Criminally Stupid or Criminal Disinfo?
Reading through some of these stories I posted recently got me thinking about Miss Condi Rice. Remember her wonderful little statement?
"I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile." (exact quote)
In other words, she is either the fuckingest stupidest National Security Advisor ever, or she is fucking lying her ass off.
Sorry, but either way-- that statement is just so horribly wrong. It's a huge slap in the face to people who think and worry about national security for their job as well as to the victims of 9/11.
And what got my goat some time back, after this appalling episode (roughly in the spring of 2002), Newsweek magazine did a cover story on Condi, basically a puff piece. Never once noting how fucking stupid her statement was and how lame she was overall.
So is Condi that fucking stupid? My guess is no.
I think she was playing a nice little disinfo game-- that no one had ever thought of something like 9/11, basically as a distraction. And lots of stupid journalists (e.g. Tom Friedman ate it up: "9/11 was a failure of imagination"). Either they were fucking stupid or they were in on the disinfo. And probably the latter for some. It fucking worked, didn't it? Most people thought 9/11 was such as amazing unprecedented event-- they never realized that the US government had been thinking about this scenario for years, and was even running "hijacking drills" on 9/11 itself!
Sorry for the language, but this episode just makes me so incredibly angry.
If we had a real fucking media, Condi would have been blasted out of the water the day after she said that and she would have had to resign in disgrace. But any response from media was very muted. "Can't criticize the government in times like these".
The fucking NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR, after the most horrendous terror act in US history, acts totally clueless about what happened, and no one in the major media bothers to call her on it.
But really, it's just another in a long series of disgraceful and appalling events that have occurred in this country since 9/11.
"I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile." (exact quote)
In other words, she is either the fuckingest stupidest National Security Advisor ever, or she is fucking lying her ass off.
Sorry, but either way-- that statement is just so horribly wrong. It's a huge slap in the face to people who think and worry about national security for their job as well as to the victims of 9/11.
And what got my goat some time back, after this appalling episode (roughly in the spring of 2002), Newsweek magazine did a cover story on Condi, basically a puff piece. Never once noting how fucking stupid her statement was and how lame she was overall.
So is Condi that fucking stupid? My guess is no.
I think she was playing a nice little disinfo game-- that no one had ever thought of something like 9/11, basically as a distraction. And lots of stupid journalists (e.g. Tom Friedman ate it up: "9/11 was a failure of imagination"). Either they were fucking stupid or they were in on the disinfo. And probably the latter for some. It fucking worked, didn't it? Most people thought 9/11 was such as amazing unprecedented event-- they never realized that the US government had been thinking about this scenario for years, and was even running "hijacking drills" on 9/11 itself!
Sorry for the language, but this episode just makes me so incredibly angry.
If we had a real fucking media, Condi would have been blasted out of the water the day after she said that and she would have had to resign in disgrace. But any response from media was very muted. "Can't criticize the government in times like these".
The fucking NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR, after the most horrendous terror act in US history, acts totally clueless about what happened, and no one in the major media bothers to call her on it.
But really, it's just another in a long series of disgraceful and appalling events that have occurred in this country since 9/11.
posted by spooked at 10:59 PM
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