[Carlhole]

by Paul Craig Roberts

The raison d'etre of the Bush administration is war in the Middle East in order to protect America from terrorism and to ensure America's oil supply. On both counts the Bush administration has failed catastrophically.

Bush's single-minded focus on the "war against terrorism" has compounded a natural disaster and turned it into the greatest calamity in American history. The U.S. has lost its largest and most strategic port and thousands of lives, and 80 percent of one of America's most historic cities is under water.

If terrorists had achieved this result, it would rank as the greatest terrorist success in history.

Prior to 9/11, the Federal Emergency Management Agency warned that New Orleans was a disaster waiting to happen. Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project (SELA) in order to protect the strategic port, the refineries, and the large population.

However, after 2003 the flow of funds to SELA were diverted to the war in Iraq. During 2004 and 2005 the New Orleans Times-Picayune published nine articles citing New Orleans' loss of hurricane protection to the war in Iraq...

Antiwar.com

[MacG]

Do you really think there will be any difference? Since som many americans are stupid enough to still support the Iraq war, they will hardly make any connections whatsoever. Besides, Kerry promised to continue the the war. Do you prefer to be kicked by a left boot or a right boot?

[Carlhole]

...This year’s 9/11 Truth Teach-In will also link 9/11 to the related issues of skyrocketing energy prices and the New Orleans disaster, arguing that 9/11 truth is quite literally the only thing that can save the world from the coming “long emergency” (James Kunstler) of peak oil and climate change. 9/11 doubled the military budget and launched “the war that will not end in our lifetimes.” Yet that war must end—NOW—and the Pentagon budget must be radically reduced, so that all available resources can be focused on meeting the environmental-energy challenge. We need to bring our troops home, disband most of our military and start protecting our coastal cities, developing energy alternatives, rebuilding our railroads and planning for $10-a-gallon gasoline NOW. There is only one way to generate the political will to do this: Discredit imperialism and militarism by showing that it was our own High Command that murdered almost 3,000 Americans to double its budget and launch its coveted wars on 9/11/01.

from:
http://www.911blogger.com/2005/09/marat ... dison.html