THE BIG PICTURE
The evidence of a cover-up in regards to the Pentagon is significant. The giant and
inexplicable hole in our defense system on the whole eastern seaboard for the exact time it took the events to unfold,
the video cameras confiscated "within 5 minutes" of the impact, the total control of every aspect of evidence
being dominated to this day by the FBI, the very selective editing of the security video camera frames, the refusal to use
public forensic facilities and the fact the building performance report was conducted after the building evidence had been
disposed of are just a few examples. But the Pentagon was one of four events that took place that day in
"a series of well-coordinated incidents in a single, integrated, time-phased plan". What was behind that plan?
I believe the evidence indicates that highly placed elements inside the current U.S. administration
allowed and assisted in the four events of 9/11. Operation Northwoods establishes a precedent that subversive
groups within the U.S. government are willing to harm American citizens in order
to justify their foreign policy and manipulate the media to create public support for actions that are otherwise inexcusable.
The similarities between Operation Northwoods and 9/11 are more than coincidence.
We have established a motive in that the Project for the New American Century founded
by Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney (the two main players during 9/11) published in advance that a "new Pearl Harbor"
would expedite their desired Middle East Policy. In September of 2000 they signed their names to that document and one
year later they received their new Pearl Harbor. 27 days later their Middle East plan went into effect in Afghanistan. This is more than
coincidence. Especially since you don't plan, mobilize troops, transport equipment, set up a logistics command and invade
(with the intent to occupy) a sovereign nation 27 days after a surprise attack. It was a non-emergency situation - Afghanistan was no threat to us as a country.
Why would George Bush stand on a mound of rubble with a bullhorn on September 14th and tip our hand if the invasion plans weren't well under way?
We have established means because all failures leading up to 9/11 involved agencies that Bush, Rumsfeld and
Cheney were directly in charge of. Bush was reading a children's book sitting in front of a sign that says,
"Readiness Makes A Country Great" on 9/11. Not one single administration official has been
held accountable. In fact, they have mostly been promoted or given awards. As an example George Tenent who was in charge of the intelligence
failure related to 9/11 was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a quiet retirement. The intelligence failure report has never been
published to this day. Those that did stand up and speak out have changed careers.
Opportunity was established when we the people let our government discard 543,895 individual
American votes in November of 2000.
The greatest cover-up is the 9/11 Commission itself which, "the Bush administration initially opposed
the creation of" in the first place
(CNN).
It was established more than a year after
9/11 and given an original budget of only $3 million to investigate the greatest single tragedy on American soil in our history.
They were allotted only 18
months and the timing was adjusted because they didn't want the final reporting to occur during election season. Eventually they were funded a
total of $15 million dollars. The very same government spent over $40 million to investigate Bill Clinton's improprieties.
After the 9/11 Commission Report was finally released they actually
did a road show promoting it like celebrities. They have marketed it and pushed it like a dime store novel.
In September of 2006 it is even being turned into a "comic" book
(NY Post).
In this situation it should have
been the exact opposite. Americans were painfully affected by this attack as a country. We have a right to know how and what
happened in all respects and any legitimate government would have honored this. Bush and Cheney had to be literally pressured
into testifying before the 9/11 Commission. One of their conditions was, "There will be no recording of the session, and there
will not be a stenographer in the room" which , "means there will be no verbatim account of the question-and-answer session,
but Gonzales said, 'information will make ... its way into the report in some fashion or another, I suspect'"
(CNN).
Why would they be opposed to an investigation of the greatest crime ever perpetrated against America and then not want any
"verbatim account" of their testimony?
Not one perpetrator has been prosecuted
including Moussaoui. During his trial "Under cross-examination by defense attorney Edward B. MacMahon Jr., Fitzgerald [FBI] acknowledged
that there was no evidence of any contact between Moussaoui and the hijackers"
(Source).
So was it only the 19 alleged hijackers involved? Where did their support network come from?
If 19 foreign terrorists could accomplish this feat then what is so far-fetched about 19 highly trained operatives carrying out the same
attack from the inside? They did get their initial public support for the war didn't they?
Watching them now is like watching a game of Risk. They started with Afghanistan which was the easiest country to establish
forward operations in. Then they hit their first real target in Iraq. After geographically separating Iran from Syria they forced
Syria out of Lebanon with "diplomatic" threats so that when the real war starts with Iran Syria is isolated. The next tour of securing
a perimeter involved diplomatic visits in the former Soviet Union areas
to the north and playing them against Moscow. Pakistan has been secured as a "partner" in the "War on Terror" and for a nice
buffer between China and Iran we offered India nuclear technology. This has been their dream for years. Go read the Project for
the New American Century website. It is all explained very clearly. Iran is next.
The only thing they were missing was public support for the initial invasion until 9/11.
But the support they did create is waning.
They knew just like in Operation Northwoods they have to have our emotions behind them. They know our power as free individuals. That is
where all the new post-9/11 laws come in. When the shocking reality of what they're up to hits the population at large they realize
our power will rise again. Now we are being spied on, and soon we will be checking in and out of federal buildings and banks
with our new National ID card under
the anti-Constitutional Patriot Act.
They deceived us into the Middle East but they will resort to force to keep us there. They truly believe they know
what's best for the world and the individual human being doesn't matter to them. I for one am standing up and saying their imagined
utopia does not justify their means.
Russell Pickering
