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hollysmom

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4. I cried during shock and Awe thinking how americans had been wound up with
Thu Sep 11, 2014, 07:52 PM
Sep 2014

blood lust form 9/11 and bestowed this horror on the people of Baghdad. Most of them were just people, how they destroyed museums that survived the Hun invasion and bombed hospitals full of real patients who had nothing to do with anything. All for a fireworks show stripped of real feelings to sooth the blood lust. I know people who died. Heck I was almost working in tower 2 but decided against it when I thought my mother seemed ill (she had a stroke a few weeks after I took a lesser job close to her house) But as my sister says, the odds of me dying there were low because I tend not to show up on time for work. In this company it was 8:30. I would have probably showed up at 9:15.
It could have easily been prevented several times but Bush the dumb would not read his reports decided Child pornography was more important than Al Qaeda so changed the security, disbanded Clinton's terrorist watch, and fired all those homosexual translators that could have found the warning if there were enough to read through the backlog. And there were so many more

My take on 9/11 [View all] RobertEarl Sep 2014 OP
No matter how horrific, chilling, and heart-breaking these dastardly attacks were, these attacks indepat Sep 2014 #1
Yep. It was an abuse of power RobertEarl Sep 2014 #3
It was an inside job emsimon33 Sep 2014 #2
I wondered about that RobertEarl Sep 2014 #5
It was inside the building hack89 Sep 2014 #10
Sure, hack, sure. n/t RobertEarl Sep 2014 #11
There are plenty of pictures. Nt hack89 Sep 2014 #13
There were hundreds of eyewitnesses hack89 Sep 2014 #14
Post removed Post removed Sep 2014 #16
Bullshit. hack89 Sep 2014 #18
Yet no video has been released except two grainy frames that show nothing Reter Sep 2014 #25
There is lots of other evidence hack89 Sep 2014 #26
What happens in situations like this is that Jenoch Sep 2014 #28
No, GZ was not treated as a crime scene. RobertEarl Sep 2014 #30
As I recall, Jenoch Sep 2014 #31
What about the 9/11 commission? RobertEarl Sep 2014 #33
I don't recall the details about that report. Jenoch Sep 2014 #34
The report was a sham, a coverup RobertEarl Sep 2014 #35
I know that two airliners hit Jenoch Sep 2014 #36
It is no ct that the NYFD were never allowed to conduct the usual investigation of fire or that Bush sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #48
This message was self-deleted by its author ChazII Sep 2014 #38
Nope. emsimon33 Sep 2014 #19
Sorry - I am done with Truthers hack89 Sep 2014 #20
Go easy on Hack, he's confused as ever RobertEarl Sep 2014 #29
Fukushima was responsible for 9/11. NuclearDem Sep 2014 #32
You get silly PMs too!? zappaman Sep 2014 #55
Go ahead and post my pms RobertEarl Sep 2014 #57
Oh, I couldn't. NuclearDem Sep 2014 #58
we could swap PM's zappaman Sep 2014 #66
Here is photo after photo of plane wreckage at the Pentagon hack89 Sep 2014 #45
The are plenty of pictures of the wreckage hack89 Sep 2014 #12
"Aluminum fragments"...not the usual items from a commercial aircraft crash emsimon33 Sep 2014 #15
So you could see inside the building? hack89 Sep 2014 #17
No, rush hour was over emsimon33 Sep 2014 #21
No one saw a missile. Many saw an airliner hack89 Sep 2014 #23
Ding ding ding Iamthetruth Sep 2014 #49
I saw the plane, we heard the engine and it was way too close, we ran to the window and saw a plane peacebird Sep 2014 #52
How do we know you don't work for Bushco and are just covering up? zappaman Sep 2014 #56
You've obviously never been to DC. The traffic around the Pentagon never subsides. n/t FSogol Sep 2014 #24
Here is photo after photo of plane wreckage at the Pentagon hack89 Sep 2014 #46
Jesse Ventura agrees with you Jenoch Sep 2014 #22
I have some questions for you... Whiskeytide Sep 2014 #54
He's been juried out RobertEarl Sep 2014 #59
I cried during shock and Awe thinking how americans had been wound up with hollysmom Sep 2014 #4
Clinton, they said, was wagging the tail RobertEarl Sep 2014 #7
+1,000,000,000,000 Dawson Leery Sep 2014 #27
I don't think it would have been all that easy to prevent treestar Sep 2014 #6
You buy into the bush excuses? RobertEarl Sep 2014 #8
Hindsight sure is 20/20. Agschmid Sep 2014 #9
we had a warning, unfortunately Bush reduced the staff and the translators had a backlog, hollysmom Sep 2014 #37
Okay so from that information we could surmise that 747's were the target... Agschmid Sep 2014 #42
Yes, something I saw last night pointed out that OBL was so treestar Sep 2014 #44
And yet, the Clinton Administration prevented many terror attacks. And we know why, thanks to those sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #50
If you parse my words a bit... Agschmid Sep 2014 #53
I think as long as we are going around the world acting like an Empire, there will be extremists who sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #70
Wow talk about overreaction treestar Sep 2014 #43
Warrantless wiretapping started before 9/11 CJCRANE Sep 2014 #51
they SAT and waited MFM008 Sep 2014 #39
One person's view of 9/11 as a political failure Capt. Obvious Sep 2014 #40
If you read Richard Clarke's Against All Enemies Jeneral2885 Sep 2014 #41
That is a very limited view Iamthetruth Sep 2014 #47
Well, of course it could have been prevented if the airlines would have spent the $$ mnhtnbb Sep 2014 #60
Yeah secure doors would have worked RobertEarl Sep 2014 #61
Dumpster trucks hauling away metal debris without investigation BelgianMadCow Sep 2014 #62
what do you think about the melted steel? wildbilln864 Sep 2014 #63
"what do you think about the melted steel? even vaporized by some accounts!" zappaman Sep 2014 #65
ha ha ha ha ha! wildbilln864 Sep 2014 #67
Truthers. LOL...nt SidDithers Sep 2014 #64
To reiterate, just for you, sid RobertEarl Sep 2014 #68
anti-truthers. LOL...nt wildbilln864 Sep 2014 #69
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