had some hand in taking advantage of a terrorist plan they knew was coming. All that has followed from the increased military budget that has made many, many contractors extremely wealthy, to domestic surveillance with unchecked ability to monitor your opponents, to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is eminently arguable that without 9/11, the public simply wouldn't have supported much if any of this. They had motive, means, and opportunity. The cover up investigations that have followed have done nothing but exonerate those who should have been taken to task for their actions, several of whom were promoted for their roles in not preventing the attacks. The victims of these attacks do deserve the truth. That is why many of the 9/11 families are supporting the NY Ballot initiative that is seeking to establish a new, independent investigation. Former Senator Lincoln Chaffee is reported to have been interested in being a commissioner on this panel. Comment number 48. Comment number 49. This is a first for me. I have never posted to a blog b4 so if i get anything wrong in regards to manners i apoligise. I will never forget sitting in front of my TV ater coming home from a great round of golf and seeing that plane hitting that building. I think if i live till im a 100 it will be with me. The thing i find hard to understand, and maybe its because im more lower class than some, is why people will not