Monday, December 3, 2018

The conspiracy of George Bush and 9/11 by Alejandro Montano


George Bush was a politician who was the 43rd President of the United States of America. He was born in Haven, Connecticut but raised in Texas. There are some conspiracies on George Bush’s connection to 9/11. These conspiracy theories are tied to the interesting fact that oil reserves in Iraq are considered the world’s fifth largest oil reserves. We will explore the fol-lowing conspiracy theories:
            1. Did George Bush have foreknowledge of the disaster about to happen so that the United States could justify their motive to go to Iraq and Afghanistan for their oil and their pipe-line?
2. Was it an inside job: Did George Bush allow controlled demolition to happen, in order to make the towers collapse?
3. Was it ever the Islamic people who had anything to do with the tragedy or flying the plane: Did George Bush have his own people drive the plane to the twin towers?
Let’s see what truth lies behind these big conspiracy theories that affected so many lives and makes us question our government.
You would expect that the United States would know everything about the man that was running our country. George W. Bush was the 43rd president of the United States of America from 2001 to 2009. We know a lot of the basic stuff about him, but there are secrets about him that we do not know. He is known for many personality traits that many agree to disagree on. He was seen in a positive and negative light during his presidency, so this leads many to wonder who the true George W. Bush is.
Many thought of George Bush W. Bush as gregarious and optimistic. Aubbrey Immelman from Saint John’s University talked about how “she conducted an indirect assessment of George W. Bush. She found out that he shows all the qualities of having an outgoing personality. Says he is gregarious and confident in his social abilities and skilled in the art of social influence” (Immelman 1). That showed he was known for being very friendly and standing out among his staff as the silliest. George W. Bush shows how optimistic he is when the 9/11 tragedy struck, and he expressed what he thought of the situation with sympathy. However, after the 9/11 tragedy happened George Bush said, "I relied on instincts and background. My west Texas optimism helped me project confidence” (McGreal). During this time, he did not show an ounce of grief, while the rest of his country was hurting from the tragedy that left many wounded, dead, and heartbroken. Also, George W. Bush will “be remembered for what he’s like: a fast-moving, phrase-mangling Texan who stays upbeat even though his country is not” (Feller). George W. Bush was always someone that continued to display an optimistic personality to everyone. He was a man that was social and knew how to please people. Also, he was extremely confident in how he would go about things. Makes you wonder if he had an alternative reason for being that way. Can someone that was considered one of the worst presidents of all time, have such good qualities?
Which brings me to what others believe that George Bush was a fraud and deceptive. The complete opposite of the optimistic and gregarious light that others painted him as. He was believed to be a fraud because:
He covered up his past. He was a party boy, the scion of a powerful political family who got away with being a deserter during the Vietnam War. He was reportedly AWOL for over a year from his assigned unit, the Texas Air National Guard, which other military outfits called the "Champagne Division. (Rosenfield 1)
Also, he’s known for escaping accountability for his actions.  “Iraq war General Tommy Frank declaration that ‘we don’t do body counts’ trying to impeach George W. Bush and the top administration for primarily over launching the war in Iraq” (Rosenfield 2). It shows that he has never been held accountable in any official domestic or international tribunal. That shows that contrary to popular belief, George W. Bush was not a gregarious man as he deceived many to think of him that way. He claimed that he supports our military but was a deserter for the country he claims to want to protect. How are you going to want to protect a country that you went AWOL for? That raised a lot of eyebrows because you would think as President of the United States of America, you would show a little more passion for us fellow Americans.
 George Bush violated the U.S. Constitution as well. The White House ignored basic civil liberties by launching a massive domestic spying program where millions of Americans would have their online activities monitored with the help of big telecom companies. The government had no search warrant or court authority for the electronic monitoring. This whole act was known as the patriot act. As the president of the United States of America, you should believe in the U.S Constitution, and abide by it, instead he violated it. To invade your fellow Americans privacy is wrong, especially without their consent. The excuse made for doing that was, so they could monitor chatter for any future terrorist threats or plots aimed at the United States. If he can deceive us in that way, how can we be so sure that he had nothing to do with the tragedy of 9/11.
During the 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States of America, there are many conspiracy theories on what happened. Not only are there many conspiracy theories of 9/11, but many involving our 43rd president George W. Bush.  We will explore the following conspiracy theories on George Bush:
