GW Bush on 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
by Robert Lederman
robert.lederman@worldnet.att.net
http://baltech.org/lederman/
We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous
conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th, malicious
lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves,
away from the guilty. - GW Bush speaking before the UN General Assembly
11/10/2001
When President Bush spoke of outrageous conspiracy theorieshe was for the
first time acknowledging something of great significance. There are informed
viewpoints completely missing from the propaganda war being relentlessly
waged on Americans about 9/11 and its aftermath, viewpoints which are as
opposite from the official story as it is possible to get.
The Bush administrations official story has three basic premises. To
briefly summarize, the first is that Islamic terrorists based in Afghanistan
who hate American freedom plotted and executed an attack on America - an
attack which the U.S. government had no prior knowledge of nor any
connection to.
The second premise is that in order to wage and win a war on
terrorism we must invade Afghanistan and every other nation harboring,
funding or otherwise supporting terrorists and that a simultaneous
suspension of domestic civil liberties is necessary for internal security.
The third basic premise is that our government is all good while theirs is
the very personification of evil, the evil-doers as President Bush likes to
call them.
The conspiracy theories Bush is referring to similarly have three basic
premises and many divergent subsets. The first is that the attack was known
about (and possibly, planned) by various elements of the U.S. government
before 9/11 and was allowed to take place in order to bring about certain
conditions, including the suspension of our guaranteed civil liberties.
The second premise is that even if bin Laden and the al Queda network based
in Afghanistan were immediately responsible for the attack that those
supporting, funding and protecting them are not for the most part based in
Afghanistan but are in fact closely connected to the Bush administration and
to the allies President Bush has taken such efforts to rally to our side.
The third premise is that a U.S. built oil pipeline through Afghanistan
which has been in the planning stages for more than a decade is the real
goal of the war and that a U.S. invasion of Afghanistan was in the works
long before September 11th [1].
What makes these alternative viewpoints, conspiracy theories?
It certainly isn't a lack of evidence.
In the American criminal justice system there are three basic kinds of
evidence; direct, circumstantial and exculpatory.
Direct evidence of a crime might include a confession, fingerprints, DNA
samples, credible witnesses or a surveillance tape proving guilt beyond any
reasonable doubt. Circumstantial evidence is anything that lends credence to
a defendant being guilty but in itself is not sufficient to prove guilt
beyond a reasonable doubt. Exculpatory evidence on the other hand disproves
a defendants guilt or contradicts other evidence proving their guilt. In a
recent NYC case involving exculpatory evidence, a homeless man charged with
a vicious sidewalk assault on a tourist was found to be on a store
surveillance tape recorded at the same time the assault took place. In the
American system of criminal law prosecutors are required to share all
exculpatory evidence with the defense.
The official story as told by the Bush administration and the U.S. corporate
media is constructed of evidence the government frankly admits would not be
admissible in any court of law. If anything, the Bush administrations
version of events is itself a very weakly constructed conspiracy theory
challenged at every turn by an enormous amount of exculpatory evidence, much
of it from the Bush administration itself. No wonder Bush insists on trials
by military tribunals for suspected terrorists, trials in which virtually
none of the evidence will be revealed to the defendants or their
Bush-appointed defense attorneys.
It s absurd to claim that such trials will have any similarity to those at
Nuremburg after WWII. The accused Nazis were given every opportunity to
mount a full defense and were directly confronted by hundreds of witnesses
for the prosecution who they were able to fully cross-examine.
There is one very striking similarity to Nuremberg however. Like today's
accused terrorists, the Nazis were funded and supplied by some of Americas'
wealthiest businessmen including GW Bush's grandfathers who operated Wall
Street banks, shipping companies and other businesses as fronts for the
Nazis [2]. Osama bin Laden, the Taleban and the largest sources of financing
for terrorism are also intimately connected to the Bush family and to Wall
Street, to some of Americas' leading corporations and to members of both
Bush administrations.
The need for complete control of all information and media coverage along
with a 24 hour a day propaganda effort to depict support for the Bush
administration as a patriotic duty becomes obvious once one has even briefly
considered the exculpatory evidence. Not only might it be difficult to
convict the so-called terrorists in a legitimate court of law but support
for either the war or the Bush administration would be virtually impossible
once the full facts were known.
Nevertheless, being a loyal American I must support the Presidents' position
in the war on terrorism with one additional point. The American people
should hold President Bush to his own professed standard as explained in the
following quote.
