there is not much difference, obama even retained member(s) from his admin. he didn't end no war and he escalated the afghan war. he also has attacked pakistan. did he repeal any of bush's E.O.s, did he stop the wars no he lied just like bush did when he stated he was against policing the world and nation building. they lied and they keep doing stuff that benefits the corporations and not the people.
By “EyesWideOpen” a reader at Veterans Today
It’s refreshing to see there are so many people who “get it”– except
maybe Steve. This was a great article and there are some really good
comments here. I want to point out something I haven’t seen written
about before regarding 9/11 and maybe it will cause some people who
still don’t get it or refuse to examine the mountains of evidence
pointing to 9/11 being an inside job to rethink their beliefs in the
official story coming from our corporate government and their
mouthpiece media.
Since there are so many vets here who I assume would understand
attack strategies I thought this would be the place to bring this up.
While the events of 9/11 were in progress, remember how we were all
waiting for the fighter jets that protect America to show up any second
to handle the situation? Remember how we all expected that to happen,
how it was just second nature to expect our military jets to come
swooping in any second, and then remember that feeling of total
incredulity when they never appeared as America was under attack? I
know we were all waiting for them to take care of the situation,
especially when the Pentagon was hit, the PENTAGON which some alleged
hijacked plane had to fly through the most “protected airspace” in the
world in order to hit it and we all couldn’t figure out how that could
have happened and why there were no fighter jets protecting the
nation’s capitol.
Why did we, as a nation, expect to see the fighter jets flying up
and handling the situation? Because it is standard operating procedure
(SOP) to scramble jet fighters whenever a jetliner goes off course or
radio contact with it is lost or its transponder is turned off. Between
January 2001 and September 2001, interceptors were scrambled 67 times.
In the year 2000 jets were scrambled 129 times. They have never once in
history not been scrambled. Besides, we just know our nation is
protected and we just know that our military has these amazing jets
capable of doing amazing things and we just know their number one
priority is protecting our country and we just know that our military
is well-trained and rabid about defense.
Over the course of America’s history, our military might and our
military technology has been rightfully feared, revered and respected.
We all know the official story blames these foreigners who
supposedly planned the whole thing from their hideouts in some remote
caves in Afghanistan. Pretend YOU are Osama bin Laden, an apparently
super-intelligent guy who they say was the main planner of this
amazing, complicated and dramatic attack on American soil. (Now they
have changed the main culprit to KSM, but for my point it doesn’t
matter.)
Think in terms of military strategy. Here you are planning this
attack on the USA, something that hasn’t been done since Pearl Harbor.
In the years since Pearl Harbor, you would have to assume America has
honed her defense skills and strategies to prevent it from ever
happening again. You would absolutely have to know about the SOP
regarding America’s domestic defense systems and the scrambling of
fighter jets. You would have to be aware of the protected airspace
surrounding DC. You would have to know about airport security, about
NORAD, about our intelligence systems of which I think there were 16
separate agencies at the time. There is no way you could plan such an
elaborate attack without knowing all these critical things down to the
finest detail, is there?
You plan to send in these 19 ragtag terrorists, many who barely
spoke a word of English to outfox and overpower the entire US military
and intelligence apparatus as well as the security systems of several
airports, and then hijack 4 airplanes by overpowering all the flight
crews with box-cutters including a pilot who not only was a combat vet,
but also held multiple black belts in martial arts. Then your boys
would somehow perform expert aerial maneuvers and fly these hijacked
jets into not-easy-to-hit buildings, including flying one into the
Pentagon, which not only was reputed to have its own defense system as
in missiles, but which lies inside the most protected territory in the
world. And nothing, not one little thing can go wrong in order for your
plan to work! If the airport security personnel were doing their jobs
and just one of these 19 Arabs got caught or even detained, or one
missed his flight, or one of the planes got really delayed, or the
weather turned bad, the whole mission would be compromised.
So why would anyone, especially one as intelligent as Osama bin
Laden, plan something so intricate, so risky and actually so
ridiculously impossible? (I keep saying how intelligent bin Laden was
because from what the government says he did, the guy’s pure genius
with Superhero qualities!) Why on earth would anyone think they could
plan something this risky and ridiculous and not expect complete
failure at just about every stage?
