"We, the American people, call upon the Bush-Cheney administration to
take responsibility for failing to protect America"

TO: GEORGE W. BUSH, DICK CHENEY, CONGRESS AND THE MEDIA

Since 911, Americans have learned about numerous warnings that were
received by the Bush Administration before 911.

These numerous warnings were ignored, with fatal consequences for
nearly 3,000 people.

If these warnings had not been ignored, the Bush Administration could
have protected America by taking decisive action in the days leading
up to 911, and on 911 itself.

Moreover, the Bush Administration concealed these crucial facts from
Congress and the American people, and then lied about them when they
were revealed, in a deliberate effort to cover up its failure to
protect America.

We, the American people, call upon the Bush-Cheney administration to
take responsibility for failing to protect America, and to resign. If
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney refuse to resign, we demand their
impeachment by Congress.

The following list contains the most serious warnings that were
ignored by the Bush administration.

Individually, each of these failures justifies punishment of those
directly responsible.

Collectively, these failures justify the resignation - or IMPEACHMENT
- of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, who are ultimately responsible
for the failure of their Administration to protect the American
people.

The Bush administration ignored the issue of terrorism from the moment
it assumed office:

They ignored the final report of the Hart-Rudman commission, the Road
Map for National Security: Imperative for Change, that was issued on
January 31, 2001
They blocked Senate hearings on the Hart-Rudman commission's report,
scheduled for the week of May 7, 2001, by announcing a brand new
commission led by Vice President Dick Cheney - which never met before
911
They ignored repeated requests from the Hart-Rudman commission from
January 2001 to September 6, 2001, when National Security adviser
Condoleezza Rice said she would "pass on" their concerns
They ignored repeated requests from Senator Dianne Feinstein to
restructure US counter-terrorism and homeland defense programs,
starting in July 2001 and continuing through September 10, 2001, when
Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff told Feinstein to wait 6 months
They ignored the report of the Gore Commission on Aviation Safety and
Security
The Bush administration changed Bill Clinton's policy towards
Afghanistant to appease Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their Saudi backers
to promote the interests of oil companies, putting profits for
campaign contributors ahead of fighting terrorism:

They prevented FBI terrorism experts from investigating Saudi Arabian
ties to Al Qaeda before 911, leading to the resignation of FBI Deputy
Director John O'Neill only two weeks before 911
They ordered the Naval Strike Force - which President Clinton deployed
near Afghanistan on 24-hour alert in order to strike Osama Bin Laden -
to "stand down" before 911
They gave $43 million to the Taliban in April 2001
When appeasement failed, the Bush administration then prepared for war
against Afghanistan:

They issued an ultimatum to the Taliban in July 2001, telling them to
turn over Osama Bin Laden and permit Unocal to build a pipeline across
Afghanistan in return for a "carpet of gold" - or face a "carpet of
bombs"
They prepared a National Security Presidential Directive on September
9, 2001, a detailed "game plan to remove al-Qaida from the face of the
Earth"
The Bush administration ignored numerous warnings from US and foreign
agencies:

They ignored warnings as early as June from the National Security
Agency's Echelon electronic spy network that Middle Eastern terrorists
were planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to
attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture
They ignored warnings from an FBI agent in Phoenix on July 10, 2001
about suspicious Arab pilots with ties to Al Qaeda who were training
in a local flight school, urging a nationwide investigation of Arab
students in flight schools
Bush personally ignored warnings from the CIA on August 6, 2001 that
Al Qaeda planned to hijack US planes
They ignored warnings from Jordanian intelligence in the summer that a
major attack was planned inside the US using airplanes
They ignored warnings from Israeli intelligence in August that
large-scale terrorist attacks on highly visible targets on the
American mainland were imminent, organized by a cell of as many of 200
terrorists said to be preparing a big operation
They ignored warnings from Russian intelligence in August that at
least 25 terrorist were trained in Afghanistan and Pakistan to attack
US targets, with future plans to attack financial, nuclear, and space
facilities
They ignored warnings from Moroccan intelligence in August that Bin
Laden was "very disappointed" by the failure of the 1993 WTC bombing,
and planned "large-scale operations in New York in the summer or
autumn of 2001"
They rejected a search warrant requests by FBI agents in Minneapolis
for Moussaoui's computer disk
They ignored warnings from Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak on August
31 of an impending attack on the US
They ignored phone calls from Abu Zubaida, bin Laden's chief of
operations, to the United States that were intercepted by the National
Security Agency shortly before 911
They ignored an extroardinary number of "puts" on the stocks which
were hardest hit by the 911 attacks, including American and United
airlines, in the days leading up to 911
The Bush administration failed to take meaningful precautions against
a terrorist attack when so many warnings were being issued:

