CounterPunch: The 9/11 conspiracy nuts.

Here is one essay sure to flame up the talk around the Blue Barn's pickle barrel!

While ABC's "The Path to 9/11" has a head lock on the M$M prime time Legion of Doom viewers CP head honcho, Alexander Cockburn, sucker punches the vast number of dissidents gone bonkers over the last few years about the Big Question.

Did Darth Vadar Dick Cheney order a hit on the WTC to con the country into invading the Middle East?

Will mild mannered (though slightly dyslexic) George "Clark Kent" Bush admit he swallowed Cheney and Rumsfeld's kryptonite pill?

Only when we solve these vexatious questions will our country be healed enough to consider dumping the whole gang. Until then, street fighting against the "War on Terror" and pushing impeachment is futile.

Follow the "magic bullet" until your head swims, and old age ensues - maybe start a little cottage business peddling paranoia, tour the talk shows - cry repression of the Truth!

If you're one of the dolts munching my pickles in the Blue Barn, then this one is a definite read - or stay away from the farm.

Excerpt below (just to stir up the shitstorm among my lurking readers):

You trip over one fundamental idiocy of the 9/11 conspiracy nuts -- -- the ones who say Bush and Cheney masterminded the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon -- in the first paragraph of the opening page of the book by one of their high priests, David Ray Griffin, The New Pearl Harbor. “In many respects,” Griffin writes, “the strongest evidence provided by critics of the official account involves the events of 9/11 itself… In light of standard procedures for dealing with hijacked airplanes… not one of these planes should have reached its target, let alone all three of them.”

The operative word here is “should”. One characteristic of the nuts is that they have a devout, albeit preposterous belief in American efficiency, thus many of them start with the racist premise that “Arabs in caves” weren’t capable of the mission. They believe that military systems work the way Pentagon press flacks and aerospace salesmen say they should work. They believe that at 8.14 am, when AA flight 11 switched off its radio and transponder, an FAA flight controller should have called the National Military Command center and NORAD. They believe, citing reverently (this is from high priest Griffin) “the US Air Force’s own website”, that an F-15 could have intercepted AA flight 11 “by 8.24, and certainly no later than 8.30”.

A must read the complete essay, or stay away is here:
How They Let the Guilty Parties Slip Off the Hook