9/11 - Who Is Responsible??

It's Sunday night, and I'm watching the footage showing on CBS that was shot on the morning of 9/11 from the lobby of the twin towers right after they were hit. It captured the activity of the firemen in the lobby command center, as well as the view of the collapse of the 1st tower, and the view of the collapse of the 2nd tower as the cameraman ran for his life. This is a painful reminder of the carnage that happened to the city of my birth and of the thousands who lost their lives in the process. It's hard to remember all my thoughts on the actual day of the attack, but I do remember thinking back then, that the chickens had come home to roost. Back then there was much speculation as to who was responsible and how it was accomplished. Today five years later, I'm still not sure what the truth is. Osama Bin Laden is being blamed as the mastermind, but the Bushites are either incapable of, or not very anxious to capture him. If he is the perpetrator, then indeed the chickens have come home to roost, since he was rumored to be a CIA-trained operative who was involved in fighting the occupation of Afghanistan by the Soviets in the 80s. If it is not him but instead an inside job pulled off by a CIA/Mossad cabal of domestic and foreign co-conspirators, then it falls in the same category of similar inside jobs pulled off by the Nazis who firebombed their own German parliament building, or the phony Gulf of Tonkin incident engineered by Lyndon Johnson in order to declare war on Vietnam. These 'incidents' are a very effective way of mobilizing mass support of the citizenry for wars that would otherwise be impossible to be supported. From this 9/11 incident, we now have the Patriot Act, a war and occupation of Afghanistan, a war and occupation of Iraq, a full-blown sectarian civil war in Iraq, a budget deficit of over 400 billion dollars, obscene tax cuts for the richest 2% of Americans, more than doubled gasoline pump prices, a criminally inadequate response to the Katrina catastrophe and the cutback and de-funding of virtually every social service desperately needed by our citizens, particularly the poorest of them. These and hundreds of other negative events have stemmed from 9/11, and the only positives have gone to those who have profited and benefited from it.

They are now showing pictures of those firefighters who did not escape from the towers - I counted among them about a dozen African-Americans who died tragically and needlessly. I am filled with sadness and rage at their sacrifice for which no one has been brought to justice and punished. I am also enraged that about half the voters, voted for the Bushites not once but TWICE. If they have suffered as a result of their votes for the insane policies and politics of the Bushites, even half as much as those of us who wisely refused to vote for them, then there is a God in heaven after all.