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You need to get off the fence paulpsd7. Both stories can't be correct any more than both stories can be incorrect. As to the Bush Administration's incompetence,while their socio/economic incompetence is beyond dispute, that image largely stems from the imbecile known as Bush. Bush didn't need to carry out the attack or plan it: they have the Pentagon and the CIA for that. Flipping it over, you need to look at what you do believe- that a bunch of Saudi students from Hamburg, who could hardly fly a plane performed feats of military-style flying that only skilled and experienced pilots could possibly have performed. That the US airforce sat on the ground and did nothing because they were feeling lazy that day. That a plane was allowed to fly for forty minutes towards the Pentagon and was not shot down by the batteries of anti aircraft missiles around the Pentagon programmed to shoot down any plane without a military transponder on board. According to the testimony of Norman Mineta, Secretary of Transport, to the 9/11 Commission, Mineta was with Dick Cheney in the Presidential Emergency Control Centre that day (Bush had been taken away somewhere like a helpless child) and Cheney calmly watched this plane fly towards the Pentagon for forty minutes. A young man kept him informed of the plane's progress and when it was 10 minutes away from the Pentagon he said to Dick Cheney: 'Do the orders still stand?' and Cheney barked 'Of course the orders still stand have you heard anything to the contrary?' Now, I don't know about you but my lips immediately form the words, 'What orders?' And when I find out that the chain of command was changed in the days leading up to 9/11 so that only Donald Rumsfeld could order the airforce to respond to an airborne attack on the United States I ask 'Why?' and 'Why Didn't he?' The Mossad agents, famously known in some quarters as 'The Dancing Israelis' were real and featured in a story on CBS a short time after 9/11. They drew so much attention to themselves that the FBI was tailing their van. Who they really were and what they were doing, no one knows. The point is, no one has tried to find out. NOTHING about 9/11 has actually been investigated since the 9/11 Commission was purely a PR exercise and as such was yet another scandalous waste of taxpayers' money. But, I suppose when you've killed so many taxpayers stealing their money comes easy.
