Where were you?
I don't know about you, but I remember well where I was that fateful morning. It was a Tuesday, I believe, Tuesday, September 11, 2000. Yup, I was in my office when one of my coworkers sent around an email saying that... What typo? No, that's right, September 11, 2000, why?
2001? Really?
Well if it isn't 2000, then how could Bush have begun the War on Terror seven months earlier than September 11, 2001? That is exactly what happened if the allegations brought out in court last week hold true. Apparently the Bush Administration, rather the NSA, approached AT&T seven months before 911 to set up the infrastructure to enable warrentless wiretapping; a weapon that Bush claims was made necessary to fight the "war on terror", which had not actually yet begun.
It is time to drop the façade that this is anything but Big Brother trying to lay traps for the peeps.
2001? Really?
Well if it isn't 2000, then how could Bush have begun the War on Terror seven months earlier than September 11, 2001? That is exactly what happened if the allegations brought out in court last week hold true. Apparently the Bush Administration, rather the NSA, approached AT&T seven months before 911 to set up the infrastructure to enable warrentless wiretapping; a weapon that Bush claims was made necessary to fight the "war on terror", which had not actually yet begun.
It is time to drop the façade that this is anything but Big Brother trying to lay traps for the peeps.
The Canadian government monitors phone calls? Really?
Posted by
kevvyd |
Tue Jul 04, 01:52:00 PM
ex-ndip, you've evidently been watching James Bond flicks and thinking they're reality if you think this sort of thing has been going on for decades. Here's a helpful little hint - IF YOU SEE IT IN A HOLYWOOD MOVIE, ODDS ARE IT'S A LIE
Posted by
Dan |
Tue Jul 04, 04:36:00 PM
Paul,
To start with, I don't believe there is such a thing as a war on terrorism, so when it began is purely academic. But, for what it's worth, there is every indication that for George Bush, it didn't begin until September 11. Reports of what was going on in the Whitehouse in the first months of Bush's first term indicate that he did not take terrorism seriously and in fact might well have been warned shortly before the actual attacks of 911 that something was coming... but he didn't pay attention 'cuz he was on vacation.
No, for George Bush at the very least, the war on terror began only when his advisors told him it began - during his speech on top of the rubble in NYC. Anything that was done before then was indeed before the "war on terror", unless those words are meaningless.
Yes, the US had been "dealing with" terrorism before 911, but I am dealing with bad behaviour from my toddlers, and have managed to do so without having go to war with them.
Posted by
kevvyd |
Tue Jul 04, 06:39:00 PM