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Throughout the past six years, there has been widespread discussion concerning the events of Sept. 11, 2001. I have objectively examined the 9/11 Commission Report, as well as many other independent reports concerning the same issue. Every American should do the same. Sept. 11 is the most influential event in recent world history, and it is our duty as citizens of the United States to ensure that all pieces of evidence are examined and all possibilities explored.

Consider for a moment what happens when a murder has taken place. There is an ensuing investigation into what happened. In a proper investigation, all sides of an incident are explored — no matter how unlikely a theory may be or who it may implicate. Take the example of a teenage girl found murdered in her home. A detective would certainly not exclude her parents as possible suspects simply because they are her parents. The same logic should follow with any investigation.

Sadly, this logic was not followed in the investigation of the events of Sept. 11. The 9/11 Commission disregarded and ignored vast amounts of evidence and testimony. If a person were to research 9/11 from an objective standpoint, it would quickly become obvious why the official report of the 9/11 Commission is questioned by so many.

That the investigation of 9/11 did not explore any possibility of government, military or other clandestine U.S. involvement is inexcusable. While U.S. government involvement may seem like an unlikely possibility, it is a possibility nonetheless, especially since it would not be the first time in history that a government was involved in a "false flag" operation. The possibility of government involvement should never be ignored.

Even the manner in which the 9/11 Commission was formed is an enormous failure and injustice to all those who lost their lives on Sept. 11. Instead of organizing an expansive, formal, in-depth investigation immediately following the attacks, the 9/11 Commission was formed more than a year later. The White House originally opposed forming a 9/11 Commission and did so only after intense pressure from victims' families. The commission's investigation was not nearly expansive enough and ended up costing only a third as much as the Clinton and Whitewater investigations combined. The White House was also highly resistant to 9/11 Commission requests during the investigation.

Additionally, a small panel of 14 government officials — appointed by Congress and the president — should not have been the only ones conducting the investigation. Instead, a much broader panel of independent, scholarly professionals from various backgrounds should have been summoned to carry out the investigation.

If there is even a shred of evidence that the U.S. government was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks, then that possibility must be investigated. Like any other investigation, all aspects and possibilities must be explored and exhausted before any objective conclusion can be reached. The investigation by the 9/11 Commission was extremely inadequate, poorly funded and irresponsibly orchestrated. Too much evidence has been ignored, and too many questions have gone unanswered. There must be another investigation of Sept. 11. For you, the truth of what happened on Sept. 11 cannot be dictated by me, the government or anyone else. The truth must be recognized through your own objective understanding.

Jesse Allhands (allhands@wisc.edu) is a University of Wisconsin senior majoring in German, political science and European studies.


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maybe they didn’t include government involvement because they are not conspiracy nuts like yourself???

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Either Bush is an idiot and his staff woefully incompetent OR he is an evil genius with a super-human staff able to plan, execute and conceal a huge conspiracy.

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Which ever country made Bin Laden and Hussein powerful should be ashamed.

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Without Mr. Peanut’s betrayal of the Shah of Iran Hussein would have never been the power he was and of course OBL would still be our buddy if he was anything at all.

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On Sept. 4, Joel S. Hirschhorn, Ph.D., who served for 12 years as a Senior Staff Member of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and later as Director of Environment, Energy and Natural Resources for the National Governors Association, called for a new investigation of 9/11, saying “First, let the technical truth emerge. Then, if necessary, cope with the inevitable political, conspiracy and other questions.” http://www.opednews.com/articles/generaalanmil070905former_congressional.htm

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On Aug. 27, Lynn Margulis, Ph.D., member of the National Academy of Sciences and world renowned scientist, characterized the official account of 9/11 as “a fraud” and called for a new investigation, “I suggest that those of us aware and concerned demand that the glaringly erroneous official account of 9/11 be dismissed as a fraud and a new, thorough, and impartial investigation be undertaken.” http://www.opednews.com/articles/generaalanmil070906nationalacademyof_.htm

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An Aug. 21 article reported that James Quintiere, Ph.D., former Chief of NIST’s Fire Science Division, called for an independent review of the World Trade Center Twin Tower collapse investigation. “I wish that there would be a peer review of this,” he said, referring to the NIST investigation. “I think all the records that NIST has assembled should be archived. I would really like to see someone else take a look at what they’ve done; both structurally and from a fire point of view. … I think the official conclusion that NIST arrived at is questionable.” http://www.opednews.com/articles/generaalanmil070820formerchiefof_nist.htm

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Bravo on a well written and relevant article.

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I don’t think a 604 page report that interviewed over 1200 people from over 10 countries and included information from over 2 million documents was less indepth than a murder investigation. You are just another conpiracy crazed liberal that provides no enlightening perspective or forum for which educated discussion can occur.

