Creative Speculation

...couldn't have happened without the seven months preparation: re-arranging multiple annual war-games into an unprecedented cluster, changing emergency procedures and personnel, and thwarting the security people who were interfering, for starters.
There's a whole lotta LIHOP to go around, from the shrub who wanted to ride a war horse, to the ones who were about to get rich and the ones who needed all that evidence in bldg.7 to vanish, to the writers of the Patriot Act and the Project For The American Century, to the ones about to become DHS, to the ones who had just helped tweek the 2000 election and would welcome a distraction from their guilt, to the smaller fry, the mobilized minions, who were excited or trusting or scared.
But make no mistake: LIHOP, what they were LETTING HAPPEN was letting the MIHOP people call most of the shots.
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