[lbo-talk] Democracy Now 5/26

[Joseph Wanzala]

I'm not on any side, I can actually entertain several even contradictory 
positions simulataneously, imagine that? I don't understand why you 
selectively attack ideas that would implicate Bush - Michael Moore's 
conspiracy theories are 'okay' but Griffin's aren't - even though Moore 
merely posits a 'lite' version of what Griffin says, with a heavy bias 
toward the Saudis. You talk about WTC7 as though the idea of bombs in 
building is beyond the pale. It is not. I am not saying this conclusively 
shows that there were bombs in the building, but I think it is curiuos 
nonetheless. See below (and yes, Alex Jones as Pugliese will doubtless 
inform us is some kind of Nazi, but try not to let that get in the way of 
the info :-

http://www.infowars.com/print/Sept11/FDNY.htm

In a stunning and belated development concerning the attacks of 9/11 Larry 
Silverstein, the controller of the destroyed WTC complex, stated plainly in 
a PBS documentary that he and the FDNY decided jointly to demolish the 
Solomon Bros. building, or WTC 7, late in the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 
11, 2001.

This admission appeared in a PBS documentary originally aired in Sept. of 
2002 entitled "America Rebuilds". Mr Silverstein's comments came after FEMA 
and the Society of Civil Engineers conducted an extensive and costly 
investigation into the curious collapse of WTC 7. The study specifically 
concluded that the building had collapsed as a result of the inferno within, 
sparked, apparently, by debris falling from the crumbling North Tower.

In the documentary Silverstein makes the following statement;

I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling 
me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and 
I said, "We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to 
do is pull it." And they made that decision to pull and we watched the 
building collapse.
[This can be heard in the audio file 
http://www.infowars.com/audio/PullIt.mp3 Thanks to Sir Dave 'tmo' Soule for 
transfering this from the video to an MP3 file. "America Rebuilds", PBS Home 
Video, ISBN 0-7806-4006-3, is available from 
http://shop.pbs.org/products/AREB901/.]


>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
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>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Democracy Now 5/26
>Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 16:59:14 -0400
>
>Joseph Wanzala wrote:
>
>>Actually Doug, so blinded are you by your bias against me that you make an 
>>argument I have not made, certainly not in my last post. The view that the 
>>neo-cons used (rather than engineered) the 9-11 attacks as a pretext to 
>>further their imperial designs is a passe view, which is expounded by 
>>Chalmer Johnson, Rahul Mahajan, Chomsky, and indeed by even Berlet on DN!
>
>And me too. Sure they used it as a pretext for all kinds of nastiness. But 
>that's a lot different from talking about explosives in WTC7 and 
>nonexistent planes at the Pentagon. I can't really tell which side you're 
>on here.
>
>Doug
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