The World's Greatest Con-jobs

I think one of the major reasons why FEMA and Homeland Security failed to repond to the Katrina crisis was that, for many of the senior figures in these supposedly terrorist-focussed departments, the job is basically just a well-paid junket. And that's because they know - they KNOW! - that the risk of another 9/11 is a whole lot less than what they tell the public.

And that's because this whole bogus "War On (ahem!)" is basically just a propaganda war, aimed at the citizens of the USA, cleverly designed to justify whatever militant foreign adventures the Bush neo-cons choose to embark upon. And that's what is has been from the get-go, when Donald Rumsfeld was arguing for an invasion of Iraq even while the Twin towers were burning.

Just look at recent AP revelations about former CIA chief George "slam dunk" Tenet in Iraq. There he was in front of the Iraq Survey Group, basically acting like a teenage cheerleader:

“Beneath the giant dome of a Baghdad palace, facing his team of scientists and engineers, George Tenet sounded more like a football coach than a spymaster, a coach who didn't know the game was over,” Hanley writes.

"’Are we 85 percent done? the CIA boss demanded. The arms hunters knew what he wanted to hear. ‘No!’ they shouted back. ‘Let me hear it again!’ They shouted again. The weapons are out there, Tenet insisted. Go find them.

”Veteran inspector Rod Barton couldn't believe his ears. ‘It was nonsense,’ the Australian biologist said of that February evening last year, when the then-chief of U.S. intelligence secretly flew to Baghdad and dropped in on the lakeside Perfume Palace, chandelier-hung home of the Iraq Survey Group.

"’It wasn't that we didn't know the major answers,’ recalled Barton, whose account matched that of another key participant. ‘Are there WMD in the country? We knew the answers.’

”In fact, David Kay, quitting as chief of the U.S. hunt for WMD, or weapons of mass destruction, had just delivered the answer to the world. The inspectors were 85 percent finished, Kay said, concluding: ‘The weapons do not exist.’”

Or look at the revelations in the Downing Street Memos: they knew they were manipulating the intelligence to suit their agenda, they knew Saddam was not really a threat to the USA, they knew he had no real links to Bin Laden... The guys at the top of the Bush administration have known this shit all along and yet they have been lying through their teeth over and over and over again.

Meanwhile, where is the money going? Where does the massive taxpayer cost of the Iraq War, Homeland Security and other "terror"-related budget items end up? In the pockets of Bush's Boyz and their Big Business contacts.

It's a scam. The world's biggest, ever. And these guys are laughing all the way to the bank.

P.S.: Alligators are now helping FEMA with the clean up. The "hellish brew of sewage, corpses, waste, oil slicks, toxins and wreckage" is set to create an environmental disaster that will take years to clean up. That's the legacy of Bush's lies, right there.