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9/11 ATTACK: WHO DID IT?

Comment by Larry Ross, February 18, 2007

George Monbiot has been one of the best commentators on US foreign policy, the Iraq war and the Bush Administration. He now claims that one of the hundreds of films and articles questioning the official 9/11 story - a film called "Loose Change" is a "virus sweeping the world" He claims it infects "opponents of the Bush government, sucks their brains out through their eyes and turns them into gibbering idiots".

Much as I respect Monbiot and his work, I don't agree with his implication that there are no serious unanswered questions about 9/11 and that therefore Bush's official account on the cause of that tragedy is correct.

His article is brilliant and makes one think, doubt, and reconsider one's previous opinions. That's fine, but to suggest that all serious questioners of the official 9/11 story are "gibbering idiots" is going too far. There are just too many highly qualified professionals questioning 9/11, for anyone to try and dismiss the lot as "gibbering idiots" and "conspiracists ". I was shocked that someone like Monbiot could come out with such arrogant, ignorant, almost imperial, statements.

Monbiot does not mention that there is an impressive collection of academics and professionals who question 9/11. The one he does mention is David Ray Griffin, who he belittles as  "a theology professor,...who also happens to be the high priest of the 9/11 conspiracists." He implies that "a theology professor" is not really qualified to study and write about 9/11 questions. Those many professionals who doubt the official story are dismissed as "conspiracists".

Monbiot is doing his best to outlaw 9/11 doubts, and foster belief in Bush's official explanations.

But Bush and his neocon regime are war criminals who lied to the public to get their support for his illegal war against Iraq and are now doing the same to get their support for a war on Iran . His lies and his killing of 250,000+ Iraqis for no legitimate reason other than they oppose the invader, not only makes him a war criminal but also a criminal against the US Constitution. It is one of the biggest frauds of all time.

The 9/11 attack boosted Bush's popularity and he was able to get whatever he wanted from Congress and the Senate. He requested and got funds for his wars and authority to conduct such wars in whatever ways he wanted, including the possible use of nuclear weapons. Even if people believe he had nothing to do with 9/11 and had no knowledge that it was going to happen, he could not have even thought about waging war on Iraq without being empowered by the 9/11 attack.  The neoconservatives needed "another Pearl Harbour " as mentioned in their papers, in order to activate the American people so they could launch their long-planned war on Iraq . 9/11 has proved to be an essential, empowering factor to the Bush regime.

Monbiot does not mention this strong neoconservative motive for staging a 9/11 " Pearl Harbour ". He offers an explanation for the collapse of Building 7 (which fell into its footprint, even though not struck by a plane). It was not very convincing.

For these and a number of other reasons, I cannot believe Monbiot, who like the George Bush regime, supporters and zealots, claim that 9/11 questioners are "conspiracists" and that opponents who question 9/11 had "their brains sucked out through their eyes". This paper raises questions about Monbiot and his future writings.

Readers can check out Monbiot's dubious claims against some of the 9/11 evidence and testimony on this site.

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Short Changing 9/11: Popular Documentary Takes Us Nowhere

By George Monbiot, AlterNet, February 17, 2007

There is a virus sweeping the world. It infects opponents of the Bush government, sucks their brains out through their eyes and turns them into gibbering idiots. The disease is called Loose Change . It is a film made by three young men which airs most of the standard conspiracy theories about the attacks of September 11 2001. Unlike the other 9/11 conspiracy films, Loose Change is sharp and swift, with a thumping soundtrack, slick graphics and a calm and authoritative voiceover. Its makers claim that it has now been watched by 100 million people.

The Pentagon, the film maintains, was not hit by a commercial airliner. There was "no discernable trace" of a plane found in the wreckage, and the entrance and exit holes in the building were far too small. It was hit by a Cruise missile. The twin towers were brought down by means of "a carefully planned controlled demolition." You can see the small puffs of smoke caused by explosives just below the cascading sections. All other hypotheses are implausible: the fire was not hot enough to melt steel and the towers fell too quickly. Building 7 was destroyed by the same means a few hours later.

Flight 93 did not crash, but was redirected to Cleveland Airport, where the passengers were taken into a NASA building and never seen again. Their voices had been cloned by the Los Alamos laboratories and used to make fake calls to their relatives. The footage of Osama Bin Laden, claiming responsibility for the attacks, was faked. The US government carried out this great crime for four reasons: to help Larry Silverstein, who leased the towers, to collect his insurance money; to assist insider traders betting on falling airline stocks; to steal the gold in the basement; and to grant George Bush new executive powers, so that he could carry out his plans for world domination.

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