I don't mean to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but there are just too many unanswered questions surrounding the events of ten years ago, September 11, 2001, to be satisfied with the answer that it was a suprise out of the blue terrorist attack on American soil. I've never been satisfied that we were caught with our collective pants down that day. I am pretty sure that our administration at the time had advance knowledge of this attack and did nothing to stop it. Some years ago, I found a white paper written by members of the conservative think tank the Project for a New American Century, whose primary agenda was worldwide American hegemony through military might. In particular, they lamented the failure, during the first Gulf War, to march into Baghdad and bring down the regime of Saddam Hussein, and they mentioned a need to return to Iraq to accomplish just such a goal. However, they said in this white paper, such an unprovoked invasion could not be justified to the American people "failing a new American Pearl Harbor", in their words. Well, not so long after those words were written, they got their wish. Just coincidentally, the members of said think tank eventually became top officials in the Bush administration, including that dark Manichean himself, Vice President Dick Cheney, who just recently admitted that he condoned "enhanced interrogation", read that, "torture", of suspected terrorists in order to glean information from them. Knowing full well the agenda of the members of the PNAC was an eventual invasion of Iraq that could not be sold to the American public short of some sort of catastrophic event on American soil, it just doesn't seem to be an accident that 9/11 happened in the first place. Another thing that seems mighty suspicious is that the Bush family has long held close ties with the bin Laden and al Saud families. Remember, 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens, not Iraqi, not Afghans, but Saudis. That seems mighty suspicious to me. After the attacks, all members of the bin Laden family who were residing in the United States were put aboard a plane and were allowed to leave the country, this, despite the fact that not a single plane was permitted to take off or land in this country for days after the attacks. Why was one plane loaded with members of Osama bin Laden's immediate family allowed to leave the country, this, when those folks were, in essence, material witnesses since they were members of his immediate family who could spill the beans on his whereabouts? And why, a month before the attacks took place, did Bush continue his vacation in Texas as if nothing had happened when his National Security advisor Condoleeza Rice informed him of a Presidential Daily Briefing that an attack by Osama bin Laden on American soil was imminent? Why didn't Bush end his vacation right then and there, fly back to Washington and convene his top intelligence and military personnel to plan a way to stop such an attack from taking place? Why were the two other hijacked planes that hit the Pentagon and that went down in Shanksville, PA allowed to continue flying AFTER the two towers of the World Trade Center had been hit and it became rapidly obvious that an event of war was taking place on US soil? Where was NORAD in all this? Why wasn't there an immediate call up of war planes after the two towers were hit and it became obvious that two more hijacked planes were in the air? And what about WTC Building 7, which structural engineers say was a controlled demolition, and contained offices of the Defense Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Secret Service, the FBI, the IRS and a host of other agencies? You see what I mean? Too many unanswered questions to just chalk this up to a surprise attack.
It is my opinion that George W. Bush and in particular, Dick Cheney, have an awful lot of blood on their hands for which to answer and unfortunately, they will never be held to account for their misdeeds. My suspicion is that there has been a great, big, huge cover-up of very damaging facts about the crimes of the Bush/Cheney cabal who were responsible for the whole 9/11 attacks, and I will always be bitter on this anniversary despite not losing anyone close to me. It is for all those who have lost a loved one, either in the 9/11 attacks or the endless global war on terror that I now understand can never end and will go on for at least the rest of my lifetime, if not beyond, and into future generations, that I am angry and bitter on this date. These wars will bankrupt our country and will hasten our demise as a nation, because frankly, we can't afford them now and they were unfunded when they began. There's no nobility in anyone's deaths in these wars. They are wasting young lives full or hope and promise, and for what? Not our freedom, certainly, but to try, as other nations have in the past and failed, to build American style democracies out of tribal cultures where old hatreds and rivalries run deep and have for centuries. We as a country need to do some serious nation building at home. It's time for us to cut our losses, pack it up and come back home from these ridiculous wars that can never be "won" in the traditional sense, because the fact is, you cannot fight a war against a stateless entity where you never really know who is foe and who is friend. You cannot fight an entity that is like a Hydra, where, if you cut off the head, another one will grow in its place. And that is exactly what we have been trying to do for far too long now, and it's pointless, too expensive and too costly in human lives wasted. 9/11 was about more than trying to scare the living bejeebers out of Americans, it was about drawing us into endless wars that could never be won in the eventual goal of bankrupting us as a nation and causing our eventual downfall. So far, al Qaeda has been very successful in achieving that end. I just hope that someday, we as a nation will wake up and realize that we've been playing right into the hands of the very goal that was trying to be achieved, bringing our country down via financial ruin. The 9/11 attacks were just the initial provocation to draw us into war. Since then, all we've done is to pour wasted trillions into wars that can never really end. We have the tiger by the tail: We can't keep holding on to it nor can we let it go. What a dreadful irony. And how sad that these attacks were allowed to happen when I am convinced they did not have to. Maybe someday the real truth will be told, but seriously, I doubt it ever will, because it might well permanently destroy any trust people had in our government if they knew that the attacks took place while an administration looked the other way. How terribly sad that we'll never really know the truth behind what happened that day and why.
