Letter to the Editor:
How Bush failed


Editor:

Two years ago, our nation suffered the worst attacks in its history *
even more devastating than Pearl Harbor. More than 3,000 Americans died
on Sept. 11, 2001. They died in New York City, Washington D.C., and a
field in Pennsylvania. They died in the Twin Towers * the largest office
complex in America. They died in the Pentagon * the symbolic center of
our national security. They died in airplanes hijacked and crashed into
buildings and they died fighting terrorists high above Somerset County
before plummeting to a fiery death in an empty field.

George W. Bush failed America on Sept. 11. He failed the 3,016 Americans
killed that day. He failed their families and their friends. And he
failed each and every one of us. And so did his hand-picked crew of
incompetents * Cheney, Rice, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, etc.

That's why White House officials are doing everything in their power to
thwart the independent 9/11 Commission investigating the Bush cartel's
many failures * intelligence breakdowns, interagency squabbling and
outright incompetence * leading up to the attacks.

Here's a sampling of what we do know:

On Aug. 6, 2001, Bush received an intelligence report about a
"spectacular attack" Al-Qaida was planning against the U.S. using
airplanes. Did Bush and his fellow Keystone Kops think to warn the rest
of the country? Bush was more concerned about getting back to his
month-long vacation than causing people to cancel their travel plans.

In July 2001, John Ashcroft started using chartered flights because he
received warnings about the security of commercial flights. Did he share
that info with the rest of us? No, of course not. He was too busy buying
drapes for "indecent" statues.

Tough-talkin' Dick Cheney chaired an anti-terrorism committee that never
met.

How's that for government work? Though, of course, the V.P. * who had
been Saddam's former business partner from 1995-2000 * had plenty of
time to meet in secret with energy executives.

In January 2001, the Bush administration had the opportunity to target
Osama Bin Laden with armed, unmanned drones, but failed to do so because
the CIA and the Department of Defense couldn't agree who should run the
program.

For more, read 9/11 widow Mindy Kleinberg's testimony before the
independent commission:
http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearin..._kleinberg.htm.

Greg Colburn

Hanover