We as spiritual beings or souls come to earth in order to experience the human condition. This includes the good and the bad scenarios of this world. Our world is a duality planet and no amount of love or grace will eliminate evil or nastiness. We will return again and again until we have pierced the illusions of this density. The purpose of human life is to awaken to universal truth. This also means that we must awaken to the lies and deceit mankind is subjected to. To pierce the third density illusion is a must in order to remove ourselves from the wheel of human existences. Love is important but knowledge is the key!

Fiddling Bush - Alert McKinney 

Bush Fiddled While New York Burned
by Michael Colby

The decision to send Condoleezza Rice out before the reporters yesterday to 
downplay new evidence that the White House had credible warnings of Osama 
bin Laden's plans to hijack planes was a huge slap to the face of reason. 
Rice's two main arguments seeking to belittle Bush's prior knowledge lacked 
the credibility that the hijacking warnings were filled with.

First, Rice declared that the hijackings said nothing about "using the 
planes as missiles." Rice's reasoning ignores the internal Federal Bureau of 
Investigation (FBI) reports that at least one student had approached a 
flight school in search of training in all aspects of flying big jets with 
the exceptions of taking off and landing. For an intelligence agency with a 
near-unlimited budget and person power, it wouldn't seem that hard to put 
two and two together on this one.

Next, Rice declared that if the Bush administration wanted to do anything 
preventive in regards to the hijacking threats it would have resulted in a 
widespread disruption in commercial airline travel. Besides being rather 
callous towards the nearly 5,000 people who lost their lives, this excuse is 
just plain ridiculous.

As it turns out, these hijackings did cause widespread disruption of the 
airline industry, but only after the bin Laden crew carried out their tasks 
to what they declared to be near-perfection. September 11th wasn't that long 
ago to have forgotten that all the nation's airports were closed, the 
airlines received billions of dollars in bailouts, and federal regulators 
immediately (and dramatically) changed the manner in which every man, woman, 
and child approaches the act of flying.

The troubling reality, no matter how much spin the Bush administration and 
its fawning media put into it, is that the credible evidence of an attack by 
a group of people who every intelligence official in the U.S. knew was 
fanatical and capable enough to inflict widespread damage was both kept 
secret and ignored.

Imagine, for example, if the same amount of time and hand wringing had been 
put into implementing a plan to this hijacking threat as most members of the 
Bush inner circle put into dumping their Enron portfolios? That is, you'll 
recall, exactly what the Enron-insiders-turned-Bush-officials were up to in 
the summer of 2001 when the hijacking threats were made known to the 
administration.

Finally, the public should be informed as to why it took more than eight 
months after this attack before this information became publicly available. 
Let's not forget that the U.S. went to war over this action, decimating a 
nation, throwing world security into turmoil, and, interestingly enough, 
still failing to "get our man." Every member of Congress who rushed to their 
post-September 11 podiums to lust for revenge and provide the Bush 
administration what amounted to a blank check for war should now be 
wondering about the evidence their own government withheld from them. What 
if, at the time of those frantic days after the attacks, the public and 
congress knew that the Bush team was sitting on evidence warning of the 
attacks?

Most of the media--particularly the right-wing talk shows and pundits--are 
busy spinning the disclosure of the hijacking warnings as much ado about 
nothing. But this nation lost 3,000 citizens, the "crown jewels" of the 
Manhattan skyline, our sense of security, and precious civil liberties, not 
to mention unleashing a vicious war against Afghanistan while the Bush team 
knew that the acts creating the entire mess were on the way.

Ironically, the same conservative members of Congress and the media who 
maniacally pursued the impeachment of Bill Clinton for being on the 
receiving end of a blowjob are now declaring that Bush's prior knowledge of 
what amounted to "the worst ever attack on our soil" was really no big deal. 
Go figure.

Michael Colby is the editor of Wild Matters. He can be reached at 
mcolby@wildmatters.org

http://www.counterpunch.org/colby0517.html

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May 17, 2002

Terrorist Warnings
by Rep. Cynthia McKinney

Several weeks ago, I called for a congressional investigation into what 
warnings the Bush Administration received before the terrorist attacks of 
September 11, 2001. I was derided by the White House, right wing talk radio, 
and spokespersons for the military-industrial complex as a conspiracy 
theorist. Even my patriotism was questioned because I dared to suggest that 
Congress should conduct a full and complete investigation into the most 
disastrous intelligence failure in American history. Georgia Senator Zell 
Miller even went so far as to characterize my call for hearings as 
"dangerous, loony and irresponsible."

Today's revelations that the administration, and President Bush, were given 
months of notice that a terrorist attack was a distinct possibility points 
out the critical need for a full and complete congressional investigation.

It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously 
opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in 
a conspiracy of silence. If committed and patriotic people had not been 
pushing for disclosure today's revelations would have been hidden by the 
White House.

Because I love my country, because I am a patriot, and because the American 
people deserve the truth, I believe it would be dangerous, loony and 
irresponsible not to hold full congressional hearings on any warnings the 
Bush Administration had before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying 
to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over 
again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and 
unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.

Cynthia McKinney represents Georgia's Fourth Congressional District. 
She can be reached at: cymck@mail.house.gov

http://www.counterpunch.org/mckinney0517.html