SWIFTBOATING 911
THE PATH TO 911 FALLACY ON ABC!
Today's posting is an alert to all those who cherish truth! ABC is going to air a mini series (they better not be calling it a documentary) called THE PATH TO 911. This story written by one, Cyrus Nowrasteh, an AVOWED CONSERVATIVE, is so mangled with misrepresentations and out and out lies, it should not be aired on the tragic date of the anniversary of our America's sadness, September 11.Nor, should it be touted as a factual account of those horrible days leading
up to this grievous event perpetrated on our shores. Please join me in telling ABC that we will not stand for this SWIFTBOATING by clicking this link:
http://thinkprogress.org/tellabc thinkingblue
PS: Below is my addition to the form letter on the thinkprogress.org action page, please write your own outrage by clicking this link: http://thinkprogress.org/tellabc
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Robert A. Iger
President and CEO, The Walt Disney Company
Dear Mr. Iger:
It has come to my attention that ABC plans to air a two-part mini-series
called "The Path to 9/11" on September 10 and September 11. Accounts of
advance screenings indicate that this program places primary responsibility
for the attacks of 9/11 on the Clinton administration while whitewashing the
failures of the Bush administration. This assertion is not supported by the
9/11 Commission Report upon which the program is purportedly based. This
PARTISAN MISREPRESENTATION OF HISTORY is not surprising given that the movie
was written by Cyrus Nowrasteh, an AVOWED CONSERVATIVE.
It is wrong for ABC to play politics with the facts of 9/11 by providing a
national platform to present his distorted view of history. I am
unwilling to whitewash the truth. The events that led to 9/11 are
important topics for discussion and debate. But it's a debate that must be
conducted honestly.
ABC's MANGLING of the facts are so grossly offensive to decency
and morality there should be some sort of law protecting us from a piece of
fictional trite being labeled as facts. Take for instance this portion of
the first night's airing: The Path to 9/11 has a dramatic scene where
former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger refuses to give the order to
the CIA to take out bin Laden — even though CIA agents, along with the
Northern Alliance, have his house surrounded.
Rush Limbaugh, who refers to Nowrasteh as “a friend of mine,”
reviews the action:
"So the CIA, the Northern Alliance, surrounding a house where bin Laden is
in Afghanistan, they’re on the verge of capturing, but they need final
approval from the Clinton administration in order to proceed.
So they phoned Washington. They phoned the White House. Clinton and his
senior staff refused to give authorization for the capture of bin Laden
because they’re afraid of political fallout if the mission should go wrong,
and if civilians were harmed…Now, the CIA agent in this is portrayed as
being astonished. “Are you kidding?” He asked Berger over and over, “Is this
really what you guys want?”
Berger then doesn’t answer after giving his first admonition, “You guys go
in on your own. If you go in we’re not sanctioning this, we’re not approving
this,” and Berger just hangs up on the agent after not answering any of his
questions".
GOOD OLD LIMBAUGH, DOES HIS ONE SIDED WARPED BLITZKRIEG ONCE AGAIN!
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/05/clarke-blasts-abc/ has obtained a
response to this scene from Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism czar for
Bush I, Clinton and Bush II, and now counterterrorism adviser to ABC:
1. CONTRARY TO THE MOVIE, NO US MILITARY OR CIA PERSONNEL WERE ON THE
GROUND IN AFGHANISTAN AND SAW BIN LADEN!
2. CONTRARY TO THE MOVIE, THE HEAD OF THE NORTHERN ALLIANCE, MASOOD,
WAS NO WHERE NEAR THE ALLEGED BIN LADEN CAMP AND DID NOT SEE UBL!
3. CONTRARY TO THE MOVIE, THE CIA DIRECTOR ACTUALLY SAID THAT
HE COULD NOT RECOMMEND A STRIKE ON THE CAMP BECAUSE THE INFORMATION WAS SINGLE SOURCED AND WE WOULD HAVE NO WAY TO KNOW IF BIN LADEN WAS IN THE TARGET AREA BY THE TIME A CRUISE MISSILE HIT IT!
In short, this scene — which makes the INCENDIARY claim that the
Clinton administration passed on a surefire chance to kill or catch bin
Laden — NEVER HAPPENED!!! It was completely made up by Nowrasteh.
