The real story behind the 9/11 attacks

Every month I get a few e-mails from people who want to reveal to me the real truth about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The truth, according to my correspondents, always involves some incredibly elaborate conspiracy theory in which the U.S. government staged the attacks to justify the so-called war on terror and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

These theories are invariably absurd on their face (for one thing, they assume a genuinely superhuman level of malevolent competence on the part of the Bush administration). Yet despite all their superficial absurdity, the claims of the 9/11 Truth movement touch on a deeper truth, which is as ironic as it is disturbing.

That deeper truth is contained in their claims that the real meaning of 9/11 has very little to do with the standard account given by our government and media. While the 9/11 Truth movement is easy to dismiss as a product of various paranoid delusions, the irony is that the respectable version of what happened on 9/11 is itself a reflection of strikingly similar patterns of thought.

The respectable version -- the version that was more or less accepted by all Very Serious People at the time of the invasion of Iraq -- goes like this: The 9/11 attacks were merely an early strike in a war against the United States. This war is being carried out by something called Radical Islam, of which the al Qaeda terrorist network is only one small branch.

Radical Islam is a global conspiracy, made up of a significant minority of the world's more than 1 billion Muslims. It includes the governments of nations like Iran and Syria, and one of its key supporters was Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime.

The goal of Radical Islam is world domination through the creation of a global Caliphate, which requires, among other things, the complete destruction of the United States, and the conversion of our surviving population to the most extreme form of Islamic fundamentalism, as practiced in nations such as Saudi Arabia.

Iraq had to be invaded because Hussein was trying to build atomic weapons -- weapons that he might well give to terrorist groups that were his allies in Radical Islam's quest to destroy America.

This, I repeat, was (and to a significant extent still is), the respectable interpretation of the meaning of 9/11. When anyone questioned the evidence for this view, Very Serious Politicians like Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would say things like "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."

Meanwhile Very Serious Opinion Makers like Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post argued (and continue to argue) that America must also go to war against Iran, because we could wake up one day to the news that nuclear weapons have been detonated in several American cities, by order of suicidal mullahs who turned over their soon-to-be-acquired nuclear arsenal to the vast shadowy global Jihadist network.

That the respectable interpretation of 9/11 remains respectable in so many important places should not obscure the fact that it is a paranoid fantasy of the first order -- one as utterly unhinged from reality as the most extravagant imaginings of the 9/11 Truth movement.

It's easy to lose sight of this, because while the 9/11 Truth movement remains quarantined on obscure Web sites, the paranoid conspiracy theorists currently in charge of American foreign policy continue to appear regularly on network television and on the opinion pages of our leading newspapers.

There, they make crazy arguments, such as that denying the president the right to throw people in prison for the rest of their lives without ever having to explain why exposes our nation to the risk of annihilation by terrorists. Meanwhile, almost nobody ever points out that these arguments are actually insane.

And that's the real truth about 9/11.

(Paul Campos is a law professor at the University of Colorado and can be reached at Paul.Campos(at)Colorado.edu.)

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wow

Don't drink any more of that Bush cool-aide. So far Bush and his cronies have lied about more things than there are things to be counted.

"I'm a uniter not a divider"
"WMD's in Iraq"
"Al Qaeda in Iraq"
"We don't torture"

So you think Bush was telling the truth when he said "There's no truth to the 9-11 conspiracies."?

Watch 9-11 Mysteries. They do a good job of explaining simple things like how jet fuel can't melt steel and how some of the engineers of the WTC "disappeared" on 9-11. It's a real eye opener for those of us who choose to be open minded, think for ourselves, and not give into all the government propaganda.

The Real Truth about 9/11

There is no one shread of evidence connecting Usam Bin Laden with the attacks of September 11, 2001. The FBI doesn't list him as wanted for these attacks. He's wanted, but not for the 9/11 attacks. According to the FBI, not enough evidence to link him. We've never really tried to capture him. He's a big tall guy who is on terminal dialysis. A big tall and very rich guy who worked for the CIA a few years back that needs to tote around a dialysis machine is hiding in caves . . . hmmm . . . and we can't catch him.

This story is so preposterous that it makes me angry everytime the Pentagon propaganda machine rolls out another video whenever they need to frighten the sheeple.

Pathetic . . . we're a nation of morons and cowards . . . just pathetic

Hey Campos, how about more evidence and less smear?

Paul Campos desperately tries to make the 9/11 Truth movement is a movement full of nutjobs that believe in space aliens. This has been the standard approach by the media establishment. Rather than actually attempt to tackle the evidence with the scientific method they simply smear.

