Before the twin towers fell, before there was Enron, there was President G.W. Bush. Bush obviously wasn't a very popular president. In fact, Gore did win the election after Florida iniated and finished the recount. (Please also further note that G.W.'s brother was governor of Florida... the one called Jeb.... Ten to one says he had something to do with the premature results). Technically Bush shouldn't be our president... Did you know that? He was basically appointed by the Supreme Court... Even Fidel Castro said we gave away some of our freedoms on that one.
Yet the unpopular president took the post in the White House. Within the first few months Enron (that major energy company) went sour. Then many other companies went sour. Then the stock market headed south. The econemy landed in recession (though some "experts" disagree with this, I believe those experts were put forth to keep the people out of panic mode). Months passed by... More companies were failing, unemployment rose high, the stock market became a roller coaster ride with more downs than ups, people were protesting ...... alot..... people complained and complained about the problems with this country..... And Bush was left loosing in popularity, blaming the problems on the previous administration, etc... etc... etc.... Thing that Bush wanted to do... Like beef up the money for defense.... He didn't have a prayer.....
What was needed was something that would boost the economy.... Inspire the people to be more patriotic.... Shut up the dissenters..... And most of all give Bush a boost in popularity....... Not to mention the beefed up military budget he wanted.....
9/11 did just that.... Invoking phrases not used since WWII..... "A day that will live in infamy.... The second Pearl Harbor....." we even heard "America Under Attack". After 9/11... Our stock market may have teetered and may now be just recovering...... But people's minds weren't on that as much..... Our minds were away with Osma Bin Laden, Al-Quaida, Terrorism, The War on Terror, "The Axis of Evil" (North Korea-Afghanastan-Iraq was the orginal... But I think it's been changed since... Also further note that the term "Axis" is from WWII, originally describing the alliance between Germany& other countries a.k.a. The Axis Powers)..... American Flags sold out.... People were encouraged to rally behind their president (he had like a 95% approval rating around this time), And the only question there seemed to be was "Who's ass we gonna kick?" We found the skapegoate..... got the beefed up budget..... Hello Afghanastan....
Yet I have found and will always find it difficult to believe that around 15-18 men boarded about four flights and took over the planes with about sixty passengers per plane with box cutters. I find it difficult to swallow that the plane that crashed in a Pennsylvania field had no mention of survivors... IT CRASHED IN A FIELD AND THERE WAS A LOT OF THE PLANE TO BE FOUND!!! I also find it diffiicutl to believe that something wasn't done about four planes making a U-Turn in mid-air, seriously deviating from their flight plans, and no one doing a thing about it.
Whether or not these were actual terrorist or employees of our government..... You be the judge... I feel that the government allowed this to happen if downright didn't plan it to alleviate the problems.... To have an excuse to go to war, limit our freedoms, and all the other stuff that came out of 9/11, The U.S. Patriot Act... etc.. etc..
The ingenious of this plan can't be ignored.... We've dealt with homegrown Terrorism in the past. Yet we've never had to deal with terrorism from a "foreign" power..... Hats off to the government for doing something new.... Outsiders are attacking us makes us more patriotic... more supportive of our leaders.... and more willing to go kick some other country's ass.... And nothing helps the economy like a good old fashion war..... And the adverse affects.... Like being paranoid that foreigners are trying to kill us by immigrating here and planning these attacks on our soil.... Allows the government to seize the oppurtunity... They'll use our fear against us to gain control more control.... Control that the Bill of Rights and it's larger document The Constitution doesn't allow..... All I can say is that this was utterly and completely brilliant.