The
Lies of 9/11 Miracle Workers
A Review of David Ray Griffin’s Bush And Cheney:
How They Ruined America And The World
By Edward Curtin
“America’s fate was sealed when the
public and the anti-war movement bought
the government’s 9/11 conspiracy theory.
The government’s account of 9/11 is
contradicted by much evidence.
Nevertheless, this defining event of our
time, which has launched the US on
interminable wars of aggression and a
domestic police state, is a taboo
subject for investigation in the media.
It is pointless to complain of war and a
police state when one accepts the
premise upon which they are based.” -
Paul Craig Roberts,
How America Was Lost
August
29, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- David Ray Griffin is an international
treasure and truth teller, who, while being
ignored by the mainstream corporate media (MSM)
for his extraordinary series of books exposing
the false flag attacks of September 11, 2001,
will someday be lauded as a modern prophet. To
those who know and have studied his work, he is
an inspiration for his persistent insistence in
a dozen books since 2004 that the truth about
the US treachery of that infamous day is
essential for understanding the violence,
planned by neo-conservatives and embraced by
neo-liberals, that the United States has
subsequently inflicted on the world. He has
consistently argued that to believe in the
government’s explanation for 9/11, one has to
reject logic, scholarship, and the basic laws of
modern science.
Bush And Cheney: How They Ruined
America And The World
is Griffin’s latest, and probably last, effort
to reach those people who, out of fear,
ignorance, or laziness, have walled themselves
into a cyclopean labyrinth of denial about the
defining event of our time. Without the
clarifying truth about the attacks of September
11, 2001, there will be no exit from the
continuing nightmare the world is experiencing.
If you
are reading this review, you are probably not
one of those people Griffin is trying to reach.
Ay, there’s the rub! As the title of his book
suggests, he is using reversed logic to try and
reach those who have accepted the official
fiction that is The 9/11 Commission Report
(No doubt without having read it. Outside of
serious researchers, I have never met a person
who has, except for some of my students) and all
the antecedent and subsequent government and MSM
propaganda.
To this
end, the first three-quarters of the book is
devoted to the “destructive transformations of
America and the world as a whole” that were
initiated and justified by 9/11, many of which
have been accepted by innumerable people as
being based on government lies, most notably the
war against Iraq. Griffin’s hope is that if he
can convince skeptical readers that the
government would lie about Iraq, Libya, Ukraine,
Syria, Yemen, etc., resulting in the deaths and
maiming of millions of innocent people and the
destruction of their countries, it would also
lie about the attacks of September 11 that
“legitimized” such carnage and the ongoing
shredding of the US Constitution.
The Will
to Examine Miracles?
It’s an
ingenuous and compelling method, culminating
with his concluding section on “15 major
miracles” of 9/11, by which he means “violations
of the laws of nature” in the strictest
scientific sense. Astutely logical, deeply
sourced, and scientifically compelling, the
book’s conclusion can only be rejected by one
adamantly closed to accepting the ugly truth
about the US government and its media
accomplices.
But
getting skeptical people to read the book is the
trick. I think that is very hard but much
easier than to get the MSM to do so and give it
a fair shake. People have friends whom they
trust, and sometimes friends can convince
friends to at least take a look. Speaking of the
MSM, Griffin puts it thus:
“However, while granting that the
Bush-Cheney administration told big and
disastrous lies, which led to millions of
deaths, most mainstream commentators
have considered the idea that this
administration engineered the 9/11 attack
to be so absurd that they can render
judgment without checking the evidence.”
“Judging without checking the evidence” is the
job of the MSM, who are stenographers for the
government, but regular people might be
persuaded to check the evidence before reaching
a conclusion, if they can be led to that
assessment one logical step after another. One
can even hope that left-wing alternative media
critics of the government, many of whom avoid
this issue like the plague, might find the
courage to reassess their anti-scientific
denials in light of Griffin’s work. After all,
“the laws of physics don’t lie,” and logical
reasoning has generally been a strength of many
dissenters, especially those well-skilled in the
art of disputation.
