Reply #21: Normal to disbelieve this

[RainDog]

The easiest explanation, the one that fits with Americans' view of their country is that an outside force was totally responsible for this.

I don't *know* if they LIHOP, but because they have worked so hard to deny an investigation and to claim everything is off limits, I think it then becomes the "easiest" explanation, knowing the way people work, to think they are hiding something.

what are they hiding? I don't know. I think they, as employees of the people of the U.S., owe us an answer.

What I find helps if you want to talk about this is to acknowledge that FDR was accused, back 44 or 45, by another democrat, of having foreknowledge. I'll have to go back and find that in the newspapers I have from that time.

Then there's the Operation Northwoods, which was reported on ABC news, and which was first revealed in that former agent's book...I think it's Body of Secrets, by Bamfield? He was the one who first admitted that the joint chiefs of staff, in 1963, wanted to fake acts of terrorism, killing American citizens, in order to blame the acts on Cuba and justify an invasion of that country.

That is the most damning idea, to me...that this was known by the intelligence community for forty-ish years....but not known by everyday Americans.

Then there's the issue of the 9-11 widows and the investigations they have done and the failure of the Bush administration to answer those questions...things about scrambling planes, the precedent set with Payne Stewart. Questions about Bush sitting in the classroom when he could have been making those decisions which were his responsiblity about military action.

There's the issue of so many other nations warning our leaders of an upcoming attack on U.S. soil, and the issue that the widows bring up about the FBI going directly to right flight school in Florida immediately after the hijackings while telling these same widows there was no way they could investigate every flight school. When Breitweiser asked how they were able to immediately identify the school where the terrorists trained, the FBI man said...Just got lucky, I guess.

Then the issue of Bush stalling an investigation for a year, then appointing a man , Thomas Kean, who was in biz with a known financier of terrorism (and a relation by marriage to bin Laden) until three weeks before Kean's appt. bin Mafouz was listed as a financier of terrorism in 98/99...so why was Kean in biz with him...esp. after 9-11, and why did Bush appt him?

People who have no knowledge of the crimes the bushies and reagan committed during Iran/Contra and with Iraqgate need to be educated.

Even so, it does take time for such an idea to become imaginable. I did not want to think about the possibility of such a thing. It took a long time for me to be able to acknowledge that Bush and his junta could have done this.

knowing they stole the election helped. knowing they used fascists to kill in Chile during the overthrow of Allende, knowing they used Klaus Barbie to train a "new SS" in the central American massacres helps to be able to think these people could do this.

But most people do not have the inclination to think this, because to do so requires a response which opposes this administration, and most people want to think the Bushistas are watching out for our safety rather than imperiling it.

However, if you look at what Bush has actually done to protect this country, or rather not done, you can ask people if Bush has another agenda.

There has been more attention paid to denying civil rights and to busting unions than to protecting Americans.