Voices of Mexico no. 68

Our Voice

Seemingly, President George W. Bush's invocation about terrorism will end up being a self-fulfiling prophesy. The preliminary reposrtes from the National Commission on the terrorist attacks against the United States, or the September II  Commission, just came out. These reports told us that Sadam Hussein's deposed  government and  Osama  Bin Laden's AI Qaeda  did  not collaborate in planning or executing  the September II  attacks, as the Bush administration  had argued to justify the military offensive in Iraq. Among other  things, the commission  also found  that the U.S. security system seriously failed not only in not predicting  the danger, but in formulating a response  to defend  the country.

In an attempt  to exert damage control as soon as possibl e, the same day that some extracts from this report were announced, June  17, President  Bush stated  that  the relationship  did exist, but this time,  he did not elaborate  on the original, main argument that  he and  his main collaborators  had made that  Baghdad had been behind the attacks, demonstrating the extreme dangerousness of the Hussein  regime for U.S. nation­ al security.