History Repeats Itself With the WMD Lie That Won’t Die

Once again a self-styled conservative nationalist candidate gets elected on a platform of America First, only to agitate another “forever war” at the expense of the American people. Donald Trump is now our generation’s George W. Bush.

Events Become Tragedy and Then a Farce

I remember being 15 years old when the high school authorities interrupted everything to announce the 9/11 attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon. I was walking by the cafeteria/common area on my way to English Literature class and stopped to watch the TV that had been rolled out by the school authorities. There were replays of the World Trade Towers falling, collapsing perfectly in on themselves. It was the talk of each class at school for the rest of the day. I was one of the few students who openly said, “This is all a lie; buildings don’t collapse like that from airplanes slamming into them, and there’s no evidence that a plane even hit the Pentagon. Where is the wreckage? Where are the suitcases, the luggage, the fuselage, and the bodies? The Pentagon was struck by a missile! Now we have to wait and see who they want to blame for this. Will they blame rural gun-owner white male types, overseas brown Muslims who are sitting on top of oil, enemies of Israel, or foreign or domestic? Who gets the blame?”

There was no national discussion about what had happened; the network executives (often the presidents of the networks) made the presentations on 9/11, as opposed to letting the lower-level minions do the reporting. Within seconds of the announcement of the planes supposedly hitting the towers, it was proclaimed, “This is the work of Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan,” even though the FBI never updated his Most Wanted profile to include 9/11, as they said there was no credible evidence linking him to it.

By the end of the day, it was my position that “this entire incident is an elaborate false flag, and it is going to be used to justify a crackdown on domestic liberties and to provide the basis to start numerous foreign wars, none of which will benefit the USA or Americans.” I told a classmate, “I can’t prove it, but I am certain Mossad and the CIA teamed up and did this. Who benefits from this?” I can honestly say there was never a point in my life where I believed that 19 Arabs with box-cutters hijacked multiple aircraft, slammed them into the WTC and the Pentagon, and perpetrated the 9/11 attack. The official story to me was so utterly devoid of credible corroborating evidence as to be more consistent with the plot of a B movie or fan fiction. The official version was just insulting to anybody with a basic understanding of the laws of physics and the reality of common sense.

When the prevailing propaganda of “They hate us because of our freedom!” began, I reacted with a sort of visceral disgust, wondering, “What freedom?” and “That is just background noise nonsense meant to lull people into silence and acceptance. Nobody goes to war because they dislike the internal political system of the targeted nation. They must really think we are absolutely stupid if these are the lines they are pushing.”

It wasn’t long after the invasion of........

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