These are among the “big lies” the administration used to sell these illegal and immoral wars to the American people.  It would have been impossible to outfox the most advanced air defense system in the world had it not been stood down.  Even Bush has acknowledged that Saddam had “nothing” to do with 9/11.  Multiple investigations, some by the Senate, have confirmed that Iraq was not working with al Qaeda and that Saddam Hussein was actually tracking down its leaders to incarcerate or even kill them.  Even the FBI—our own FBI!—has admitted that it has “no hard evidence” Osama bin Laden was involved in 9/11!  Even the “confession tape” was a fake.

The big lies that were used to manipulate us into war were accompanied by dozens of smaller lies about the events of 9/11.  The buildings were in fact designed to withstand multiple impacts from aircraft.  The fires in the Twin Towers burned neither hot enough nor long enough to cause steel to weaken, much less melt.  The towers were turned into enormous clouds of very fine dust. Each floor waited its turn to be pulverized.  When it was done—in 10 seconds apiece—there were no “pancakes”.  They were gone.  Watch “9/11: Towers of Dust”, on YouTube, if you doubt it.

In the case of Building 7, which was not demolished until 5:20 PM that afternoon, the 47-story structure was brought down in a complete, abrupt, and symmetrical collapse, a classic case of controlled demolition, in about 6.5 seconds.  All of the floors fell at the same time and more than five stories of “pancakes” remained.  It was a completely different mode of demolition than was used to pulverize the Twin Towers.  Watch “This is an Orange”, on YouTube, for comparison.

It is rather astonishing that the NIST would claim that this was the first time in history a steel-structure reinforced building collapsed from fire alone. The collapse of buildings brought down by fire instead tends to be gradual, asymmetrical, and slow.  The design of WTC-7, which was put up over two enormous generators providing electricity to lower Manhattan, was even more robust than that of the Twin Towers.  Although it is not widely known, NIST studied 236 samples of steel from the Twin Towers and discovered 233 had not been exposed to temperatures above 500*F.

That may be the typical temperature of an office fire, but it is not enough to cause a building to collapse. Steel only melts at 2,800*F and Underwriters Laboratory certified the steel used in the towers to 2,000*F for three to four hours without displaying any adverse effects.  The fires in the South Tower lasted less than one hour and in the North an hour-and-a-half.  500*F fires could burn forever and not cause the steel to weaken, much less melt. The NIST is pulling a fast one.

WTC-7 was not hit by any plane and did not have any jet-fuel based fires. Jet fuel is made out of kerosene and, as Jesse Ventura has observed, his propane camp stove burns hotter.  If the official account were true, his camping stove should melt each time he uses it.  But that doesn’t happen.  In fact, if ordinary office fires could cause 110 story buildings to fall, there would be no need for demolition companies, such as Controlled Demolition, Inc., which was hired to clean up after 9/11, to remain in business.  We could set fires, let them burn, and watch buildings collapse!

Col. George Nelson, an Air Force accident investigator and expert on airplane parts, has been dismayed that none of the thousands of uniquely identifiable parts of any of the planes from any of the four crash sites has ever been produced.  John Lear, the son of the designer of the Lear jet and one of our nation’s most outstanding pilots, has observed that, before a commercial carrier can pull away from a terminal, the pilot must submit an envelope of documents about the plane and its passengers, yet none of the envelopes for those four flights are in evidence.

Elias Davidsson, the Icelandic scholar, has determined that the government has not even shown the 19 alleged “hijackers” were aboard the aircraft.  In his words, “No authenticated, original, passenger lists, bearing their names, have been released; no one is known to have seen them board the aircraft; no video recordings documented their boarding; no boarding pass stub is known to exist; and there is no proof that the alleged hijackers actually died at the known crash sites, because their bodily remains were never positively identified and the chain of custody of these remains was broken.”  The official story appears to be a hoax and a sham

As founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, I would invite those who want to learn more to visit 911scholars.org.  Anyone who still believes that “9/11 truth” is a misnomer should google “Patriotsquestion911.com” and read the bio sketches and statements by more than 1,100 experts from academic, government, intelligence, military and other fields, including more than 120 pilots and aviation professionals, 300 professors, 530 architects and engineers, and more. The breadth and depth of serious concern about the lies we have been told continues to grow.

Those who pursue this suggestion, however, will not include John McCain. There are around 237,000,000 internet users in North America, but he is not one of them.  He recently said that he was gearing up to send an email and to use “the google”, but I don’t think it’s happened yet.  He will leave that to others.  How many of us could survive without the internet?  This is just one more indication of how much McCain is out of touch with reality, intellectually lazy and lacking in curiosity.  He has no comprehension—not even the slightest!—of the most important technology of the 20th and 21st Centuries.

Most Americans have only recently begun to appreciate that we went to war for oil, Israel, and ideology.  Saddam kicked out the international oil companies and nationalized their fields when he came to power some 40 years ago.  Israel had a problem with the most advanced and sophisticated Arab state, in part because Saddam was supporting suicide bombers in their desperate efforts to improve the plight of the Palestinian people.  And it wants its own access to oil. 

The neo-con fanatics wanted to occupy the Middle East to create a center for projecting US military power outward from that geopolitically strategic area. The invasion and occupation of Iraq and of Afghanistan in violation of international law, the UN Charter, and even the US Constitution has not gone well, even though McCain, in characteristic detachment from reality, says otherwise.  It is astounding that  a candidate for president in September of 2008 wants to continue the war (in his memorable phrase, so we can “win in Iraq by winning”) and revive the draft. 

The latest Rand study reports that we have been fighting the war the wrong way and making matters worse and worse. Worst of all, McCain appears to support the Bush/Cheney plan to bomb Iran.  If we or Israel hit its nuclear energy sites, which would be the principal objective, estimates run at 1,000,000 Iranians killed immediately and some 35,000,000 more in Indian, Pakistan, and Afghanistan will die a slower death due to contamination from the fallout.  If this occurs, it would make the United States guilty of the greatest act of mass murder in history.  Yet McCain sings about bombing Iran!

McCain is not alone in failing to grasp what happened on 9/11.  The evidence we have amassed suggests that it was “an inside job”, like the anthrax attacks targeted against Senators Patrick Leahy and Tom Daschel to insure the passage of the PATRIOT Act.  In case you haven’t noticed, the fact that the anthrax attack turns out to have been an inside job—by one of our own officials on the US—seems to have escaped the national press.  While there are reasons to believe that the alleged assailant, Bruce Ivins, is not actually guilty, the FBI’s account makes it an inside job. 

In fact, this administration plays games with the American public all the time.  On 30 July 2008, the media announced the killing of Abu Khabab al-Masri, an alleged “key al Qaeda operative”, which sounds impressive if you don’t know he was previously reported killed in January of 2006 (“Al Qaeda expert re-killed by CIA”, www.legitgov.org).  On 31 July 2008, we learned Seymour Hersh had uncovered a Cheney plan to build some boats that look like Iranian PT boats, put Navy Seals dressed as Iranians aboard and create an incident (“To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Proposal to Dress Up Navy Seals as Iranians and Shoot at Them”, thinkprogress.org). 

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