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Reflections on 9/11 and American Patriotism

So, tons of questions about the officially accepted conspiracy theory have been raised. I will not go through all of them here. I will just raise a few of my favorites (none of which have anything to do with pre-set explosives; the physicists and engineers can deal very well with those), in no particular order of importance.

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Why has there never been an investigation of Pentagon bombing?
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What about that 16 ft. in diameter symmetrical hole in an interior Pentagon wall with no surrounding wreckage of which there is (or at least was) photographic evidence? According to the official conspiracy theory it was made by a hollow aluminum tube that managed to penetrate not just one Pentagon wall but two.
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Why did the scrambled jets not attack like the protocols provide for in suspected high-jackings?
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What was Bush thinking for the famous seven minutes that he continued to sit in front of the class to whom he had been reading a story? "Ohmigod, they never told me being President meant having to deal with this kind of thing." "Ohmigod, Osama hinted at stuff and we knew it, but he never let on that he had something like this in mind?" "Ohmigod, how did Cheney manage this one?"
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Whatever he was thinking, why did Bush label it a "terrorist" attack right away, after the first plane hit, before there was scrap of real evidence that it was?
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Why were the bin Ladens flown out of the country during the three-day period when US airspace was totally shut down, without being questioned by the FBI?
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Why were Bush and Cheney not interviewed separately by the Commission and why not under oath?
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Why did Bush oppose the establishment of any Commission so vigorously? Why was the WTC wreckage removed by the direct order of New York City Mayor Giuliani before forensic examination of it could occur?

As to folks much more important than I am who have raised their own serious questions, the list includes credible authorities who have all raised serious questions about the official conspiracy theory, as have many other current and former intelligence and law enforcement operatives. Here is a partial listing:

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9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton,
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9/11 Commissioner Timothy Roemer,
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9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland (who resigned from the Commission),
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9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey,
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Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (John Farmer),
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Daniel Ellsberg,
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27-year CIA veteran, Raymond McGovern (who handled National Intelligence Estimates),
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29-year CIA veteran, former National Intelligence Officer (NIO) and former Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis William Bill Christison,
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CIA Operations Officer Lynne Larkin,
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Decorated 20-year CIA veteran Robert Baer,
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Division Chief of the CIA’s Office of Soviet Affairs Melvin Goodman,
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Co-Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham,
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Senator Patrick Leahy,
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Republican Congressman Ron Paul,
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Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich,
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Republican Congressman Jason Chafetz,
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Former Democratic Senator Mike Gravel,
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Former Republican Senator Lincoln Chaffee,
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Former U.S. Democratic Congressman Dan Hamburg, and
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Former U.S. Republican Congressman and senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, Curt Weldon.

Ah, but there's the GOP/Tea-Party/Right telling us that anyone who challenges in any way the official Bush/Cheney 9/11 Commission conspiracy theory is not a patriot. Patriotism can be defined as love of country and devotion to its best interests. Would not one think that THE patriotic thing to do is to answer all of these questions.

Hey, maybe the official conspiracy theory is the correct one. But shouldn't that be proven to just about everyone's satisfaction? Isn't it unpatriotic not to and let the suspicions fester, on and on? Well, to this old-fashioned patriot the answer to that question is, "Yes." And, maybe someday there will be some true patriots in high enough places to get at those answers.

Link:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21970