al-Qaeda are not ten feet tall. There is no such thing as Muslim heat vision. Those allied against the United States under al-Qaeda’s banner are conspiracy theorists whose primary means to success lies in provoking the U.S. into one counterproductive blunder after another. Why not capitalize on that? Wars don’t have to go on forever, and they don’t have to be lost.
I’ll save my pathetic what-I-did-on-9/11 story — what I did on 9/14 when I tried to get to help at Ground Zero is the better story anyway — for the tenth anniversary.



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There is no such thing as Al Qaeda. Bin Laden was the banker for the anti-Soviet Jihadist Army sponsored by the USA. In fact Bin Laden and the CIA used the same bank, BCCI.
It is ridiculous to say that the Jihadists fighting against the US are “conspiracy theorists”. However the overthrow of Iran’s democracy in 1953 was a conspiracy by British Petroleum and CIA Petroleum. The genocide against Palestine is a conspiracy by neo-cons and Zionists. The Bush/Obama wars are a conspiracy for endless war profiteering.
Your continual misinformation about “Al Qaeda” only helps perpetuate the lying myths of our criminal neo-con government. If you and Phillip Mudd and the rest of the so called brilliant analysts know so much about Al Qaeda and what they are thinking why has this pursuit been a nine year failure? It is because Al Qaeda is state sponsored terrorism, from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, which you also continually ignore.
Your failure to provide the real story of the “Christmas Day Bomber” is curious.
Were you protecting the “Intelligence Community”? It was an obvious False Flag Op by the US Government to steal more of our freedoms.
I’ve been considering renting a venue and making a speech wherein I would announce that we’ve won our War on Terror; that we;ve defeated Al Qaeda; that we’ve fought one nearly unwinnable and one totally unnecessary ground war in response but nevertheless here we stand, unbowed; that we’ve done so and survived with our values intact even if we’ve violated them along the way; that Osama you’ve lost; that Osama you’ll have to come up with some seriously next-level shit to get any of these things to change and you know you can’t; that millions of Muslims would prefer to live in the United States than in your terrifying Umma — that I could line up a hundred devout scholars saying so for every fraudulent heretic you could produce to defend your slaughter of innocent, faithful Muslims over the years. Is any of this true? I’d say it all is, but it doesn’t matter. The speech would have value. We need to say that we’ve won this war, because we have. Is there a terrorism threat? Yes. But we must move to dealing with it in whatever way we are going to deal with terrorism when we’re not “at war” with it. The War on Terror is over, and the good guys won. Say it with me.
This obsession with 9/11 is truly silly. I know it was supposed to be the first time that “foreigners” were responsible for a terrorist act on US soil, though I do not believe it was entirely a “foreign” act, but for goodness sake if the europeans were to get their panties in as much as a twist as the americans about a a few deaths from bombing there would be nothing but a landscape of memorials criss crossing europe. Guys, shit happens especially if the avowed US policy is to bomb the hell out of anyone that disagrees with the almighty america.
As a European that at wars end had but one uncle left standing after the bombing of London let me say….get over it, stop trying to make political gain and look to the future and think about just how many “foreigners” america has murdered hundreds of thousands in just the last few years alone.
You’re missing the point.
Many people just miss the point about what is fueling this. This is a religious war for many people on both sides. There is a VERY LARGE number of americans – probably most of the Bush 25% deadenders – who truly believe this is the end times, this war was foretold, and they are doing their part to fulfill their destiny to make it happen and return Jesus to his 1,000-year reign before the final judgement. Living in big cities or around educated people or not listening to religious talk radio, you just don’t realize how this motivates a large number of people in the US. This is also why being gay is “an abomination”, but adultry is just part of the fallen nature of normal people. Until the religious motivation is addressed, we are not even on the same page.
think about just how many “foreigners” america has murdered hundreds of thousands in the name of 9-11 in just the last few years alone.
Addl clarification.
I’m with you.
In response to Frank33 (#1) there is an interesting 2004 documentary by BBC “The power of fears” that addresses some myths.
Any fool that has read any history knows that you cannot win a gorilla war.
power of nightmares: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares
Hey, c’mon you guys, leave Frank alone now. While we stumble about in our blindness and willful ignorance, he alone knows what’s really going on. I’m pretty sure that, like Obiwan, he’s our only chance…
mikey
Why is that, because Frank is right? There is NO Al Qaeda. It’s a scam. The only people that believe that bunk are the gullible.
“You fell victim to one of the classic blunders – The most famous of which is, ‘Never get involved in a land war in Asia.’ ” Vizzini from “The Princess Bride.”
To repeat, there is no Al Qaeda other than the off the shelf self sustaining entity, created to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. It is likely Bin Laden was on the CIA payroll until 9-11. But Andrea Mitchell cracked that case and blamed Bin Laden even before the Twin Towers were demolished.
In this blog we are repeatedly told to believe Phillip Mudd and the other liars that there really is an organization called “Al Qaeda”. We are given more lies, in this blog. That Al Qaeda was behind the Mumbai attack in 2008 when it was the Pakistan Government. But Mudd and Zelikow and Hadley have promised us more wars, even as great as failures as they have all been. These neo-con promises of more war has also been ignored by Attackerman.
Ackerman needs to stop ignoring the real reason for Islamic hatred of America. It is the crimes in Palestine and the theft of resources by multinational companies. It is a conspiracy, and it is called imperialism.
Exactly right Frank. And those on the left that believe all those “official” 9/11 bogus stories, and call everyone else insane conspiracy theorists, do more harm than good. Whether the Bush Junta did it, or were accomplices, or whatever, there was definitely more to this attack than the “official” line of BS. The worst part is, respected blogs on the left, play the same games as the right when it comes to this. Why? What is to gain from NOT allowing the truth to come out? As Eric Margolis says “9/11 was the mother of all coincedences”….there are none so blind as those that refuse to see.
Those are good videos, they’re on YouTube. They don’t cover everything though.