Dec. 2 - Confronting the evidence

Last week I received a DVD called "Confronting the evidence". It's an interesting documentary that covers a conference held in the USA with the aim of reopening the 9/11 investigation. It claims that the attacks were part of a bigger plot to ensure United States' supremacy as a super power for many years to come. A super power needs a big army, strong economy and resources. Having a big part of control over those resources, say oil, would make being a super power a whole lot easier. Most of the worlds oil however is controlled by governments that are not all that friendly towards the USA but blatantly starting a war in order to remove those governments does not carry the support of most of the people living in the USA. If however, you bring in a number of passenger jets that strike down the symbol of US capitalism as well as a wing of the pentagon that (conveniently or not) is being renovated, you're bound to get a lot of support for a war. So, you attack Afganistan, not too hard a target for the mighty USA, which rationalizes the need for a higher defense budget (more weapons) for the American public. Then you go after the one you're really after: Iraq (read: Oil). No other country wanted a war with Iraq so what you do is you link its leader to the 9/11 attacks and brainwash the American public by saying he's got much more weapons that could do even worse things. The effect: A big majority of the Americans is for the war and you go to war, regardless of what the international community says. People often forget that at the time a new currency called the euro was breaking every record in strength compared to the dollar and oil selling countries were seriously considering to stop selling oil in dollars. This would have big consequences for the value of the dollar and the American economy.

Enfin, we find none of the weapons, we find none of the supposed links to the accused terrorist organization but we call it victory anyway (the new Iraqi government is pro-USA) and start dealing with our next problem: Iran (they got shitloads of oil too). How to make them look really dangerous? Well, how bout if we tell everyone they are after getting the bomb?

All of this could be partially true, fully true or fully bullshit. You have to admit it is interesting though... The thing that struck me most about the DVD was: How on earth could those planes ever reach the towers? If an airplane normally changes it's course (certainly a passenger plane) without notification then traffic controllers start asking questions within minutes. If they don't get an answer within minutes after that they alert the airforce who send in intercepting jets for a visual contact of what is going on. The passenger jets that we are talking about were hours away from their targets when they changed course toward New York and Washington. Hmmmm makes you think why not a single F16 was sent off to take a look. Then comes the really amazing observation: After the first tower was hit it took a fairly long time before the second plane struck. With no reaction from the airforce. Then the airforce even let a plane go toward washinton DC. Hmmmm..... BTW.: Why did the highjackers choose the Pentagon over the White House or the Capitol?

The commision that investigated the 9/11 events gives very little explanation for many issues and with such a disastrous, world-changing event, you might want to consider reopening the investigation.