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The 9-11 Commission Report: the greatest whitewash since the Warren Commission's report

By Bev Conover
Online Journal Editor & Publisher

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July 26, 2004—Everyone is to blame and no one is to blame, according to the twisted logic of the 9-11 Whitewash Commission.

So who is talking about logic in this Bushwellian land? Surely not the 9-11 victims' families, who were bought off for an average of $2 million each, that are patting themselves on the back for forcing the Bushies to set up this travesty of a commission, comprised of handpicked cronies.

Having spent several hours—hours that could have been better used—going through the 567-page "report," we agree with Kurt Nimmo that it is a "fantasy novel."

The only dots it connects are the ones in the Official 9-11 Legend, which will now stand alongside the Warren Whitewash Commission Report on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Only this time, instead of Arlen Specter's "pristine bullet" theory, we have all these Arab men flying in and out of the US—some with dodgy passports or expired visas—meeting with their cohorts around the world, between learning how to fly airplanes at flight schools around the US, while telling their flight instructors they could skip the parts about taking off and landing the crafts. And no one noticed? Not even when they were told about these antics? When some of these alleged hijackers were on "terrorist" watch lists?

Yet, millions of our ignorant fellow Americans—especially those in the corporate media—will buy into the fantasy. ABC News' John Donvan called this work of fiction the greatest thing since the Warren Whitewash Commission's work of fiction.

If that isn't scary enough, now the corporate media, the knuckleheads in Congress and the dolts on the street who appear on camera are clamoring to implement the commission's recommendations to keep them "safe" from brown-skinned Muslims out to kill them. Hey, we don't need no steenking freedom. Hello, police state.

Why NBC's flagship station, WNBC, in New York announced it is going to run a daily countdown until the final elements of the police state are in place.

The New York Times offered up this bit of Bushwellianism: "As expected, the commission called for creation of a new national intelligence director to supplant some functions now performed by the director of central intelligence, who heads not only the Central Intelligence Agency but supervises the work of a dozen or more agencies scattered through the government. 'No one person can do all these things,' the commission said."

Let's see, no one person can do it all, so let's have a spook czar—a cabinet level spook czar. Got it? Does that mean there will be some divine intervention in the choice of the political hack to "do all these things" that the CIA director can't do? Drat, there we go with logic again.

Not exactly, according to the next paragraph in the same NYT article: "It called, too, for creation of a national counterterrorism center that would both unify strategic intelligence-gathering against Islamic terrorists and operational planning against them. But the report emphasizes that the enemy is not Islam, 'the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.'

Aha, another multi-billion dollar agency. And only to gather "intelligence" against "Islamic terrorists?"

What about the perversion of Christianity and Judaism? You know, those Christian terrorists who torch abortion clinics and kill doctors? What about those Zionist terrorists who are slaughtering Palestinians and threatening those of us who speak out against the genocide? What about those Christians terrorists who are aiding and abetting the Zionist terrorists in the hope of bringing about Armageddon, and, if successful, plan to kill all the Jews, along with all others, who refuse to accept Christ as their savior?

Yes, this shameful work of fiction goes on for pages in a thinly veiled indictment of Muslims, particularly brown-skinned Muslims, for the horrific acts that should be laid at the feet of the Bush administration. Then, this is a work of fiction.

The commission has the audacity to falsely talk about the failure of "imagination." The imagination was there, but the commission chose not to mention Operation Northwoods, dreamt up by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1962, which laid out a scenario similar to what happened on 9-11, as a way of conning the American people into going to war against Castro. Nor did the commission make any reference to the Project for a New American Century, which said the US might need a "new Pearl Harbor" to achieve global hegemony.

Nowhere does the commission point out that Osama bin Laden was the CIA's point man in Afghanistan, during the time the Reagan administration was bent on pushing the Soviets out of that country. Nor does the commission note that al Qaeda is a creature of the CIA, born out of the Afghan Mujahadeen, which it armed and financed. Yes, we loved those "Muslims" when they were doing our dirty work, but they have served their purpose and now they are "evildoers."

While the commission admitted there were no ties between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, it failed to mention that Saddam also was the recipient of US largesse and weapons of mass destruction, when the double-dealing Reagan administration wanted him to win the war with Iran. What the Reaganites didn't tell him was they also were trading arms for hostages with Iran at the same time, in order to illegally finance the Nicaraguan Contras.

But the commission didn't see it as its job to connect those dots, so people would understand who was really behind 9-11, how 9-11 was used to strip us of our freedoms and illegally invade Afghanistan and Iraq. If it had, and had laid blame at the feet of the real perpetrators, the American people would have the big picture of this failed mad scheme that cost this country what little respect it had left in the world and why there are now people who truly hate us.

Had the commission stepped back and reflected on the nightmare we're in, it would have seen that the way out is not with "intelligence" czars, national counterterrorism centers, taking away more of our freedoms, preemptive strikes on sovereign nations, labeling other people "terrorists" and "evildoers" and a bogus "war on terror." The way out is by changing our attitude toward the world; by reeling in the corporations that exploit other peoples and their resources; by respecting other peoples and the sovereignty of their nations. But that wasn't the commission's job, either. Nor could we expect the corporate-connected commissioners to bite the hand that feeds them.

The commission was tasked with shoring up the Bushwellian Official 9-11 Legend for the consumption of the ignorant, without causing those responsible for the dastardly deed to be brought to justice, and persuading the people to trade the rest of their liberty for "safety." If Benjamin Franklin were still with us, he would say that people who would do that are deserving of neither liberty nor safety.