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The Failure to Investigate 9/11 Has Bankrupted America
Preface: This post does not discuss whether or not 9/11 was a “false flag” operation or an “inside job”. Anything other than a discussion of the negligence of the Bush administration is unnecessary for the purposes of this essay, and is thus beyond the scope of this post.
In case you didn’t get the memo, we are currently in a depression. And see this
And given that American citizens can be indefinitely detained or assassinated at the whim of the president, it is pretty clear that we now live in a police state.
This post will demonstrate – without getting into discussions of an “inside job” one way or the other – that the failure to hold a real 9/11 investigation is a core cause of our loss of our prosperity and freedom.
THE FAILURE TO INVESTIGATE 9/11 HAS BANKRUPTED AMERICA
Top economists say that endless war bankrupts a nation.
For example, Nobel prize winning economist Joe Stiglitz says that the $3-5 trillion spent on the Iraq war alone has been very bad for the American economy. See this, this and this.
The endless wars have also been a main component of America’s soaring debt:
And huge debts exert a very real drag on the economy.
As shown below, we wouldn’t have launched the war against Iraq – or the endless panoply of wars throughout the Middle East and North America – if 9/11 had actually been in investigated.
(Even the 9/11 Commission itself admits that there was criminal obstruction of justice and a whitewash of the investigation. See this, this, this, this, and this. As such, there has never been a real investigation.)
THE POLICE STATE WAS CAUSED BY THE FAILURE TO INVESTIGATE 9/11
The police state started in 2001.
Specifically, on 9/11, Vice President Dick Cheney initiated Continuity of Government Plans that ended America’s constitutional form of government (at least for some undetermined period of time.)
On that same day, a national state of emergency was declared … and that state of emergency has continuously been in effect up to today.
It is beyond dispute that 9/11 was entirely foreseeable, but – due to the extreme negligence and incompetence or lack of caring of the Bush administration (remember, I’m not getting into any other theories in this post) it wasn’t stopped. Even the chair of the 9/11 Commission said that the attack was preventable.
If there had been a real 9/11 investigation, the Bush administration’s extreme negligence would have come to light. And Americans would have learned that terrorism can largely be prevented if the military and intelligence officers are simply allowed to do their job.
As just one example, Dick Cheney was in charge of all counter-terrorism exercises, activities and responses on 9/11. See this Department of State announcement; this CNN article; and this essay.
The genius Mr. Cheney apparently scheduled 5 war games for the morning of 9/11. Specifically, on the very morning of September 11th, five war games and terror drills were being conducted by several U.S. defense agencies, purportedly including one “live fly” exercise using real planes. Then-Acting Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General Richard B. Myers, admitted to 4 of the war games in congressional testimony — see transcript here or video here (6 minutes and 12 seconds into the video.
False radar blips to be inserted onto air traffic controllers’ screens as part of the war game exercises, which may have confused the heck out of them (see this December 9, 2001 Toronto Star article; pay-per-view; reprinted here). Way to let that one slip through, Mr. in-charge-of-all-war-games.
The military – under the Vice President’s command that day – didn’t scramble enough fighter jets, and then scrambled jets far over the Atlantic Ocean, in what Senator Mark Dayton called:
The most gross incompetence and dereliction of responsibility and negligence that I’ve ever, under those extreme circumstances, witnessed in the public sector.
And the knucklehead personally watched flight 77 for many miles, but – according to Secretary of Transportation Norm Minetta – stopped it from being shot down before it hit the Pentagon (and see this).
Americans would have learned through any real 9/11 investigation that Cheney’s negligence and mucking around in what should have been the generals’ jobs was partly responsible for allowing 9/11 to happen.
In other words, a real 9/11 investigation would have shown Americans that 9/11 should of, could of, and would have been stopped – and that America can protect itself against future terrorist attacks – simply by playing goalie well in our country.
And Americans – instead of being scared into immobility – would have been mad at our government for dropping the ball. And we would have demanded accountability and effective service from our elected officials. (Indeed, experts have repeatedly demonstrated that fear of terror makes people stupid … and makes them willing to accept a loss of liberty and other abuses they would never otherwise accept.)
