Newly Released Bush-Era Legal Memos Are ‘Deeply Disturbing,’ ACLU Says

[David Guyatt]

Unless, and until, we prove that it was a foreign government-sponsored activity, the "war powers" of the President should not be invoked. We should use all our resources to track down and bring to justice those responsible, wherever they might be found.

Good luck with proving that Drew. It's going to be a tough thing to prove, I think.

Although, on the other hand, I suppose the US still has a fairly strong argument to invade Saudi Arabia which clearly represents as close as you're going to get to a foreign state sponsor - plus maybe Pakistan as a distant outsider. Strange that that hasn't happened though. Maybe "friends" can do things that enemies simply can't?

Otherwise, just stab your finger in the map and start a war in one of the most backward nations in the world, a million miles from the USA in a region a great many Americans had never even heard of before and which, coincidentally, had plans to build a gas pipeline through it that would export gas to western nations (via Pakistan of course) and, as a designer consequence, was intended to reduce western reliance on Russian gas exports. Odd that. You don't think Uncle had a long term geopolitical plan in place do you?

Afghanistan remains the very best opium growing and exporting nation in the world who's "product" also is destined for western nations. It accounts for three quarters of the world's annual illicit supply. Oddly enough, since the USA's democratic and peaceful involvement in Afghanistan since 2002, opium production has steadily been on the rise. Nowadays, more land is cultivated for poppy cultivation in Afghanistan than cocoa production in Latin America. And to think those nasty ol' Taliban actually banned opium back in the day, and almost brought to a halt a perfectly profitable global business opportunity that was estimated to be worth more than $ 4 billion as at 2008. And all this growth despite the US spending $7.5 billion on Afghanistan counter-narcotics (whoops!). There's tax dollar prudence for you. Spend twice as much and get less than half as much in return. Ain't capitalism wonderful. Meanwhile, that far off backward country remains the single largest producer of cannabis in the world too (hash-hish). These same sort of things happened in Indochina during the US war there too.

Times change, nations destined for democracy change too, but the constants of oil, gas, narcotics and guns never vary. And money laundering, obviously. Our trusty banks take care of that for us though. When they're not too busy setting up even more profitable scams. Like the securitisation of worthless real estate in the years prior to 2008. But at least they had the opportunity to test drive that scam by running the Savings and Loans scam back in 1980's when George "Poppy" Bush was the vice president. And a not too distant relative of his, actually his son Neil, gained personal experience of how the scam worked as one of the Board Directors of Silverado Holdings and was responsible responsible for losing a piddly $100 million of loan money that he lent without authorisation to two of his other business partners who didn't pay it back -- a mafia speciality conjuring trick btw -- now you see it, now you don't. It's been trousered. But then the Bush family had some very close friends who were also very close to the Mafia (see HERE)

For my money, all it would take to find those truly responsible for 9/11 would be to dig deep into the political and power structure of Washington, Texas and a large five sided building near Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia. Not to mention another address in Virginia. Those would be the current whereabouts of some of the domestic state sponsors, I think - which I imagine is why they all need a war powers act to avoid personal arrest, prosecution and life sentences behind bars where big men who enjoy pumping iron would spend their evenings buggering them blind for the rest of their lives. For me it would be a fitting reward for the almost endless public service they have provided to their country. But I suppose I'm being vindictive...

Where are George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and chums hanging out these days?

I doubt that vaseline is on their urgent shopping lists these days.

It should be though...