It seems that the
Downing Street Memo is finally bubbling to the surface of the nation's consciousness carrying all the lumps of raw sewage with it. Most thinking people knew that we'd been lied to about Iraq, but it wasn't until the subterranean pressure built to boiling that the first chinks in the Bush regime's complete control of the US mood started to show. I think that part of that pressure is coming from your friends here in the UK. It starts way under Rove's radar, but gets picked up by the blogosphere and eventually reaches the ears and eyes of someone like John Conyers who can actually do something about it.
So what questions are exercising the minds of people in the UK now?
Jimmy Walter, a progressive Democrat from Florida, is currently touring Europe with
9/11 Confronting The Evidence (Check out the analysis of
Bush's Inagaural Address - scary!)
Again most thinking people have known for some time that what we've been officially told about 9/11 doesn't pass the smell test. Jimmy Walter and others have been pursuing this in the States for years and perhaps because of the frightening implications for the US national psyche, it hasn't taken hold in any real way. We have no such fear here in Britain and with a (mostly) free press it's possible to ask these questions out loud.
It appears that they are targetting very specific questions at these public meetings. The quarter page ad in today's Guardian raises one curious fact only;
The hijackers were described as bad pilots, yet they performed expert manoeuvres on the morning of 11 th September 2001.
Hani Hanjour, allegedly the pilot of American Airlines flight 77, said to have hit the Pentagon, was described by one former flight school employee in the New York Times as follows:
"I'm still to this day amazed that he could have flown into the Pentagon," the former employee said. "He could not fly at all."
CBS quotes Peggy Chevrette, an Arizona flying school manager, as saying:
"I couldn't believe that he had a commercial licence of any kind with the skills that he had."
Despite the pilot's apparent lack of flying prowess, one of the air traffic controllers at Dulles, Danielle O'Brien, who was watching the approach of flight 77, commented that
"The speed, the maneuverability, the way he turned, we all thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic controllers, that that was a military plane." ( ABC )
Check out Underground Gateway for 7 more intriguing questions that are being asked in Europe. Pressure IS building and we'll know that the volcano is about to erupt when we hear the same questions on faux news.