I remember this fact: not two hours after President Bush had been told about the second plane, the Left was criticizing him for taking too long to physically respond. He sat there, in that classroom, in front of all those kids, trying to measure his next response. It took 8 minutes before he left that room to talk to the nation. And in that eight minutes, the Left saw their first opportunity to turn this into an ultimate political victory. That's what I know. Paul Krugman and all his little band of freakish minions, cannot change history at this point.
The first thought of those anti-patriots, Krugman and company, (and how many time have you heard them make fun of the right, using "patriots" as they sneeringly make their point?) , was to begin an anti-Bush strategy almost immediately. And when I say "almost immediately," I am talking within two hours.
This was before we knew that Clinton could have killed Osama years before. It was known that he had been ultimately responsible for the first Trade Center bombing in 1993. We knew he had killed hundreds of American diplomats and soldiers during the 90's, but Clinton just could not pull the trigger. This was before we knew that nearly all of 9/11 was planned during his last two years as president. This was before we knew that one of Clinton's inner circle, Jamie Gorelick, while at the Justice Department, set into place a number of measures designed to create and maintain separation between the various intelligent agency, fearing, I suppose, an over reaction if these agencies had free access to each others intelligence information. Were Clinton and Gorelick "enemies of the state" for being involved as they were? Of course not. But if you are going to blame Bush, well, you have to go through Clinton long before getting to Bush. Clinton could have killed Osama and had legal reason to do just that. Gorelick prevented the intelligence community from sharing information about the pending attack, information that was known but could not be shared. And Bush? Well, he took 8 minutes to decided what to do next. Geeeeeesh.
In the after math of 9/11, why was all the animus directed against Bush? Clinton and his Administration was more than equally "at fault? Why? Because the Republicans and their conservative associations did not go there. They thought it pathetic to use this occasion to garner votes and sway public opinion. That is the only logical conclusion one can draw from the absence of criticism versus Bill Clinton. And now, 10 years later, we have to put up this rewrite of American history by one who looks like the doofus he is, Paul Krugman.
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Is
it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?
Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.
What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. Te atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.
A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?
The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.
I’m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons. (end of article)
Update: and there you have it. I am wondering, jf the nation agrees with Krugman, why has he decided against allowing "comments." I think , in his heart, he knows the answer to that question.
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