9/11 was an inside job

My opponent would like you to believe 19 hijackers directed by Bin Laden took over 4 Commercial Jets with box cutters and, while evading the Air Defense System (NORAD). Hit 75% of their targets. In turn, World Trade Towers 1,2 & 7 collapsed due to structural failure through fire in a "pancake" fashion, while the plane that hit the Pentagon vaporized upon impact, as did the plane that crashed in Shanksville.The 911 Commission found that there were no warnings for this act of Terrorism, while multiple government failures prevented adequate defense." out smarted the CIA, FBI, NSA, FAA, The Pentagon, and our Multi Trillion Dollar Military by crashing 4 planes without any intervention. Really? FACT1: MY OPP said"If a president wants to go to war, he can. Bush wouldn't have needed to orchestrate 911" I never said he did I said he"used 911 as the justification for what he and his administration had done." ***Former Secretary of Treasury Paul ONeill said that Saddam was topic"A" According to O'Neill, "it was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this.'" ***Sources knowledgeable about US intelligence said there was no evidence that Hussein played a role in the Sept. 11 attacks nor that he was aiding Al Qaeda.Yet the White House was encouraging a false impression as it seeked to maintain US support for a war against Iraq and demonstrated seriousness of purpose to Hussein's regime. "The administration succeeded in creating a sense that there is some connection 911 and Hussein," said Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland. **Fact**Polling data had shown that right after 911 when Americans were asked open-ended questions about who was behind the attacks only 3% mentioned Iraq.But by January 2003 attitudes had been transformed 44% of Americans reported that either most or some of the 911 hijackers were Iraqi citizens. FACT2: OPP said"Nothing about fact 2 indicates an inside job. Even if Cheney made money off it" ***Dick Cheney told a national television audience "since I left Halliburton to become vice president I've severed all my ties with the company, gotten rid of all my financial interests," Cheney said. "I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven't had now for over three years." Even at the time, the claim wasn't true. A non-partisan congressional report requested by Sen. Frank Lautenberg showed that Cheney still had substantial financial interests in Halliburton including lucrative deferred compensation and more than 433,000 stock options. But instead of acknowledging the ties divesting himself from his former company Cheney denied everything. Innocent men have no reason to lie so why did he? FACT3: OPP said"Yes, Al-Queda planned to attack the US years before 911. The fact is the government didn't know how strong they were or what exactly their plan of attack would be" *Initially, the CIA Director had warned congress shortly before 9/11 "that there could be an attack, an imminent attack, on the United States of this nature. So this is not entirely unexpected" *Investigators for the Congressional Joint Inquiry discovered that an FBI informant had hosted and even rented a room to two hijackers in 2000 and that, when the Inquiry sought to interview the informant, the FBI refused. *U.S. received warnings from numerous foreign intelligence services about planned attacks, many of them quite detailed. Indeed, America's closest ally apparently tracked the hijackers' every movement prior to the attacks, and may have sent agents to film the attack on the World Trade Centers. *According to the New York Times, "Foreign intelligence service agents had infiltrated Bin Laden's network and were carefully tracking its moves", and in January 2001 the French intelligence services gave a report to the CIA entitled "Plan to hijack an aircraft by Islamic radicals". *There were extraordinarily high terrorist attack threat levels in the summer of 2001, involving threats of attack within the U.S., and the U.S. government knew there were Al-Qaeda cells within the U.S. *An employee who worked in the Twin Towers stated "How could they let this happen? They knew this building was a target. Over the past few weeks we'd been evacuated a number of times, which is unusual. I think they had an inkling something was going on" *Suffice it to say goverment knew about 911 FACT4: Morning of 911 five war games and terror drills were being conducted.Then-Acting Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General Richard B. Myers, admitted to 4 of the war games in congressional testimony -- see transcript here: http://www.fromthewilderness.com... Which scenario is more likely from a strictly logistical perspective: (1) An outsider sitting in a cave defeating the air defense system of the sole military superpower or (2) Someone like Cheney who on 911 apparently had full control over all defense war game and counter terrorism powers rigging and gaming the system? **Remember that for the attacks to have succeeded it was necessary that actions be taken in the middle of the war games and the actual attacks which would thwart the normal military response. For example Cheney watched flight 77 approach the Pentagon from many miles out but instructed the military to do nothing(as shown in the testimony linked above). . Could Bin Laden have done that alone? **It is much more likely that Cheney and/or other U.S. government and military officials pulled the 911 trigger than that Bin Laden did it. At the very least they took affirmative steps to guarantee that the hijackers attacks succeeded. FACT5: OPP said:"Once more, the war in Iraq easily could have been justified without 911 occurring." To justify the war Bush informed Congress on March 19, 2003 that acting against Iraq was consistent with "continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and who else aided the attacks that occurred on 911" Vice President Cheney cited "evidence" cooked up by Douglas Feith and others to claim it was "pretty well confirmed" that Iraq had contacts with 911 hijackers. Bush never stated then as he did later that Iraq had "nothing" to do with 911. *Suffice it to say again goverment knew about 911 FACT6: OPP asked How does this tie into 911 being an inside job exactly? Read the quotes for fact6 Explosions: OPP"What rules out a controlled demolition is people hearing an explosion here or there at different times without the building collapsing right after." I am sure while runing for their lives they listened to explosions. The 10,000+ page NIST report admits that all of the jet fuel burned off within 15 minutes. The remaining fires were fuelled by office furniture and wall boards. it also admits that only the worst case estimate in their simulation would result in any collapse.Why does the NIST report not explain what caused the rest of the towers to peel apart after the top started to collapse? They just refer to it as 'global colapse' with no explanation how that occurred in the undamaged sections. The Pentagon: "The Pentagon-Dutch-Simulator simulated the maneuver of the Plane.It wasn't as difficult as some people lead on" How convenient. Just another simple explanation. If Hani Hanjour was incompetent at flying a single engine prop plane then how are we to believe he maneuvered a commercial airliner making a 270 deg turn at 400 mph all while dropping 7,000 feet in two minutes and hitting the Pentagon inches above the lawn? Many experienced pilots say with luck it would take several tries to accomplish such a feat. Oh I forgot the simulator. Is it all coincidence ? http://www.nc911truth.org... My opponent wants us to believe 19 goat farmers and a man in a cave pulled off 911. All alone with box cutters am I missing something I think not.