The Birth
of the Tangled Web
Griffin
is a master logician, so he begins with the
obvious fact that the Bush-Cheney administration
failed to prevent 9/11 and therefore failed to
keep America safe that day, as Donald Trump said
in a 2016 election debate, for which he was
castigated by his opponents and the media. But
he was right; it is a fact, whatever
Bush-Cheney’s deceptive excuses. As a result of
those attacks, the US attacked Afghanistan,
claiming that was because Osama bin Laden
orchestrated the attacks from that country. No
evidence of bin Laden’s guilt was ever
presented, though Colin Powell initially said it
would be shortly forthcoming (he quickly reneged
on the promise). The invasion of Afghanistan,
planned well in advance of 9/11, was the start
of the war on terror that’s been going on for 16
years with no end in sight. A 16-year-old war
based on no evidence, just lies. Griffin shows
how the alleged “evidence” that was eventually
produced – the bin Laden videos – were
fraudulent; that they were indeed “produced,”
and not by bin Laden; they were “bogus”
according to Professor Bruce Lawrence of Duke
University, the leading academic expert on bin
Laden. And the FBI reported that it had “no
hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.”
But the administration and the media sang of bin
Laden’s guilt in unison. The public, beaten
down in fear and trembling, accepted the claim
as a fact, as they were further traumatized by
additional lies about the anthrax attacks that
are a key component of the entire propaganda
campaign of fear and intimidation that resulted
in The Patriot Act. (Graeme MacQueen’s
masterful analysis, The 2001 Anthrax
Deception, should be required reading; for
he shows how the often forgotten anthrax attacks
are intimately linked to those of September 11
and when studied closely, prove that 9/11 was an
inside job.)
So
Griffin begins with the lie about bin Laden that
led to the lie about Afghanistan that led to the
illegal and immoral and ongoing war against
Afghanistan and all the millions of deaths and
destruction that have ensued.
So
knowing how lie leads on to lie, let us count
some of the lies that followed. Griffin
documents these in deeply sourced details, but I
will list them concisely:
US
Government Lies Subsequent to the 9/11 Attacks:
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That the 9/11 attacks were surprises, a “New
Pearl Harbor.”
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That there was solid evidence for bin
Laden’s guilt.
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That the invasion of Afghanistan (and
Pakistan) was therefore justified.
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That the “war on terror” and therefore The
Patriot Act were necessary.
-
That Saddam Hussein was connected to 9/11,
was developing nuclear weapons, and had
weapons of mass destruction
-
That the attacks on Muslim countries were
not based on Islamophobia
-
That the chaos and destruction unleashed
throughout the Middle East were not
pre-planned and intentional.
-
That the Obama administration’s attack on
Libya was a humanitarian response to the
“madman” Gaddafi, who adopted a rape policy
fueled by Viagra drugged troops ready to
unleash a blood bath.
-
That the war against Syria was not a
CIA-instigated plan to overthrow Assad under
the guise of “liberating” the Syrian people.
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That the jihadists in Syria, including ISIS,
were not armed and supported by the US, with
many of those arms being shipped out of
Benghazi, Libya, under the direction of
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, General David
Petraeus, and Chris Stevens, the US
ambassador to Libya.
-
That the Syrian “White Helmets” are
independent volunteer do-gooders, not a
propaganda outfit funded by the US and UK
governments.
-
That the wars against Muslim countries
throughout the Greater Middle East are not
connected to the Israeli occupation of
Palestine and serve as American support for
Israel’s agenda in the region.
-
That drone killings are legal and morally
justified.
-
That the US Constitution has not been
shredded.
-
That the coup d’état in Ukraine was not a US
operation as part of a continuing US
aggression toward Russia and a growing
threat of a nuclear annihilation.
-
That the US buildup of military forces along
Russia’s western borders and the massive
transfer of US Naval forces to China’s east
are not US acts of aggression making nuclear
war more likely, but are acts of
self-defense.
-
That the threat of ecological holocaust is
not connected to a 770 billion dollar
“defense” budget, a trillion dollar nuclear
weapons modernization program, and US wars
against countries containing vast amounts of
fossil fuels and rare minerals.
