"9/11 Commission: A Week of Lies and Spin"

By Kurt Nimmo, www.kurtnimmo.com

In regard to the 9/11 hearings: Why should you believe anything said by a group of demonstrated liars? The Bush administration has lied consistently and conducted business under a cover of "executive" secrecy, so why should you believe a single word they say? They have thwarted the 9/11 commission at every turn. All told, the 9/11 commission is a PR stunt and whitewash. Like the Kennedy assassination, people will be speculating on what really happened for decades to come. It is unlikely the truth will ever be revealed, at least not during our lives. As Joe Pesci, portraying David Ferry in Oliver Stone's JFK, said of the Kennedy assassination: "It's a mystery, it's a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma!"

During a week of so-called hearings on 9/11, we did not hear a single word about the document Rebuilding America's Defenses, written in September 2000 by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, and Lewis Libby for PNAC, a document calling for a Pax Americana empire and endless war, especially in the Middle East. "9/11 offered an extremely convenient pretext to put the PNAC plan into action," writes former British Labor MP Michael Meacher for the Guardian. It is not unreasonable, Meacher insists, "that the 'global war on terrorism' has the hallmarks of a political myth propagated to pave the way for a wholly different agenda -- the US goal of world hegemony, built around securing by force command over the oil supplies required to drive the whole project." Is it simply coincidence PNAC would mention that "some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor" was required before the American people would accept endless war and conquest?

As Norm Dixon put it a year after 9/11, the "Cheney-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz cabal have had a long-standing program for the expansion of US hegemony. What it lacked was the 'trigger' to implement it or the existence of a serious enough 'threat' that would convince the US people to abandon their desire for a [post Cold War] 'peace dividend' and their opposition to US war casualties abroad."

"9/11 was a hoax. This is no longer a wild conspiracy assertion; it is a fact, supported by thousands of other verifiable facts," writes John Kaminski. Read Kaminksi's summarization of the facts here and decide for yourself if 9/11 was simply the act of crazed Muslim cave dwellers or something else entirely.

Eckehardt Werthebach, former president of Germany's domestic intelligence service, Verfassungsschutz, told AFP that a sophisticated terrorist operation such as 9/11 "would require the 'fixed frame' of a state intelligence organization, something not found in a 'loose group' of terrorists like the one allegedly led by Mohammed Atta while he studied in Hamburg," as Christopher Bollyn writes.

"Ninety-five percent of the work of the intelligence agencies around the world is deception and disinformation," Andreas von Bulow, who served on the parliamentary commission which oversees the three branches of the German secret service while a member of the Bundestag (German parliament) from 1969 to 1994, told Bollyn. "Journalists don't even raise the simplest questions," he said adding, "those who differ are labeled as crazy."

Instead of asking simple questions, many of them spend their time denouncing the inconsistencies and facts as wild and nutcake conspiracy theories.

"I won't argue that the U.S. government does not engage in brutal, murderous skullduggery from time to time. But the notion that the U.S. government either detected the attacks but allowed them to occur, or, worse, conspired to kill thousands of Americans to launch a war-for-oil in Afghanistan is absurd. Still, each week emails passing on such tripe arrive. This crap is probably not worth a rational rebuttal, but I'm irritated enough to try," complains liberal David Corn.

Does David Corn sincerely believe the soft and fuzzy humanists in the Pentagon are squeamish about killing American citizens, that there are two standards for mass murder -- one for the people of the third world and another for Americans? If he does, he needs to do a bit of research on Operation Northwoods.

Here's the skinny: Governments kill people, including their own people, for political gain. History is replete with examples. Don't expect the Bush Ministry of Disinformation or deluded liberals such as David Corn to admit it.