before learning to fly jets, they expressed...disappointment.”
Contrary to the image of al Qaeda as a mythical specter, these hijackers were so stupid that “bin Ladin (the commission’s spelling) had decided to cancel the Southeast Asia part of the...operation” because they couldn’t figure out how to synchronize their watches to account for multiple time zones. The twist, as evidenced by the billions that taxpayers are spending on the FBI and a 9-11 commission that can’t agree on how to spell bin Laden, is that we, apparently, were even dumber than the hijackers!
In its infinite wisdom, the substantially uncertain 9-11 commission won’t even connect al Qaeda to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The connection “remains a matter of substantial uncertainty.” Even though the mastermind of the 1993 WTC bombing, Ramzi Yousef, “trained in camps in Afghanistan that were funded by Bin Ladin....”, there remains “substantial uncertainty”. And...even though Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9-11 attacks, is Yousef’s uncle and provided Yousef with funding for the 1993 WTC bombing...there remains “substantial uncertainty”.
The Hussein regime gave safe harbor to Abu Nidal, the world’s most notorious terrorist prior to bin Laden. Iraq also provided medical treatment and a new home for al Qaeda’s Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi after he was wounded during the post 9-11 attack on Afghanistan. Zarqawi is involved with Ansar al-Islam a militant Iraq-based Islamist group formed just prior to 9-11 using $300,000 to $600,000 in al-Qaeda seed money. Ansar al-Islam’s membership includes hundreds of al Qaeda members including Lebanese, Jordanians, Moroccans, Syrians, Palestinians and Afghans. Zarqawi is strongly believed directly responsible for the beheading of American Nicholas Berg in May.
In July of 2002, Abu Iman al-Baghdadi, a captured Iraqi intelligence officer, disclosed that Abu Wa'il, an Iraqi army officer, was assigned to Ansar by Iraqi intelligence. Baghdadi additionally disclosed that, "The Ansar's basic allegiance is to al-Qaeda, but some of them were trained in Iraq and went to Afghanistan...When the Americans attacked, they came here through Iran. Iraq is supporting them and using them to carry out attacks.” But, the 9-11 commission remains in a state of “substantial uncertainty”.
The 9-11 commission would probably find “substantial uncertainty” with Hitler’s connection to the holocaust because nobody ever witnessed him personally murdering a Jew.
Even Russian President Vladimir Putin fessed-up that "After the events of September 11, 2001, and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, Russian special services several times received information that the official services of the Saddam regime were preparing 'terrorist acts' on the United States and beyond its borders.” Reuters reported that, “Putin's remarks were all the more unusual since Russia had diplomatic relations with Saddam's Iraq and sided with France and Germany in opposing the invasion.”
But all the New York Times can prattle about is “there was never any evidence of a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda” and “President Bush should apologize to the American people, who were led to believe something different.”
If anybody “should apologize to the American people” it should be the Times and the rest of the wussy liberal cabal. In their myopic desire to unseat the Bush administration, they have demonstrated a void of moral fiber that rivals Aljazeera.
The elite media’s “rush to judgment” on every facet of the war on terrorism reaches beyond irresponsibility into the realm of partisan-inspired negligence. Bin Laden himself couldn’t spew more malicious invectives at the Bush administration than the liberal press. And you know what bin laden thinks of the American people. So much for the paper of broken records!
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