That is
only a sample of the lies that Griffin uses to
lead the reader back to 9/11, the alleged reason
for the death and destruction justified by such
lies. If the US government would lie in all
these ways, he is saying, why would they not
have lied with the Big Lie that started this
string of destructive deceptions.
September
11, 2001
Thus
the last section of the book (a little more than
25%) is devoted to “9/11: A Miraculous Day.”
Herein he explains why George W. Bush and Dick
Cheney should not be trusted on 9/11. They did
not want an investigation into the September 11
attacks; wanted the public to just trust them.
They were eventually forced into an
investigation by public pressure; originally
named Henry Kissinger to head it (don’t laugh –
ha! ha!); rigged its makeup and had Philip
Zelikow, arch neo-con and Bush insider,
appointed its Executive Director. In short,
they did everything possible to prevent an
honest investigation. And we know that the
result was The 9/11 Commission Report
that is a piece of legerdemain on a par with
The Warren Commission Report. In
other words, a cover-up
Griffin
shows that “Bush and Cheney lied about their
activities on 9/11” and that their relationship
to the subsequent anthrax attacks, a key
motivator for The Patriot Act and “the war on
terror,” suggest that their administration was
the source of those attacks and therefore the
9/11 attacks. (see Graeme MacQueen’s The
2001 Anthrax Deception). Griffin further
notes how declassified official accounts refute
“central features of the Bush-Cheney account of
9/11.”
And
then – the coup de grace – he shows how the
official account of 9/11 depends on “miracle
stories.” Yet, “a look at the evidence shows
that many people who accept science on tobacco,
evolution, and global warming, accept miracles,
implicitly, on the subject of 9/11, especially
in relationship to the World Trade Center
(WTC).” Herein lies the great stumbling block
to convincing people of the truth of 9/11.
Science, logic, careful reasoning, evidence,
documentation, what you can observe with your
own eyes, etc. – none of this matters when you
are intent on being deceived (or pretending to
be) because of the implications of examining the
evidence and reaching conclusions that are
deeply disturbing to your world view, ideology,
or sense of self. To admit that you have
believed a pack of lies for years is very
difficult to accept. But regular people of good
will can do so. These are the people Griffin is
trying to reach. To convince those who have for
years publicly and professionally dismissed
those who have questioned the official version
of 9/11 as conspiracy nuts is probably an
impossible task. To convince the MSM that have
worked hand-in-glove with the government to
conceal the truth is preposterous. To convince
those fine people who are devoted to truth in
other areas to reconsider their positions on
this core issue is conceivable. Surely the
world is full of weird events that logic and
science cannot explain. But when the defining
event of recent history that has resulted in the
world teetering on the edge of final destruction
is explained by at least the following 15
miracles that Griffin lists, only a delusional
person or one whose will to untruth is set in
stone would not be moved to ask how these could
be possible, and draw the obvious conclusions.
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A
Miraculous Precedent: The Assassination of JFK
I am
reminded of that other foundational case in
modern American history: the CIA-directed
assassination of JFK. Dan Rather, the famous
CBS news anchor, was in Dallas that day, and
after seeing the Zapruder film (which was then
kept from the American public for a decade),
went on television to say that when the
president was shot in the head he violently
lurched forward, clearly implying that the shot
came from Oswald from the rear. Of course once
the public was able to see the film, it was
obvious to anyone with eyes that he was
violently thrown back and to his left, therefore
having been shot from his front right, not by
Oswald. Bingo: a conspiracy. Then in 2012,
another famous TV personality, Bill O’Reilly
wrote a book called Killing Kennedy in
which he claims that he and his co-author
watched the Zapruder film “time after time to
understand the sequence of events,” but still
concluded that The Warren Commission was correct
and that Oswald shot Kennedy from behind despite
the obvious visual evidence to the contrary.
Miracles then, miracles now – they seem to
define the two key events of modern American
history for those wanting to obfuscate the
truth.
Do you
believe in miracles?
Here is a
Summation of Griffin’s 15 Major Miracles:
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The Twin Towers and WTC 7 were the only
steel-framed high-rise buildings ever to
come down without explosives or
incendiaries.
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The Twin Towers, each of which had 287 steel
columns, were brought down solely by a
combination of airplane strikes and jet-fuel
fires.