Bush went on vacation for the month of August, after only six months
on the job
They allowed counterterrorism agencies to "stand down" from the
highest level of alert before August 6, 2001, despite repeated
warnings from CIA director George Tenet
The FAA knew about concerns that Moussaiou would hijack a 747 in
August 2001, but failed to warn the airlines
They failed to assign more sky marshalls or to make cockpit doors more
secure
They changed FAA policy to prohibit pilots from carrying guns
They failed to increase the readiness levels of our Air Defense
On 911, Bush failed to take decisive action:

George W. Bush said on two occasions that he saw the first plane hit
the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. on 911, and was told by Andrew
Card about the second plane hitting the World Trade Center at 9:05
a.m. - yet Bush did nothing but listen to a children's story until
9:30 a.m. instead of ordering fighter jets to intercept all hijacked
planes immediately
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney ordered the Pentagon to shoot down
Flight 93 over Pennsylvania at 9:55 a.m., but could have shot down the
other three flights if they had not waited so long to act
Following 911, Bush used the tragedy to promote the agenda of his
wealthy and powerful supporters:

Bush pushed through the USA Patriot Act, which rewarded right-wing
opponents of freedom and civil liberties
Bush demanded additional tax cuts for the wealthy using the pretense
of "stimulating" the economy
Bush massively increased defense spending, to the direct personal
benefit of his father and his cronies in the Carlyle Group
To cover up his failures, the Bush administration resorted to
stonewalling, fingerpointing, and lies about 911:

They have continually lied about the extent of the warnings about the
911 attack

Shortly after 911, Ari Fleischer declared flatly that there were "no
warnings"
When it was revealed in May 2002 that the CIA briefed Bush personally
on August 6, 2001, they claimed that the briefing did not address
terrorist attacks in the US; then they claimed it was a "low-level"
briefing based on only one warning
Condoleezza Rice said, "I don't think anyone could have predicted that
these people... would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked
airplane as a missile." (5/16/02)

The Pentagon commissioned a study in 1993 called "Terrorism 2000",
which predicted multiple simultaneous attacks, the use of airplanes as
weapons, targeting of large landmarks and financial centers, etc.
A Fedex employee tried to crash a DC-10 into FedEx HQ in Memphis in
1994, but was apprehended
An Islamic fundamentalist group hijacked an Air France flight and
loaded it with 27 tons of fuel to destroy the Eiffel Tower, but
special forces stormed the plane on the ground
Abdul Hakim Murad and Ramsey Yousef conceived of 'Project Bojinka' in
1995, a plan to blow up 11 US airline flights over the Pacific in
1995, and to crash airplanes into the Pentagon and the CIA, which
definitely caught the attention of counter-terrorism experts in the US
The Library of Congress Report on The Sociology And Psychology Of
Terrorism warned in 1999 about suicide hijackers
The Pentagon conducted a drill in December 2000 to respond to an
airline crashing into the Pentagon
U.S. and Italian officials were warned in July 2001 that Islamic
terrorists might attempt to kill President Bush and other leaders by
crashing an airliner into the Genoa summit of industrialized nations
They did everything possible to block an independent commission
investigation

Bush and Cheney personally called Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle
urging him not to conduct an investigation
When pressure for an independent commission became too strong, they
suddenly announced warnings of another attack - although they did not
raise the official alert level above yellow, leading to widespread
speculation of a deliberately false alarm to stop the momentum
When the Independent Commission finally began its work, Bush used
Nixon's dictatorial doctrine of "Executive Privilege" to deny
commissioners access to crucial documents
George W. Bush himself has repeatedly JOKED about the 911 attack

"Lucky me. I hit the trifecta," George W. Bush, shortly after 9/11 -
quoted by Bush Budget Director Mitch Daniels, 11/28/01

For links to the most comprehensive analyses of the unanswered
questions about September 11, click here.
http://democrats.com/display.cfm?id=271

See the original page for links to cites and other backup
information...
http://democrats.com/elandslide/peti...m?campaign=911

OR, WHY WASTE MORE OF YOUR TIME? THE WHOLE WORLD ALREADY KNOWS BUSH
KNEW AND LIED TO BENEFIT HIS OWN POLITICAL CAREER, AND TO MAKE
BILLIONS FOR HIS CORPORATE BUDDIES. DO YOUR PART AND JOIN "OPERATION:
AMERICAN FREEDOM" TODAY!

"Mr President, they are planning to attack on September 11"
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