Yesterday, another old codger I got to know somewhat online hauled a humongous American skeleton back out of its untidy closet, and I ruminated on my own personal and impersonal experiences with it.
My Two SensesWhat Bob Graham Knew…
Over the years I have followed much of what this great solon was trying to have us understand about the truth of 9/11.
Serving as both Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the 9/11 Commission Hearings Bob Graham was privy to information and national secrets that perhaps less than 100 Americans were aware of. Graham was filled with internal conflict in telling what he knew about 9/11.
Graham was a man who wanted to believe in the nation he served. He assumed his mission within the Senate to protect the United States from enemies foreign and domestic with all the dedication and effort required, but over time it became clear that his briefings were not about the truth, in fact he was being gaslighted, lied to and treated like a useful idiot by the Bush administration and their allies in the Saudi Royal family.
Imagine yourself sitting in a hardened secret facility in the Capital designed for communications of the upmost secrecy. Information of such sensitivity that it could not be transmitted other than by person to person. In briefings in the tense days following 9/11 you are being told things such as Saddam Hussein being prepared to ignite a nuclear device off the coast of the United States. In hearing that, Graham asked the intelligence expert if this was solid and verified information. The response was an unequivocal yes.
In the rear view mirror of history we now know that there was no plan of this kind nor were there any WMDs be they nuclear, biological or chemical* that were in production or stockpiled for use against the U.S. or our armed forces in the region.
According to a Washington Post Poll in 2003:
Sixty-nine percent of Americans said they thought it at least likely that Hussein was involved in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, according to the latest Washington Post poll. That impression, which exists despite the fact that the hijackers were mostly Saudi nationals acting for al Qaeda, is broadly shared by Democrats, Republicans and independents.
According to a Pew Research Paper from 2023: Looking Back:
In the months leading up to the war, sizable majorities of Americans believed that Iraq either possessed WMD or was close to obtaining them, that Iraq was closely tied to terrorism – and even that Hussein himself had a role in the 9/11 attacks. Two decades after the war began, a review of Pew Research Center surveys on the war in Iraq shows that support for U.S. military action was built, at least in part, on a foundation of falsehoods.
The Brookings Education Institute: 9/11 and Iraq: The making of a tragedy
President George W. Bush was obsessed with the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and deliberately misled the American people about who was responsible for the 9/11 attack.
Graham found the courage to find a way to share how members of the Bush White House had lied to him and by extension the American people. The array of false pretense included not only the run-up to the Iraq invasion, but perhaps more importantly insight on who actually planned and supported the 9/11 Attack on the WTC and the Pentagon.
While we know that Saddam and his government had nothing to do with it, including any collusion with Osama Bin Laden or the Taliban, it is still likely that most Americans believe Hussein and Iraq perpetrated the 9/11 attacks.
Graham knew that using Saddam as a scapegoat gave cover the real culprits. The actual plotters and planners were in fact religious Muslim zealots of the Wahhabi sect within the Saudi Royal Family. Wahhabism is virtually the state religion of the Saudi Royal Family and we can assume that the plot was hardly the work of a lone wolf within that sect.
By way of a quick background: Wahhabism is to Islam what Evangelical Dominionist belief is to Christianity. Both are fundamentalists and literalist, seeking dominion over the world’s religions. Both are misogynistic and both contend that violence in “protection” of the belief, especially against apostates, heretics and blasphemers is justifiable and sanctioned by Allah; or Jesus as the case may be. Both sects also dedicate huge amounts pf money to increase the number of indoctrinated followers. In the case of the Saudis this is facilitated by creating Madrassas which are religious training schools throughout the Middle East, to insure that the young receive the proper doctrinal education. There are no other subjects taught in Madrassas.
In considering the truth about the 9/11 attack Graham became all too familiar with the sway that the Saudi Royal family held over the the relationship that the Bush family (George Senior and Junior) both had with one Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who served as the Saudi ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005, “Bandar Bush” as he was affectionately known by the Bush clan was particularly close to George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush and considered an extended member of the family. Bandar often stayed at the Bush Texas Compound.
Less well known is that Bandar was also head of Saudi Intelligence for over 20 years prior to becoming ambassador to the United States. That a foreign national with the vitae of Bandar was treated like an extended family member did not seem to trouble many Americans. Nor did the fact that after the 9/11 attack Bandar and several members of the bin Laden family were allowed to take special flights out of the United States under what is known as Operation Yellow Ribbon.
Graham was neither a religious bigot or zealot, but he had every right to be concerned in thinking about the ties between Saudis like Bandar, Wahhabi ideology and it’s dominant influence on the Saudi kingdom leading to 9/11. Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi Nationals.
It’s a shame that Graham never was able to expose the real story and who plotted the attacks. He was in a situation that by its nature was fraught with horrible choices to consider.
