Thank you for the warm welcome estradling75 and for being rational and open-minded about this issue!:) The reason I brougt this up rather abruptly as my first post is because there are a lot of LDS members right now who are unaware to what is really going on with our country politically, militarily and financially and especially with regard to what happened in our nation on 9/11/01. Let me assure and correct those who are of the belief that anyone questioning the events of 9/11 are NOT unpatriotic, hateful of their country, conspiracy theorists or anything of the sort - in fact, just the opposite - wasn't it Thomas Jefferson who said that dissent was the greatest form of patriotism? For those unaware of the truth, in a nutshell, the World Trade Center Towers (1 & 2) were demolished in a highly unconventional, powerful and sophisticated fashion with a very high tech military-grade incendiary called nano-thermate (along with thermite) since the buildings had become antiquated, financial liabilities that were money-suckers laden with asbestos: 9-11 Research: Asbestos in the WTC 9-11 Research: Aluminothermic Residues As a matter of fact, the individual who discovered what was responsible for the towers' demise was Dr. Steven Jones of Brigham Young University, a physics Professor and a devout member of the church and true patriot: Dr. Steven E. Jones The owner of the WTC complex, Larry Silverstein, coincidentally took out a massive insurance policy against 'terrorist attack' shortly after acquiring the buildings from the NY Port Authority in the spring of 2001. Instead of facing a $2 BILLION asbestos rennovation setback, he collected $4.5 BILLION on the destruction of the buildings. The planes were basically the cover for their demolitions. Several key members of the Bush administration had been seeking a way for the U.S. to impose its military might on the middle east because of the tremendous financial opportunities many in his administration would reap from defense and re-construction contracts, the exploitation of natural energy resources in the middle east (oil & gas) for big energy companies, the construction of a massive oil and gas pipeline from the Caspian Sea through Afghanistan (which the Taliban wouldn't allow pre 9/11), drastically increasing the drug (opium) trade in Afghanistan to keep millions flowing through the CIA to Wall Street and the big banks and wartime profiteering owing to ties to the military-industrial complex by highly corrupt and evil individuals like **** Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. Wanna know why the plan was concocted? Project for the New American Century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Later that night in the evening of 9/11, building 7 was completely demolished which destroyed the investigations and records of almost a thousand case files involving massive financial criminal activity by companies like Enron's $65 BILLION electricity swindle & WorldCom's collapse (which led directly to the White House) as well as other investigations into fraud, racketeering and extortion ongoing between Washington, the big banks and Wall Street. 9-11 Research: 7 World Trade Center The Pentagon was struck for the same reason... an investigative arm of the Navy along with other civilian Accountants and Auditors were looking into the disappearance of $2.3 TRILLION dollars that had gone 'missing' and their offices were located in the section that was hit - all of the evidence, records, case files and computers/servers in the area were destroyed: The War On Waste - CBS News 9-11 Research: Missing Trillions Meanwhile, flight 93 was shot down over Pennsylvania since the passengers had rushed the cockpit and had managed to compromise its mission which was to hit building 7 in New York in order to justify its demolition as well: 9-11 Research: Missing Trillions So there you have it in a nutshell. I've even pieced together a documentary film about the truth - it's about 2 hours long for anyone interested. Needless to say, we are the terrorists, not some camel jockeys living out of caves in Afghanistan and the true motives for 9/11 were ten-fold: 1. Money/wartime profiteering 2. To cover up massive financial criminal activity within our political and financial system 3. More power over the people of the U.S. by shredding the Constitution and transforming the U.S. into a police state 4. Control of middle east natural energy resources 5. Construction of planned pipeline projects previously denied to our big energy corporations by the Taliban in Afhhanistan 6. Increasing the production/output of opium in Afghanistan since the Taliban had cracked down it for religious reasons 7. Ousting regimes (Saddam in Iraq) that were hostile to our big corporations and the petro-dollar 8. Setting up a buffer for Israel by establishing countless military bases in the middle east for positioning on the global chess board 9. Creating an environment of hate in the U.S. for middle east religions to gain support for the so-called 'wars' 10. Giving the U.S. military-industrial complex a blank check from the American people Here's a snipit from President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address from 1961: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex To conclude, I ask anyone who has eyes to see... is the following image a photo of a building collapsing due to gravity... or a building being blown to kingdom come:
