The nation can rest easier knowing that at long last, someone is being held to task for the myriad failures and incompetence that led to the attack against America on September 11, 2001.
Take that, Van Jones. Take that and put it in your Al Qaeda pipe.
Van Jones, a White House environmental staffer, quote-unquote resigned this past weekend after Republicans howled about a petition he signed in 2004 saying the Bush administration "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war."
The first part of that statement about "deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen" is bogus. But the sentiment behind the second part is 100 percent correct.
It would be obscene to claim anything less than that Bush administration used the 9/11 attacks to get us into the Iraq failure. A re-read of Isikoff and Corn’s "Hubris" is more-than reminder enough of how the government manipulated America using the corporate-neutered media as its accomplice.
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