There are reasons why the Bush-Cheney administration and its Pentagon would have staged the 9/11 attacks to make them appear to have been orchestrated by Muslim terrorists from the Middle East. This administration wanted to control this oil from the Caspian Sea area, had made plans to go to war in Afghanistan months before 9/11. It also, as is now well known, had an attack on Iraq at the top of the agenda when it came to office. Finally, General Wesley Clark has revealed the Pentagon under this administration was planning on attacking six more predominantly Muslims countries: Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. Accordingly, the idea that 9/11 was an inside job with evidence planted to make it appear to be the work of Middle Eastern Muslims should not be ruled out a priori. Indeed, those with responsibility to discover what really happened including our major media should have been alert to evidence that it was a false-flag attack. ibid.
Too often Christian faith is less important to Christians in America than their American faith. The evidence that 9/11 was an inside job I have argued is overwhelming to anyone with eyes to see. And Christian faith at its best serves to open people’s eyes to this evidence. When Christian faith is subordinated to faith in America goodness, however, it becomes a blinding faith. Producing Christians with eyes wide shut. In working so long to expose the truth about 9/11 one of my central hopes is that this exposure will lead American Christians to repent of this idolatrous subordination. And once Christians see 9/11 for what it was, in the pretext to extend the American Empire, in predominantly Muslim countries, I hope they will realise that to be loyal to Jesus, I preach an anti-Imperial gospel. They will need to oppose American imperialism as they have opposed previous types of imperialism. Our country needs, our world needs, our leadership in exposing the truth about 9/11. Let’s do it! ibid.
Thou shalt not covert thy neighbour’s oil. David Ray Griffin
We can see through the claim that the US Project of creating the first truly global empire is a benevolent or even benign enterprise. However, we can fully grasp the extent to which this project is propelled by fanaticism based on a deeply perverted value system only when we realise that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 were orchestrated by our own leaders, and that they did this to provide the justification, the fear and the funding for the so-called War on Terror which would be used as the pretext for enlarging the empire. David Ray Griffin, 9/11 Fraud
We also know that the intention to invade Iraq existed long before 9/11 and that this intention was based on imperial design, not concerned with Saddam’s wickedness. ibid.
This is the value system that is diametrically opposed to the value systems on which all the great religious and moral traditions of the world have been based. These traditional value systems say that we should not covet, steal and murder. That we should make sure that everyone has the necessary means for a decent life. But our government’s project for global domination is carried out in the name of the haves of the world who want still more. Even if it means killing hundreds and thousands of people and letting millions more die every year because of starvation and other poverty related diseases, we can see furthermore that some political and military leaders are so fanatically infected with these perverted values that they are willing to kill thousands of their own citizens, then endlessly use a deceptive account of these terrorist attacks to justify a War on Terror, in the name of which they claim the right to do virtually anything they wish, ignoring all principles of international law and morality. ibid.
If the truth about 9/11 is revealed, it will reveal the values on which this American global domination project is built. David Ray Griffin, cited Improbable Collapse: The Demolition of our Republic
It is simply intolerable for any agency of the government of the United States to engage in murder. Senator Frank Church, Committee Chairman
Do you think the Americans are acting out of concern for others? Those pigs only want control of the Middle East oilfields! They couldn’t give a shit if 10,000 people died! The Baader Meinhof Complex 2005 [Der Baader Meinhof Komplex] starring Moritz Bleibtreu & Martina Gedeck & Johanna Wokalek & Nadja Uhl & Simon Licht & Alexandra Maria Lara & Susanne Bormann & Bruno Ganz et al, director Uli Edel
We are at war twenty-four hours of every day. Enemy of the State 1998 starring Will Smith & Gene Hackman & Jon Voight & Barry Pepper & Regina King & Ian Hart & Lisa Bonet & Jascha Washington & James LeGros & Jake Busey & Scott Caan & Jamie Kennedy & Jason Lee & Gabriel Byrne & Loren Dean et al, director Tony Scott, opening scene
We don’t want to dominate anyone. But I would say strong. The Quiller Memorandum 1966 starring George Segal & Alec Guinness & Max von Sydow & Senta Berger & George Sanders & Robert Helpmann & Robert Flemyng et al, director Michael Anderson, Segal
I do not believe we should ever apply that economic, political, military power unilaterally. Robert S McNamara, The Fog of War, 2003
None of our allies supported us. ibid.
