What we have here is a case of a LOT of people who will not question the "official" story for various reasons, including missplaced loyalty to a president who is guilty of - at the very least CRIMINAL INCOMPETENCE, or accessory to 3000 counts of first degree murder.
Given the combined evidence of WTC7 and the Air Defense stand down and the fact that agents of the Bush regime stole video tape from the Virginia DOT, (states rights debate anyone...) It is OBVIOUS that there has been a cover-up of what really happened.
It is also abundantly obvious that Bush/Cheney have absolutely zero respect for RULE OF LAW. AMERICA, we have a PROBLEM here!
Have you read the "official" 9/11 report, and if so, do you believe it?
Criminal incompetence? Do you even know the legal definition of criminal incompetence? Or is it just words that you think make your case better?
Once again, I see that you seem to be falling into the same old rut of thinking that everyone that reads the same things you read will feel the same way you do about it, unless they are stupid. I've watched loose change, 9/11 revealed, and all the bull**** that Alex Jones spews forth, and I've found that they all contain plenty of lies and half truths. I've read the NIST report, and I've found it to be the more compelling argument. This is not due to some misplaced sense of loyalty, or some sense or patriotism. This is the conclussion that I, and the majority of scientists that have objectively reviewed the situation, have come to after looking at all information presented.
I've addressed WTC 7 before, but as for the air defense "stand down," it simply didnt happen.
FACT: On 9/11 there were only 14 fighter jets on alert in the contiguous 48 states. No computer network or alarm automatically alerted the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) of missing planes. "They [civilian Air Traffic Control, or ATC] had to pick up the phone and literally dial us," says Maj. Douglas Martin, public affairs officer for NORAD. Boston Center, one of 22 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regional ATC facilities, called NORAD's Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) three times: at 8:37 am EST to inform NEADS that Flight 11 was hijacked; at 9:21 am to inform the agency, mistakenly, that Flight 11 was headed for Washington (the plane had hit the North Tower 35 minutes earlier); and at 9:41 am to (erroneously) identify Delta Air Lines Flight 1989 from Boston as a possible hijacking. The New York ATC called NEADS at 9:03 am to report that United Flight 175 had been hijacked--the same time the plane slammed into the South Tower. Within minutes of that first call from Boston Center, NEADS scrambled two F-15s from Otis Air Force Base in Falmouth, Mass., and three F-16s from Langley Air National Guard Base in Hampton, Va. None of the fighters got anywhere near the pirated planes.
Why couldn't ATC find the hijacked flights? When the hijackers turned off the planes' transponders, which broadcast identifying signals, ATC had to search 4500 identical radar blips crisscrossing some of the country's busiest air corridors. And NORAD's sophisticated radar? It ringed the continent, looking outward for threats, not inward. "It was like a doughnut," Martin says. "There was no coverage in the middle." Pre-9/11, flights originating in the States were not seen as threats and NORAD wasn't prepared to track them