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Instead, of course, Americans were led to believe that Al Qaeda was going to get us unless we took the fight to the Middle East and North Africa. The administration pretended that Saddam Hussein had a hand in 9/11 – one of the main justifications for that war.
Had a real 9/11 investigation been conducted before we launched the Iraq war, it would have taken away one of the two main rationales for that war. (The FBI was also instructed to blame the anthrax attacks on Al Qaeda, and high-level government officials pointed towards Iraq as the source of the anthrax, even though there was absolutely no basis for those claims. But that’s another story.)
Dan Rather was right when he wrote last week:
We have been so afraid; so hell bent on destroying enemies … both foreign and domestic … we have hurt ourselves and our democracy.
Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser also told the Senate in 2007 that the war on terror is so overblown that it is “a mythical historical narrative”.
And as I noted in 2008:
Former deputy national intelligence officer for transnational threats, a 23-year senior CIA analyst, who “drafted or was involved in many of the government’s most senior assessments of the threats facing our country [and who] devoted years to understanding and combating the jihadist threat”, writes today in the Washington Post that the neocons have whipped us into an irrational fear of the terrorism. In reality, “Osama bin Laden and his disciples are small men and secondary threats whose shadows are made large by our fears” and our leaders.
This is no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. The BBC produced a documentary called The Power of Nightmares in 2005 that showed that politicians were greatly exaggerating the terrorist threat for political ends.
And unfortunately, many in government have intentionally whipped up fear in the American public for their own political purposes. For example, FBI agents and CIA intelligence officials, constitutional law expert professor Jonathan Turley, Time Magazine, Keith Olbermann and the Washington Post have all said that U.S. government officials “were trying to create an atmosphere of fear in which the American people would give them more power”.
And former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge admits that he was pressured to raise terror alerts to help Bush win reelection. Fear sells.
And because 9/11 was never really investigated, the government – instead of doing the things which could actually make us safer – are doing things which increase the risk of terrorism.
As such, the threats from terrorism form even more of a “justification” for a suspension of our Constitutional rights.
The failure to investigate 9/11 has bankrupted America financially and morally, and has allowed us to stand idly by while our liberty has been destroyed.
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Just very well said. The whole Obama Birth Certificate thing wouldn't surprise me but it just seemed one of the least important things of the past 11 years. I honestly couldn't care less if a care bear was president IF they started rolling back the Patriot Act etc. What's far scarier is the bills Obama has signed. A possible legal out would be that he isn't a US Citizen, if anything that's a good thing. Really though Bush was a legit US Citizen and that family has done more harm to this country than any except the Rockefellers and DuPont's so there you go. The rest of what you wrote is absolutely spot on and again I simply haven't spent the time to look into Zero's Birth Certificate. No need to link to a bajillion articles, I simply don't care again if anything, him being a non-US Citizen might render his presidential signings to be illegal in the future which would be a good thing. That said get him the fuck out of there asap, just don't replace him with more of the same.
C'mon, GW. It's OK to come out and state the obvious: 911 was an INSIDE JOB-FALSE FLAG carried out by the MOSSAD/CIA/ZOG/IMP(international money power).
We are all adults here. Just state the truth.
+1 quadrillion melville
The plus/minus ratio on this comment amazes me. I think of ZH readers as realists - but they're not. Is it credible that the CIA - who cannot tie their shoes in the morning without creating a disaster, masterminded and has since kept quiet American involvement in 9/11? We'd be lucky if they were that capable. They created AIDS too didn't they? All of their super-advanced retrovirus experts - since silenced with ray guns from space. Get a grip.
Sociopathic adults, apparently.
maximin thrax.
Mama didn't like you much,did she....
Thats not a question,but a fact.
Beyond naive to believe the police state started in 2000 or whatever. Did you just land here from Mars at that point?
In the history of the country the government generally has only moved in one direction when it comes to enacting laws regarding liberty.
I would suggest the seeds were planted in 1947 by Harry Truman when he signed the National Security Act of 1947, which created the CIA.
