Five years and still no closure…

It’s been five years since the devastating and successful attacks on New York and Washington, and people are doing their usual things to look back and morn. Nothing wrong with that, cause five years is something to look back on and reflect. Everyone here knows my opinion on that, and I assume after five years there no need to beat the horse again. I also happen to agree with Shukhevych, it’s a shame that after five years, New York hasn’t been given any closure so they can move on.

This is the last thing I expected to see in New York five years after the attack. Little or no progress and just a hole in the middle of the city. It’s difficult for anyone in New York to get past this tragedy when ground zero pretty much looked the same for the last three years. Whoever is incharge of building whatever they’re going to put there needs to commit to build something sometime this decade or step down so someone else can finally get this thing off the ground.

Then again, why would anyone in office want to to happen. Closure would be a bad thing cause they want people to remain afraid. Fear is the only thing the Republicans have going for as they go to the polls in November. That hold in the ground in New York isn’t going to to away so long as the Repubs want a constant, yearly reminder of what happened. If gives the thugs a chance to remind the people every year to be afraid, cause the enemy is out there and wants to strike again.

Of course the enemy is still out there, cause Bush & Co. let them remain out there at large. The war in Iraq took away precious manpower and funding away from the real war in Afghanistan, where the people who really did construct and execute the attack were. This change of focus allowed them to escape, which I am sure would upset a lot of people should they realize this. Once again a lack of closure because someone wasn’t able to finish the job they started. This lack of commitment to the operation in Afghanistan is what allowed the masterminds of 9/11 to escape, as reported by The Washington Post

Intelligence officials think that bin Laden is hiding in the northern reaches of the autonomous tribal region along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. This calculation is based largely on a lack of activity elsewhere and on other intelligence, including a videotape, obtained exclusively by the CIA and not previously reported, that shows bin Laden walking on a trail toward Pakistan at the end of the battle of Tora Bora in December 2001, when U.S. forces came close but failed to capture him.

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That was December 2001. Only two months later, Bush decided to pull out most of the special operations troops and their CIA counterparts in the paramilitary division that were leading the hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan to prepare for war in Iraq, said Flynt L. Leverett, then an expert on the Middle East at the National Security Council.

“I was appalled when I learned about it,” said Leverett, who has become an outspoken critic of the administration’s counterterrorism policy. “I don’t know of anyone who thought it was a good idea. It’s very likely that bin Laden would be dead or in American custody if we hadn’t done that.“

So there you have it. Bush was committed to finding Osama only until it interfered with his own agenda to invade Iraq. Bush & Co. had a chance to kill or capture the person who was actually responsible for 9/11 but they chose not to commit the manpower necessary cause they were too busy planning to attack a nation that had nothing to do with 9/11. This pretty much contradicts any promise this corrupt administration made to find those who attacked and bring them to justice. If that was true, they wouldn’t have called off the hunt for Bin Laden and allow him to get away. Stuff like this only feeds into the conspiracy theories that Bush doesn’t want to capture Osama cause withhim at large, it’s easier to keep the people fearful and in their place.

A friend had emailed me after watching the pathetic ‘Path to 9/11’ and he commented that the film wasn’t just about bashing Clinton or trying to pass the buck. Apparently the film’s theme was that the emeny is still out there and ready to strike again. In other words, the film’s purpose was about promoting fear and making everyone afraid. That again plays into the hands of Republicans who are trying to push themselves as the war party… whatever the hell that means. That piece of trash was partisan from the beginning and I can’t wait to see how ABC/Disney react when Clinton, his staff and even American Airlines sue them for Libel and take them to the cleaners.

So sometime in the near future, maybe we’ll hear superbowl MVP’s telling the camera’s “I’m going to bubba-land!” after Disney is taken over by Clinton. Has a nice ring to it, eh?

Peter