If we can’t persuade nations of comparable values of the merit of our cause we’d better re-examine our reasoning. ibid.
What is morally appropriate in a war-time environment? ibid.
Agent Orange – were they committing a crime against humanity? ibid.
When hostilities commenced in Europe in 1939 it was realised that the American people had no intention of entering the war. But they believed that this country could be enticed into the war in very much the same way that it was enticed into the last one. They planned first, to plan the United States for foreign war under the guise of American defense. Second, to involve us in the war, step by step, without our realisation. Third, to create a series of incidents which would force us into the actual conflict. These plans were of course to be covered and assisted by the full power of their propaganda. Our theaters soon became filled with plays portraying the glory of war. Newsreels lost all semblance of objectivity. And they have used the war to justify the restriction of congressional powers, and the assumption of dictatorial procedures on the part of the President and his appointees. A fear campaign was inaugurated. We cannot allow the natural prejudices and passions of other peoples to lead our country to destruction. Charles Lindbergh, 11th September 1941
I’d like to talk a little bit about the War in the Persian Gulf. Big doings in the Persian Gulf. You know my favourite part of that war? It’s the first war we ever had that was on every channel plus cable. And the war got good ratings too, didn’t it? Got good ratings. Well, we like war. We like war. We are a warlike people. We like war because we’re good at it. And d’ya know why we’re good at it? ’Cause we get a lot of practice. This country is only 200 years old and already we’ve had ten major wars. We average a major war every twenty years in this country. So we’re good at it. And it’s a good thing we are, we’re not very good at anything else any more. Hah? We can’t build a decent car. We can’t build a decent TV set or a VCR worth a fuck, got no steel industry left, can’t educate our young people, can’t get healthcare for the old people, but we can bomb the shit out of your country, all right ... Especially if your country is full of brown people. Oh we like that, don’t we? That’s our hobby. That’s our new job in the world – bombing brown people! Iraq, Panama, Granada, Libya, you got some brown people in your country, tell em to watch the fuck out! Or we’re goddamn bomb them! ... Now you probably noticed I don’t feel about that war the way we were told, the way we were supposed to feel about that war, the way we were ordered and instructed by the United States government to feel about that war – you see, I tell ya, my mind doesn’t work that way – I got this real moron thing I do – it’s called thinking. And I’m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions! I don’t just roll over when I’m told to. Sad to say most Americans just roll over on command – not me. I have certain rules I live by. My first rule – I don’t believe anything the government tells me. Nothing! Zero! Nope! And I don’t take very seriously the media or the press in this country, who in the case of the Persian War were nothing more than unpaid employees of the Department of Defense, and who most of the time, most of the time, functioned as a kind of... unofficial public relations agency for the United States government. So I don’t listen to them. I don’t really believe in my country. And I got to tell you, folks, I don’t get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags – I consider them to be symbols – and I mean symbols – to the simple-minded. Me, I look at war a little bit differently. To me war is a lot of prick waving, OK? A simple thing, OK? A whole lot of men standing in a field waving their pricks at each other ... It’s called dick-fear ... Basically, men are killing each other in order to improve their self-esteem ... the bombs and the rockets and the bullets are all shaped like dicks. It’s a subconscious need to project the penis into other people’s affairs. It’s called fucking with people! So, as far as I’m concerned, that whole thing in the Persian Gulf was nothing more a big prick-waving dick-fight ... What did we do in Vietnam? We pulled out ... George Carlin, We Like War
They don’t have any skin in the game. So it’s easy for them to say, you know, let’s keep our troops over there, let’s complete the mission even though we don’t know what the mission is. Cindy Sheehan, television interview
We live in a time when we have a man sending us out to war for fictitious reasons. Michael Moore, accepting Oscar
The CIA had now come into its own and in the next year organised the overthrow of Guatemala’s popular leader Jacobo Arbenz. Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States V: The 50s: Eisenhower, The Bomb & The Third World, Showtime 2012
1954: US overthrows democratically elected President Arbenz of Guatemala. 200,000 civilians killed. Michael Moore, Bowling for Columbine, 2002
1953: US overthrows Prime Minister Mossadegh of Iran. US installs Shah as dictator. ibid.
1954: US overthrows democratically elected President Arbenz of Guatemala. 200,000 civilians killed. ibid.
1963: US backs assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem. ibid.
1963-1975: US military kills 4 million people in South East Asia. ibid.