As with 9/11,there just happened to be an anti-terror exercise against such an attack being conducted simultaneously.So,as with 9/11 the security services actually tasked with preventing an attack were utterly bamboozled as to what they saw and believed to be unfolding before their eyes.

“Well,we have hi-jacked planes heading towards New York right now.Is this an exercise or for real,please confirm…..?”

So run the tapes of the NORAD exercise just over the border in Canada that was going on on 9/11.

On 7/7/05,the same question was asked as the bombs exploded on the Tube.A security company official told the radio that his company had been running an exercise rehearsing how they would deal with a bombing attack on the Underground at the very same time the bombs exploded.

Well,maybe Robert Fisk and Alastair Cockburn and all their friends on the establishment left haven’t quite worked it out yet.Their failure to question the official accounts of both atrocities renders them complicit.

On 9/11 specifically,if the taped footage of the Towers coming down that day hasn’t convinced you that the official account is a load of beloney,then ponder this.

Mainstream media outlets like CNN are now trying to absolve themselves from complicity with the war-mongers by pleading that were so intimidated by the Fox “Showdown With Saddam” propaganda blitz that they actually thought it best to collude with the drive to war rather than lose in the ratings war.

In other words,rather than lose their jobs they were willing to spin the same WMD,Al Q’aida-Saddam links horsecrap-if it meant they could keep their jobs.

I’m afraid,in order to stay in the mainstream commentators have to work at it and effectively collude with the corporate agenda or they won’t stay the course.The profit motive overrides any vocational commitment to tell the truth.

Those who do the real investigative exploration are rarely professional reporters such as Fisk.The diggers come from,often as not,other professions entirely but the best ones make sure they’ve got the time and the commitment before they dive into the murky depths of the latest elite cover-up.

What they usually discover is that the real conspiracy theories are the very official accounts so eagerly ingested and regurgitated by the mainstream media.

One such investigator was John Buchanan who in 2004 gained access to the US National Archive in which he discovered the extent of the complicity of the Bush military-industrial elite with the Nazis before and after WW2.

He also discovered Prescott Bush’s complicity with a Wall St.plot in 1934 to assassinate FDR and establish a fascist dictatorship along the lines of the one Bush,DuPont,Remington,Harreman and Morgan Stanley were bankrolling in Germany.

Comparing these events to those that transpired on 9/11 in his book Fixing America,Buchanan drew attention to the evidence of Indira Singh,a Wall St. consultant hired to uncover fraud and insider-dealing at Morgan Chase Bank.

Singh found that Morgan Chase had financed the US government’s purchase of software from a company called Ptech.The software was susequently embedded in all US military computers,including the NORAD Command and Control System that failed to detect the hijacked airliners heading for NY on 9/11.

Ptech’s co-founders were Saudis with ties to Al Qaida.They were apprehended following the attacks but,like the story they have not since surfaced in the mainstream.

More dilligent researchers than Fisk or Cockburn will be surprised perhaps to discover that Ptech still currently trades out of Quincy,Mass.

Since no mainstream reporter touched Buchanan’s story(aside from the Bush one that surfaced here in the Guardian)George Dubya (Prescott’s grandson)went on to win the 2004 election with ease.

Maybe there’s a moral there somewhere but you won’t discover it in the mainstream media.

Perhaps its the same with the doubts about 7/7, especially concentrated among Muslims, if opinion polls are to be believed. The thinking goes, if the police shot an electrician dead on the tube at point blank range and cover it up, what else was false about the events in July two years ago.

Unless there is a public inquiry into 7/7, conspiracy theories will similarly grow.

The piece he’s written here is utterly devoid of any historical context but still oozes with the condescending “I don’t buy this but ….maybe” line that people who fear losing respectability so often spin when they contemplate what future generations will see as glaringly obvious.

How many wars has the US initiated on trumped up wholly false evidence?

Well,the answer is near enough all of them.All the evidence is in the public domain.It’s postmodern amnesia that seems to afflict writers like Cockburn and Fisk who thereby serve establishment purposes admirably well.

There is nothing new about what Fox News is doing today,proselytising for a US attack on Iran,from what Hearst newspapers were doing in 1898 fabricating a casus belli in order to jumpstart US empire-building in Cuba,Hawaii and the Philippines.

Between 1898 and today all the wars in which the US has engaged have been spun.That is based on thoroughly false premises.

Remember Pearl Harbour,the Korean War,the phoney war in Laos in 1958,the Tonkin Incident(1964),April Glaspie’s invitation to Saddam to invade Kuwait (1990),WMD….

The list is endless.All these wars were all fought on the basis of ludicrous pretexts and propaganda in order to give the US the opportunity to try out new weapons and its corporate fascist state to make huge profits.

It’s been the case for the last century and will be the case for the next until people like Fisk and Cockburn begin to actually look a little bit more carefully at the historical record.

Small children will look at those towers collapsing in years to come and wonder how anyone could posssibly believe the official US version of what happened.

With up to a million dead in Iraq what price the next US Pearl Harbour?

Thanks for sharing this!