Before the odor of burned gunpowder has left the air of the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, the US is lecturing India not to go off half-cocked and attack Pakistan, simply because all of the attackers in the terrorist assaults in that city arrived by boat, apparently from neighboring Pakistan. US officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, are calling on India to engage in a "transparent" and "thorough" investigation into the attacks to establish who was responsible.

How different this is from the American government's response to the 9-11 attacks in the US!

Instead of a "transparent" investigation, we got secret sessions of the Congressional intelligence committees, closed-door interviews of key officials, including President Bush and Vice President Cheney by the 9-11 Commission, and of course the secret round of thousands of mostly Islamic people living in the US, many of whom were held of months incommunicado and without charge, some of whom were subjected to torture, and many other of whom were deported to likely arrest, torture and even death.

Instead of a calm assessment of what had happened and who was responsible, the Bush Administration rounded up Saudi members of the Bin Laden family, and others connected to the regime in Saudi Arabia, whence came most of the people reportedly involved in the hijacking of the four planes used in the attacks, and, with no attempt at interrogation, flew them home to Saudi Arabia. Then, again with only minimal evidence, the US launched an all-out war within days upon Afghanistan, with the goal of ousting and destroying the Taliban government of that country. Shortly after that aggressive move, the Bush/Cheney administration shifted its focus and launched an even larger all-out war against Iraq, a nation that had no connection whatsoever with the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.

So much for transparency and measured responses.

Here again, we have an example of the US expecting one mode of behavior for the rest of the world, and another for itself.

We Americans, it would appear, are not required to operate in a logical manner, are not required to think through the consequences of our actions, are not required to obey international laws, and are not required to listen to the counsel of others. If the United Nations will not support our plan to attack and topple the government of another sovereign nation, we will just do it ourselves. But other countries may not behave in this manner.

There is another way that India and the US are different which has come to light in this latest atrocity. Following the Mumbai attacks, India's minister of security resigned, in an admission that his department had failed to discover an attack that was clearly at least six months in planning, and had failed to prevent the massive loss of life because of inadequate preparation of police and troops for such an eventuality (police and soldiers were not equipped even with sniper rifles and scopes that might have enabled them to shoot and kill some of the 10 terrorists with minimal threat to their hostages).

Nobody resigned for the manifold failings that led up to and allowed for the 9-11 attacks. Nobody resigned for intelligence failures, nobody resigned for air defense failures, nobody resigned for investigative failures, nobody resigned for the lies that were the basis for the attack on Afghanistan and the war against Iraq. There has indeed been zero accountability in the US for the biggest national security disaster since Pearl Harbor. But in India, it took only days for the chief person responsible for security in the Indian government to resign his post in disgrace.

Let us hope that saner heads prevail in India when it comes to Pakistan, as the story of this latest terror action is exposed.

And let us hope that Americans finally demand an honest accounting of what happened on 9/11/2001 and that those who are guilty of allowing it to happen, and of sending the country off on a pointless, bloody and seemingly endless jihad in the Middle East as a result are exposed and forced to pay for their ineptness and their crimes.
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About author
Dave Lindorff is the author of Killing Time: an Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. His new book of columns titled "This Can't be Happening!" is published by Common Courage Press. Lindorff's new book is "The Case for Impeachment," co-authored by Barbara Olshansky.

He can be reached at: dlindorff@yahoo.com

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Here is a responce I found interesting from the site this article was taken from...........................

THE GOOD NEWS

Common sense suggests that if the administration of George W. Bush didn’t have something BIG to hide they would not have been so eager to prevent any meaningful investigation in the events leading up to the attacks of 9/11.

Remember that in the aftermath of 9/11 both Russian President Putin and Egyptian President Mubarak announced that they had telephoned President Bush in the days before 9/11with warnings of an impending attack by al Qaeda.

Even though Sandy Berger warned Condi Rice that Counterterrorism would be her biggest day to day concern, Rice demoted Richard Clarke, head of counterterrorism, from a cabinet level position to her subordinate. During the entire summer of 2001 when Clarke’s “hair was on fire.” Attempting to unravel the many terror leads intelligence was following Clarke sought a “Principles” meeting to examine the extreme terrorist threat. Rice stonewalled the meeting…wait…for…it until September 10, 2001

Later, during the investigation into 9/11 Rice would claim that she did not remember Berger’s warning.

Remember that George W. Bush had his nose so far up Bandar Bush’s butt prior to his campaign for the White House that if Bandar farted so did Bush. Point being, Saudi intelligence had moles in direct contact with bin Laden while bin Laden was “holed-up” in Afghanistan.

THE BAD NEWS

While I think the report of the 9/11 Commission is one of the better fiction novels of 2004 the waters surrounding the “truth” have been muddied (intentionally) to the point of opaqueness. It is my humble opinion that much of the “9/11 Truth Movement” is disinformation to intentionally obscure the truth. (Controlled demolition of WTC-7?…probably. Controlled demolition of Buildings One and Two?...I doubt it.)

Now multiply the many conflicting theories surrounding 9/11, by the evidence that has been disappeared, by NORAD operation Vigilant Guardian, multiply again for NORAD operation Global Guardian and again for NORAD operation Northern Vigilance then and add what was almost a certain cover-up by the Bush-Saudi Evil Empire and you are attempting to unpeel the proverbial infinite onion.

Toss in the fact that the Bush/Saudi evil empire plays for keeps, once bought always bought, once disappeared always disappeared and you have a riddle for which there aren’t any right answers.

So what does that leave? If it’s impossible to unravel the big picture then find a weakness in the details. My personally preferred weakness in the 9/11 riddle? Flight 93. Prove that it was shot down and there was a cover-up that was implemented DURING THE 9/11 ATTACKS and you’ll drive a wooden steak through the heart of the BFEE.

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