I believe that right wing forces within the U.S. government were responsible for the events of September 11th, 2001, and I’m a little bit sick of people saying I’m nuts because of that. I could be mistaken. I don’t claim to have absolute proof.
However, in view of the fact that the George W. Bush administration lied about virtually everything they were ever involved in and refused to co-operate with the commission investigating the disaster, I think it’s reasonable to suspect them.
I began to suspect it was an inside job when I saw how determinedly Bush and Cheney were trying to weasel out of testifying. It wasmuch later, maybe even over a year, when I saw footage of the collapse of WTC 7 for the 1st time. It was in the Loose Change video. I had been involved in the debate, heard and participated in discussions about the building’s structure, proximity to the others, and so on, but I hadn’t seen it. The weird thing is, I didn’t realize I hadn’t seen it until I actually saw it.
Now, I’ll admit that the collapse of the twin towers was much more dramatic, but WTC 7, happening 7 hours later, should have been well covered by the media. It wasn’t. That made me even more suspicious.
Today, because somebody linked to the famous Popular Mechanics article as a way to settle the argument, I went back and reread it. I remain unconvinced.
First, they talk a lot about how steel, even though it will not melt at the temperature at which rocket fuel burns, will be weakened, thus allowing the building to collapse. Bullshit. The steel in those buildings wasn’t just weakened. For the buildings to fall at the speed they did, that steel had to be zapped. Beyond melted, it had to be flat out missing. I’m not saying that pancaking can’t happen, but if there are any kind of steel columns at all, those points will pancake slower than the open air around them and the whole thing will be a tangled mess.
2nd, they do not speak about motive at all, or mention the Silverstein confession: “As for building 7, we’d already decided to pull it.” I give them a bit of a pass on that, because they are Popular Mechanics and investigative political journalism is not their thing. Still, I consider that, the PNAC statement and the escort of the Bin Laden family out of the U.S., so they couldn’t be interviewed by the F.B.I., to be pretty strong evidence.
3rd, they do not seem to be clear, themselves, on whether the building collapsed due to fire or due to structural damage. So, it seems a bit cavalier on their part to totally rule out bombs in the basement.
We may never know. However, you can count me as one vote in favor of reopening the investigation.
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