On the contrary, they were enormously successful that day. Let's look at their accomplishments:
They got the entire world to believe that a ragtag organization called Al Qaeda, fronted by a guy in a cave armed with only a laptop and a phone, managed to coordinate an unbelievably complex plan that had involved years of planning and training, much money, split-second timing and ridiculously good luck.
They got the entire world to believe that four hijackers, who couldn't fly single-engine Cessnas for shit, suddenly became the Blue Angels when at the controls of large, twin-engine Boeing jetliners.
They got the entire world to believe that the crime of the century was pulled off by 19 guys with box-cutters whose names (nor any other Arabic names) don't appear on any passenger manifests and at least four of whom have been seen alive and well in the Middle East since 9/11/01,
(one even interviewed by the BBC).
Better yet, they got the entire world to believe their evidence linking these 19 guys to the hijackings using for proof a few cell phone calls that were impossible to make with 2001 technology; a carry-on bag allegedly left behind by Atta in Maine containing, among other things, his will (and that's surely something you'd take with you on a flight you knew was going to be blown into dust); and the kicker, a passport, allegedly belonging to one of the hijackers, that miraculously survived a massive explosion and temps we're told were high enough to melt steel and fluttered unsullied to the ground, where it was found among the debris in what used to be the WTC plaza.
They got the entire world to believe that this guy in the cave ordered
four exercise scenarios -- Vigilant Warrior, Vigilant Guardian, Northern Guardian and Northern Vigilance – which diverted to northern Canada or Alaska many of the NORAD fighter jets that would have been scrambled per standard operating procedure in the event of a suspected hijacking.
They got the entire world to believe that this same guy in the cave was able to insert as many as
22 false radar blips onto air traffic controller screens throughout the northeast corridor so that the controllers had no idea which blips represented planes that had been hijacked, which ones represented non-hijacked flights still in the air and which blips were phantoms -- rendering them incapable of following the actual moves of the four hijacked jets and/or coordinating with the FAA to relay warnings to NORAD interceptors (most of which, again, were screwing around over the arctic wastes).
They got the entire world to believe that the remaining NORAD forces -- which had been a perfect 67 for 67 for 2001 prior to 9/11 -- managed to completely fail in their missions four separate times that morning.
They got the entire world to believe that it was only a coincidence that
a fifth exercise was taking place at the same time, this one designed to test emergency response capabilities at the National Reconnaissance Office in the event that an off-course plane from nearby Dulles airport crashed into one of the NRO's four office towers.
They got the entire world to believe that two planes took down three skyscrapers, and that for the first and only time in history, fire brought down reinforced steel and concrete structures and caused them to collapse vertically rather than keel over sideways and take out a few blocks of the NYC financial district.
They got the entire world to absolve them from any complicity in "the events of 9/11," even though the above list of "coincidences" is inexplicable without the knowledge, involvement and approval of people high up in the federal food chain.
And that was only the beginning...
They got the entire world to believe Condi Rice when she testified at the 9/11 Commission that "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile."
They got the entire world to forget that
at least 11 countries had issued warnings of an imminent attack against the US: Afghanistan, Argentina, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Russia and the UK.
They got the entire world to forget that
Bush slept on a US Navy ship in Genoa Harbor during the July 2001 G8 meeting because Italian intelligence services had intercepted communications indicating terrorists might try to use a hijacked plane to assassinate Bush by ramming his hotel. Not to mention
Operation Bojinka, which the CIA had learned of back in the mid-'90s and should have provided some hints of future activities.
They and their mass media allies turned a quasi-literate simpleton with a sinking approval rating into a heroic "war president" with 90 percent + approval.
They immediately used this new-found popularity to begin rattling sabers to get public buy-in for insane increases in pentagon spending; invented a war on terror to further justify enriching cronies at banks, arms merchants and fossil fuels companies; and attacked Afghanistan, murdering tens of thousands of civilians but failing to find that omnipotent guy in the cave.
And ever since, it's been the express train to hell for the US and the world. Anything's fair in the phony war on terror that 9/11 launched and sanctified preemptive civilian slaughter branded "shock and awe," blatantly looting the national historical treasures of a sovereign nation, commandeering its oil reserves for the exclusive profit of US and UK petrochemical companies, building forward bases from which to rule the Middle East, privatizing everything that wasn't nailed down, threatening or ridiculing any national leader who dares to differ with US hegemony, threatening Iran with nuclear weapons, the use of illegal torture to compel confessions (which are, of course, useless since they're obtained under duress), and earning the richly deserved title of the world's most feared and despised rogue state.
And that's just the foreign policy side. Domestically, the official 9/11 story has justified an ever-expanding list of repressive legislation, executive orders and presidential directives; massive federal invasions of privacy re medical and financial records; snooping on all US citizens' communications; re-targeting spy satellites for domestic surveillance; the very existence of the department of Vaterland Security; the TSA cavity search specialists (for attractive young women only; the rest are presumed to pose no threat to the state); no-fly lists and terrorist watch lists; RFIDs in all new passports and in new national ID cards scheduled to be issued this year; Blackwater building new training camps as fast as they can clear the permit process...
There are dozens -- maybe hundreds -- of additional outrages that have been justified by "the events of 9/11." Point of all this being: the official 9/11 story is the lynchpin, the keystone, the springboard for every single act of international aggression and domestic repression this administration has been able to get away with. Absent 9/11, or at least the BushCo version, they don't have a leg to stand on. Demolish the official coincidence theory and their entire rationale crumbles.
That's why attacking, discrediting and ultimately disproving the official 9/11 myth is so critical to the continued survival of the republic. And when I see people doing BushCo's PR work for them right on this very board, I have to wonder at the level of desperation these people must live with to accept the ridiculous official story, with all its hideous results, rather than deal with the cognitive dissonance that could accompany an admission that the federal government would commit mass murder against its civilians.
But then there's always
Operation Northwoods for a bit of historical perspective. Even
US mass media managed to pick up on that one.
Happy new year, and let's see if 2008 brings impeachment, criminal charges, arrests, convictions, renditions to The Hague, more trials, more guilty verdicts and, finally, life without parole for every single one of these blood-soaked vampires who would dare to overturn Constitutional law and replace it with a national security state run solely by and for the benefit of the executive branch and its filthy rich cronies.
wp
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
