If the official story about 9/11 is true, the attacks caught the Bush administration asleep on guard duty. Bush’s incompetent national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice, brushed off serious warnings of the impending attack and actually cut spending on anti-terrorism just before 9/11.
The White House and media were quick to blame Muslims who hated America’s lifestyle and values, launching the concept of "Islamic terrorism" – i.e. that the Muslim faith, not political issues, prompted the attacks.
This dangerous canard has infected America, leading to a rising tide of Islamophobia. This week’s continued uproar over a Muslim community center in downtown New York, and a Florida preacher’s threat to burn Korans, are the latest doleful example of cultivated religious hatred.
The suicide team that attacked New York and Washington made clear its aim was: a. to punish the US for backing Israel’s repression of Palestinians; and b. what they called US "occupation" of Saudi Arabia. Though they were all Muslims, religion was not the motivating factor.
Nine years ago, 19 men who hated America for it's freedom and liberty, that hate incited by Afghani and Iraqi training camps which they attended, were ordered by Osama Bin Laden to attack with airplanes symbols of that freedom and liberty; the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and another unknown target which they failed to hit due to the bravery of a few passengers on a fourth hijacked airliner.
Oh. Really? That is the story we have been told but is it a true accounting of that day and the events leading to it?
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