A
9/11 Mothers
Cry: On the Anniversary of my Daughters Murder.
Thanks for warning me about John Kerry, but I would have like a
warning on or before 9/11
By:
Jack Dalton and Donna Marsh O’Connor
OpEdNews.com
Fear
and blind hatred; threats and spurious accusations; these appear to be
the accepted “norms” of the Bush/Cheney cabal.
It
is very apparent to this old vet that Bush, Cheney and the rest of the
“Mayberry Machiavelli’s” surrounding them need high levels of
chaos and instability to operate-to push their “agenda” of world
dominance; their vision of Pax Americana. This they have turned into
an art form. All one has to do is look at
Iraq
.
9/11
is exactly what they needed and were looking for to rally the great
unwashed masses, us, the people of this nation, behind the
pre-existent
Iraq
invasion and war plans.
This was right out of the Project for a New American Century’s play
book when it stated the nation would need a “
Pearl Harbor
” type event to rally
the nation behind invading
Iraq
.
The
murders of 3,000 people on 9/11 provided
Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz with exactly what they needed to push
the “Liberation of Iraq” down the throats of not only this nation,
but the rest of the world as well. It seems however, that the only
people who fell for this “scam” are right here in the good old
U.S. of A.
Well
before 9/11, during Cheney’s “secret” energy task force
meetings, Cheney, Ken Lay, et al, had mapped out
Iraq
’s oil fields,
refineries and pipelines. They turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to
ALL pre 9/11 warnings. They were too busy looking at
Iraq
’s oil fields and
drooling to concern themselves with the notion of a major
“terrorist” attack on the
U.S.
Why worry about that
when there are oil fields to “liberate.”
Why
were all the warnings ignored by Bush/Cheney? For me that is an easy
one to answer: they want their “New World Order” and will stop at
nothing in their quest for power and domination. And that includes the
deaths of 3,000 people on 9/11.
One
of the innocents who was murdered on that day, Vanessa Lang Langer,
she was in Tower ll, 93rd floor, was told to “stay at
your desk, you are safe.”
Vanessa’s
mother, Donna, who teaches Writing and Rhetoric at
Syracuse
University
, has a lot to say about
what happened on 9/11 and about Cheney’s recent warning, threat,
whatever you want to call it, when he told us a vote for Kerry is
inviting a new 9/11. Outrageous is an understatement.
An
open letter to Dick Cheney on the anniversary of my daughter's murder:
Thank you for warning me about my vote for John Kerry.
In this version of
America
, the one you all have
crafted, clarity is very difficult to come by.
Let me make myself perfectly clear:
my daughter was murdered on
9/11/2001
, on an absolutely clear,
late summer morning. She
was four months pregnant and, that morning, five minutes after the
first of two planes hit the
World
Trade
Center
, she was told she was
“safe.” She was
told to “stay at her desk.”
She was found whole and intact ten feet from an alley
between Towers IV and V. I
cannot tell you how I would have appreciated such a clear warning
before September 11th, or even on
September 11th. Before that day, there were
warnings, clear warnings,
but they only reached the desk of George W. Bush. And I note he
did nothing to stop the events of 9/11.
Nothing.
There were other warnings during
Clinton
's tenure in the White
House (many I’m sure you don’t need me to innumerate)--some,
though they were perhaps more coded than your recent missive, came in
the form of Ken Starr's investigation of
Clinton
. As a mother or a
citizen of this country, did I read this as a warning then? No.
I did not. Was this money
well spent by the Republicans? Many
of my Republican friends at the time did not think so.
Could we Americans afford this kind of investigation, knowing
now how much we needed
Clinton
to be free to pursue
more pressing issues? No. Should
I have read in my lack of understanding of the import of the Ken Starr
investigation that there was something you
people wanted to have occur? Was this a deliberate
distraction? Has anyone
in the media since, or, in fact, has anyone in any office of power in
this nation asked any of you to, perhaps, answer for that?
Anyone?
I ask these questions now because the Bush/Cheney administration and
all of your followers are the greatest beneficiaries of the events
post-9/11, and I take your warning as an indication of what you guys
will bring to
America
if Kerry wins. Get
this clear, Mr. Cheney, what you guys will bring to
America
.
I fear you, believe it or not, more than I fear another bin
Laden attack and that is why I am asking you these questions now.
Because I take your warning as an admission of your ties to that
event. Even, no especially, if that admission is not what
you intended.
So thank you, once again. And,
understand how truly thankful I am to hear you articulate what
only I seem willing to articulate:
That if Kerry wins, you will come back at us.
We
are forewarned.
But
know this: I will never again watch my values, and the values of my
fellow Americans be trampled on by so much corruption, so much
duplicity and so much unadulterated hate without speaking out.
You are not a Republican. You have shamed Republicans. And
many of them, I pray, will be voting with me, in hope as well as fear,
for John Forbes Kerry.
Donna Marsh O'Connor
Mother of Vanessa Lang Langer, WTC, Tower II, 93rd floor