Paul Krugman has an Op-Ed today on how some prominent conservatives have finally seen the light about Bush/Cheney, and how these same conservatives have conveniently forgotten being so nasty to Bush critics in the past. Overall, I agree with Krugman. However, I think we all have blind spots, even if they are nothing like that of the Republicans. In other words, we sometimes miss the truth, regardless of the facts, because we are not emotionally ready to accept something. To show you what I mean, try this brief quiz. It involves 9/11, a topic we are all experts on.
1. When the WTC towers collapsed, what did the seismic graph look like, how large was the "boom" that was recorded and when in the timeline was the peak recorded?
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- What is the official theory of how WTC7 collapsed (the third building and the one that was not hit by a plane)?
- What was seen by numerous witnesses in the airspace around where Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania?
- What was the shape of the hole caused by the airplane that crashed into the Pentagon and how does it compare to the holes in the twin towers?
Answers:
- Seismic records from a Palisades monitoring facility measured huge explosions equal to earthquakes measuring over 2.0 on the rector scale (that's BIG) at their peaks. Moreover, each of these peaks occurred as each building was still falling, meaning BEFORE the collapsing buildings hit the ground. Why would this happen before the debris hit the ground? Could it have been, oh I don't know, preset explosions to crack the buildings 4 inch thick steel frames at their foundations?
- One of WTC7's 83 steel frame columns failed, setting off a chain reaction. And then the building fell right into its footprint, with the exterior walls collapsing on top of the neat debris pile, just like a controlled demolition that would have required over 1000 perfectly synchronized explosions. Now that is a freaking miracle.
- During the time that 93 crashed in Western Pennsylvania, a military-type jet with double burners in the back, colored white, thus having no identifiable markings was seen by many witnesses. Maybe it was Bond, James Bond.
- Unlike the oval or elongated holes in the twin towers, the hole in the Pentagon was round, and it had no damage on either side from the wings or especially from the jet engines, even though these each weigh 6 tons. The engines would have hit the windows on either side of the hole in the pentagon, assuming what hit the Pentagon had wings and was not a missile. The official theory is that the thick walls of the pentagon caused the airplane wings to collapse against the plane and go into the hole created by the front of the plane. Yeah, that explains it.
So how did you do on the quiz? One wrong is average. Two wrong means you flunked. Even though you are well informed about what is going on in the USA, did you know about this evidence? If you are like most people, even most people who strongly distrust Bush/Cheney, you probably didn't know these things and moreover, didn't have the motivation to learn them. In other words, you do not think it is possible that our government would do something as bad as be conspirators in 9/11, thus you are not able to absorb the mountains of evidence that prove it.
It is time for liberals and conservatives alike to readjust their mindset and face the reality that a government that would trick us into war resulting in the deaths of thousands of Americans is capable of ANYTHING, including being involved with 9/11, since it allowed the easy marketing of the Iraq War and the Neoconservative agenda.
Note: Tomorrow is the four and a half year anniversary of 9/11. I will be writing a diary that goes into detail about question 2 above, how WTC7 collapsed.