I don't mean to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but there are just too many unanswered questions surrounding the events of ten years ago, September 11, 2001, to be satisfied with the answer that it was a suprise out of the blue terrorist attack on American soil. I've never been satisfied that we were caught with our collective pants down that day. I am pretty sure that our administration at the time had advance knowledge of this attack and did nothing to stop it. Some years ago, I found a white paper written by members of the conservative think tank the Project for a New American Century, whose primary agenda was worldwide American hegemony through military might. In particular, they lamented the failure, during the first Gulf War, to march into Baghdad and bring down the regime of Saddam Hussein, and they mentioned a need to return to Iraq to accomplish just such a goal. However, they said in this white paper, such an unprovoked invasion could not be justified to the American people "failing a new American Pearl Harbor", in their words. Well, not so long after those words were written, they got their wish. Just coincidentally, the members of said think tank eventually became top officials in the Bush administration, including that dark Manichean himself, Vice President Dick Cheney, who just recently admitted that he condoned "enhanced interrogation", read that, "torture", of suspected terrorists in order to glean information from them. Knowing full well the agenda of the members of the PNAC was an eventual invasion of Iraq that could not be sold to the American public short of some sort of catastrophic event on American soil, it just doesn't seem to be an accident that 9/11 happened in the first place. Another thing that seems mighty suspicious is that the Bush family has long held close ties with the bin Laden and al Saud families. Remember, 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens, not Iraqi, not Afghans, but Saudis. That seems mighty suspicious to me. After the attacks, all members of the bin Laden family who were residing in the United States were put aboard a plane and were allowed to leave the country, this, despite the fact that not a single plane was permitted to take off or land in this country for days after the attacks. Why was one plane loaded with members of Osama bin Laden's immediate family allowed to leave the country, this, when those folks were, in essence, material witnesses since they were members of his immediate family who could spill the beans on his whereabouts? And why, a month before the attacks took place, did Bush continue his vacation in Texas as if nothing had happened when his National Security advisor Condoleeza Rice informed him of a Presidential Daily Briefing that an attack by Osama bin Laden on American soil was imminent? Why didn't Bush end his vacation right then and there, fly back to Washington and convene his top intelligence and military personnel to plan a way to stop such an attack from taking place? Why were the two other hijacked planes that hit the Pentagon and that went down in Shanksville, PA allowed to continue flying AFTER the two towers of the World Trade Center had been hit and it became rapidly obvious that an event of war was taking place on US soil? Where was NORAD in all this? Why wasn't there an immediate call up of war planes after the two towers were hit and it became obvious that two more hijacked planes were in the air? And what about WTC Building 7, which structural engineers say was a controlled demolition, and contained offices of the Defense Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Secret Service, the FBI, the IRS and a host of other agencies? You see what I mean? Too many unanswered questions to just chalk this up to a surprise attack.
It is my opinion that George W. Bush and in particular, Dick Cheney, have an awful lot of blood on their hands for which to answer and unfortunately, they will never be held to account for their misdeeds. My suspicion is that there has been a great, big, huge cover-up of very damaging facts about the crimes of the Bush/Cheney cabal who were responsible for the whole 9/11 attacks, and I will always be bitter on this anniversary despite not losing anyone close to me. It is for all those who have lost a loved one, either in the 9/11 attacks or the endless global war on terror that I now understand can never end and will go on for at least the rest of my lifetime, if not beyond, and into future generations, that I am angry and bitter on this date. These wars will bankrupt our country and will hasten our demise as a nation, because frankly, we can't afford them now and they were unfunded when they began. There's no nobility in anyone's deaths in these wars. They are wasting young lives full or hope and promise, and for what? Not our freedom, certainly, but to try, as other nations have in the past and failed, to build American style democracies out of tribal cultures where old hatreds and rivalries run deep and have for centuries. We as a country need to do some serious nation building at home. It's time for us to cut our losses, pack it up and come back home from these ridiculous wars that can never be "won" in the traditional sense, because the fact is, you cannot fight a war against a stateless entity where you never really know who is foe and who is friend. You cannot fight an entity that is like a Hydra, where, if you cut off the head, another one will grow in its place. And that is exactly what we have been trying to do for far too long now, and it's pointless, too expensive and too costly in human lives wasted. 9/11 was about more than trying to scare the living bejeebers out of Americans, it was about drawing us into endless wars that could never be won in the eventual goal of bankrupting us as a nation and causing our eventual downfall. So far, al Qaeda has been very successful in achieving that end. I just hope that someday, we as a nation will wake up and realize that we've been playing right into the hands of the very goal that was trying to be achieved, bringing our country down via financial ruin. The 9/11 attacks were just the initial provocation to draw us into war. Since then, all we've done is to pour wasted trillions into wars that can never really end. We have the tiger by the tail: We can't keep holding on to it nor can we let it go. What a dreadful irony. And how sad that these attacks were allowed to happen when I am convinced they did not have to. Maybe someday the real truth will be told, but seriously, I doubt it ever will, because it might well permanently destroy any trust people had in our government if they knew that the attacks took place while an administration looked the other way. How terribly sad that we'll never really know the truth behind what happened that day and why.
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Because we don't have a military draft, Americans are quite easily duped into "fighting them over there." If there were shared sacrifice (vis a vis a draft with very few exemptions), we would never have gone into Afghanistan or Irag even with 9-11 preying on people's minds. The American people don't care, in general, about the suffering of our men and women or the Afghans or Iraqis. You are a great find, Sally.
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