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FIRST, we need to investigate the complicity of President F. D. Roosevelt (whose real name was Rosenfeld by the way, he was an Elder of Zion I’m sure) in the attack on Pearl Harbor!

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wow, if I wanted to read opednews.com, I could just read the comment section of the Badger Herald. Thanks a lot douche bag.

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We’ll never know the real reason for 9-11, Clinton’s guy stuffed the evidence into his sox at the archives and then burned it up later.

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So you think the government demolished the WTC? Try this experiment:

Have a friend climb a 10-foot ladder with a bowling ball. Place your hand on the ground directly below the bowling ball and have your friend drop it.

That shattering sensation in your hand? That’s what happens to skyscrapers when jetliners full of fuel crash into them at 500 miles per hour.

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Someone should remind these Troofers to attach their drool cups when taking their Haldol.

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Take Penn Gillette’s advise… if you see any of these conspiracy theorist nutjobs, feel free to shove them down a flight of stairs without reservation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcrF346sS_I

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Yes, George W. Bush is the most brilliant master mind of all time. Lex Luthor has nothing on him. The cover up was so perfect that not one single person has come forward with the slightest bit of evidence of a conspiracy. Of course, to a brain dead liberal, this lack of evidence is evidence of a conspiracy! One wonders though, if Bush was able to pull off this huge conspiracy, why didn’t he do a better job of selling the war in Iraq? I mean, you don’t set up a phony terrorist attack and get Iraq and Afghanistan mixed up.

So what’s more likey? A vast conspiracy that is so perfect nobody has any evidence, or the fact that there really do exist muslim that want to kill us. Oh, but I forgot, if you every make a connection between terrorism and Islam then you’re a racist, and we can’t have that now, can we?

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I’m surprised the filthy socialists haven’t found a way to connect terrorism with capitalism. I’m sure they’re working on it.

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Let’s recap the events of 6 years ago:

  1. Multiple men associated with Al Qaeda board 4 different planes at approximately same time.
  2. Two of these planes crash into the World Trade Center, eventually causing the towers to fall
  3. One of these planes, circling around DC, apparently not finding the White House, crashes in the Pentagon (easy to see from the air).
  4. The fourth plane, turned around by these men of middle eastern decent (as described by cell phone calls from the plane), crashes as the passengers try to avoid the plane from hitting another target.
  5. Bin Laden takes responsibility for the attacks, and says that there will be more attacks in the future (which there have been off of US soil).

Even if you want to be a conspiracy theorist, the worst thing the government could have done was nothing if they knew about it in advance. Which, even if they did, there is no way that any leader would shut down all air traffic with no idea where an attack might happen.

Let’s even say you think Bush planned it all (which is funny because you probably also think that he has the lowest IQ of any president) to increase Halliburton profits, finish Saddam for his father, or whatever. There is no way in hell that secret would still be safe today. The Administration can’t even cover up a lame duck attorney general. How would all of those pieces of the 9/11 not surface after 6 years with a liberal media looking under every rock? Even Clinton couldn’t keep an indiscretion with an intern a secret.

Come on people. Use some logic here. I suppose FDR orchestrated the stock market crash so that he could come into power 5 years later and unleash his liberal ideals on his way to four terms on the White House. Using your logic, it could have happened.

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bush, being all powerful, all evil, and completely immoral should have just planted some wmds to ‘find’ since he brought down the towers.

wait, that debunks the ‘bush lied’ story and the troofer’s story all at once!

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If you ask me, I question why they did not look into your involvement, as unlikely as it was, did they rule you out? I think in order to rule out all possibilities, one should ask, does Mickey Mouse have an alibi? How about Paris Hilton?

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So another bunch of conspiracy idiots with PHD’s from mostly liberal university’s believe America is guilty of transpiring and carrying out the attacks on 9-11 stop the presses!! Here’s a hint people with college educations can be nutjobs as well (ie Ted Kaszinski ) and the recent Virginia Tech killer

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The essential problem here is you want the government’s 9/11 commission to investigate the government’s involvement in 9/11.

I find it highly unlikely that the Bush administration would go to the elaborate lengths of carrying out a monumental attack against its own citizens, only to allow the establishment of a legitimate commission to investigate the said self-inflicted attack.

If you want to establish real insight into what happened, a better (and non-governmental) avenue should be taken.

-Kyle Szarzynski

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Alex Jones wanabe

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Your not a nut, I’m a Marine by Jarhead standards and I believe you. Our country likes profit, and war by profit is not out of the question when Officer’s work for profit.

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Um…learn the difference between possibility and probability. Then we can talk. With your logic, because there’s a possibility that I was behind 9/11 then it should be investigated. And…you’re done. Thanks for playing.

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Bush planned 9/11, we never landed on the moon, FDR knew about Pearl Harbor, the earth is flat…

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Honestly…c’mon…you lose respectability when you write things like this.

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I guess questioning the government is bad…

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