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WTC 7 was not even hit by a plane, so it was
the first steel-framed high-rise to be
brought down solely by ordinary building
fires.
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These World Trade Center buildings also came
down in free fall – the Twin Towers in
virtual free fall, WTC 7 in absolute
free fall – for over two seconds.
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Although the collapses of the of the WTC
buildings were not aided by explosives, the
collapses imitated the kinds of implosions
that can be induced only by demolition
companies.
-
In the case of WTC 7, the
structure came down symmetrically (straight
down, with an almost perfectly horizontal
roofline), which meant that all 82 of the
steel support columns had to fall
simultaneously, although the building’s
fires had a very
asymmetrical
-
The South Tower’s upper 30-floor block
changed its angular momentum in midair.
-
This 30 floor block then disintegrated in
midair.
-
With regard to the North Tower, some of its
steel columns were ejected out horizontally
for at least 500 feet.
-
The fires in the debris from the WTC
buildings could not be extinguished for many
months.
-
Although the WTC fires, based on ordinary
building fires, could not have produced
temperatures above 1,800℉, the fires
inexplicably melted metals with much higher
melting points, such as iron (2,800℉) and
even molybdenum (4,753℉).
-
Some of the steel in the debris had been
sulfidized, resulting in
Swiss-cheese-appearing steel, even though
ordinary building fires could not have
resulted in the sulfidation.
- As
a passenger on AA Flight 77, Barbara Olson
called her husband, telling him about
hijackers on her plane, even though this
plane had no onboard phones and its altitude
was too high for a cell phone call to get
through.
-
Hijacker pilot Hani Hanjour could not
possibly have flown the trajectory of AA 77
to strike Wedge 1 of the Pentagon, and yet
he did.
-
Besides going through an unbelievable
personal transformation, ringleader Mohamed
Atta also underwent an impossible physical
transformation.
Griffin
examines each of these “miracles” in detail.
Taken together, they reduce the official
explanation of 9/11 to a story told to credulous
children who are afraid of the dark. One can
only hope that Americans are ready to grow up
and accept that the bogeyman is real and that he
is out to devour them and the rest of the world
if they don’t awaken from their hypnotic sleep.
The
Overwhelming Consensus of Experts
It is
important to note that David Ray Griffin is not
alone in his assessment that 9/11 was an inside
job done to legitimize disastrous policies at
home and abroad. There are thousands of
scholars, religious leaders, scientists,
engineers, airline pilots, firefighters and
countless others who agree with him after
studying the evidence. Griffin names many of
these experts in his conclusion. And they are
not afraid of the absurd way the government and
media accuse them of being “conspiracy
theorists,” since they know “as Lance deHaven-Smith
explained in his book Conspiracy Theory in
America, [that] the CIA started using
‘conspiracy theory’ as a pejorative term in 1964
to ridicule the growing belief, contrary to the
Warren Report, that President Kennedy was killed
by people within the US government, including
the CIA itself.” Thoughtful people know, and
the evidence has long proven, that the US
government is guilty of an extensive list of
conspiracies, ranging from the alleged Gulf of
Tonkin attack to its conspiracy to convince the
American people that Saddam Hussein had weapons
of mass destruction and extending back through
many CIA-engineered coup d’états, the
assassinations of JFK, Malcolm X, MLK, RFK,
etc. The name calling has lost its sting when
the documentary records confirm that the name
callers are the conspirators.
So if
you care about truth, your country, and the
world; if you hate to be lied to; if you care
about the victims of American violence
everywhere – you should read Bush And
Cheney: How They Ruined America And The
World. It is a brave and brilliant book.
Look at the evidence. Show others. Pass the
book on. Give it as a gift.
And tip
your hat to David Ray Griffin, a truth teller
extraordinaire, who for thirteen years has been
asking us to wake out of the hypnotic state of
denial that has allowed the liars to bring the
world to the edge of destruction. Griffin’s
persistence is the sign of hope we all need to
join him in the fight against these unspeakable
forces of evil.
Edward Curtin
teaches sociology at Massachusetts College of
Liberal Arts.
http://edwardcurtin.com/