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Was it Bush? NO ! It Was Liberal Thinking !!!
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How
the Left Caused the 9-11 Attacks
Wes Vernon,
NewsMax.com Editor's note:
This is the first part of a series.
WASHINGTON – Blame the security
breakdowns that led to Sept. 11 on the U.S. left, David Horowitz says in
a powerful fact-filled pamphlet titled "How the Left Undermined
America’s Security.” Horowitz
knows the left like the back of his hand. He was a "Red diaper
baby” raised in a communist home. The 1960s "destructive
generation” (his term) caused his ideological flip-flop, especially
when it became clear to him that murder was not out of the question in
achieving left-wing goals in the U.S. He is now a dedicated pro-American
conservative. His new booklet does contain a lot of
chapter and verse about the trivialization and near obliteration of
security during the Clinton era. However, it is not a
"Clinton-bashing” polemic. Horowtiz says the blame belongs on the
shoulders of the entire left-wing establishment. That means the
politicians, the media, academia and all other powerful outlets
controlled by the leftist establishment. So let’s start with warnings
ignored and opportunities missed. · For nearly a decade before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,
the Clinton administration knew Americans were increasingly vulnerable
to attacks involving biological, chemical or nuclear weapons. And it did
nothing. Clinton Ignored Own Defense
Secretary's Warning ·
Clinton’s own secretary of defense, William Cohen, in a July
1999 op-ed piece in the Washington Post, predicted a terrorist attack on
America’s mainland. Not only did the then-president do nothing, but
the mainstream media "looked the other way,” alleges Horowitz. Liberal journalist Joe Klein reported
on a close monitoring of the media. None of the major television
networks or the elite press printed or uttered a word of it. The
reaction among those who kept track of the way the media ignored an
obvious blockbuster story was pure astonishment. ·
The National Commission on Terrorism in 2000 "issued a
report with the eerily foreboding image of the Twin Towers on its
cover.” A bipartisan effort to attach the
report’s findings to congressional intelligence legislation was
stymied by left-wing Sen. Patrick "Leaky" Leahy, D-Vt. The
senator said he feared a campaign against terrorism would threaten
"civil liberties.” Watching Terrorists Isn't P.C.
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Vice President Al Gore’s commission to improve airline security
degenerated into a focus on "racial profiling.” This, of course,
diluted security measures in the face of terrorist threats from the
Middle East and Asia. Seventeen of 19 Sept. 11 terrorists were
fundamentalist extremists from the Middle East. ·
In 1993, the FBI identified three "charities” connected to
the terrorist organization Hamas. Clinton ignored pleas that he create a
"President’s List” of extremist and terrorist groups. He feared
the political fallout of "profiling” Islamic charities. ·
By Clinton’s own account, Monica Lewinsky met him privately in
the Oval Office a dozen times, but the head of the CIA could not get a
single private meeting with the president after the 1993 bombing of the
World Trade Center. ·
In 1996, while his own State Department was describing Osama bin
Laden as "the greatest financier of terrorist projects around the
world,” Clinton
ignored an offer from the president of Sudan to arrest and extradite bin
Laden and supply detailed intelligence data about global networks
involving Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and Hamas. Membership in these
networks included two hijackers who piloted jetliners into the World
Trade Center. Those are highlights. Clinton, writes Horowitz, did focus
enough attention on intelligence services "to hamstring the
intelligence services in the name of civil liberties, shrink the U.S.
military, eliminate its ability to fight two wars at once, pursue
massive experiments in the military where 'consciousness raising' and
gender and diversity reform overshadowed the prime purpose of the
military: provide the best defense of the nation." Next: It wasn’t just Clinton. Left
Eliminated Security Protections for Americans
Wes Vernon,
NewsMax.com Editor's note:
See part one of this series, How
the Left Caused the 9-11 Attacks.
WASHINGTON – Loose immigration
policies played a major role in the terrorist attack on American soil. Ex-leftist David Horowitz reminds us
that the 100 or so Arabic operatives who participated in plotting the
Sept. 11 attacks entered the United States "with and without
passports seemingly at will.” Moreover, they received training in
airliners in American facilities "despite clear indications that
some of them might be part of a terrorist campaign.” While all this was going on, leftist
Democrats relentlessly pushed for greater relaxation of immigration
policies and accused anyone who scrutinized foreign nationals of
xenophobia and "racial profiling." Beyond demagoguery over the immigrant
issue, what happened that would leave our intelligence apparatus in such
a mess? Left-wing reporter Joe Klein
investigated that question and came to the conclusion that "there
seems to be near unanimous agreement among experts: in the ten years
since the collapse of the Soviet Union almost every aspect of American
national security – from military operations to intelligence
gathering, from border control to political leadership – has been
marked by … institutional lassitude and bureaucratic arrogance.” The 10-year period Klein describes
would include all eight years of the Clinton presidency and seven years
since the first al-Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center. 'Brick by Brick'
But Clinton only epitomized the
problem. That the Democrats would nominate someone with his flip
attitude toward security was only a logical result of the years of their
own concerted efforts to break down America’s intelligence capability
"brick by brick” (to quote the words one of them actually used).
This effort was not merely the result of a few backbenchers on Capitol
Hill. It included the top Democrat congressional leadership. Even Clinton’s intelligence budget
was not low enough to satisfy Rep. Bernie Sanders, the avowed socialist
from Vermont who caucuses with the Democrats. Horowitz, in his booklet "How
the Left Undermined America’s Security,” reveals that Sanders
introduced amendments year after year emasculating the intelligence
structure. Sanders refused even to examine the
very budget he proposed to cut. "My job is not to go through the
intelligence budget. I have not even looked at it.” He wanted to slash the budget even
beyond the cuts already approved by the Democrat-led House Intelligence
Committee. "Irresponsible?
Incomprehensible?” asks Horowitz. "Not to between a third and
more than half the Democrats in the House [including the leadership] who
voted in favor of the Sanders amendment.” Berkeley Rep. Ron Dellums,
D-Calif., supported the Sanders amendment and similar measures while he,
Dellums, was chairman of the Armed Services Committee. The Man Who Would Be President
House Democrat Leader Dick Gephardt
of Missouri, who still harbors ambitions for the White House, voted for
five out of seven intelligence-cutting amendments for which he was
recorded. The second-ranking Democrat leader, Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich.,
"voted for every single one” of 10 such cuts in his congressional
career, reports Horowitz. Three lawmakers who chaired or were
ranking members of Armed Service Subcommittees – Pat Schroeder, D-Colo.,
Neil Abercrombe, D-Hawaii, and Marty Meehan, D-Mass. – voted
consistently to hack away at intelligence funding, as did Rep. David
Obey, D-Wis., top Democrat on House Appropriations. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., a member
of the Intelligence Committee (who "should have known better,”
says Horowitz) voted for anti-intelligence amendments three times. She
has been elected to succeed Bonior as Democrat whip. "In 1998,” says Horowitz,
"Osama bin Laden and four radical Islamic groups issued a fatwa
condemning every American man, woman and child, civilian and military
included. Sanders responded by enlisting Oregon Democrat Peter DeFazio
to author an amendment cutting the intelligence authorization again.” The anti-intelligence moves were
accompanied by similar chopping away at the military. In the words of the late Rep. Floyd
Spence, R-S.C., "We have done to our military and to our
intelligence agencies what no foreign power has been able to do. We have
decimated our defenses.”
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