OpEdNews - Page 2 of Article: 9/11/01 -- Six Years Later

We will not forget the face of Saddam Hussein, who was a horrible violator of human rights, and who allegedly possessed large quantities of weapons of mass destruction and was resultingly removed from power by the United States, and who still enjoys life and the adoration of his followers and sympathizers.

We will not forget that our "intelligence community", made up of no less than the CIA, FBI and NSA, either from sheer ineptitude, or in their horribly misguided attempts to protect their respective "turf", failed to warn two presidents of the real terrorist threats.

We will not forget that our "intelligence community", specifically the CIA, allegedly provided the still-unproven information that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

We will not forget that those same agencies failed, over and over, to do their jobs --- resulting in 9/11, the attack on the U.S.S. Cole, and countless other terrorist attacks on the United States and our allies.

We will not forget that our "intelligence community", made up of no less than the CIA, FBI and NSA, in the weeks of heightened alert following 9/11, let a 14 year old boy fly unchallenged into the airspace around our Florida command past for the Afghanistan initiative.

We will not forget that our servicemen and women were deployed into Iraq despite overwhelming world opinion that we should wait until the world community was ready to take appropriate measures against Saddam Hussein and his administration.

We will not forget that the same CIA has still not provided the source of that "WMD" information, yet our servicemen and women are still losing life and limb in the resultant war -- more now dead than the innocents who were killed in the horrific events of 9/11/01..

We will not forget that our "intelligence community", made up of no less than the CIA, FBI and NSA, has not been touched when the highly touted "Homeland Security" department was set up.

We will not forget that Mr. George Bush, Sr. once headed the untouched CIA.
We will not forget that the administration of Mr. George W. Bush, and Congress, are allowing unprecedented mounting debt as we pursue the "war", and oil, in Iraq.

We will not forget that Haliburton and other companies with ties to top Mr. George W. Bush administration officials, through unannounced and unbid contracts, are profiting from the "war" in Iraq, even as our servicemen and women continue to lose lives and limbs --- long after the war was declared over by Mr. Bush.

We will not forget THAT photo-op, as Iraq plunges further into civil war.

We will not forget that Medicare has been placed in the hands of the same companies who already deny care to seniors and the disabled, while allowing payment for prescriptions in the USA costing twice to ten times the prices for the same drugs available across the border in Canada -- more companies with ties to top Bush administration officials.

We will not forget the faces of countless federal elected and appointed officials -- starting with Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney -- who cowered in Washington, or anywhere other than New York City, on 9/11 and the DAYS following.

We will not forget THAT example of blatant cowardice and failed leadership.

We will not forget the faces of countless numbers of our servicepeople, and those of our allies, who have lost lives or limbs in Afghanistan, Iraq and other parts of the world using faulty intelligence or protecting American corporate interests.

We will not forget the majesty of the World Trade Center reaching into the sky to daily host the tens of thousands of workers and visitors to the southern tip of New York City.

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