First, why would he think that airport security wouldn’t somehow
detain even one of his terrorists? Okay, let’s say that airport
security at every port had one of bin Laden’s guys working security
allowing the bad guys to get through.
But then he’d have to count on each one being able to successfully
hijack not just one, but FOUR separate airplanes. Then he’d have to
count on each one of his ragtag men to be able to accurately maneuver
those planes that none had ever flown before and accurately hit their
targets, then hope that somehow hitting 2 buildings in NYC would
miraculously cause 3 to collapse. Then, despite the reputation of the
US military, and despite the SOP for scrambling jets, and despite the
fact that some of these hijacked airplanes would be flying around for
almost two hours, he’d have to count on no military jets being
scrambled despite the fact it had never happened before ever in
history! The average time for a fighter jet to be scrambled to
intercept an errant airplane is only 10 minutes! Then he’d have to
count on the Pentagon not launching a missile to shoot down the
hijacked plane before it could slam into the building.
Why would anyone plan such an event knowing how impossible it would
all be? Even if a lunatic planned it that would not make the impossible
possible. It was an impossible thing. Think about that. He would have
to rely on sheer luck, sheer chance, and just cross his fingers and
hope for the best. He would have to hope for some really deep
institutional failings deep within the US government, and the US
military, and the US intelligence system, and why on earth would
someone who had such a brilliant mind even dream of such a stupid
(non)strategy? Why would he expect hundreds of Americans to have such
an unrealistic amount of incompetence especially all in that one day
during the most critical times in order for his plan to succeed?
Then, after all was said and done, he would plan it out so there
would not even be enough evidence to convict him in a court of law–
(he’s not even wanted by the FBI for the 9/11 attacks because according
to the FBI “there’s no evidence showing he was behind it.”) What was
even more incredible is that at least 7 of the 19 “hijackers” were
found to be alive and well after crashing those planes. All of them,
invincible and amazing, just like Superheroes! What an amazing feat,
and to somehow pull it all off despite America’s tight defense protocol
and feared, revered, and amazingly competent defense systems says a lot
about Osama bin Laden and his 19 religiously fanatical nutcase
terrorists. It also says a lot about how totally and ridiculously inept
and incompetent Americans allegedly are. Whatever.
One more thing to ponder is this: why on earth would Osama bin Laden
want to attack the mightiest military machine on the planet, knowing
full well that the payback for such an attack would devastate all of
Islam and be a death sentence to Muslims worldwide? Why would he want
to bring such horror and destruction upon his people? What benefit
would OBL and his terrorist team reap from this venture? If you
honestly look at it, who really benefitted? Did the Muslim people
benefit, even a little? Or did the corporations, the military
industrial complex, the banks, and the neocons benefit? Bush and
Company said that we were attacked because they hated us and hated our
“freedoms.”
Well, think about it– if they “hated us for our freedoms”, what
would the 9/11 events do to destroy or even harm these freedoms?
Nothing. However, it was our own government that immediately started
dismantling and eviscerating our Constitution and Bill of Rights,
starting with the pre-written 11,000+ page US Patriot Act. Our elected
servants were threatened with martial law if they didn’t sign it
immediately. It is not the Muslims, but our own government who has been
steadily taking our freedoms away from us ever since 9/11 by using 9/11
as an excuse, and it is getting worse and worse as the days go by.
So-called enemies like OBL, a known CIA operative, or any
America-hating terrorist could only dream of doing to the US what our
own government has done to us and to our American way of life. This was
not a Muslim “terrorist” attack at all, but it was terrorists who did
this to us. Unfortunately, these terrorists are homegrown and still in
power in our increasingly oppressive police state that once was really
the land of the free, home of the brave. We have become the land of the
oppressed and dumbed-down, and the home of a lot of apathetic sheeple.
(except for the people on this site!)
Honestly looking at 9/11 from every angle, looking at the mountains
and mountains of irrefutable evidence proving it was an inside job and
then doing the research to see that there’s still not one shred of
evidence to even remotely show that the official story is true, anyone
with half a brain should be able to wake up and see what the hell
really happened and why it really happened. It is only when the
majority of Americans wake up to see the truth about 9/11 that we’ll be
able to save our country from the abyss we are falling into.