"In his remarks, the president again laid out what the White House called
the Bush Doctrine. If you harbor terrorists, you are terrorists. If you
train or arm a terrorist, you are a terrorist. If you feed a terrorist or
fund a terrorist, you're a terrorist, and you will be held accountable by
the United States and our friends." - NY TIMES 11/22/2001 Bush Says
War May Go Beyond Afghan Border
In other words, the President, the CIA, his father and many of their
business partners, cabinet appointees and so-called allies are - based on
the President's own words - terrorists. Only by bringing them to justice can
we ever hope to win the war on terrorism.
1. See 9 Unpopular Ideas About 9/11 by Robert Lederman
http://baltech.org/lederman/
2. BOSTON GLOBE 4/23/2001
TRIUMPHS, TROUBLES SHAPE GENERATIONS
PRESCOTT BUSH PAVED MODERATE PATH FOR SON AND GRANDSON;
WOUNDED BY FRIEND'S BETRAYAL, HE PUT HIGH PRICE ON LOYALTY
Page: A1 Section: National/Foreign
AN AMERICAN DYNASTY
"Prescott Bush was surely aghast at a sensational article the New York
Herald Tribune splashed on its front page in July 1942. "Hitler's Angel Has
3 Million in US Bank," read the headline above a story reporting that Adolf
Hitler's financier had stowed the fortune in Union Banking Corp., possibly
to be held for "Nazi bigwigs." Bush knew all about the New York bank: He was
one of its seven directors. If the Nazi tie became known, it would be a
potential "embarrassment," Bush and his partners at Brown Brothers Harriman
worried, explaining to government regulators that their position was merely
an unpaid courtesy for a client. The situation grew more serious when the
government seized Union's assets under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the
sort of action that could have ruined Bush's political dreams.
"The Bush family fortune came from the Third Reich." -John Loftus, former US
Justice Dept. Nazi War Crimes investigator and President of the Florida
Holocaust Museum quoted in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune 11/11/2000
http://www.newscoast.com/headlinesstory2.cfm?ID=35115
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"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a
farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to
come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want
war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That
is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who
determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people
along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a
parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have
to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for
lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in
any country." - Hermann Goering, Hitler's #2 Man
In a time of universal deceit, TELLING THE TRUTH is a revolutionary act.
--George Orwell
"I cannot say that our country could have no central police without becoming
totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot be
totalitarian without a centralized national police. A national police will
have enough on enough people, even if it does not elect to prosecute them,
so that it will find no opposition to its policies."-Supreme Court Justice
Robert H. Jackson, The Supreme Court In the American System of Government
(1955).
After its founding following WWII, the CIA was initially staffed with
thousands of former Nazis who were experts in propaganda, biological
warfare, eugenics and social control as recently admitted by the CIA itself.
For excellent published works on the CIA/Nazi connection read: Trading With
The Enemy by Charles Higham, The Secret War Against the Jews by Loftus and
Arrons and Blowback by Christopher Simpson.
For many other articles on the CIA/Nazi connection to Bush, Rockefeller, the
Manhattan Institute and NYC Mayor Giuliani. see: http://baltech.org/lederman/
UPI 9/20/2000 -CIA says Nazi general was intelligence source
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 20 (UPI) -- "The Central Intelligence Agency has
for the first time confirmed that a high-ranking Nazi general placed his
anti-Soviet spy ring at the disposal of the United States during the early
days of the Cold War. The National Archives said in a release Wednesday that
the CIA had filed an affidavit in U.S. District Court "acknowledging an
intelligence relationship with German General Reinhard Gehlen that it has
kept secret for 50 years...The CIA's announcement marks the first
acknowledgement by that agency that it had any relationship with Gehlen and
opens the way for declassification of records about the relationship," the
National Archives said Gehlen was Hitler's senior intelligence officer on
the Eastern Front during the war and transferred his expertise and contacts
to the U.S. as World War II reached its climax.
While Gehlen's relationship
with U.S. intelligence during the 1940s and 1950s has been the topic of some
five books over the years, the eventual release of CIA documents pertaining
to the development of his European spy ring could shed new light on the
origins of the Cold War and early U.S. espionage efforts against Moscow.
Gehlen's network of agents in Europe - including many with Nazi backgrounds
who were bailed out of prisoner of war camps by U.S. intelligence officers -
was known as the Gehlen Organization and received millions of dollars in
funding from the U.S. until 1956. The CIA's acknowledgement of its dealings
with Gehlen came in a response to an appeal of a Freedom of Information Act
request by researcher Carl Oglesby, the National Archives said. The agency
pledged to release its records on the general in accordance with the Nazi
War Crimes Disclosure Act.
