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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