This is truly the greatest crime in US history and the evidence is overwhelming that those three World Trade Center buildings were brought down by controlled demolition. Do not dismiss this until you have viewed the evidence yourselves.

When a building suffers non-uniform damage to it's structure it does not collapse at free fall speed directly downward against the path of most resistance. That is not conspiracy theory that is basic physics and common sense. We have eyewitness testimony of explosions, video evidence of explosions, molten pools of metal at the base of all three buildings, seismic records of large explosions.

The official version does not stand up to scrutiny. The "pancake theory" has been thoroughly discredited. The "pancake theory" simply does not explain how a building with a concrete core reinforced with 47 thick steel beams could collapse on itself.

There is so much more. Use your own analytical faculties people and watch these videos:

911 Mysteries

911 Ripple Effect

The Five Dancing Israelis

BTW - What are we supposed to make of the five dancing Israelis that admitted on live television that they were "there to document the event"? That sounds like an admission of prior knowledge to me. Why did this story vanish into the memory hole?

You're wrong Campos.

Those buildings were obviously demolished. The owner of the towers even said #7 was "pulled". Japan and Canada have recently petitioned for a real investigation not run by Dick on Condy's lacky. The rest of the world is beginning to see what you refuse to.
We know what happened that Tuesday, and it is a sad day when you wake up to see the truth of this administration murderous and treasonous actions. Insane indeed. It seems their house of cards may be teetering on its foundations. It is a sad time in American history and the truth should be known.

Its too late for such dribble editorial

Your wasting your energy trying to deflect what many open minded Americans and critical thinking people around the planet already know all to very well...911 was an inside job! Get use to it! In the least if and when your Bush Administration are shown to have in the least allowed 911 to happen it will interpret into treason for Mr Bush and his team.(can they hang presidents in the USA for treason?) At the most the 911 commission is the weakest of conspiracies and your readers who drink up your pathetic dribble are going to be so very pissed off with the likes of you and other media pendants who play media like a game and your readers like lost sheep. Has your editor looked at the circulation figures lately? The game is over and world public opinion is coming after the lies of 911, and you know what Paul Campos ... you, your PHD and your comrades in media will find this growing reality of 911 truth unstoppable and your qualifications will be in serious question. To your Editor: Time to change your corporate policy and come clean, because if you don't start now, there will be nothing left of this industry to be able to sell rubber bands. Your cover-up is as criminal as those who perpetrated 911...best to re-think corporate editorial policy and do whats right! Try Professor Steven E. Jones for a refreshing take on 911.
Enjoy!

Col. R. Bowman: 9/11= Act of "Treason"

Hmm... So Mr. Campos thinks that the caveman/kamikazzi conspiracy theory is
"respectable" nevermind there isn't even a
paper trail let alone DNA/forensic evidence
to support the patently absurd, physics-defying OFFICIAL conspiracy theory. Even 9/11 Commissioners have gone on record as saying that they were stonewalled in their efforts to examine the "respectable" version of events. Meanwhile we have dozens of military, intelligence and government insiders who've gone on record as either
flatly rejecting the official narrative
or calling it a false flag operation. These
include Americans, international MPs, the
former Minister of Defense of Germany and
former head of State, Franscesco Cossiga who was a specialist in false flag operations having been instrumental in
orchestrating one of the largest false flag
operations in history, Operation Gladio.
I guess prominent figures like Col. Bowman,
former Head of Star Wars, PhD in aeronautics
and nuclear engineering, Eisenhower Medal
recipient etc. don't make for good target
practice when attempting to stereotype and
smear a movement ... "Who gained from 9/11?
Who covered up crucial information? Who put
out patently false stories to begin with ...
I think it's pretty clear that it's highly
placed individuals in the administration
with all roads passing through Dick Cheney."
Of course, I wouldn't expect someone who is
so appallingly 9/11 illiterate to know of
Dr. Bowman's comments nor of the many others
at patriotsquestion911.org. Voices, much
like the firefighters whose damaging
testimony to the 9/11 Whitewash Commission was censored. Mr. Campos should try targeting our comatose, controlled, cowardedly media who didn't even ask the
most elementary questions in the face of
glaring anomalies but instead obediently
parroted a story that can be torn to shreds
at every level: aeronautically, structurally, timeline, intelligence, etc.
"The government story of what they handed us
is B.S. pure and simple ..." Capt. Russ
Wittenberg, former United pilot of one of the 9/11 planes and former U.S. Airforce pilot.

