Why Bush regime supporters are anti American

About 7 years ago now, the Taliban paid a visit to Texas, they were courted by Unocal, at their headquarters in Sugarland Texas.

There were many reports of human rights abuses coming out of Afghanistan at the time, this was a rogue regime, and the world knew it. However, to a large multinational corporation like Unocal, human rights abuses don't matter when there is money to be made.

The international community wanted the world to act on these abuses, they, and the left in particular at the time were calling for a tribunal to be established, and Human Rights Watch, along with other humanitarian organisations called on the US and the EU to condemn Pakistan's role in providing the Taliban with help.

Even in March 2001, the Bush regime were talking to the Taliban, this, they said was an "evil" regime later on. This is a transcript from the US embassy in Islamabad, on US relations with the Taliban. Slightly strange wouldn't you say, that given their later pronouncements that they would not negotiate with the Taliban, both they, the Clinton administration, and Unocal of course had all felt it was ok to chat to the "evil" regime responsible for human rights abuses in the past, even though they all knew that Afghanistan was harbouring Bin Laden at the time.

The events of the 11th September 2001, the world was led to believe were unpreventable, we were told there was no way of knowing people could hijack commercial airliners on US soil, and fly them into buildings. We were told that those events were the reason why Afghanistan was being invaded, but that wasn't true either.

The US was already involved with supporting the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan in March 2001, along with Russia, Iran and India.

In June 2001, there were reports that "India and Iran will "facilitate" US and Russian plans for "limited military action" against the Taliban if the contemplated tough new economic sanctions don't bend Afghanistan's fundamentalist regime."

And a former Pakistani foreign secretary was told by US officials in mid July 2001, that military action would take place against the taliban by the middle of October 2001. (That was eerily correct, as the US led an assault in Afghanistan that October)

By December 2003, much of the world knew that the events of the 11th September 2001 were preventable, and the Bush regime had done nothing to prevent those thousands of people from dying unnecessarily. The chairman of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks (a former Republican, appointed by Bush) stated:

<strong>"As you read the report, you're going to have a pretty clear idea what wasn't done and what should have been done," he said. "This was not something that had to happen." </strong>

And yet, for something that was preventable, the Bush regime seemed fairly confident that they continue to mislead both the American public, and the world that their so called "war on terror" was a "just cause". But a Zogby poll indicated that Americans would not be so easily misled. On the eve of the Republican National Convention in New York in 2004, the poll showed that "<strong>half (49.3%) of New York City residents and 41% of New York citizens overall say that some of our leaders "knew in advance that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to act</strong>"

A government insider, who personally knew some of the fundamentalists in the Bush regime (and no so called "conspiracy theorist") is in the process of suing the Bush regime for its complicity in the events of that day. Mr Hilton is a true American patriot.

Those right wing extremists who continue to perpetuate the myths, largely discredited now in the wider world, spouted by the venomous tongues of those in the rogue regime in Washington are the real anti Americans. They are the ones who will ignore the fact that the whole reason this unnecessary project called "the war on terror" began was preventable, they ignore the facts that even though the taliban was committing human rights abuses, the Bush regime were talking to them.

Human rights abusers, liars, war criminals and traitors combined, those are the real enemies of "freedom and democracy".

I have always believed that America can be a force for good in this world if it wants to be, under the present regime that force for good is turning into a force for facism, a force for deceit, a force for war crimes, a force for torture, and a force for vote fraud. And I have American friends who agree with me.

If Americans really want to be patriots, then they must expose the lies and deceit. If not, then they are anti-American.