The practice of classifying documents to obscure and hide government misdeeds and crimes was so successful, it was expanded to hide widespread financial crimes which enriched and empowered the early founders of the CIA and doubtlessly the NSA as well.
Money and power are very addicting, why let something as simple as the Constitution stand in the way of personal glory?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=harry+truman+cia+national+...
Nazi shyster cum CIA Director Allen Dulles created a covert action and Nazi importation divison of the CIA with the harmless sounding name of the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC).
Dulles puts his crony, Frank Wisner, attorney of record to various eastern European fascists, in charge of the OPC.
Aside from getting as many senior Nazi war criminals and mass murderers as possible into U.S. government agencies, Wisner's mandate is to carry out...
"propaganda, economic warfare, direct action, including sabotage, demolition procedures; subversion against foreign states, including assistance to underground resistance groups and support of indigenous government elements in threatened countries of the so-called 'free' world."
Translation into plain English: terrorism.
Wisner's son will one day head the multi-billion dollar energy and stock market scam known Enron.
Operation Paperclip, one of the darkest chapters in the ever darkening history of the USA.
As about ten thousand top Nazi war criminals and mass murderers are being safely spirited out of Europe by Heinz "Henry" Kissinger, Allen Dulles and their co-conspirators to be incorporated into various U.S. government agencies and U.S. puppet dictatorships around the world, ordinary German soldiers, mainly conscripts, are being herded into concentration camps and subjected to starvation and mistreatment by the U.S.
The U.S. Army and Navy run "Operation Overcast" which enables as many as three hundred and fifty Nazi war criminals to escape prosecution in Europe so they can be recruited into American military intelligence units and continue ze good work for ze boys in ze back room.
Operation Paperclip, the merger of the OSS and the Gehlen Organization into the CIA and the other U.S. operations to block the prosecution of Nazi war criminals and incorporate them into its own agencies or the agencies of various U.S. puppet dictatorships, is nothing more or less than the implementation of the Nazis' Plan Odessa.
Odessa provided for the escape from war crimes prosecution of Hitler's henchmen and their repositioning around the world in the event of a German defeat.
The reborn Nazis would then continue to pursue the goals of the owners of the multinational corporations, including IG Farben, Standard Oil, Krupp, General Motors, Ford, IT&T and Dupont which financed the rise and arming of the Nazis in first place.
Increasingly one of my favorite posters on the site, I can't be bothered to write these kind of excellent posts anymore. Thank you for waking up those who are just rubbing the grit out of their eyes. Absolutely spot on.
true, probably have to go back to the civil war and undo the part where the martial law came and never went. I guess Lincoln saved the federal govt but he killed America
Yep, and then Lincoln opened his big yapper to talk about Central Banks and fiat currencies and the dangers of both. **bang** Should have been a better steward of the Bankers country eh?
Lincoln was a piece of shit. He was born in Kentucky, but they don't want him. They let that shitty state of Illinois claim him - Land of Lincoln LOL.
Maybe that's why KY has better karma. How many championships does the state of Illinois have in basketball and football? How about those long suffering Cubs? hahaha
"Lincoln was a piece of shit. He was born in Kentucky, but they don't want him. "
True enough but speak that out loud in parts of KY and you might get your house burned down.
So the fuck what?
The only way to effect a change at this point is by armed revolution and nobody, even here, is advocating that.
So,,,all you will do is bitch and moan....or either vote for a Koch brothers' plant if you deem yourself conservative or a George Soros plant if you deem yourself liberal.
Or Ron Paul and throw your vote away....at least you maintained your principles, right.
Right.
Why is voting for Soros or Koch not throwing your vote away? Is it just a form of committing treason if you knowingly vote for either one of those terrorists' puppets knowing what they have done to the republic?
You did not understand my cynicism.
If you give up the option of armed revolution, then you are left with 3 equally worthless things to do...
Vote for a Koch Brothers plant
Vote for a Soros Plant
Or vote for Ron Paul.
In other words, this article is worthless drivel because the information will not be verified and properly acted upon.
