Oh Mercy! If Only Moussaoui Had Fessed Up!

Had Zacarias Moussaoui only told the truth back when--the GOP’s sniffle and whine goes--the attack on the World Trade Center could have been avoided—oh alas! Oh drat! Yeah…if only. Let me interject a reminder here. Cast your minds back to the 9/11 Commission hearing back on April 8, 2004. Commission Member Richard Ben-Veniste was questioning Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Ben-Veniste said, “Isn't it a fact, Dr. Rice, that the August 6 p.d.b. (president’s daily briefing, 8/6/01) warned against possible attacks in this country, and I ask you whether you recall the title of that p.d.b.? Condleezza Rice: I believe the title was "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States." So let’s roll the if-only nonsense in a ball and throw it in a shitcan. If Moussaoui had knocked on the White House door and informed whoever would listen that he and others planned to fly planes into the WTC, the Bush administration would have paid him no mind whatsoever. The Prez took the longest vacation ever known for a sitting president to take from August 3 to September 3, 2001 while tons of stuff was coming into the White House about the possibility of a terrorist attack. George W. Bush could not be bothered. The CIA knew about Moussaoui taking flying lessons and it had been warned that he and/or other terrorists might fly planes into US buildings. When CIA Director George Tenet was asked if he would advise the Prez of this when Bush got back from vacation on September 5th, Tenet said, “No. It isn’t the appropriate place.” Jordan and Morocco had advised US and allied intelligence that Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorists were preparing airborne terrorist operations in the continental United States. And Condoleezafucking Rice had read the president’s daily briefing and ignored it. If Moussaoui had sworn on the Koran in front of the entire CIA, George Bush, Dick Cheney, the assembled idiots in the Pentagon, and the entire Bush cabinet that the World Trade Center towers were going to be blown up, the Bush administration would not have listened. Because they did not listen. Yes of course the WTC attack could have been avoided if only… If only we didn’t have morons, idiots, jackasses, and a performing monkey on a chain running the US government.