I love me some Bernie!

I know it's like talking to a brick wall...but I'll try again. True, the Sept. 11th attackers were not from, nor supplied by Iraq or Saddam. However, the attacks changed the rules. No longer could our leaders wait and "respond" to an attack. They had to look at threats and reduce them. Saddam was viewed as a threat and was taken out. You can disagree with the decision, but it would be dishonest to claim that the 9/11 attacks had nothing to do with it.

The 9/11 terroris attack led to the war in Iraq in much the same way that the Reichstag fire of 1933 led to WWII.

bush-history watch! We need someone to keep focusing on that!

Can we get that photo on a dartboard?
Biggest seller of 2009...

I still suggest John Carlin would be a good one to re-post at the head of the National Archives, where he was the head before Bush replaced him with his own hack.

Carlin, former Kansas Governor, would connect all the new dots for us, better than anyone else because he was there before Bush' started revising history on a daily basis.

Just food for thought...

I'd prefer this portrait have Bush clothed in something more appropriate, say an orange jumpsuit. Oh, maybe have him looking through some iron bars.........

Picket the photo! Bring your signs! Going to DC for the inauguration? Now's your chance!

Replace "that led to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq", with "that mistakenly led to the U.S. occupation of Iraq".

Now, back to the original article: Makes me very proud to be a Vermonter.

Thank you Bernie Sanders!

Wondering if they have the painting under plexiglass yet. The poor portrait gallery paintings conservators will have a their hands full cleaning the spit off of the portrait otherwise.

People ask Why did we invade Iraq? What motive? Well, try this on for size...

) Rumor, after the first gulf war Saddam sent a hit squad against Bush Sr in retaliation for the war. The attack was prevented and the people dealt with. So motive #1 could have been to settle an old score. A family feud.

) Rumor, there is more to the story of Saddam's invasion of Kuwait then we've been told. It may be that he was deliberately mislead into thinking that it would be okay for him to invade.

) Unverified, it has now been established that the Japanese were goaded into attacking Perl Harbor, and that our ships were deliberately bottled up in there. There is a very interesting book on this subject, sorry don't have the title handy, google is your friend.

The point being that Iraq is not the first time such shenanigans have been pulled, in fact this type of manipulation has been going on for hundreds of years. Also read "A Bright and Shining Lie"

) Fact, Bush Jr was planing the invasion before he even got elected. There is credible documentation of this.

) Fact, the endless series of No-Bid contracts for Halliburton, was one of the largest transfers of wealth that this country has ever seen. It is theft/rape/looting of the county on an incomprehensible scale. Massive profits and Billions of dollars unaccounted for.

) Rumor, the Twin Towers were decrepit and losing money.

) Fact, the Twin Towers insurance payout was very profitable.

) Fact, Al-Qaeda initially disclaimed responsibility for the 9-11 attack. Their spokesman stated that the attack was the result of an international banking conspiracy. This was initially broadcast on tv and then later suppressed/ignored.

) Fact, NORAD could have easily stopped those airplanes from reaching their targets. After the first one hit, there should have never been a second one much less a third. The air force has the intercept capability. Ever since a Cessna landed on the White House lawn back in the 70's and became a major embarrassment, we have had air security available for DC. The only way that airplane could have gotten through is because the air force was ordered to stand-down. And that order could have only come from the highest levels.

) Fact, several of the alleged hijackers later turned up alive and well.... so much for the accuracy of the FBIs information.

) Fact congress was debating the so called Patriot Act, ("Orwell speak", call it the opposite of what it really is) one of the most damaging pieces of legislation that has ever hit this country. The justification for it was the 9-11 attack. But a straw-pole taken a few days before the official vote showed that it would fail by a narrow margin. And that's when the Anthrax showed up and threw congress into a total panic. After that they could not sign it fast enough.

The timing is the key to understanding the motive for the Anthrax. It showed up at just the right time to ensure that Congress would pass the Patriot Act, a law which lays the legal foundation for a dictatorship to take over this country.

) Fact, the propaganda machine went into overtime and tried very hard to convince people that Saddam had been responsible for both the 9-11 attacks and the Anthrax attacks. To this day many people still believe that Saddam was guilty of these things. Now, don't misunderstand, Saddam is certainly no saint. But there is not one shred of evidence to support the claim that he was behind either of these attacks.

) Fact, it was in this state of total panic and the desire to strike back at any handy target that the country was stampeded into a war that people otherwise would not have agreed to. It was a masterful job of manipulation.

) Fact, it did not take long for the Saddam Anthrax story to fall apart. The FBI then went through a succession of equally unlikely perpetrators. By the time they traced it back to a top secret US Army Research lab, nobody cared anymore about where it had come from, the war was well underway. The loose end was finally closed with the ~apparent~ suicide of the prime suspect.

) Fact, Senator Tom Daschle the main target of the anthrax attack had been one of the most effective opponents of Bush Jr policies. He was described as being "The thorn in Bushes side". The anthrax attack very effectively neutralized him.

) Unverified, Bush Sr's father was a banker who financed and supported Hitler during WWII. He should have been tried for treason but for some reason no action was ever taken against him.

) Fact, Bush Sr was the head of the CIA, don't underestimate the importance of this.

) Fact, in a very bizarre interview that was broadcast on public tv in the run-up to the 2004 election; Cheney admitted that they were doing research into their legal ability to declare a state of emergency as a result of the war with Iraq and to use that authority to cancel the election.

) Fact, the voting machines in the 2004 election were rigged. The CEO of Diebold was forced to step down as a result of the scandal, but congress was unwilling or unable to gather enough strength to insist on a recall.

) Fact, about 24 congressmen signed a petition for Impeachment, but the mainstream media never bothered to report on such profound matters. Contrast that with the treatment that Clinton got.

) Fact, when the voting fraud from the 2004 election was finally coming to light and could no longer be ignored by the mainstream press. The headlines that week and the sustained focus of the media was on the "election fraud" in the Ukraine! This was an amazingly effective diversionary tactic. The media said as little as possible about the fraud which was documented in this country.

) Opinion, Yes, 9-11 gives every appearance of having been an American Reichstag. And America somehow narrowly managed to escape from becoming a total permanent dictatorship. But the economy has been looted in the process and it shall take years to recover from the damage that was done by one of the worst administrations in the history of this country.

Opinion, What is truly astonishing is the level of collusion (and possibly blackmail) that was needed in order to pull this off. I think that America came very close to a total dictatorship takeover.

Opinion, And that's just the half of it that is plainly visible... I did not even talk about the Fed Reserve and the Currency/Banking scam. Or the massive damage to the environmental protection laws or the apparent collusion of the oil companies with Bush's help and blessing. The story isn't over yet.

) Fact, All of the information above is from publicly available sources.