Jim Fetzer
Does 9/11 look like an "inside job"? Consider the evidence for
yourself.
At the Pentagon:
* How could a Boeing 757, with a wingspan of 125' and a tail 44' high,
have fit through an opening smaller than the double-doors of a mansion?
* Why was there no debris from the fuselage--no wings, no tail, no
seats, no bodies, no luggage, and no engines, much less a crater from
the crash?
* Some said it looked like "a cruise missile with wings", but does
anything look more like a cruise missile with wings than a cruise
missile with wings?
* How could the plane have simply disappeared--vaporized by the intense
heat of the crash--yet the DNA from the bodies of the passengers have
survived?
In Pennsylvania:
* If the plane in Pennsylvania had crashed as the government claims,
then its wreckage should have been distributed over a space the size of
a city block.
* Although the government won't admit it, the wreckage is distributed
over an area that is roughly eight miles square, which implies an
explosion in air.
* Residents repeatedly explained to the FBI they had heard an explosion
in the air before the plane hit the ground, but the FBI refused to
write it down.
* A pilot for a squadron based in North Dakota, known as "The Happy
Hooligans", has reportedly been honored with a citation for having shot
the plane down (for more, go to:
http://www.letsroll911.org/articles/flight93shotdown.html).
In New York City:
* The Twin Towers fell almost perfectly symmetrically, even though they
were hit in different locations and should have had different patterns
of fall.
* The buildings fell in about 10 seconds or at about the speed of free
fall, which would have been impossible if one floor was collapsing upon
another.
* Fires from kerosine-based jet fuel are not enough to melt structural
steele, yet sub-basement support columns were pools of molten metal
five weeks later.
* If the buildings collapsed from the heat of the fire, then the
building that was hit first should have collapsed first, but the
opposite was the case.
* Some of the first responders at the scene reported having heard what
sounded like sequences of explosions going off just as the buildings
began to fall.
* World Trade Center 7, a 47-story building, collapsed equally
symmetrically seven hours later, even though it had not been hit by any
aircraft at all.
* Before the support columns could be studied by engineers, they were
hauled off and sent to China by an outfit which is named, "Controlled
Demolition".
Suspicious Circumstances:
* Condoleeza Rice, the President's National Security Adviser, told the
press that no one could have imagined the use of aircraft to crash into
buildings.
* Almost exactly a year earlier, the Pentagon had staged a simulated
attack on the Pentagon involving the use of aircraft crashing into the
building.
* On 9/11, the Pentagon held "a training exercise" called Vigilant
Guardian, which took ordinary control of the skies away from both the
FAA and NORAD.
* Early reports claiming that terrorists were targeting Air Force One,
which was situated in Sarasota, FL, were traced to Karl Rove, his
political chief.
* Fifteen of the nineteen alleged skyjackers were from Saudi Arabia,
while the number from Iraq was zero. The point bears repeating: not
one was an Iraqi!
* Within fifteen minutes of the hit on the Pentagon, our Secretary of
Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, was instructing his staff to prepare plans to
attack Iraq.
About the Investigation:
* At least seven of the alleged skyjackers who were consumed in these
events have instead turned up alive and well, most of them living in
Saudi Arabia.
* George Bush and Dick Cheney took extraordinary steps to limit
investigations into 9/11, only relinquishing under pressure from
families of the victims.
* If you were a president who wanted to protect the security of the
American people, wouldn't you consider discovering the truth your
highest priority?
* The US fostered Osama bin Laden and the movement that became "al
Qaeda" in the 1980s to help drive the forces of the Soviet Union out of
Afghanistan.
* The US government told the Taliban that, if they allowed a pipe line
to be built, we would bathe them in gold; otherwise, we would bathe
them in bombs.
* The President has falsely alleged that Iraq had weapons of mass
destruction, that Saddam was in cahoots with Osama, and that Iraq was a
terrorist state.
Lies have Consequences:
* UN inspectors had combed the country in search of WMD without finding
any, which meant, we were told, that Saddam must have hidden them
somewhere.
* Our Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, told us that we know where
they were, which would have meant we could have taken them out without
any war.
* Allies who had warned us about an impending attack prior to 9/11
warned us against going into Iraq without the support of the UN and of
NATO forces.
* The invervention has been an unmitigated disaster, where we are
bogged down in a quagmire fighting an enemy with popular support and
caskets coming home.
* Although we know that at least 1,000 Americans have died, we have no
idea how many Iraqis are dead, while the Pentagon tells us, "Iraqis
don't count!"
Who Stood to Profit:
* Plans for invading the Middle East were formulated by a group known
as "The Project for a New American Century" (PNAC) before Bush even
came to power.
* These plans (available on-line) imply the country may be unwilling to
accept American-style imperialism absent some traumatizing event like
Pearl Harbor.
* Those who supported these plans include Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz,
Pearle, Kristol, and other members of the so-called "neo-conservative"
movement.
* Traditional Republicans believe in balanced budgets, Constitutional
government, a non-interventionist foreign policy, and keeping our
privacy intact.
* This administration runs up massive deficits, promotes the "Patriot
Act", initiates "preventive" wars, and intrudes into intimate aspects
of our life.
* They have created a merger of big corporations with big government,
which Mussolini said was a perfectly good definition of what is called
"fascism".
The Beat Goes On:
* Before returning from Iraq, Paul Bremer issued 100 decrees that
privatized the resources of the people of Iraq for exploitation by US
corporations.
* Halliburton, formerly run by Vice President Cheney, has been the
principal beneficiary of non-bid contracts, some issued before the war
was launched.
* Bush, whose political fortunes were in massive decline, has used the
war and treats of terrorism to manipulate the American people and their
support.
* Our military strength is being sapped, our standing in the world is
falling, and threats to the nation are overwhelmingly greater than they
were before.
* Although superficial steps have been taken to increase security at
airports, for example, this sequence of events has made the country
vastly less safe.
What Can be Done?
* We need a new administration to discover which threats are real and
which are not, which we are not going to get from a government invested
in war.
* We need a leader who served his country with honor and distinction
and who understands the reality of combat, not a poster-boy for
dereliction of duty.
* We need someone who can work with our allies and bring the UN in and
get the US out, while contributing to the creation of a stable and
democratic Iraq.
* Read newspapers and magazines, watch television, listen to the radio,
keep yourself informed and do your best to promote freedom and
democracy at home.
Sources for more on 9/11:
Try reading David Ray Griffin, THE NEW PEARL HARBOR (2004), apaperback.
Try viewing "911: In Plane Site" (2004), a new DVD from "The Power
Hour".
Try checking out "911review.org", a web site devoted to these subjects.
Study the evidence. Make up your own mind. Because America needs your
vote.
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Jim Fetzer, a professor of philosophy at UMD, believes that 9/11 was
Indeed an "inside job". Many studies of 9/11 may be found on his web
site at http://www.assassinationscience.com.
