If they had gotten the whole thing out during the run up to the war against bin Laden it would be a non-issue today.

It isn't the fact that people screw up and make mistakes that causes the damage, it's the cover-up. Didn't these people pay any attention to Watergate?

Hell, a quick admission, a few changes in the National Security staff and Fearful Leader is a hero who accepts responsibility.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4582.htm

[Excerpts from article:]

2) There is incontrovertible evidence that the US Air Force all across the
country was comprehensively "stood down" on the morning of September 11th.
Routine security measures, normally in place, which may well have been
able to prevent the attacks, or reduce their impact, were suspended for
one hour while the attacks were in progress, and re-instated once they
were over.

3) Neither the Joint Chief of Staff, the Secretary of Defense nor the
President of the United States acted according to well established
emergency protocols. Acting Joint Chief of Staff General Richard B. Myers
stated that he saw a TV report about a plane hitting the WTC but thought
it was a small plane. So he went ahead with his meeting. By the time he
came out of the meeting the Pentagon had been hit. Whose responsibility
was it to relay this emergency to the Joint Chief of Staff?

The Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was at his desk when AA77 crashed
into the Pentagon. How is it possible that the National Military Command
Center, located in the Pentagon and in contact with law enforcement and
air traffic controllers from 8:46 a.m., did not communicate to the
Secretary of Defense, also at the Pentagon, about the other hijacked
planes especially the one headed to Washington? After he was notified, why
did he go to the war room?

The actions of the President, while the attacks were occurring, indicate
that he deliberately avoided doing anything reasonably expected of a
President wanting to protect American citizens and property. Why didn't
the Secret Service inform him of this national emergency? When is a
President supposed to be notified of everything the agencies know? Why was
the President permitted by the Secret Service to remain in the Sarasota
elementary school? At 9.05, nineteen minutes after the first attack and
two minutes after the second attack on the WTC, Andrew Card, the
presidential chief of staff, whispered something in President Bush's ear.
The president did not react as if he was interested in trying to do
something about the situation. He did not leave the school, convene an
emergency meeting, consult with anybody, or intervene in any way, to
ensure that the Air Force completed it's job. He did not even mention the
extraordinary events occurring in New York, but simply continued with the
reading class. His own explanations of his actions that day contradict
known facts.

In the case of a national emergency, seconds of indecision could cost
thousands of lives; and it's precisely for this reason that the government
has a whole network of adjuncts and
advisors to insure that these top officials are among the first to be
informed, not the last. Where were these individuals who did not properly
inform the top officials?

In short, the CIA, the DCI, the State Department, the President, and key
figures around him in the White House, were ultimately responsible for
doing nothing in the face of the mounting evidence of an impending threat
to U.S. national security. Incompetence is a highly improbable
explanation.

17) Selected persons were told not to fly that day. Newsweek reported
that on September 10th, "a group of top Pentagon officials suddenly
canceled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security
concerns." Why was that same information not made available to the 266
people who died aboard the four hijacked commercial aircraft? A
significant number of selected people were warned about flying or
reporting for work at the WTC. San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown received a
phone call eight hours before the hijacking warning him not to travel by
air. Salman Rushdie is under a 24-hour protection of UK Scotland yard; he
was also prevented from flying that day. Ariel Sharon canceled his address
to Israeli support groups in New York City just the day before his
scheduled September 11th address. John Ashcroft stopped flying on public
airplanes in July of 2001.

Other evidence exists indicating that government officials knew of the
attacks beforehand. For example, Tom Kenny who was with a rescue squad
from FEMA told Dan Rather of CBS News that, "WE ARRIVED ON MONDAY NIGHT
(SEPTEMBER 10TH) AND WENT INTO ACTION OF TUESDAY." HOW IS IT POSSIBLE FOR
HIGH GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO HAVE BEEN CAUGHT BY SURPRISE AS SOME
CLAIMED?

18) There are reasonable grounds for suspicion that the U.S. attack on
Afghanistan was already planned before September 11th. A pretext for war
is always needed. From investigative journalist Patrick Martin, "[t]his
examination has found that a specific war on Afghanistan . . . launched in
October 2001 had been planned for at least a year, and in general terms
related to regional strategic and economic interests, had actually been
rooted in at least four years of strategic planning. This planning, in
turn, is the culmination of a decade of regional strategizing. All that
was required was a trigger for these war plans, which was amply provided
by the tragic events of 11th September."

It is public knowledge that Unocal and others in the oil industry were
negotiating with Afghan officials for a pipeline across their country as
part of the "Silk Road" strategy. It was also reported that the talks had
broken down. A specific threat made at a meeting: the Taliban can choose
between a "carpets of bombs" - an invasion - or a "carpets of gold" - the
oil and gas pipelines. Experts agree that Central Asia and the Caspian
Basin are central to energy in the 21st century and that energy is central
to political, economic and military power. James Dorian noted in the "Oil
& Gas Journal": "Those who control the oil routes out of Central Asia will
impact all future direction and quantities of flow and the distribution of
revenues from new production" (cited in Ahmed, 2002, p. 69).

The plans for global domination developed by those of Project for the New
American Century, a neoconservative think tank formed in the Spring of
1997, are also a matter of public record. These plans included specifics
for taking military control of Central Asia, including regime change in
Iraq. The primary architects of these plans include Paul Wolfowitz,
Richard Pearle, Richard Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, all part of the first
Bush Administration ousted by Bill Clinton and now back in power with
George W. Bush.

19) The 9/11 attacks came at an extremely fortuitous time for the Bush
administration, the Pentagon, the CIA, the FBI, the weapons industry, and
the oil industry, all of which have benefited immensely from this tragedy.
It is worth noting the acute observations of Canadian social philosopher
John McMurtry: "To begin with, the forensic principle of 'who most
benefits from the crime?' clearly points in the direction of the Bush
administration. The more you review the connections and the sweeping
lapse of security across so many coordinates, the more the lines point
backwards [to the White House]."
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Fringe crap like this should be excluded by Google so our time is not wasted.

Fringe crap like this should be excluded by Google so our time is not wasted.

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