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:

TAX CUTS DEBT The Failure to Investigate 9/11 Has Bankrupted America

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.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/the-failure-to-investigate-911-has-bankrupted-america.html

FALSE Injects/Blips --Absoluely False

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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).

Only NEADS could see the false injects, phantoms or simulations created by the War Games. No civilian air traffic controller could see these.

Do you think NORAD would risk civilian air traffic controllers mistaking something false and causing havoc for the real traffic? Think about it.

The persistent rumor about false blips confusing the FAA is pure nonsense. The two systems are not linked--Close to impossible.

Subtraction of real blips?

NEADS was unable to track Flight 11 in its course to New York City, though a civilian air traffic controller in Boston was able to do so. Rather than addition of blips to civilian radar, it may instead have been the deliberate subtraction of blips from military radar that added to the confusion.

Cheney Incompetence Alone Cannot Explain 9/11

It is encouraging that the Washington Post will even allow an article that makes it clear how the aftermath of 9/11 was exploited as a "shock and awe" tactic against the American people, and it is naive to expect this journal to allow a blog that would also makes it clear that the physical destruction of 9/11 cannot be explained by the statement that "Cheney’s negligence and mucking around in what should have been the generals’ jobs was partly responsible for allowing 9/11 to happen".

There is no need to repeat here all of the earmarks of controlled demolition, free-fall collapse, molten metal, nano-thermite in WTC dust, etc. that was not, and could not, be caused by Cheney's bungling.

The author of the blog needs to realize that "Cheney's bungling" makes a lot more sense when we understand the complete context: that 9/11 WAS a carefully planned inside job,and Cheney needed to supress our armed forces, and keep them from interfering with our very own Reichstag fire.

Externally, he appeared to be inept in this role, while he was very skillfully doing his part, and was rewarded by a "new Pearl Harbor", leading to the successful coup-de-etat that he and the neo-conservatives had been craving.

Washington's "blog" not "post"

entirely different entities

Debt is necesary for economic growth

The escalating monetary assets have to be pumped back into the economy. This happens by borrowing the assets to a creditor. Without creditors - there would be no money in the economy! "Money makes the world go round." 911 gave an urgently needed excuse for the US-state for an increase of state-spending. Without 911, there would be an economic disaster in the US. The "War on Terror" - bubble gives millions an income.

Our money-systems needs debt / creditors as urgently as an addict his drug.

More info:
Has the "War on Terror" destroyed the economy?
http://911blogger.com/news/2011-09-14/has-war-terror-destroyed-economy

Is that what you think?

Did I miss some sarcasim here, Bio?

The escalating monetary assets have to be pumped back into the economy. This happens by borrowing the assets to a creditor. Without creditors - there would be no money in the economy!

...bubble gives millions an income.

Debt Slavery

yes, there is sarcasm, but my statement is true.
more Infos from economic Prof. Michael Hudson:
Debt Slavery – Why It Destroyed Rome, Why It Will Destroy Us Unless It’s Stopped
http://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com/2011/12/michael-hudson-debt-slavery.html

???

But 'truthers' have been trying to tell the middle class (having given up on the hopelessly self-seeking and brainwashed upper class) about 9/11 and the importance of investigating it for years ... only to be ridiculed as either conspiracy theorists (if the morons refuse to look at the evidence and hold fast to the 'our own govt would never do that / the press would have told us if it were true / you cant believe anything you read on the web' theories) or losers because we cared enough to put truth, justice, compassion for our victims, etc. before self-interest.

If that's the case, then these morons are ALSO responsible for the piss-poor economy as well as the millions who've died & suffered from the 9/11 wars???

I think that's a little harsh. I guess the right thing to do is to simply sighhhhh and say 'forgive them for they know not what they do'.