Nonetheless, we as a nation owe a deep thanks to a man who did what he could to serve the nation and its people in the best ways he could.
In conclusion we clearly owe a debt to the memory of Bob Graham for trying to enlighten us. Yet even if he had, the deeper question is what would have happened if he had proven that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, not Saddam Hussein was the instigator.
Sloan Bashinsky
So, what did Bob Graham actually know?
How was the third building that came down on 9/11 ever explained?
3 nights before 9/11, a familiar voice asked me in my sleep, “Will you make a prayer for a Divine Intervention for all of humanity?” I woke up, wondered what that was about? I made the prayer. On 9/11, my concern was America would get into another foreign war like the one in Vietnam, which it could not win. It did not occur to me that America would get into two such wars.
About a week after 9/11, as I walked out of a U.S. Post Office, the same voice told me, “America needs to get out of the Middle East altogether and let Islam and Israel work it out or fight it out, and in that way learn if either are God’s chosen people.”
Riss Perot begged the 1st President Bush on Larry King Live not to save Kuwait from Iraq. Perot said it didn’t matter who had Kuwait, its oil would be sold to America. About a week later, that President Bush said on national TV that he could not let the American way of life be threatened, and he formed a coalition of nations to rescue Kuwait.
At that point, it was not in the news that Saddam Hussien had polled the American ambassador re Iraq taking part of Kuwait, which Saddam felt actually was part of Iraq, and the ambassador said America had no position on that, and Saddam took that as a green light. Saddam was an American ally against Iran. He and President Bush knew each other when Bush was the CIA Director. Saddam felt set up.
The coalition infidel troops staged in Saudi Arabia, Islam's most holy land, which really pissed off Osama bin Laden, who had offered to bring his army from Afghanistan, which had defeated the Soviet Union with the infidel America’s help, to drive Hussein’s army out of Kuwait. The Saudis turned down bin Laden, which infuriated him even more.
Saddam tried to get that President Bush killed.
All that was stuck in the 2nd President Bush’s craw when he was elected in 2000, with great help from the U.S. Supreme Court.
I read an open letter to America from Osama bin Laden online, in which he told Americans their president was easy to bait, and they need to replace him. As it turned out, he was in Pakistan while American and other nations’ troops were waging war in Afghanistan because the Bushes thought he was there.
I watched the 2nd President Bush and VP Cheney and Secretary of State Colin Powell invent Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. What Iraq had was lots of oil and mineral resources, which American industry, including and Cheney’s company, Halliburton, wanted.
American industry, including Halliburton, also wanted Afghanistan’s mineral resources, and Haliburton wanted to build a natural gas pipeline from the Persian Gulf through Afghanistan to the natural gas fields east of Afghanistan.
The 2nd president Bush gave up trying to find bin Laden, but he did not end the war in Afghanistan, and he lost the war in Iraq, after he and his father got Islam to declare war on America.
After accepting the Nobel Prize for Peace, President Obama continued the two Bush wars.
After he was elected in 2016, Donald Trump said on national TV that the mineral resources of Afghanistan and Iraq should be monetized to repay America for those two wars.
President Biden got America out of Afghanistan and was crucified by the American right.
President Biden has come very close to aiding Israel to start World War III.
I found photos on line of Baby Bush and Obama bowing to the Saudi King and Trump bowing to the Saudi Prince to be king, who had a Saudi journalist sawed up into little pieces for writing stuff about the Saudi prince, which he didn’t like. Before he was president, Trump was financially bailed out twice by a Saudi businessman, and after Trump lost in 2016, he started making a lot of money off of Saudis via his golf courses and hotels.
If I were president, I would cut Israel loose and pull my land, sea and air troops out of the Middle East, and I would let the people of the Middle East work it out or fight it out.
I would get the U.S. Department of Justice to round up for me patents in the U.S. Patent Office for a device designed for internal combustion engines in cars and trucks. The device uses electrolysis to extract hydrogen from water. A sedan can go several hundred miles on a gallon of water. The device was road-tested by automobile manufacturers, who were ready to produce such engines if America was on board.
I learned of the patents from my friend Bob, who does the tech work for my books at the free internet library, archive.org, and The Redneck Mystic Lawyer Podcast. Bob is a mechanic who can take apart, repair, and put back together cars, trucks, tractors and motorcycles. He said the device can be installed in existing engines and in new engines. The device would do away with electric cars, trucks, etc., which require huge batteries, weighing thousands of pounds, and become toxic waste when they wear out.
Such cars and trucks would put Saudi Arabia, the oil cartels, Russia and the American oil industry out of business, and would help the planet, upon which all of humanity depends for its very survival, to live a lot longer.
sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com
