9/11

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The WTC is a structure with an inner core of steel and outer core of aluminum. The plane makes the hole; the jet fuel is the heat source. It's basically a giant blacksmith's bellows... of course it would fall... it's supposed to if that happens! Steel loses 50% of its integrity at 1100 degrees which is enough to make steel to lose half it's strength, the upper floors are a weight it can no longer hold and the rest is physics.

Here's a fact about 9/11. 9/11 was an inside job planned by the American government for decades and the buildings were actually destroyed by controlled demolition.

Liberals and the media tend to blame Bush, but 9/11 resulted from Clinton foreign policy. Because of Congress' recalcitrance, Bush barely had his cabinet in place by September. But Clinton had let slide several embassy bombings, USS Cole and an attempt on the Twin Towers, serving to encourage anti-American sentiment. He also separated the FBI from the CIA, exacerbating intelligence problems.

Also, in mid-1996, President Clinton tasked Al Gore, to lead the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security and assigned it three specific mandates: to look at the changing security threat, and how the US could address it; to examine changes in the aviation industry, and how government should adapt its regulation of it; to look at the technological changes coming to air traffic control, and what should be done to take best advantage of them.
In the wake of concerns over the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800, Clinton asked the commission to focus its attention first on the issue of security.
From its inception, the commission took a hands-on approach to its work. Gore led a site visit to Dulles International Airport where he and other commissioners saw airport and airline operations firsthand, and discussed issues with front line workers. This was the first of dozens of such visits. Over the next six months, the commission visited facilities throughout the United States and in various locations abroad.

The Gore Commission held six public meetings, hearing from over fifty witnesses representing a cross section of the aviation industry and the public, including families of victims of air disasters. Recognizing the global nature of aviation, the commission cosponsored an International Conference on Aviation Safety and Security with the George Washington University. More than 700 representatives from sixty-one countries attended.

There were a number of recommendations made the by Gore Commission, whose commissioners included family members of the victims of Flight 800. The recommendations included several measures to improve screening company performance, including a national job grade structure for screeners/security officers and meaningful measures to reward employees. It also called for airlines to hire security companies on the basis of performance, not the lowest bidder.

The Gore Commission called for criminal background and FBI fingerprint checks for all airport and airline workers who screen passengers for weapons or have access to secure areas. The airlines industry had long opposed mandatory criminal checks.

Two weeks later, as reported in the Boston Globe, Gore retreated from his own commission's proposals in a letter to Carol B. Hallett, president of the industry's trade group, the Air Transport Association.

''I want to make it very clear that it is not the intent of this administration or of the commission to create a hardship for the air transportation industry or to cause inconvenience to the traveling public,'' Gore wrote. To reassure Hallett, Gore added that the FAA would develop ''a draft test concept ... in full partnership with representatives of the airline industry."

The day after Gore's letter to the Air Transport Association, Trans World Airlines donated $40,000 to the Democrat National Committee. By the time of the presidential election, other airlines had poured large donations into Democrat Party committees: $265,000 from American Airlines, $120,000 from Delta Air Lines, $115,000 from United Air Lines, $87,000 from Northwest Airlines, according to an analysis done for the Boston Globe by the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks donations. A total of $627,000 was donated to the Democrats by major airlines.

Two of the commission members -- Victoria Cummock and Kathleen Flynn, who lost loved ones in the terrorist attack on Flight 800 -- believe that campaign contributions by the airline industry were a direct result of Al Gore backing away from the commission's security recommendations. The mainstream news media never reminded Al Gore of this flagrant example of homeland security taking a back-seat to campaign cash, yet they delighted in quoting his frequent fever-pitched rants.

I am a 9/11 "Let It Happen" conspiracy theorist. The Bush and Bin Ladin families had a 30-year business releationship prior to 9/11. I have a hard time believing that the Bin Ladin family members did not know what their relative Osama was up to and that they would not have told the Bush's about it. The Bush's had a number of motivations to want to start a war but knew that between substantial latent "Vietnam Syndrome" and post-Cold war complacency this would be difficult and a "new Pearl Harbor" was needed.

That said I do not believe the towers were knocked down by controlled demolition. Doing that posed a substantial risk of the explosives team being caught, getting cold feet, or a getting a conscience. Having the planes destroy the top part of the towers and it staying like that month after month as they decided how to take them down and actually take them down making lower Manhatten unusable for months on end would have been more than enough to get the public to support war and impairment of freedoms.