[Osx-nutters] heard about this ?

[Patrick Coskren]

On Oct 2, 2006, at 8:32 AM, Chuck Bennett wrote:

> On Oct 1, 2006, at 5:48 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>
>> BBC - American government told other governments about Afghan  
>> invasion IN JULY 2001.
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/ 
>> newsid_1550000/1550366.stm
>>
>> US 'planned attack on Taleban'
>>
>> The wider objective was to oust the Taleban
>>
>> By the BBC's George Arney
>
> So if that's true then the claim that the Bush admin wasn't doing  
> anything about terrorism  before 9/11 is B.S.
>
> It really makes them look hard ass about it.
>
> You can't have it both ways.   SO I assume that the Lib's will be  
> giving Bush credit for at least planning to take OBL and Taliban  
> out before they attacked us..
>
> Right?

Yes.  If it's corroborated.

An alternative explanation is that this was a timed, planted leak to  
rebut the charges, getting wide coverage last week, that Bush ignored  
entreaties from his CIA director and anti-terrorism chief to make  
anti-terrorism a priority.  The nice thing about having it come out  
of a retired Pakistani official is that there's no need to furnish  
proof; but the story's still out there.  This is the same technique  
that they've used with Iraq; the President admits that there was no  
link between Iraq and terrorism, but makes sure surrogates are out  
there spreading the opposite method.

I don't know which explanation is true.  If we hear reports from US  
generals and such over the coming weeks corroborating this, then I'll  
admit that, yup, it looks like Bush was tackling terrorism head on.   
Guess I misunderestimated him.

But I have to wonder, if that's the case, why didn't Bush mention  
this before now?  He's had every incentive to release such  
information for years.  Why have Rice saying on talk shows and before  
the 9/11 Commission "we took terrorism seriously blah blah..." when  
she could have been saying, "look, assholes, here was our war plan,  
here was how we were going to take him out, here's the memos where we  
planned it out, he just got to us before everything was in place"?   
The fact that it comes out only now, well, it doesn't prove anything,  
but it smells funny.

-Patrick