My Conspiracy Compendium
Casey Denney wonders how 23-year-old army veteran Dillon Warn can call the Iraq war “unprovoked.”
There remain a lot of people like Casey Denney for whom the reality-based world is elusive.
Facts:
- Iraq had absolutely NO involvement in the 9/11/2001 destruction of the World Trade Center. That needs to be constantly repeated, because Bush and the Bushies continue to imply - sometimes outright say - Iraq did it.
- Iraq had absolutely NO Weapons of Mass Destruction. That also needs to be constantly repeated, because Bush and the Bushies continue to imply that they did, and for sure someday they will be found (gee, wouldn’t somebody use at least some part of them eventually?).
- Bush family & Saudi Arabian bin Laden family are friends and oil associates.
- Osama bin Laden masterminded the 9/11/2001 destruction of the Trade Center.
- 15 of 19 hijackers were Saudi Arabian
- Bush & Cheney repeatedly state that Iran supplies fighters in Iraq.
- Iraq’s majority is Shia.
- Iran is a Shia country.
- al-Qaeda is a Sunni group led by a Saudi Arabian.
- Saudi Arabia supplies Sunni fighters in Iraq.
- Saudi Arabia is a Sunni country.
- Saddam Hussein was a Sunni; his ruling group was Sunni.
- Saudi Arabia is seldom mentioned as the place from which al-Qaeda originated.
- Saudi Arabia is a major supplier of oil to the United States.
Some more Facts:
- All the bin Ladens who were in the US when the Trade Center was destroyed got on a plane and left the country at a time when no air traffic was allowed in the US (verifiable?).
- Osama bin Laden has never been captured or killed, and is still at large. (As far as I know)
- When the United States had Osama bin Laden in its sights, the US backed off.
- al Qaeda’s base of operations now seems to be in Pakistan, which is our ally.
- Saudi Arabia doesn’t allow American military bases in their country. (Is that right?)
- Cheney & Bush said Iraq involved in 9/11
- Cheney still says Iraq involved in 9/11
Obvious conspiracy conclusion:
- George W Bush & Dick Cheney and their fellow conspirators, at the request of the Saudi Arabian bin Laden family, stopped trying to kill or capture Osama bin Laden.
- The bin Laden family would have lost face if they had allowed the US to kill a member of their family. As it is, bin Laden is a hero in much of the Muslim world and the bin Ladens’ status is enhanced by that (despite the Saudis’ fear that if they make a misstep al Qaeda will begin to harrass the Saudis).
So there they are, all the factoids and such necessary to answer the question: why is the US in Iraq.
March 26, 2008 at 1:39 am
**4/6 gee, I found out there’s a spam cache! —ed**
On Saudis leaving the United States (a Sourcewatch compendium) — It looks like the plane with 13 bin Ladens left after commercial air traffic had resumed. 142 Saudis were allowed to leave the country by plane before commercial air traffic resumed on Sept. 14.
Here’s one take on US troops leaving Saudi Arabia. The timing was auspicious, about one month into the invasion of Iraq (no intention of leaving any bases there), as was the timing of the bases’ initial installation in Iraq, just after Saddam invaded Kuwait in 1991. But it’s pretty easy to make sure Saudi Arabia is cool from our new bases in Iraq and elsewhere over there.
If you’re wondering about where Bin Laden (and his Cheney) came from, you can’t do better than Lawrence Wright.
And, oh heck, just because I can’t resist, here’s another Lawrence Wright article about the international terrorism’s theorists. If only the people supposedly directing the fight against these jokers would bother to understand the enemy, we might avoid doing just what they want.
March 27, 2008 at 12:58 am
It’s fascinating to me that someone, who’s never been to Iraq, would question a military soldier’s take on the war that he fought and risked his life for - a soldier that had been in Iraq.
The arrogance. The ignorance.
Even worse, I’ll bet my next paycheck that Casey Denney claims to support the troops.
March 27, 2008 at 4:15 am
After watching the PBS documentary on Frontline the last two evenings, Bush’s War, I admit there is a lot to learn from this sorry episode in our nation’s history, and I have been following this story with all of its twists and turns very closely. What was new to me, according to the documentary, was that after the Twin Towers fell, the CIA had a game plan ready for Afghanistan and al-Queda, the Pentagon did not. Watching how Cheny, Rumsfield, Wolfowitz and the Neocons rolled the rest of us like a bunch of drunken Butte Irishmen on a Saturday night was riveting. For two nights I sat transfixed and I could only ask the rhetorical question, why is bin Laden still sucking air on this earth? Ed is spot on with his musings about the House of Saud but that doesnt hold water with me. Someone has to answer for the 3,000 souls lost on 9/11 and that answer is not going to be found in Iraq, regardless of what Cheney says.
Now Cheney actually has the temerity to tell us that Iran is a nuclear threat, (Niger yellow cake anyone?) we’ve been down that road before - how did that turn out for you? My mother called to tell me that she had ordered a copy of the documentary and was sending it to me, I plan on watching it again and again and sharing it with friends and family.
March 28, 2008 at 12:11 am
I taped it. I’ve seen an abbreviated version. It’s an extremely unpleasant thing to watch.
How to keep BushCheney from invading Iran with our hardworking but depleted forces? Sit back and hope for the best?
March 28, 2008 at 3:22 am
I heard about it on talk radio, the morning after the first episode…so I had to search to find it scheduled so I could record both. I’m planning on watching both episodes on Sunday.
Two guys I work with came over to my office to tell me not to miss it, too.
People are talking about it everywhere. Frontline does fabulous stuff.