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• Monday, March 17, 2008 12:30 AM

  Why the Sneering?

  Why is it that many people feel that they can sneer and denigrate those who, for very good reasons, don't believe the official conspiracy theory?

  There are a lot of problems with the official narrative. Some of you just want to write it all off with a breezy, "it was incompetence". If that is your explanation, then there is a LOT of incompetence in America.

  Farhad chose the weakest link to attack, letsroll911 is a pathetic site. The truth community has a lot of people in it, just like in the "denier" community. Some truthers are barking mad, some are just plain stupid, but there are many people who are quite sane, highly intelligent and educated. It used to be said that there are no pilots, engineers or scientists who have a problem with the official lie. Now there are many.

  And the pictures are valuable Farhad, as are the videos, and there are "facts" embedded therein. For instance by watching the videos it is possible to ascertain that 1, 2, and 7 went down at freefall speeds, impossible if there was not a controlled demolition. And from the pictures we can see that a 757 made a small hole in the pentagon and that the wings, and tail, which should have been sheered off and left on the lawn, don't exist. The pictures also show us 12 foot wide hole in the ground in Pennsylvania into which another plane simply disappeared.

  So spare me the vituperation and stick to logical arguments.

  For me, I would just like to know where the interceptors were that day? And a few other questions, but I will leave that for later.

  "Why did four hijacked airliners fly around for up to an hour and 45 minutes without being intercepted? Why were normal procedures not followed? (If normal procedures HAD been followed, the aircraft would have been intercepted with 20 minutes to spare, the twin towers would still be standing, and thousands of dead Americans would still be alive.)

  If it was massive incompetence, why has no one been fired? … or demoted? … or court martialed? (Instead they were promoted or given the medal of freedom!)"

  Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret. is President of the Institute for Space and Security Studies, Executive Vice President of Millennium III Corporation, and retired Presiding Archbishop of the United Catholic Church. He flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam and directed all the “Star Wars” programs under Presidents Ford and Carter. He is the recipient of the Eisenhower Medal, the George F. Kennan Peace Prize, the President’s Medal of Veterans for Peace, the Society of Military Engineers' ROTC Award of Merit (twice), six Air Medals, and dozens of other awards and honors. His Ph.D. is in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from Caltech. He chaired 8 major international conferences, and is one of the country’s foremost experts on National Security.

  Or as some would say, just another tinfoil hat wearing nut job. Or maybe he is just stupid.

  —Bill Owen Read Bill Owen's other letters
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