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I agree that people tend to see or not see what they want to see -- we've all seen the right wing lie so often that they start to believe their own lies. But the people who do not believe the official story of 9/11 rely on much more than just what some people think they see in the photos. I am one of those people who has no doubt that the official story is not the truth. Just the uncontroverted facts alone are more than enough to warrant a new investigation -- the fact that Bush/Cheney fought tooth and nail to prevent having 9/11 investigated(!!) and refused to be interviewed under oath, separately (the biggest RED FLAG OF THEM ALL); the fact that the head of the 9/11 Commission had a huge conflict of interest in that he's a neo-conservative/Bush supporter, and that he was in contact with Karl Rove during the investigation, which was prohibited; the fact that the bin Laden family was secretly flown out of the country by the FBI when all other flights had been grounded, and without even a cursory interview asking if they knew the whereabouts of their relative, Osama; the fact that the soldiers who participated in the Able Danger program and who had information pertinent to the 9/11 investigation were never interviewed by the 9/11 commission at all, even though these soldiers approached the Commission about providing what they knew; the fact that the trading of "put options" on only the airlines involved in the attack had an out-of-the-ordinary spike in the days leading up to 9/11 (when you trade in put options, you're basically betting that a company's stock will drop); the fact that many people still do not to this day realize that a 3rd building in the World Trade Center complex (Building 7) caught on fire and collapsed on 9/11 later in the day, and that it too seemed to collapse into its own footprint as if it were a controlled demolition instead of a simple fire -- and it didn't get hit by a plane (this building housed SEC, FBI and CIA offices and records, including the Enron case files); the fact that Ashcroft quit flying on commercial airlines about a month or two prior to 9/11; the fact that all but 2 fighter jets were on the other side of the country on 9/11, participating in a terrorist attack practice drill that simulated almost the exact scenario that actually took place that day, which caused endless confusion when the real deal actually took place; the fact that many of the extraordinary actions Bush has taken using 9/11 as the reason for doing so were actually in the works long before 9/11, such as the war in Iraq and the surveillance of American communications; the fact that all Bush/Cheney et al, were concerned with, even on 9/11, was finding a way to go to war in Iraq and shifted from pursuing bin Laden in Afghanistan to overthrowing Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and actually stated that “we are not concerned about the whereabouts of bin Laden..” There are many,. many more details that are “fishy.” The photos are the least impressive evidence that we have not been told the truth.
There are many very credible people who believe 9/11 should be reinvestigated, including the famous 4 widows who pushed for 9/11 to be investigated, a whole list of folks at the CIA, and just about anyone who takes an unbiased look at the evidence. We spent millions of dollars investigating Clinton (Kenneth Starr had a staff of over 400 people on his Special Committee) and the only thing they could come up with was the affair with Monica Lewinsky. Yet the 9/11 investigation was grudgingly allowed to be undertaken, had a hard, fast deadline within which is was mandated it be completed, was underfunded and fraught with conflicts of interest and details left uninvestigated. What do I expect to happen? Nothing, really. But I would like to see it acknowledged that the 9/11 Commission’s findings were incomplete, and that we basically didn’t get a true unbiased full investigation and therefore will never truly know who was behind 9/11.
