fela fan said:
No, but the fingers on their button were (are?) the americans. That's the myth, that the americans have nothing to do with their existence.
Of course, those of us with any kind of understanding of world affairs and the politics of the US and their CIA accept the proposal that the american elite caused 911 to happen.
And that is not based on any conspiracy theory but conspiracy fact.
The Wolfowitz doctrine (spelled out clearly in the
Project for a New American Century) was to increase military budget by about 100bn$. Wolfowitz argued that the US should wage war preemptively and it should be willingly to use military force unilaterally with or without allies - this was nessary to prevent the emergence of any future rivals and to secure access to vital resources, especially gulf oil. The PNAC believed to bring this about would be long and protracted
without a catastrophic and catalyzing event, like
a new pearl harbour. (pdf)
911 was that catastrophic and catalyzing event.
The core of Bush policy was to manipulate the fear around 911 and to create a politics of fear - they could not have any political success in a state of tranquility or peace of mind. In fact, the administration has been responsibility for inciting the very terror that was supposedly the terrorist's intention to create in America.
19 men hijacking 4 planes was advanced to a global conspiracy of a shadowy terrorist group attacking the US which must be confronted. A decision was taken by the admin to take the attacks and turn it into a full fledged battle against good and evil framing it as "you are either with us or with the terrorists".
In this atmosphere, George W Bush, by invoking the memory of the 911 made the Wolfowitz doctrine official US policy, in the process setting the stage for the US invasion of Iraq. Brazenly announcing the right to
attack preemptively, the US was officially rejecting article 51 of the UN charter - a cornerstone of international law enacted after WW11 and used to indict Nazis for war crimes at the Nuremburg trial, and a law designed explicitly to prevent nations from using military force to advance their own sense of national and moral superiority and prevent the kind of preemptive wars that ravaged the first half of the 20th century.
For the first time in history
the US had moved outside international law. They want the US to outdo all previous empires not just in its longevity but its permanence. Its about power, domination and control of resources. They wanted people to believe that the invasion of iraq was a response to 911. 911 gave them the means to put in place plans that had first been floated in the first Bush administration and rejected not just by Bush senior but Clinton too..
Once GWB became president of the US he installed the neocons in govt positions, and from day one the attack on iraq was brought up and pushed.
Richard Clarke says Bush told him "I want you to come up with proof that iraq did this (911)".
Without any evidence of SH links to 911, Rumsfeld got to work in the
Office of Special Plans finding any info that could be linked to SH. Americans had to learn to be just as afraid of Saddam as they were of OBL. According to Lt Col
Kwiatowski the OSP's job was to produce talking points on Iraq allegedly based on intelligence.
A relentless pr campaign was carried out to convince the american public that there was a link between Saddam and 911. The evidence was based on a very selective reading of the intelligence. Their policy depended on that deception - it was never about WMD, it was always about getting Saddam - the Bush admin knew that there were no weapons in iraq! The campaign was so successful that polls taken in 2003 showed that most people believed the lies.
Why Iraq? The US had consistently supported Iraq throughout the period of his worst crimes when his policy was consistent with their interests in the area and when those changed then Saddam was no longer useful. The US were never interested in liberating Iraqi people but liberating Iraq from Saddam and to have a military footprint there.
The neocon ideology is that if you have military force and you want something from a weaker country, then you use it to take that resource. Simple. On one hand it is described as an anti-terror strategy but underlying it is this blue print of increasing access and control of the worlds oil
The major reason for taking Iraq was to show imperial power, to show not just Arabs, but the Europeans and Chinese who was the master. "It doesn't matter if they love us or not, as long as they fear us."
Hijacking Catastrophe online video :straightforward analysis on Neocons, the American empire and war on terror.
