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Wake-Up Call

"Condoleeza Rice raised her right hand and promised to tell the truth on April 8, 2004. She looked like such a prim and proper lady that putting her uder oath seemed insulting. We weren't fooled by her competent outward appearance, though. In fact, we had a nickname for Condi. We called her Condi "Kinda-lies-a-lot" Rice.

Page 162, "Wake-Up Call", by Kristen Breitweiser, the political education of a 9/11 widow.

Sending Kids to War

"There is a sarcastic discriptive term that is particularly apt in today's political climate- "chicken hawk". The term describes an individual who avoids military service during times of conflict, then, wrapped in the flag, sends other peoples' children to be killed in war without giving them adequate equipment to defend themselves. The list of people in the current Congress and Bush administration who fit that term would fill a page.

By contrast, Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Ford, Carter and Bush the elder all served honorably. FDR's sons served in WWII, one being killed in action. These men were patriots before becoming president and knew the horror of war. Representative John Doolittle ducked military service in Vietnam. In Congress he has wrapped himself in the flag, voted for the bloody, useless war in Iraq and then voted for budgets that provided inadequate equipment for the troops.

Doolittle is a chicken hawk. Doolittle's opponent, Charlie Brown, graduated from the Air Force Academy, served in Vietnam and was shot down. Brown has seen the blood of war. He knows the difference between self-defense and arrogant imperialism."

Darrel Walker
Lincoln, California

9/11/01-Bush Looked The Other Way

Wake-Up Call, by Kristen Breitweiser
The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow

Page 116

"On the morning of September 12, 2001, the New York Times reported that the FBI agents descended on flight schools, neighborhoods,and restaurants in pursuit of leads. Within hours of the attacks, FBI agents were at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University seeking information. According to the Times, federal agents were dispatched to a store in Bangor, Maine, again hours after the attacks, to run down details of a phone conversation that had occurrred a week prior to the attacks. Five Arab men had tried to rent cell phones in a store in Banger. they were refused for lack of identification, but when $3,000 was put on the table, the phones were theirs. Howe had the FBI gotten this information so fast? How were they able to know the content of a telephone call that had transpired three weeks before 9/11, a time when, according to officials, the hijackers were operating under the radar? Had somebody recorded the conversation? If so, why? I asked, "Had any of the hijackers been under active and ongoing surveillance?"

"There were allegations that the hijackers ran practice runs on the airline routes that were chosen for the September 11 attacks. I asked, "Had any intelligence agents been shadowing the hijackers on practice runs?" I wondered whether any of our intelligence agents were killed on the planes. Where were the complete flight lists?"

"The New York Times also reported in that same article on September 12 that the authorities had already identified accomplices in several cities who had been involved in planning the attacks the day before. Authorities had also prepared biographies of each of the identifed members of the hijacking teams and had been tracing their recent movements."

"How was all of this information produced and gathered to-gether on such short notice? How was an FBI that was apparently so totally inept on September 10, 2001, so completely on the mark on September 12, 2001? The only logical explanation was that the hijackers were under surveillance by our intelligence community before 9/11. And if so, by whom? More important, if the hijackers had been under active intelligence community surveillance, why weren't they stopped?"

....."I wasn't interested in blame or politics. All I wanted was accountability."

NOTE: Mrs. Breitweiser's husband was a Republican

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REASONS TO INVADE COUNTRIES

BUSH NEEDED 9/11,TO INVADE AFGANISTAN, FOR THE HALLIBURTON PIPELINE DEAL. BUSH NEEDED 9/11 TO CONTROL IRAQ'S OIL.