The missing Saudi pages…
For all readers who love conspiracies, here’s a real-life one for you: Nearly fourteen years after 9/11, all the report about that horrific day has been released except for twenty-eight pages classified as Top Secret. It turns out that these missing pages focus on the involvement of the Saudi government’s role in the attack. If what’s written there isn’t damaging to the Saudis, why are these pages Top Secret? Looks like the media might be dancing to the same conspiracy band too—the media roosters certainly aren’t squawking much about it.
In this blog I’ve often referred to the duplicitous Saudis. Most 9/11 terrorists were Saudis. We can’t determine the Saudi government’s guilt by association, but I don’t base my claim of duplicity on the nationality of the 9/11 terrorists. There are other facts that justify my claim. Maybe the nationality of the terrorists is all just a coincidence—wink, wink—just like it’s a coincidence that bin Laden came from a rich Saudi family.
First duplicity fact: the Saudi royal family has always walked a tightrope by pretending to be friends with the U.S. while supporting oppressive, Sixth Century Islamic rules and sponsoring religious schools where jihad is taught. Those schools give rise to terrorists in general and the 9/11 terrorists in particular. Poor saps are educated AKA brainwashed by “religious leaders” who completely distort the teachings of the Koran at best and read into it violence and murder at worst. They don’t teach; they indoctrinate. And the Saudi government encourages this by supporting them.
Second duplicity fact: the Saudis really don’t follow the Koran or practice true Islam in another sense. They’ve always been Sunnis first and Muslims second. They’ve only weakly criticized ISIS—those mad dogs are Sunnis, after all—and they’ve recently bombed Shi’ites in Yemen. They’re quaking in fear of Iran and its terrorist front Hezbollah—those nasty guys are all Shi’ites too and the Saudi capital might be the first target for their nuclear bomb. In other words, the Saudis have chosen sides and use the fact that many Muslim holy sites are in Saudi Arabia to control all the other Muslim sects, but Iran is messing with their agenda.
Third duplicity fact: the Saudis have sold their souls to big oil in such a way that rich Saudi elites live the good life while their poor brethren, especially foreign workers, are treated more like indentured slaves. Big oil, with a powerful lobby manipulating the U.S. Congress and helped along by neoconservatives like Bush and Cheney, is fine with that, of course, as long as the Saudis sell them their oil. The poverty in Saudi Arabia creates the jihadist fervor in the religious schools that Saudis deftly manipulate to paint Israel and the West as scapegoats when the real targets should be the greedy Saudi royal family. They have learned well the lessons of Machiavelli and Goebbels, but their goals are simpler: they want to keep those oil royalties for themselves.
Saudi Arabia has one of the most feudal societies in the world. That wouldn’t bother me so much if they weren’t so duplicitous. Unlike ISIS where they’re clear about their intentions of returning to the Dark Ages and Islam’s oppressive caliphate, Saudi Arabia’s ruling elites enjoy the benefits of the modern world and live like princes (many of them are) while the peons live in squalor. The rich drive around in their Mercedes and BMWs (those are men, by the way, not women, because women can’t drive), enjoy their many wives (who can’t go out alone in public and must be subservient to their husbands), and pontificate about politics and religion while never working one hour their entire lives. Saudi society, to put it mildly, royally sucks.
I was in Massachusetts when 9/11 occurred. I’ll be nice and say only that it was highly unusual when rich Saudis, who were attending the Boston area’s excellent schools, all expenses paid, while living better as students than most American wage earners, dropped everything and fled to their homeland. There was no TSA to stop and question them back then. And most didn’t have diplomatic immunity. But you have to wonder: why the big hurry? Maybe we should have rounded them up for declaring war on America, Cheney be damned.
I won’t be surprised if those classified pages from the report are never released. I’d not be surprised by what’s in them either. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have done the Devil’s bidding for a long time. Our hands are dirty enough by pandering to them for oil and selling them weapons, but we knew they were involved in 9/11—they at least had previous knowledge, the only explanation for the mass exodus and those Top Secret pages. I hope we come to our senses and at least call them what they deserve to be called: duplicitous fiends who value oil dollars and American military aid over human lives, especially American lives. But maybe we should share that label too! Every congressperson who votes against not making these pages public deserves to lose come next election because s/he’s a traitor!
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And so it goes….
