In so many ways, family and friends of the 9/11 victims are no different than Ms. Sheehan in a quest for answers.

What is significant now, after the failure of the Commission to address the family's concerns, is that many in this group, knit together by little else than their mutual losses, see as their natural allies those of us who consider the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as the "9/11 Wars." These wars were planned in advance but undertaken as a direct result of the September 11 attacks. I invite all members of the Peace and Justice movement to consider the power of the families' claims to answers. Those answers are directly connected to how and why we are at war today. And they are essentially the same answers Cindy Sheehan seeks.

We have an administration that has flagrantly abused the civil liberties of all Americans through the loss of habeas corpus rights, through the power they assume in their concept of "unitary executive," through unprecedented secrecy of their actions. The wars and the domestic assault on our liberties all stem from events of which we in fact know very little, and what we do know simply doesn't square with we have been told.

Consider: through a Freedom of Information Act request by a private citizen to the FAA for all documents relating to the positive identification of the aircraft used in the attack - publicly cited and referred to in at least one major movie, in news accounts, in fictional accounts, in kitchens and living rooms across the country – the records requested have been denied by the FBI and FAA, and the request is now working its way through the courts on appeal. The court continually agrees with the private citizen that the identities of the aircraft are common knowledge, and the documents and imagery relating to the technical identification of the aircraft (through serial number correlation with FAA records) would not hamper any current investigation or lawsuit, and is a reasonable request in the public interest.

The FBI refuses to release any documentation, saying instead, at one point, that they have no records that positively identify the aircraft to release. While United Fight 93, American Airlines Flight 77, American Airlines Flight 11, and United Flight 175 are very nearly household words, the FBI is saying they do not have records, or will not release the records, that positively identify the aircraft by the identifying serial numbers of components and parts. Without positively identifying the parts recovered from the Pentagon, or the Shanksville field, we can only trust the government's account of what was involved in those incidents. The Flight Data Recorders (FDR's) said to be recovered from both the Pentagon and the Shanksville field are HIGHLY unusual in that they do not have serial numbers associated with them in the official documentation, numbers that positively link the FDR's to the aircraft they came out of. Without this documentation linkage we cannot know with certainty where these FDR's came from, or that the information they hold is valid. And if the aircraft have been positively identified, it is in the public's interest to have that information available. Why the secrecy about what is supposed to be common knowledge? Why no criminal investigation prior to this?

The "official" investigations, even the science-based investigations conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and FEMA, either claimed their conclusions were of low probability and further investigation was necessary, or were so narrow in their scope as to leave enormous questions completely unexamined. NIST has admitted, due to the narrow mandate to study ONLY what initiated collapse, "we are unable to provide a full explanation of the total collapse." To date, there has been NO official explanation as to why these buildings completely collapsed at the speed and in the manner they did.

The wars we are currently engaged in, and the war this administration has lobbied for against Iran, all used the September 11 attacks as a primary catalyst. To help stop the 9/11 Wars, join with the many educated, principled people who are calling for a new investigation into the government's role in the September 11 attacks. We can all work for peace, strengthening one another's efforts, to make a more peaceful world by finding out more clearly what happened on September 11, 2001. Peace will come through a repudiation of the military/industrial complex, its self-enriching agenda of resource wars under a pretense of a "global war on terror."

Help expose the cover up of the event that catalyzed this agenda. It really is as simple as supporting the call for a new, honest, independent, criminal investigation into the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001. For peace and justice sake, join us in this call. Ask your Congress Member to support a new investigation.