It makes me dizzy to keep up with this thread, OzmO. I can't rely on what you'll remember from post to post, which makes it impossible to know where you're coming from at any particular time.
But I'm glad that you're no longer as misinformed as you once were:
Also, the reason I say lots of people in on the decision (to handle things in the way it was done), there is no way Bush and Runsfield were sitting there alone making it. They were probably 20 or 30 poeple in the room connected to many many arms of government and military
You thought this, because it would be expected by any realistic person that such events would be met by a coordinated group effort, with communication as the primary concern. It is a sensible expectation that any reasonable person would share.
But the opposite of our expectations took place, and this pattern would continue until the destruction had run its course.
Once again, I will tell you that these consistently opposite occurrences are not some back-to-back, compounded set of coincidences. It would be straight ignorance, or a study in pathology, for a person to believe otherwise.
Problem is, most people are uninformed. And since it requires an attention span to become informed in such a case, we may be left with an epic story that goes largely unrecognized.
The accounting gets much uglier from here, so if a person cannot grasp the fundamentals, it is unlikely that he or she could benefit from further reasoning in this case.
Let me tell you this: The concept of staged events has only begun to get nasty in this information age. Until democracy has been irreparably subverted, our privacy rights have been completely destroyed, and indefinite detention rights have been retained, we will continue to see such manipulation. And by that point, it will be too late to fight.