For if all this info on 9/11 is even close to correct, then armed revolution to overthrow such evil tyranny is the only proper solution.
Certainly not voting in a terminally ill and rigged system.
Worrying about civil liberties is sooo 20th Century.
America hasn't worried about them since 1913.
If all the people who thought that by voting RP threw their vote away, voted RP, ....it would be a landslide. Corporate media wins again.
I agree totally GW...but "would have", "could have", say after me, "should have"...you're a journo goddamn it.
How about we investigate it now? Is our time-horizon so shrunken and retarded that we can't be bothered to look more than a few years into the past? Pathetic.
Freedom of press and speech shine sunlight on the mold, and time reveals a lot. Let's see a congressional committee find a bunch of structural engineers who will say that building 7's collapse was the result of a structure fire that weakened the steel. Is there one engineer on the planet who thinks that? Let's meet this person.
The police state's muscle STRIP SEARCHED a 110-lb 85-year-old grandmother at JFK the other day. When questioned, the TSA said they'd 'followed correct procedures'. Previously, they've said that it would be impossible to sequester enough explosives on the body of a small child to damage a plane, without it being obvious. And twice they'd said they will stop fondling our children, but they are still doing it.
The executive branch, with no judicial oversight (as if that would excuse it) can now kill you or throw you in a hole (dungeon) forever, without charges, if they deem you an enemy of the state. That is literally a functional definition of a police state. The police state foreshadowed for years is now in full flower, but as of yet is applying only the gentlest pressure.
Critical thinking required:
All the helicopters that bring work crews to and from offshore rigs are never searched.
Never searched. Why is that?
I have been boarded by DHS (2) times, in (2) years, returning from offshore fishing. (no problems, pleasant agents just doing their job, had to show proper ID, did not ask for fishing license, checked every inch of boat, no dog)
Next time I will ask them about the helos not being checked.
OT update, Sunday 9:00am
Iran says its response to US drone violation of its airspace will be carried out outside Iran's borders, Fars agency reports - @ReutersAre you suggesting the Bush family has been using offshore oil rigs as drug running stations due to their international water status and lack of being searched? I mean one could easily surmise that in fact drug running via those rigs is one of the primary purposes for those rigs in the gulf of mexico. Especially when one considers the drug running uncovered in Iran Contra and the complete lack of investigation into HW Bush's actions around that affair. Never testified, never interviewed, everyone else within 20 miles of the White House was.
Sort of like Bush/Cheney being intervied together about 9/11, NOT under oath, with no transcript. If you don't testify under oath makes it pretty easy to get away with damn near anything. Can you imagine if the mafia was allowed to testify in groups of two not under oath, without a transcript. LMFAO.
Lucky for the Bush family they've had two democratic puppets Clinton and Obama to carry water for them and their Rockefeller masters. Why ever since the Halloween Massacre this country has had Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld at the helm. Rockefeller found a great team to carry out the business of USA co.
But, who is going to investigate it? Another Warren Commision?
a freemason investigating brother masons?
A Knight of Columbus investgating a Jesuit?
Skull and Bones CIA investigating Skull and Bones politicians?
CFR members investigating CFR members?
A judge is going to pass sentance on top military brass when they are both in the same camp at Bohemian Grove?
Remember Iran Contra? Skull and Bones Kerry investigating Skull and Bones/CIA Bush snr? With all of the revelations of CIA drug running etc...did anything change? Anyone in high places do any hardcore jail time?
Remember Watergate? Yeah the plumbers got some time but CFR member Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon...who had appointed over 100 CFR members to his cabinet?
The whole head is wounded....who is there that can truthfully investigate or prosecute? Im not sure much will change until someone like David Rockefeller is clapped in leg irons. Im not holding my breath
Intrep,
Quis Custodiet ipsos custodes?
A timeless question.
The Chief investigators of 9/11, TWA Flight 800, bank bailouts, global warming, the Ron Brown death, and so on are the countless, unpaid, and very astute web bloggers. They are the 21st century heroes of the freedom wars. I salute you.
Thanks for including TWA Flight 800 again. This should never be forgotten. So many clues there.
