Air Force Colonel says "Bush Knew" about 9/11

By Mike Hersh, Aug 13, 2002

A brave Air Force veteran is making his stand as an American, but the Bush administration
is trying to silence him. As Congress begins its clandestine investigation into
the catastrophe of 9/11, few voices dare to speak truth to power. Lt.Colonel Steven Butler has been
suspended for writing a letter in which he called President Bush 'a joke' and
accused Bush of knowing about the Sept. 11 attacks." See:
DLI official removed for criticizing Bush, The Monterey County Herald, 6/3/02.

This is no "conspiracy theory" or a crank report from one obscure source.
The AP, CNN, the New York Times and others are quoting Colonel Butler's letter:
"Of course Bush knew about the impending attacks on America. He did nothing
to warn the American people because he needed this war on terrorism. His daddy
had Saddam and he needed Osama."

Butler, a Gulf War veteran with 24-years of Air Force service added: "His presidency
was going nowhere. He wasn't elected by the American people, but placed into
the Oval Office by the conservative Supreme Court...the economy was sliding
into the usual Republican pits and he needed something to hang his presidency
on." Oddly this link to CNN online, which first appeared on 06/04/02 is no longer
operative:
Colonel suspended for bad-mouthing Bush. However, it lingers on as an empty
ghost in the Google archives.

Bush's motivations are still unclear, but there's no question

that - by his actions and inaction - Bush left us vulnerable.

Bush is responsible. The 9/11 attacks happened on his watch.

President Clinton ordered two Los Angeles class attack submarines
to stand watch over the Taliban and bin Laden's terrorists. Bush ordered
the subs to stand down. See:
The
Covert Hunt for bin Laden: Broad Effort Launched After '98 Attacks.
The Washington Post, 12/19/01.

Clinton
read the riot act on Al Qaeda and threatened the Taliban leadership he
would hold them personally responsible for any attack by bin Laden's
terrorists against Americans. Bush lifted that decree. See: Clinton's
War on Terror: The Covert Hunt for bin Laden.
The Washington Post, 12/20/01.

Bush sent Millions of our tax dollars to the Taliban, trying to get a pipeline built through their territory.
His administration supported negotiations with terrorists on behalf of his campaign contributors,
corporations employing his father and former Bush administration officials
including James A. Baker III, the man who led Bush's efforts to wrest the White House from Al Gore.

Intelligence agents reveal Bush turned a "blind eye" to terrorism by
ordering our CIA and FBI to "back off" Saudi terror suspects - including
Osama bin Laden's brothers - operating in the US. See:
Call it 9-11Gate.

Because of Bush's orders, top FBI officials ignored warnings efforts to investigate
and arrest the terrorists who later hijacked and flew our planes into the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Special FBI Agent Coleen Rowley
confirms this, and the efforts to cover it up. See: Demand Public Congressional
9/11 Investigation.

Now, Colonel Butler is telling us Bush "did
nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on
terrorism. His daddy had Saddam and he needed Osama. His presidency
was going nowhere."

No wonder Bush and Cheney threatened Democrats and the media to "watch
what you say." They don't want a public investigation. First, they
demanded no investigation at all. Then, they agreed to a secret investigation
by a special joint Congressional Intelligence Committee, operating
in a soundproof, windowless room in the Capitol Building. But even now,
they continue the cover-up!

Now Bush and Cheney are obstructing that secret investigation. They
refused to comply with Congressional requests for information, and
ordered the CIA and FBI not to cooperate. Cheney even had the audacity
to admit all of this, and top Republicans try to claim questioning
Bush is tantamount to treason. We cannot let the Bush Republicans
silence us.

Opinion polls show two-thirds of Americans know Bush and Cheney are
not telling the truth; most blame the Bush Administration for 9/11.
Bush's people are trying to point fingers, block public
investigations, intimidate critics, and distract us to cover up their
failures. They can only succeed if we let them. Don't let them bury the truth.

"Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle - along with most of his fellow
Democrats and a handful of prominent Republicans, notably including
Arizona's John McCain" support an independent investigation into 9/11.
That hope "is dead, at least for the moment." The Republicans "quietly
set aside legislation that would establish an independent commission to
investigate the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001." See: Putting "Today" before tomorrow's security Salon.com: 06/22/02

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