The actual history is quite different. According to the 9/11 Commission
Report (pg. 199), then-CIA Director George Tenet had the authority from
President Clinton to kill Bin Laden. Roger Cressy, former NSC director for
counterterrorism, has written, “Mr. Clinton approved every request made
of him by the CIA and the U.S. military involving using force against bin
Laden and al-Qaeda.” (From this site: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/05/clarke-blasts-abc/)
NOW FOR THE SECOND NIGHT'S LOAD OF BOLOGNA, ON THE PATH TO 911...
According to Nowrasteh, A CIA analyst makes the following complaint:
Besides, ever since the WASHINGTON POST disclosed that we intercepted
his calls, UBL [Usama bin Laden] stopped using phones altogether. He’s using
couriers now, like they did a thousand years ago.
THIS IS NOT TRUE, on a number of levels. First, as Daniel Benjamin
makes clear, the publication at issue is the Washington TIMES:
(TONY BLANKLEY'S WRITES FOR THIS DAILY NEWS-CELLULOSE PULP and if you know
anything about Tony, you will also know he is a great manipulator of facts
and his paper just loves him.)
HERE IS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED: On Aug. 21, 1998, the Washington
Times, the capital’s unabashedly conservative newspaper, which
regularly breaks more intelligence-related stories than any other daily,
ran an article saying that Bin Laden “keeps in touch with the world via
computers and satellite phones.” This occurred less than two weeks after the
destruction of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam by al-Qaida
and the day after the United States had bombed al-Qaida targets in
Afghanistan and Sudan. After that report, Bin Laden stopped using his phone
and let his aides do the calling. This story is recounted in both The Age
of Sacred Terror (2002), which I, (Daniel Benjamin) co-wrote with my
National Security Council colleague Steven Simon, and the 9/11 Commission
Report.
Not only is the scene inconsistent with the 9/11 commission report,
IT'S PERPETUATING AN URBAN MYTH! Actually, “Bin Laden’s use of a
satellite phone had already been widely reported by August 1998, and
he stopped using it within days of a cruise missile attack on his training
camps in Afghanistan.”
Why was it included anyway? One explanation: it is frequently cited
by right-wing politicians “seeking to impose greater restrictions on
the news media.” This is a film that doesn’t let the facts get in the way
of its agenda. (from this site: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/05/abc-smears-washington-post/)
What is most perplexing, to me, a concerned citizen, is how one-side
(republicans) can stop the airing of a series when they feel it is
inaccurate or non-flattering to one of it's own. As in the case of CBS's
mini series on RONALD REAGAN. Please read the paragraph below:
--Thunderous protest has persuaded CBS to cancel The Reagans, its
miniseries about America's 40th president and his second wife.
It isn't especially troubling that CBS would bow to angry protesters in
canceling The Reagans, given that the miniseries itself, if at all typical
of the genre, is likely a piece of hackwork. (Those who live by popular
tastes, die by popular tastes.) But it is troubling that the public, or at
least a highly influential segment of it, has apparently ruled any criticism
of President Reagan out of bounds. When did the Gipper become St. Ronald?--
(from this site:
http://www.slate.com/id/2090834/) PLEASE ANSWER THIS, FOR ME, WHY DOES THE CONSERVATIVE BUNCH HAVE MORE POWER THAN THE THINKING MAJORITY?
LISTEN, ABC, either fix the many inaccuracies contained in the
program - or DO NOT AIR IT! If it does get aired AS IS, I, as an informed
citizen, will place ABC in the same category as FOX (faux) NEWS and will no
longer believe anything your network has to say about our world!
I would appreciate a prompt reply to my e-mail. thinkingblue
TAKE ACTION BY CLICKING THIS LINK
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Kyrie
n.1. A brief petition and response used in various liturgies of several Christian churches, beginning with or
composed of the words "Lord, have mercy." 2. A musical setting of this petition and response, usually forming the first movement of a Mass.
You are listening to ...Kyrie - In their own Words
CLICK HERE TO HEAR THIS SONG
GEORGE W. BUSH:
“In Iraq, a dictator is . . .
building and hiding weapons”
“This is a fact . . . it cannot be denied.”
Chorus:
BUSH:
“Building and hiding weapons.”
Kyrie
(Lord)
BUSH:
“Building and hiding weapons.”
