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Did 9/11 Justify the War in Afghanistan? Using the McChrystal Moment to Raise a Forbidden Question

By By Prof. David Ray Griffin  Posted by Mike Zimmer (about the submitter)       (Page 21 of 21 pages) Become a premium member to see this article and all articles as one long page.   3 comments
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107 "The Myth of Implosion" (http://www.implosionworld.com/dyk2.html).

108 See Griffin, The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, 30-31.

109 As to how domestic terrorists could have gotten access, an answer becomes possible if we are aware that Larry Silverstein, who owned Building 7 and had recently taken out a lease on the rest of the World Trade Center, stood to make several billion dollars if it was destroyed in a terrorist attack, and that a brother and cousin of George W. Bush were principals of a company that handled security for the World Trade Center (Griffin, Debunking 9/11 Debunking, 111).

110 Some have seen drug profits as central. Others have focused on access to oil, natural gas, and minerals. For example, economist Michel Chossudovsky, referring to the allegedly recent discovery of huge reserves of minerals and natural gas in Afghanistan, wrote: "The issue of "previously unknown deposits' sustains a falsehood. It excludes Afghanistan's vast mineral wealth as a justifiable casus belli. Itsays that the Pentagon only recently became aware that Afghanistan was among the World's most wealthy mineral economies . . . [whereas in reality] all this information was known in minute detail" (Michel Chossudovsky, "'The War is Worth Waging': Afghanistan's Vast Reserves of Minerals and Natural Gas: The War on Afghanistan is a Profit Driven "Resource War,'" Global Research, June 17, 2010 (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19769).

111 Dr. Gideon Polya, author of Body Count: Global Avoidable Mortality Since 1950, has estimated that there over four million Afghanis have died since the 2001 than would have died without the invasion; see "January 2010 4.5 Million Dead in Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide," January 2, 2010, Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide (http://afghangenocide.blogspot.com).

112 On US-NATO war crimes in Afghanistan, see Marc W. Herold, "Media Distortion: Killing Innocent Afghan Civilians to "Save our Troops': Eight Years of Horror Perpetrated against the People of Afghanistan," Global Research, October 15, 2009 (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15665).

113 See The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7, and, more recently, "Building What? How SCADs Can Be Hidden in Plain Sight," 911Truth.org, May 27, 2010 (http://911truth.org/article.php?story=20100527162010811).

114 "Barack Obama's Inaugural Address," New York Times, January 20, 2009 (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/us/politics/20text-obama.html).

115 I wish to thank Tod Fletcher and Elizabeth Woodworth for considerable help with this essay.



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