September 11th & NORAD

In an article the other day I mentioned how many people believe the terrorist attacks of September 11th were an inside job and I mentioned how asounding it was we had no effective air defense capability for New York and Washington. Yesterday Vanity Fair posted an article that chronicles the lack of response from NORAD and the confusion which reigned that day among those responsible for defending the country.

While explaining what went wrong and debunking some of the myths srrounding 9/11 which have fed many of the conspiracy theories, it raises many questions. Questions which were unanswered by the 9/11 Commission partly because of stonewalling and outright lying by Bush Administration officials. All this does is reinforce those who believe the government knew the attacks were coming and allowed them so they could have "their Pearl Harbor," which they thought was a pre-condition for their foreign policy agenda. This agenda was published publicly on the PNAC website.

Now a Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll says a third of the American people believe the Bush Administration either knew or was involved in the attacks against the World Trade Center and Pentagon. I find that an amazing number. One out of three people believe Bush had a hand in 9/11! If this is so where is the outrage? Why aren't people in the streets demanding a real, full and independent investigation? Where is the special prosecutor? Why are these people taking this lying down?

Of course I'm still astounded people haven't been so outraged about the lies concerning the weapons of mass destruction. I'm outraged that people have simply accepted all the abuses and lies committed by George Bush. The people of Mexico are in the streets, millions of them, protesting electoral abuses and fraud. Now Bush is proposing severe limits to Americans' legal rights and there remains no response.