Consider adding the SWISS AIR AND EGYPT AIR CRASHES.
The SAME flight controller that handled Egypt Air 990 also handled Flight 11
some people feel that egypt 990 was just a test of the "hijack by remote control" process
well said. They hold a very unique place at a very unique political, technological, and constitutional period in US and world history. Tyler is history, that said, so is every commenter who opens the eyes of another.
Total Spending by Function
Function -yr 2011 +yr Total Spending $6.0 trillion Pensions $1.0 trillion Health Care $1.1 trillion Education $0.9 trillion Defense $0.9 trillion Welfare $0.7 trillionWar accounts for 15%
Welfare which is the rest accounts for 85%
The main component of the US debt is obviously the 85% being welfare.
Otherwise yet another super sharp contribution from you.
But we pay or co-sign all of it, so where is my additional 15%, and how much is corporate welfare? Maybe it's benefits NOT being paid by employers, but paid for by taxes and debt. So if corporate America paid benefits and their share, how much welfare goes away?
you also forgot all the medical and disability costs, the peripheral costs of increased hatred and mistrust thoughout the world, the increased legal costs for all the challenges to our torturous unconstitutional and illegal behavior, the lost opportunity costs of throwing the same money toward new energy and transportation developments while oil is still accesable and affordable and a host of others...
How much of that is actually CORPORATE Welfare? Oh that wouldn't fit with your partisan Republican thinking would it you useful idiot/shill. Probably a useful idiot as you are dragging out ancient chestnuts debunked many, many times. The vast bulk of military/intel spending is hidden as anyone who's spent more than a minute off Republican websites knows.
Should we reduce the welfare state? Yes, absolutely. First let us start with corporate welfare and once that is abolished we can reduce the kind of welfare that feeds millions of Children in this country. Perhaps by abolishing corporate welfare we can start to have a free market which will lead to greater employment while simultaneously reducing our debt burden. Oh I'm sorry I broke out of the partisan paradigm, I'm sure that short circuited both of your brain cells.
You also forgot to mention that the MIC is basically welfare for the corporatocracy. They certainly dont send the military to lubricate my ambitions.
He also forgot to mention that the eternal warfare state _requires_ a welfare state.
It's harder getting people to assent to sending their kids off to die somewhere if they are not dependent on the state. When the state provides your basic sustenance, you are bought and kept, and the wars can go on and on.
Here is another fact. We really don't know how much is spent on "defense" and "homeland security", as much of it is "secret".
You also left out the rapidly rising cost of interest on the debt. GW didn't even mention that when Bush/Cheney came into office they inherited a budget that had been in surplus for 3 years.....and when they left, we were on an express elevator to bankruptcy.
How about you explaining it for us, Xkwisetly Paneful , since you don't care for GW's critique.
obama is a rational politician, willing to accept compromises, which is a rational thing to do in this time.
we should all be happy with obama as president.
forestdweller is a rational poster, willing to accept compromises, which is a rational thing to do in this time.
we should all be happy with forestdwellers new name as myheadisupmyassdweller.
Gimmie enough rope.....
Hey forrestdweller....
Pardon the expression,but, "Fuck are you dumb"......
sasha, is that you?
It's MDB's adopted chinese half brother!
By "rational", I assume you mean he knows that if he doesn't follow orders and read the teleprompter that he'll end up like JFK?
Why should I be happy?
"accepting" too much from the wrong folks was his first mistake
LOL, yeah rationality. The same kind of rationality that lead to the Camps in Germany, ruthless, precise, meticulous. Rational, but based on false premises. Rationality is good, but only when premises are solid eg the Constitution, Enlightenment era thinking, Voltaire, that sort of thing. Start with a faulty premise and rationality is every bit as bad as emotionality. As far as Obama being a president to be happy with you've got to be fucking kidding.
LoL.
greed has bankrupted the us of a, and a lot of other countries as well. greed is a trait you will find in all people. some people are more greedy than others.
but there will always be greed, so there will always be collapses.
the only thing to do is rational politics. on this site i see a lot of people propagating emotional politics. this will lead to more problems.