That the US government is responsible for 9/11

Thanks, con, for your rebuttals. I do have a lot of ground still to cover, so I'm writing out my arguments in as much detail as the letter-count allows, and then I'm adding the sources to back it up. My arguments can be understood without reading the sources - although if he is unclear as to where my claims come from (as he was twice) then he can simply click on the link and be enlightened. I think this is a cover for the fact my opponent had no sources for about half of his claims. The 9/11 commission co-chairs wrote a book about their experience called "Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission. " In this book they reveal that they could prove the military were lying to them. They say that they wanted to refer this to the justice department but were overruled by other committee members. The final report is based on this false testimony. Scientists reporting to the commission (. http://www.physics911.net...) as well as politicians (. http://www.defraudingamerica.com...) are known to have lied too. The whole thing, therefore, was practically authored by liars. Furthermore, the chairs assert in this book that they were denied access to critical data, and that the time they were given (less than a year) was not enough to critically examine the evidence (over three million pages) - in fact they never even got around to looking at building 7 (despite my opponent's assertion - perhaps he should read the report? ) In the words of the book's authors, they were "set up to fail. "My opponent claims that previous attacks could have been the impetus for the US battle plans. This cannot be reconciled, however, with the fact Bush specifically told the FBI to "back off" investigating Bin Laden months before 9/11 (. http://www.rense.com...). Clearly this wasn't what the president was so upset about. Why did they wait a month after 9/11? Because otherwise the deception would have been obvious. You can't tell the common soldiery about this kind of deception or else it will leak out. The common soldiery needs some time to prepare for war. They had to wait for the pretext before they could begin the operational phase of the attack. My opponent notes the steel did not melt. First, numerous eyewitnesses to molten steel disagree with that theory (. http://portland.indymedia.org... and . http://911research.wtc7.net...). Second, scientists checked the dust and proved the steel melted (. http://www.nyenvirolaw.org...).Next he criticizes my source for thermites as being inconclusive. The first sentence he cites is that the "termitic material" is suggested to be nano-thermite. The second is the specific type of "thermitic material" was not identified. Notice how both of those sentences come from extrapolations from the claim that active "thermitic material" was found in the dust. That's all it set out to prove, and cannot be explained by the official theory. While the specific form of thermite is still being tested, that it is a thermite is certain. He claims the NIST report was not read by the scientists for 9/11 truth. In that case, how did the scientists document so many contradictions and known falsehoods in their theories? My source provided a complete history of all dozen or so of them, which for space reasons I cannot list here. He also claims the steel was not moved until May, 2002. 20% of it was. The other 80% was hastily trucked away, mostly to China and India for recycling (. http://911research.wtc7.net...). The 20% still at ground zero was almost wholly inaccessible to investigators (. http://911research.wtc7.net...).Finally, my opponent asserts thermite has no explosive sound. Voters will perhaps better know thermite as that stuff used to make fireworks and hand grenades (. http://en.wikipedia.org...). Listen to them. Flight 77, which flew into the pentagon, was highly censored. We still have no videos showing the 757, and there is strong evidence that the FBI tampered with the crime scene (. http://www.911review.com...). The NTSB also refuses to release the black boxes (. http://911review.org...). As such, it is difficult for any investigator to make any claims about what happened. No investigator, to my knowledge, was allowed anywhere near the pentagon for a month. Several eyewitnesses, however, reported feeling, seeing and smelling a cordite detonation wave(. http://911research.wtc7.net...) at approximately the moment the aircraft hit. While certainly not conclusive (we all know how trustworthy those witnesses were when it came to WTC7) it does raise a lot of questions that have never been dealt with in any report. The government effort to suppress the evidence suggests their involvement in the plot, and a desire to "cover their tracks". Needless to say that crashes and fires do produce lots of rumbling and shaking, but no shock-wave. Not to mention the fact that the fire was too hot to be a kerosene fire (. http://911review.org...).In order to execute this maneuver into the pentagon, the pilot - who had also failed flight school after being unable to land a Cessna 172 - executed a maneuver even expert fighter pilots would find almost impossible, despite never having been in a 757 cockpit before (. http://whatreallyhappened.com...). The official word is that good ol' Allah gave the pilot extra luck, allowing him to execute the biggest fluke in aviation history. However, the flukes don't end there. It's no secret that the pentagon is the world's most protected building. Numerous radars and air force bases surround it. Obviously, therefore, the plane was being tracked. Luckily for the hijackers, Allah made the Americans forget about launching interceptor missiles, or even evacuating the pentagon. A single C-130 was ordered to follow, and got an awesome sightseeing tour of Washington (. http://911research.wtc7.net...). A few other fighters were dispatched - not from Andrews Air Base, only 10 miles away, but from Langley which is much further out, and traveling at only about 205mph (. http://web.archive.org...). The maximum speed of an F-16 is 1500mph. At the time of the crash the fighters were still 12 minutes away. Looking at an aerial photo of the damage, the entry and exit points line up at a perfect 45 degree angle to the wall. This is after the plane, with a fuselage only 2mm thick, somehow smashed through the only "reinforced" section of the pentagon (. http://911research.wtc7.net...), destroying 32 pillars and breaking the solid masonry wall on the other side (. http://911review.org...). Since the pentagon is only made of concrete, it is plausible that fire could have broken these supports - but not the initial impact. And how convenient that all the witnesses who claim to have been able to identify the airline or the make of the aircraft are top-ranking military personnel? The very people who had just finished planning this Afghani invasion? (. http://www.911review.org...)All this evidence points to some sort of US government involvement in the 9/11 attack on the pentagon. Next round I'll get to the final 9/11 flight.