Kyrie
(Lord)
BUSH:
“Building and hiding weapons.”
Kyrie eleison
(Lord Have Mercy)
BUSH:
"The Privacy of Ordinary Americans,
is fiercely protected ..."
_________________
DICK CHENEY: “There is no doubt
that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.”
BUSH: “This is a fact.”
CHENEY: “There is no doubt
that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.”
BUSH:“It is seeking Nuclear Weapons.”
DONALD RUMSFELD: “We know where they are . . . ”
BUSH: “This is a fact”
CHENEY: “There is no doubt
(the M.S. Media:“No Doubt”) that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass
destruction.”
RUMSFELD: “We know where they are . . . . . . they’re in the area around Tikrit
and Baghdad…”
CHENEY:“There is no doubt
THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA: “No Doubt” “No Doubt” “No Doubt” “No Doubt”
________________
Chorus:
BUSH: “Building and hiding weapons.”
Kyrie
BUSH: “Building and hiding weapons.”
Kyrie
BUSH: “Building and hiding weapons.”
Kyrie eleison
________________
BILL O’REILLY:
“Any wide awake youngster knows, that you can make a handsome living in America by
being able to spin the truth.”
O’REILLY:
“Shut up.”
ANN COULTER:
“Liberals hate America.”
RUSH LIMBAUGH:
“For it is they you see.”
O’REILLY:
“Cut his mic.”
COULTER:
“Liberals hate America.”
LIMBAUGH:
“They think people are such dim witted fools.”
O’REILLY:
“Shut up!”
COULTER:
“Liberals hate America.”
LIMBAUGH:
“Who feel it necessary to spoon feed the public.”
O’REILLY:
“Cut his mic.”
COULTER:
“Liberals hate America.”
LIMBAUGH:
“All the while denying that they do it.”
_______
JERRY FALWELL:
(IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING 9-11)
“I, I really believe that the Pagans, and the Abortionists, and the Feminists
and the Gays and the Lesbians . . . the ACLU, People For The American Way…
ALL OF THEM.
I point the finger in
their face and say,
‘You helped this happen.’ ”
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- H o s a n n a -
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tic Tock Tic Tock
BUSH: “It is seeking Nuclear Weapons.”
“Spin . . . Spin . . . Sp Sp SP Sp Sp Sp
"Spin the Truth."
________________
LIMBAUGH: “My beliefs are my heart and soul, the essence of my being…”
COULTER:
“Liberals hate America. They hate all religions except Islam.”
LIMBAUGH:
“…and I never betray them!”
“Sp Sp SP SpSp Sp Spin the Truth.”
LIMBAUGH:
“My beliefs are my heart and soul, the essence of my being…”
COULTER:
“Even Islamic terrorists don’t
hate America like Liberals do.”
LIMBAUGH: “…and I never betray them!”
BUSH: "The Privacy of Ordinary Americans..."
LIMBAUGH: “…and I never betray them!”
BUSH: "The Privacy of Ordinary Americans, is fiercely protected ..."
O’REILLY:
(to a guest, a son who lost his
father at the WTC on 911)
“That’s it. Cut his mic!”
BUSH: “It is seeking..."
O’REILLY: “So you keep your mouth shut!”
BUSH: “It is seeking Nuclear weapons.”
O’REILLY: “Cut his mic!”
O’REILLY:
“Any wide awake youngster knows, that you can make a handsome living in America
by being able to spin the truth. “That is, twisting the facts of a troubling situation, until it is impossible to figure out what the hell is going on!”
_________________
Chorus: (everybody sing):
Kyrie
CHENEY: “There is no doubt.”
RUMSFELD: “We know where they are.”
BUSH: “Building and hiding weapons.”
Kyrie
CHENEY: “There is no doubt.”
RUMSFELD: “We know where they are.”
Kyrie eleison
BUSH: "The Privacy of Ordinary Americans, is fiercely protected in all our activities."
_______
The acclamation Kyrie eleison (Lord have mercy!) antedates Christian worship and
is the one part of western liturgy that remained in Greek throughout the Middle
Ages. It was used in various forms of pagan worship including the imperial cult
in which the emperor was called kyrios (lord).
I got this marvelous song from the huffington blog thinkingblue
Now let's take an objective look at what happened on the sorrowful day of September 11, 2001. thinkingblue
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The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear.
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