            1. Did George W. Bush have foreknowledge of the disaster about to happen so that the United States could justify their motive to go to Iraq and Afghanistan for their oil and their pipe-line?
2. Was it an inside job: Did George W. Bush allow controlled demolition to happen, to make the towers collapse?
3. Was it ever the Islamic people who had anything to do with the tragedy or flying the plane: Did George W. Bush have his administration drive the plane to the twin towers?
            The conspiracy that George Bush had foreknowledge of the disaster about to happen in the United States to find an excuse to go to Iraq and Afghanistan for their oil and their pipe-line is a strong theory. It is believed to be a strong theory because on Facebook it was asked how many people believed that George W. Bush had foreknowledge on the bombing of the twin towers. Out of the twenty people asked on Facebook, twenty believed that this theory is true. Many seemed to believe in this theory, especially “a theologian and professor emeritus at the Claremont School of Theology, named David Ray Griffin” (Harmanci 1). Griffin believed that:
The U.S. government was complicit in the attacks, Griffin names three things. The behavior of Bush at the schoolhouse in Florida ("Secret Service should have whisked him out immediately if we’re under attack, but he stayed for over 30 minutes… It’s pretty clear evidence that they knew they wouldn’t be attack. (Harmanci 1)
It is a fact that it is protocol to secure the president in a safe area when an attack happens on the United States until the attack is over. That raised many suspicions to why the Bush administration was so calm in such a tragic and scary situation.
Also, there is a big pile of evidence that suggests that the “hijackings not only were imaginable, they also were foreshadowed. The Bush administration received what Secretary of State Colin Powell describes as a ‘lot of signs’ throughout the summer that terrorists were plotting U.S. attacks. Among them: al-Qaeda mentions of an impending ‘Hiroshima’ on U.S. soil” (Ahmed 1). If George Bush had foreknowledge on the terrorist attack, then why didn’t he do anything about it? Not only did he have a lot of signs of a terrorist attack, but there was verbal confirmation that it was happening; “Israeli intelligence officials say that they warned their counterparts in the United States last month that large-scale terrorist attacks on highly visible targets on the American mainland were imminent” (Ahmed 2). If you’re the President of the United States, wouldn’t you do everything in your power to stop an attack from happening on U.S. soil? That’s why it is believed that George Bush took part in the conspiracy of 9/11 because instead of giving out a warning to the United States about what is happening, he was visiting a children’s school. Many citizens say that, “yes”, he knew of an attack, but “he didn’t know from where and how they were going to do it” (Ahmed 2). In fact, George Bush did know of where the attack would be taking place as:
Russian President Vladimir Putin, a leading actor in the new international coalition against terrorism and a close ally of President Bush and Prime Minister Blair, informed interviewers on MS-NBC that the Russian government had warned the U.S. of imminent attacks on airports and government buildings in the strongest possible terms for several weeks prior to the 11th September attacks. (Ahmed 3)
This is really upsetting to many U.S. citizens to find out that the person they chose to run their country literally received a warning from the president of Russia and still chose to not take part in stopping this tragedy from happening. Many still seem to believe that this is not true, “that George W. Bush and his administration weren’t warned of such a thing” (Ahmed 4). Therefore, “three days after the terrorist attacks, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein pointed out that: ‘Bin Laden’s people had made statements three weeks ago carried in the Arab press in Great Britain that they were preparing to carry out unprecedented attacks in the U.S.”’ (Ahmed 5). This was a press conference that was recorded and actual proof that Osama Bin Laden did give out a fair warning of his intentions with the United States of America. To say that George Bush and his administration had knowledge of the attack being presented to the United States is a huge understatement.
            These allegations of George W. Bush having foreknowledge of the attack on 9/11 makes everyone wonder “why?”. What motive would George Bush have to let this tragedy happen? Well, George W. Bush “wanted an excuse to go to war overseas, not for taking down Al ’Qaeda, but for their oil” (Kay 1). Usually, the president’s administration is full of politicians who are made up of middle-class people, but not millionaires. It just so happens that George W. Bush’s administration was full of politicians that are millionaires and entangled in the oil and gas business. This seemed to raise eyebrows to everyone, even to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who was a director of Chevron, said that “the concentration of energy connections is so pronounced that some critics are calling the Bush government the ‘oil and gas administration” (Kay 1). There are also many questions about how energy policy decisions may be affected by the private financial interests of the many senior cabinet members; “The Bush administration has already made it clear that it would be interested in opening up oil exploration” (Kay 2). It left Americans wondering where they planned on exploring for oil. Also, what lengths were the Bush administration willing to go to get oil and benefit financially from the oil?
           
