On this day 8 years ago.....

On this day, 3000 people lost their lives in Washington D.C., New York City, and Shanksville, PA.

One thing to note: Many politicians and commentators like to say that "3000 Americans died" on this day. It was not 3000 Americans. It was 3000 people who were citizens of multiple nations including Britain, Israel, Pakistan, just to name a few. And no, there was no master list of all the Jewish people who worked there and the Mossad got them all out ahead of time and told them to stay home from work. How many Jewish families do you need to see on tv who lost loved ones on that day before you realize that that's not true?

Anyway, as the media tries to sweep us up into a fury at the terrorists and evil-doers and to support the War On Terror/Overseas Contingency Operations, call it what you will, ask yourself a few questions:

-- Why did NORAD stand down on that day? They knew this kind of thing could happen. De-classified documents reported on by ABC state that NORAD as early as November 2000 was doing training drills for exactly this kind of attack on those targets.

-- Why is there no video footage of an actual plane, even in slow motion, striking the Pentagon? Every video I've ever seen just shows an emanating light in the air, followed by a break in the motion sequence, and then an exposion on the outer wall of the Pentagon. And why did the FBI confiscate that motel owners video of the Pentagon attack?

-- How is it possible that not one, not two, but three buildings (towers 1, 2, and 7) would all fall that perfectly to the ground? And yes, though the jet fuel was not hot enough to melt the steel, the temperature would have weakened its structural integrity by up to 50%. Ok. Fine. But if the integrity was weakened, wouldn't the steel frame have bent and fallen to the side? How many buildings have been on fire for hours on end, including the First Interstate Bank building that was on fire 18 hours, and yet didn't melt the frame or fall to the ground? Why was there pools of molten metal liquid found weeks after the attack? Why was thermite found there? Why were there so many perfect clean breaks in the steel frame remnants? Why was the scrap all sent out immediately to China?

-- Larry Silverstein was the lease-holder on the WTC. He had an insurance policy worth $7 billion on the whole place. He was up for $1.4 BILLION in asbestos removal obligations. Silverstein HIMSELF SAID on a PBS documentary that on tower 7, the firefighters called him and told him they would just pull it and it was un-savable. The insurance company paid out 3.5 billion. He then went to court and the judge awarded him all $7 Billion. Coincidence?

-- We've been bombing and invading and sanctioning Iraq since 1990, and during Kennedy administration, we even did a CIA coup on Abdel Karim Kaseb and replaced him with the Arif brothers. Iraq is the second most oil-rich country on Earth. But there was a dictator who wouldn't make favorable deals to our oil companies but would with French and Russian and German oil companies. If 9/11 hadn't happened, there wouldn't have been much public support to invade Iraq just out of the blue. And even the week before the Iraq war began in 2003, a major poll showed that only 56% of Americans favored military action in Iraq. And that was within 18 months of 9/11. Imagine if 9/11 had never happened. Halliburton, which Dick Cheney used to run, is an oil services company. Condoleeza Rice, who was also in the administration at the time, was on Chevron's board of directors from 1991 to 2000, and there was even an oil tanker called the Condoleeza Rice. Bush was in the oil business. His daddy was in the oil business. Coincidence?

-- AFGHANISTAN is a country that would serve as a pipeline route for oil from the Caspian Sea (i.e. the Caspian coasts of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan), and Hamid Karzai, the current president, in a former oil company executive. The Taliban responded negatively to both Clinton and Bush administration overtures to them to work on the pipeline. One Bush administration official even told a Taliban official in July 2001, "You either accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or you'll get a carpet of bombs." And oh yeah, the hijackers were based in Afghanistan. Oh wait, that's the same country. And so was their spiritual leader Bin Laden (formerly Tim Osman, CIA operative). Coincidence?

Corporations like United Defense, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing make a killing in times of war. Coincidence?

International bankers make money in a time of war too. Coincidence?

Since 9/11, Bush, Vicente Fox, and Paul Martin began discussions on the "Security and Prosperity Partnership" which is one step closer to a North American Union, and a small step closer to one world government. Coincidence?