9/11 Speak Out

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9/11 does not go away. It is with us on a daily basis. It has been the emotional rationale for a long list of radical changes in US policy, many of which continue with us even under the Obama administration:

• a supposed "War on Terrorism"
• actual wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
• possible future wars against a supposed "axis of evil"
• condoning torture and indefinite detention without any kind of due process
• scuttling the Geneva conventions
• the sacrifice of civil liberties at home

If 9/11 "changed everything," as George W. Bush has said, then it is extremely important that we "get it right." What really happened that day?

The administration made a rush to judgment, immediately destroyed much of the evidence, stamped much of the remaining evidence "Secret," and implied that critics were "with the terrorists"