     
Which brings us to the very popular question, did George Bush allow controlled demolition to happen to make the towers collapse?  A lot of U. S citizens believe in this theory because of “how the building was built to withstand a plane crash”(Verdure 1). The architects that built the twin towers said that “without stripping of a significant portion of the steel insulation before impact, the subsequent fire would likely not have led to overall collapse” (Verdure 1). That statement made everyone question where the truth lies. If the twin towers really went down because of the plane, then was it a fault on the architects and engineers that built the towers? That’s a popular question asked by those who don’t believe that George Bush allowed controlled demolition. It was said that: 
No experienced structural engineer watching the attack expected the WTC towers to collapse. No skyscraper has ever before collapsed due to the fire. The fact that the WTC towers did, beckons deep examination. (Verdure 2)
If experienced structural engineers don’t believe that the tower would have collapsed due to fire, then that speaks volumes to the theory that it was controlled demolition.
           

             There is the fact that Osama Bin Laden, who was the prime suspect of the 9/11 attack claimed to not have been involved in the attack. So, were his Islamic people ever involved in the attack? In a statement issued to the Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera, based in Qatar, “bin Laden said, ‘The U.S. government has consistently blamed me for being behind every occasion its enemies attack it” (Bin Laden Says He…1). If he wasn’t behind the attack, then did George Bush have our people fly those planes? The reason that question is asked is because the Islamic people would have any reason to deny any involvement is the attack. Also, bin laden released another statement saying:
I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems to have been planned by people for personal reasons. I have been living in the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan and following its leaders' rules. The current leader does not allow me to exercise such operations. (Bin Laden Says He…2)
Again, there is another statement denying his involvement in the attack. The statement confuses people because if he didn’t do it then who did? This leads to the belief that George W. Bush had Bid Laden framed so that he could have an excuse to go overseas. Also, why is ISIS and all the Islamic terrorist groups attacking us? Well, it is believed that the Islamic terrorist groups weren’t happy with the supposed framing of the attack of 9/11, not just on bin Laden but their country. So why not attack the country that’s supposedly framing them for 9/11?
            George W. Bush and the 9/11 tragedy remains as one of the most investigated conspiracy theories in the United States of America. The 43rd President of the United States is still being questioned for the conspiracy theories: 
1. Did George W. Bush have foreknowledge of the disaster about to happen so that the United States could justify their motive to go to Iraq and Afghanistan for their oil and their pipe-line?
2. Was it an inside job; Did George W. Bush allow controlled demolition to happen, to make the towers collapse?
3. Was it ever the Islamic people who had anything to do with the tragedy or flying the plane; Did George W. Bush have his administration drive the plane into the twin towers?
Although there is substantial evidence that shows that George W. Bush did have a part in the 9/11 tragedy, there is still confusion and unanswered questions about who caused the tragedy.


Works Cited
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