Diary: Why Did Bush Give In To the Terrorists?

My copy of Greg Palast's new book, "Armed Madhouse," just arrived. I'm only on page 57 and I'm already boiling over with fury. Actually I reached the boiling point by page 11, when Palast explained why bin Laden declared war on the U.S., in bin Laden's own words, and then went on to describe how Bush complied with bin Laden's demands.

No wonder Bush went from saying after 9/11 that the search for bin Laden was his "highest priority," and then changed his mind a short while afterwards and said that it wasn't his priority after all. Why bother to look for a terrorist when you've already complied with his demands?

So the whole war on terror is a joke, because Bush has already given the terrorists everything that they wanted. Knowing that he conceded to their every wish, and that they weren't likely to bother us any more, Bush then went on to terrorize Iraq and terrorize anyone in the U.S. who dares to disagree with him in the process. There's a war on, you know, so you have to support the President. Well, if he's supporting the terrorists and I supported him, wouldn't that make me a supporter of terrorism?

Yes, I remember Iran-Contra where the U.S. sold arms to terrorists and lied to Congress about it, saying all the while that we'd never do business with terrorists. I even recall something about Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, being convicted of trading with the enemy for doing business with the Nazis, so I guess it is a family tradition with Bush. But violating the Geneva convention, condoning (if not directly ordering) torture, and waging a full-out attack on civil liberties in the U.S., using the pretext of a war on terror AFTER he'd already caved in to the terrorists' demands? What kind of war president is that?

Palast is going to be here in San Diego on the 10th, and I'm hoping to be able to get my copy of his book signed by him, even if I haven't finished it by then. I'm a fast reader, but I keep going back and rereading what I've already read because it is so incredibly important. At this rate a book of less than 350 pages, which would usually take me only two days to finish, it going to take at least a week.

And while I don't yet know what else I'm going to learn, I would like very much to know why Bush agreed to Osama bin Laden's demands, and why 29% of Americans still approve of this cowardly terrorist-appeaser. Could it be that they just don't know the truth and still think that he's fighting terrorism instead of grovelling on his knees to it?