Posted on 03/01/2006 12:57:55 PM PST by vadkins
Having seen more than enough of Tom Kean and his band of obstructionist liars I am firm in my decision not to vote for his son if he is our senatorial candidate.
bumping that
"Best to just sweep that one under the rug."
Is that your opinion or are you just saying that's the way the ruling class thinks?
Otherwise, I think the comment is completely wrongheaded. "A screw-up"?? "the very foundations of government"?? How about real accountability? How about figuring out what REALLY went wrong so we can stop it from happening again? How about rooting out the rot that allowed this monumental tragedy to happen?
Whew!.
Thanks for the ping!
Since it has been established that there never were any chemical weapons, and that all the villages full of dead Kurdish children, years ago, were actually due to the ravaging effects of poor dental hygiene, I cannot see why this man is being held and tried.
Does Ramsey Clark know about this? Does Cindy Sheehan?
My God, man, we've got to tell Dennis Kucinich!
Not only do they not want to admit it, I'm beginning to think that They don't care! - and that goes for both parties!
Agreed.
So now Bush controls Congress too? Gee whatta guy.
Right the GOP lead attacks on our enemies are just mirages.
Certainly with all the money that he made selling those chemicals. What I wonder is... what does this guy think at night before he sleeps? He is likely at the point in his life where he ponders the afterlife; the afterlife which approaches him at the speed of life.
How will he face those whom his conspiracy deprived of their threescore and ten? What terrible fear must seize him when he stops to think. Crimes never end. The price may not be paid now... and it may not be paid next year...
But no one participates in murder on the wholesale level, without a terrible price being extracted. This price approaches. It nears him as time passes. And I hope he is sweating mightily.
Some crimes transcend apologies; and the ones who enabled and assisted the Ba'athists to fill over a hundred thousand graves, that we know of, will be huddling together with the souls of those in the United States and Europe who assisted and defended the Soviets in their pogroms against their own mass-victims.
Neither you nor I could conceive of wanting money that badly. Along with the many who think like us on this forum, we're making a start, anyway... What else can we do?
All these reports attributed to the FBI were, as it turns out, erroneous. There were no car rental records in Virginia, Florida, or anywhere else in April 2001 for Mohamed Atta, since he had not yet obtained his Florida license.
His international license was at his father's home in Cairo, Egypt (where his roommate Marwan al-Shehhi picked it up in late April). Nor were there other records in the hands of the FBI that put Atta in the United States at the time. Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet testified to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in June 2002, "It is possible that Atta traveled under an unknown alias" to "meet with an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague." Clearly, it was not beyond the capabilities of the 9/11 hijackers to use aliases.
The only dispute over Atta's whereabouts is whether he was in Prague on April 9, 2001, to meet with Samir al Ani, an Iraqi intelligence officer. Czech intelligence insists he was. Able Danger, apparently, had information supporting the Czechs.
Spanish police last February arrested Algerians Khaled Madani, 33, and Moussa Laour, 36, on suspicion of furnishing phony passports to, among others, al Qaeda operatives Ramzi Binalshibh and Mohamed Atta. According to a February 29 Associated Press dispatch, Binalshibh revealed Madani's identity to interrogators at the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Meanwhile, in a February 24 letter to James Beasley, Jr., the attorney in the aforementioned lawsuit, Czech U.N. Ambassador Hynek Kmonicek affirms an October 26, 2001 statement by Czech Interior Minister Stanislav Gross: "In this moment we can confirm, that during the next stay of Mr. Muhammad Atta in the Czech Republic there was the contact with the official of the Iraqi intelligence, Mr. Al Ani, Ahmed Khalin Ibrahim Samir, who was on 22nd April 2001 expelled from the Czech Republic on the basis of activities which were not compatible with the diplomatic status." Atta flew from Virginia Beach, Virginia to Prague on April 7, 2001. Car-rental records place him in the Czech capitol the next day. He flew home to Florida that April 9.
So they have car rental records as well.
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