WHY

u see, im a 9/11 truther, and i get upset when people call us names and make fun of us when they dont know the whole story. So with your ridiculus claim the the muslims want to take over the world, i wont disrespect you with slander, insted ill tell you the whole story, moran, ooops sorry that sliped out.
1st you need to understand that Al Qada didnt attack us because "they hate our freedoms", they attacked because of our policies over seas.
it started during the 1st iraq war, after sadam went into Kuwaitt, Saudi Arabia was worried they were next. So the good old usa, worried about there oil intrests, went a protected Mecca, the muslim holy land. Bin Laden didnt want the US to do this, in fact he demanded that him and his group be allowed to do so, since years ealier they allready defeted the USSR, it seems they would be able to do so. Strike 1

then after the war, Mr Bill Clinton chose to put santions on Iraq, cutting off food and starving the muslims of Iraq to death. In fact, according to conservitive numbers over a million thats 1,000,000 muslim children died, CHILDREN. and you know what Madilen Albright said to 60 mins about this, "those are acceptable numbers" 1,000,000 children = numbers.... Strike 2

DARFUR Stike 3

also look forward to Michael Moore new movie
Feirnheit 9/11 and half due out in the winter of 2009

Troof?

Yes the troofers are patently insane. Somehow the same president, whom they maintain has a sub normal I.Q., has succeeded in pulling off the greatest conspiracy coup in history. As for the radical Islamists and paranoia, just because someone is "paranoid" of these proud and public murderers doesn't mean these murdering maniacs do not believe that the time to recreate the caliphate has come. Of course, you and I know it's never going to happen but they share something with troofers. Paranoid fantasies of persecution and delusions of grandeur.

You cannot handle the truth.

Boy, you really drew 'em out of the woodwork! Sad to think they can vote.

The aliens are calling you

The aliens are calling you home. (not the ones from Mexico).

Moran?

Hey did some wise "troofer" just call me a "moran"? Isn't that kind of ... um ... anti-Irish for you guys? C'mon, you don't seriously expect me to read the rest of your rubbish after that, do you?
I'll say this slowly, it doesn't matter if YOU or I think that it's possible for these bozos to recreate the caliphate as long as they (radical Islamists) think they can, then they are very dangerous. Or was Bush II also behind the attacks on the US embassy in Tehran, the U.S.S. Cole, the US marines in Lebanon as well as embassies in Kenya and a Jewish organization in Buenos Aires just to name a few? Busy, busy!
The real truth is that a functioning democracy where Saddam once ran his murderous regime would be the best thing to happen in the Middle East in 70 years. It would also be a huge blow to the tyrants in Iran and Saudi Arabia, as well. But ... why am I bothering talking to someone who believes in the troof fairy?

A real independent investigation is required

I think that Arizona State senator said it very well.

"You don’t have to embrace every theory about 9/11. Indeed, there are some that should be soundly rejected. But if you believe, as these scientists, architects and engineers do, that the buildings were brought down by explosive demolition, then you must also agree that we need a new investigation. I have no preconceived notions about who did it and I am not pointing the finger of blame at anyone. But I do think that the worst attack on U.S. soil in American history deserves the best investigation possible."

Have a look at Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth!
and read the following: Fourteen Points of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the World Trade Center Destruction

The evidence the the Twin Towers and Building 7 were brought down by explosives is substantial and that is the core of my skepticism with your so called "respectable version".

The Real Story Behind This Article

"...they assume a genuinely superhuman level of malevolent competence on the part of the Bush administration." - Campos

Have you ever heard the expression "don't act stupid!"? Obviously not.

Have you read PNAC (Plan For a New American Century)? This is a real document, no theories. This document was authored by members of the current administration (Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice). It was written BEFORE 9-11-2001 with a "genuinely superhuman level of malevolent competence". It looks like they got their "New Pearl Harbor".

"...the 9/11 Truth movement is easy to dismiss as a product of various paranoid delusions" - Campos

No, it's not easy to dismiss for that of the paper trails, eye-whitness testimony, basic physics, and distortions of the truth presented by the government. The people of the original 9-11 Commission even said it was a sham. FYI: If you believe in facts, you're not "delusional".

"...such as that denying the president the right to throw people in prison for the rest of their lives without ever having to explain why" - Campos

This is a red heiring. I've never heard of that being a part of the "Truth Movement".

"these arguments are actually insane." - Campos

Why? Because you're afraid to think outside of what you've been told on Faux News? You can't imagine a "false flag" attack ever happening here? Read about the "Gulf of Tonkin" incident.

Conclusion:

This article offers no real evidence of any kind against the Truth Movement and should be discarded as such. Author, if you act out of fear of other people, you are a coward. So, the real story behind this article is: the author is a real coward or, possibly, a paid government shill.

Sincerely,

American Patriot

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