Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Who Knew ? Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2021 08:26:35 -1000 Organization: Wheeler&Wheeler Lines: 157 Message-ID: <87o86xuomc.fsf@localhost> References: <20211103072641.1f36fd9ef1e2138951d0396c@eircom.net> <8cd50e88-aa50-4323-b22f-468831e5b616n@googlegroups.com> <87wnln2r7g.fsf@localhost> <1807090202.657832217.546674.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <314107042.657845213.936000.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="0b8a57472a0a6cd4e21c98febee4de23"; logging-data="31102"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/zGX3YtyV35NgdmwYJ049aFYvFGBcKA8I=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:X/hZu1K9GkkEHrfLr6ey8d1T02s= sha1:ndsdd+zMnfqwwbGJKipECKZqZjE= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:219662 Peter Flass writes: > The pilots wanted the second strike, but Nagumo overruled them. I > guess 80 years is long enough that I can talk about this > dispassionately. I probably won’t be here to talk about 9/11 without > anger. After 9/11, the U.S. Got Almost Everything Wrong. A mission to rid the world of "terror" and "evil" led America in tragic directions. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/after-911-everything-wrong-war-terror/620008/ 9/11 Had Nothing to Do with Afghanistan https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/06/9-11-had-nothing-to-do-with-afghanistan/ The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War https://www.amazon.com/Afghanistan-Papers-Secret-History-War-ebook/dp/B08VJLJ56L/ Democratic senators increase pressure to declassify 9/11 documents related to Saudi role in attacks https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/566547-democratic-senators-increase-pressure-to-declassify-9-11-documents Democratic senators and families of victims of the 9/11 attacks called on Thursday for the Biden administration to declassify and make available key documents related to Saudi Arabia's role in the terrorist attacks, ahead of the 20th anniversary commemorating the tragedy. ... snip ... ... from truth is stranger than fiction and law of unintended consequences that come back to bite you, much of the radical Islam & ISIS can be considered our own fault, former CIA director and VP Bush in the 80s https://www.amazon.com/Family-Secrets-Americas-Invisible-Government-ebook/dp/B003NSBMNA/ pg292/loc6057-59: There was also a calculated decision to use the Saudis as surrogates in the cold war. The United States actually encouraged Saudi efforts to spread the extremist Wahhabi form of Islam as a way of stirring up large Muslim communities in Soviet-controlled countries. (It didn't hurt that Muslim Soviet Asia contained what were believed to be the world's largest undeveloped reserves of oil.) ... snip ... Saudi radical extremist Islam/Wahhabi loosened on the world ... bin Laden & 15of16 9/11 were Saudis (some claims that 95% of extreme Islam world terrorism is Wahhabi related) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism Mattis somewhat more PC (political correct) https://www.amazon.com/Call-Sign-Chaos-Learning-Lead-ebook/dp/B07SBRFVNH/ pg21/loc349-51: Ayatollah Khomeini's revolutionary regime took hold in Iran by ousting the Shah and swearing hostility against the United States. That same year, the Soviet Union was pouring troops into Afghanistan to prop up a pro-Russian government that was opposed by Sunni Islamist fundamentalists and tribal factions. The United States was supporting Saudi Arabia's involvement in forming a counterweight to Soviet influence. ... snip ... and internal CIA https://www.amazon.com/Permanent-Record-Edward-Snowden-ebook/dp/B07STQPGH6/ pg133/loc1916-17: But al-Qaeda did maintain unusually close ties with our allies the Saudis, a fact that the Bush White House worked suspiciously hard to suppress as we went to war with two other countries. ... snip ... The Accumulated Evil of the Whole: That time Bush and Co. made the September 11 Attacks a Pretext for War on Iraq https://www.juancole.com/2021/09/accumulated-september-pretext.html Before the Iraq invasion, the cousin of white house chief of staff Card ... was dealing with the Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence that WMDs (tracing back to US in the Iran/Iraq war) had been decommissioned. the cousin shared it with (cousin, white house chief of staff) Card and others ... then is locked up in military hospital, book was published in 2010 (4yrs before decommissioned WMDs were declassified) https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/ NY Times series from 2014, the decommission WMDs (tracing back to US from Iran/Iraq war), had been found early in the invasion, but the information was classified for a decade http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html CIA Director Colby wouldn't approve the "Team B" analysis (exaggerated USSR military capability) and Rumsfeld got Colby replaced with Bush, who would approve "Team B" analysis (justifying huge DOD spending increase), after Rumsfeld replaces Colby, he resigns as white house chief of staff to become SECDEF (and is replaced by his assistant Cheney) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B former CIA director H.W. is VP, he and Rumsfeld are involved in supporting Iraq in the Iran/Iraq war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War including WMDs (note picture of Rumsfeld with Saddam) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war VP and former CIA director repeatedly claims no knowledge of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating financial industry ... creating S&L crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis along with other members of his family http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan and another http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260 In the early 90s, H.W. is president and Cheney is SECDEF. Sat. photo recon analyst told white house that Saddam was marshaling forces to invade Kuwait. White house said that Saddam would do no such thing and proceeded to discredit the analyst. Later the analyst informed the white house that Saddam was marshaling forces to invade Saudi Arabia, now the white house has to choose between Saddam and the Saudis. https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2/ ... roll forward ... Bush2 is president and presides over the huge cut in taxes, huge increase in spending, explosion in debt, the economic mess (70 times larger than his faster's S&L crises) and the forever wars, Cheney is VP, Rumsfeld is SECDEF and one of the Team B members is deputy SECDEF (and major architect of Iraq policy). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz turn of century, the military-industrial complex had wanted a war so badly that corporate reps were telling former eastern block countries that if they voted for IRAQ2 invasion in the UN, they would get membership in NATO and (directed appropriation) USAID (can *ONLY* be used for purchase of modern US arms, aka additional congressional gifts to MIC complex not in DOD budget). From the law of unintended consequences, the invaders were told to bypass ammo dumps looking for WMDs, when they got around to going back, over a million metric tons had evaporated (showing up later in IEDs) https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/ ... kicking hundreds of thousands of former soldiers out on the streets spawned ISIS ... and bypassing the ammo dumps (looking for fictitious/fabricated WMDs) gave them over a million metric tons. Ghost Riders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Riders-Baghdad-Soldiers-Civilians-ebook/dp/B014PWVUAC/ pg111/loc2179-82: The backstory to all this is well reported. The Bush administration appointed hundreds of politically loyal neoconservative bureaucrats to run postwar Iraq, including the top civilian official--L. Paul Bremer. Bremer, heavily influenced by Iraqi exiles like Ahmed Chalabi and supported by Vice President Dick Cheney, implemented a policy of de-Baathification. pg111/loc2193-95: On 16 April 2003, Bremer, against the advice of Colin Powell's State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency, disbanded the Iraqi Army. 16 This seemingly simple decision placed a few hundred thousand unemployed young men back on the street with no effective reintegration strategy. pg171/loc3246-49: All this talk of "what-ifs" and lost Surge opportunities ignores one salient, if uncomfortable, fact: ISIS is an outgrowth of our own invasion. Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF--as we gleefully named it) was more than just an awful euphemism; it spelled catastrophe--and chaos--for most Iraqis. ... snip ... -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970