May 7, 2001 San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Honest and idealist ... enjoys good food and wine ...unprejudiced mind
.."That's how a 1952 Central Intelligence Agency assessment described Nazi
ideologue Emil Augsburg, an officer at the infamous Wannsee Institute, the
SS think tank involved in planning the Final Solution. Augsburg's SS unit
performed "special duties," a euphemism for exterminating Jews and other
"undesirables" during the Second World War. Although he was wanted in Poland
for war crimes, Augsburg managed to ingratiate himself with the U.S. CIA,
which employed him in the late 1940s as an expert on Soviet affairs.
Recently released CIA records indicate that Augsburg was among a rogue's
gallery of Nazi war criminals recruited by U.S. intelligence shortly after
Germany surrendered to the Allies.
CIA Declassifies Its Records On Dealings With Ex-Nazis
Documents May Give Clues About Obstacles in Hunt for War Criminals.
By George Lardner Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 18, 2001; Page A04
The CIA is finally getting around to declassifying the records of its
dealings with former Nazi spies after World War II. It says it has found 251
boxes and 2,901 file folders of potentially relevant documents -- apparently
more than 250,000 pages -- and that it will take about two years to complete
work on them.
Daily News 4/28/2001 Secret Files Show U.S. Used Nazis
..The documents show that high-ranking Nazis _ including death doctor Josef
Mengele and Adolf Eichmann _ were coddled by American and Soviet spymasters
as World War II ended. "The real winners of the Cold War were Nazi
criminals," Justice Department official Eli Rosenbaum said. "East and West
became so rapidly focused on challenging each other that they lost their
will to pursue Nazi perpetrators. They even deemed some of the criminals to
be useful allies."
Excerpt from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf:
"The function of propaganda does not lie in the scientific training of the
individual, but in calling the masses' attention to certain facts,
processes, necessities, etc., whose significance is thus for the first time
placed within their field of vision. The whole art consists in doing this so
skillfully that everyone will be convinced that the fact is real, the
process necessary, the necessity correct, etc. But since propaganda is not
and cannot be the necessity in itself, since its function, like the poster,
consists in attracting the attention of the crowd, and not in educating
those who are already educated or who are striving after education and
knowledge, its effect for the most part must be aimed at the emotions and
only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect...The more modest
its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration
the emotions of the masses, the more effective it will be..."The art of
propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and
finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention
and thence to the heart of the broad masses.
The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is
small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these
facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and
must harp on these slogans until the last member of the public understands
what you want him to understand [or believe]..."The war propaganda of the
English and Americans were psychologically sound. By representing the
Germans to their own people as barbarians and Huns, they prepared the
individual soldier for the terrors of war, and thus helped to preserve him
from disappointments. After this, the most terrible weapon that was used
against him seemed only to confirm what his propagandists had told him; it
likewise reinforced his faith in the truth of his government's assertions,
while on the other hand it increased his rage and hatred against the vile
enemy For the cruel effects of the weapon, whose use by the enemy he now
came to know, gradually came to confirm for him the 'Hunnish' brutality of
the barbarous enemy, which he had heard all about; and it never dawned on
him for a moment that his own weapons possibly, if not probably, might be
even more terrible in their effects...
"The function of propaganda is, for example, not to weigh and ponder the
rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which
it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of
the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the
masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always
and unflinchingly...The broad mass of a nation does not consist of
diplomats, or even professors of political law, or even individuals capable
of forming a rational opinion; it consists of plain mortals, wavering and
inclined to doubt and uncertainty. As soon as our own propaganda admits so
much as a glimmer of right on the other side, the foundation for doubt in
our own right has been laid. The masses are then in no position to
distinguish where foreign injustice ends and our own begins."
Find out just what the people will submit to, and you have found out the
exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and
these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or
with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those
whom they oppress. - Frederick Douglas (1857)
Daily News 11/14/2001 Bush OKs Secrecy In Terror Trials
President Bush signed an order yesterday that could allow accused Al Qaeda
operatives and other foreign terrorists to stand trial before secretive
military commissions similar to the tribunals used to prosecute Nazis in
World War II. The order gives Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld authority
to establish the tribunals, White House officials said. "Given the danger to
the safety of the United States ... I find ... that it is not practicable to
apply ... the principles of law and the rules of evidence generally
recognized in the trial of criminal cases in the United States," Bush's
order said.
DRUDGE REPORT SUN NOV 11, 2001
BIG MEDIA FLORIDA RECOUNT:
GORE TOPPED BUSH IF ALL UNDER/OVER VOTES COUNTED;
LEGAL STRATEGY DESTROYED CHANCES
A vote-by-vote review of untallied ballots in the 2000 Florida presidential
election commissioned by the nation's main media outlets shows Al Gore edged
ahead of George W. Bush "under all the scenarios for counting all undervotes
and overvotes statewide."
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long
as I'm the dictator." - GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional
leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on
their website
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html
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