The 9/11 Commission held nobody accountable for the failure to protect America from the 9/11 attacks. 3000 people died and nobody in government got so much as even a slap on the wrist.
NO 757 AT THE PENTAGON
The physical evidence from the Pentagon is completely inconsistent with the crash of a 757. There is some photographic evidence, however, that a smaller plane and possibly a missile did indeed hit the Pentagon that day.
The initial hole in the building (the section that was struck stood for about 20 minutes before it collapsed) was about 16 feet in diameter, with fully intact windows directly above and on either side.
A Boeing 757-200 is 155 feet long, 44 feet high (ground to top of the tail), has a wingspan of 124 feet and weighs over 60 tons. The engines alone are 8 feet in diameter and weigh 6 tons each.
The official story is that the plane was completely obliterated instantly on impact, leaving only tiny fragments. To believe this explanation, you would have to conclude that this complete obliteration occurred even before the engines, wings and tail hit the outside wall of the Pentagon, because there was no initial damage (before the building section collapsed) where these parts would have come into contact with the building. You would also have to believe that the nose of a plane that was completely obliterated instantly on impact was somehow able travel through three of the Pentagon's 5 concentric rings, punching neat, round holes through a total of 9 feet of steel reinforced concrete. There are some pictures of what is purported to be 757 wreckage inside the building, but these pictures do not explain why there is no damage to the outside of the building where the wings, engines and 44 foot high tail section would have hit.
Although there were at least three Virginia DOT cameras (I-395 runs right by the damaged side of the building), a gas station security camera and a Sheraton National Hotel rooftop security camera with a clear view of the side of the Pentagon that was hit, no footage from these cameras has ever been released. The FBI confiscated the Sheraton and gas station videotapes reportedly within minutes of the crash on the morning of 9/11. The Pentagon eventually released 5 frames from a parking lot security camera that they say shows the 757 impacting the building. These 5 frames can be seen in the Pentagon Strike flash presentation, which you will find a link to below.
CONCLUSION
The terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 were planned and perpetrated by a rouge band of cold-blooded mass murderers within our own government, led by George W. Bush, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz.
These 3000 murders were committed to provide the fraudulent basis for perpetual war in the Middle East, designed not only to enrich defense contractor and oil industry cronies and the neo-conservative Bush cabal that favors them, but also to launch the world domination plan of the Project for the New American Century, of which Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz are three of the most prominent members. You can read the PNAC plan for yourself at their website.
Here at home, the Bush criminals have despicably played on America's fears of another 9/11 to advance the Patriot Act, which ultimately does nothing to protect us from terrorism. Bush's real mission with this law is to eliminate dissent by diluting our civil liberties to the point that people are afraid to say or write or read or listen to anything that could possibly have them branded a terrorist sympathizer (because "you're either with us or you're with them") and hauled off to jail. In addition to many other civil liberty-stripping features, the Patriot Act also grants Bush the ability to label anyone he chooses as an "enemy combatant", without proof, and hold them indefinitely, without charges, access to legal counsel or the ability to confront witnesses against them. And that's just one of a myriad of problems with the Patriot Act.
This illegitimate president has also illegally declared that he can ignore the laws of our country at his own discretion, as he has done since 2001 with his authorization for NSA spying on Americans without warrants, in the name of "protecting the American people". On April 20th, 2004 in Buffalo, New York, Bush claimed that "A wiretap requires a court order. When you think Patriot Act, constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland because we value the Constitution." In fact, he had already been authorizing warrantless surveillance of American citizens on American soil for almost three years when he made that statement. This is absolute proof that he was lying and knew he was lying when he made the statement in Buffalo.
He has also made a habit of issuing written statements upon signing legislation that he thinks authorize him to ignore the law as he sees fit. This is exactly what he did with the McCain torture legislation, essentially granting himself the authority to continue authorizing the torture of detainees regardless of the law. He has issued, by some counts, over 500 of these signing statements since taking office in 2001.
The Bush administration is not interested in protecting us. The pathetic government response to Hurricane Katrina proved it. They're only interested in protecting themselves from us. They are certainly a bunch of lazy, ignorant, under-achieving, unqualified, power-mad cowards, but they're at least smart enough to know that a truly informed, active citizenry does not fit into their imperial fascist fantasy. They want absolute power to rape the resources of our country and the tax money of its citizens to advance their self-serving, murderous agenda, and they want us to be quiet about it.
Hello, Congress? Is anybody home? It's time to wake up and prove your relevance by exercising your oversight responsibility on the executive branch, or step aside for some real public servants that actually value the people and the country they are sworn to serve.
And it's time, NOW, for the people to remember that citizenship in a free, democratic society comes with the responsibility to demand accountability from the people we place in public service. Unless, of course, you would rather risk another 9/11 (or something far worse), engineered by the Bush administration, and the martial law and complete suspension of the Constitution that would certainly follow.
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