September 11 Was a Hoax

Thanks to my opponent for his eye-opening evidence. I accept all of his sources as legitimate. However my opponent seems to be trying to sell you on the idea that the Iraq war could not have been a motive for the U.S. Government to stage the 9/11 attacks. I doubt any of you have forgotten to post-9/11 fear and hatred that most Americans felt. The Bush administration took that fear and hatred and turned it on the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. On csmonitor.com a reporter has this to say about a march 2003 press conference held by George Bush: In his prime-time press conference last week, which focused almost solely on Iraq, President Bush mentioned Sept. 11 eight times. He referred to Saddam Hussein many more times than that, often in the same breath with Sept. 11. Bush never pinned blame for the attacks directly on the Iraqi president. Still, the overall effect was to reinforce an impression that persists among much of the American public: that the Iraqi dictator did play a direct role in the attacks. A New York Times/CBS poll this week shows that 45 percent of Americans believe Mr. Hussein was "personally involved" in Sept. 11, about the same figure as a month ago. http://www.csmonitor.com... Many Americans were not satisfied that the people responsible had been served justice. From the moment 9/11 happened the U.S. government used it to keep it's citizens in fear and under their control. I don't know if my opponent realizes the powerful tool that fear can be. In a defenselink news article put out by the DOD Donald Rumsfeld says the Al Qaeda terrorist network crosses more than 50 countries, the task is to go after it, and the Taliban, "until Americans can go about their lives without fear." this article published on Oct. 29 2001 just one month after 9/11 also included a quote from Rumsfeld saying "As a nation that lost thousands of innocent civilians on Sept. 11, we understand what it means to lose fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters," http://www.defenselink.mil... You see starting in the days following 9/11 the U.S. government touted war. A "global war on terrorism" which essentially means we can invade any country suspected of hiding or aiding terrorists. Iraq was right there. Rich with oil, had a cruel Dictatorship and had the "Taliban" which conveniently had a double motive in that: the NATO had just removed many of their leaders from power; and as I said before their religion. To many coincidences. So well planned. What about the warnings? It's true what my opponent says. That there had been warnings of something vague going on for many years. But just 2 months before 9/11 on July 10 2001 according the Washington Post "CIA Director George J. Tenet met with his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, at CIA headquarters to review the latest on Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist organization. Black laid out the case, consisting of communications intercepts and other top-secret intelligence showing the increasing likelihood that al-Qaeda would soon attack the United States. It was a mass of fragments and dots that nonetheless made a compelling case, so compelling to Tenet that he decided he and Black should go to the White House immediately." This information had these men who had been doing these jobs for years so worried that they immediately contacted the White House. The Bush administration however saw no cause to worry and ignored warnings from National Security experts. These men advocated a heightened watch in National Security and greater CIA authority to mobilize against terrorists. These warnings were ignored. http://www.washingtonpost.com... Fear is what this all boils down to. The motive: To begin a war thus giving the US government as much "Emergency" authority as they need. Who would question them? That would be Unpatriotic and Un-American. The Story: Step 1: Stage or ignore warnings about an attack: blame it on al-Quaeda or the Taliban. Step 2: Declare war on terrorism (a definition so broad by the way as to give the US almost unlimited authority in any middle eastern country and many others) Step 3: Mobilize troops in Iraq and Afghanistan We were all shocked, horrified, angry and scared after the 9/11 attacks we fell so blindly into the trap and demanded that the US government take action. This of course was what they were waiting for and quickly, but not so quickly as to look like this was planned from the beginning. took action against Iraq and Afghanistan countries we had been at War with not a decade before with our current Presidents father. Did Bush go in to finish what his father could not? Did he just want his administration stabilized so that it would be unpatriotic to question the governments authority while our brave servicemen and women died in Iraq? Well whatever it was it worked. Bush has kept our troops in Iraq from 2003 to the end of his two terms as POTUS. He has kept us scared and off balance and as such unable to band together as a people and tell him what he is doing is wrong in any way. Just keep them scared... Fear always works.