I was pointed by Also Not Found in Nature to this discussion by Stan Goff, a former Special Forces operative and instructor in military science and tactics, of why we should not believe the official version of the events of Sept. 11th and their aftermath. “…the official line only works if they can get everyone to accept its

underlying premises… Those premises are twofold. One, there is the premise that what

this de facto administration is doing now is a ?response? to September

11th. Two, there is the premise that this attack on the World Trade Center

and the Pentagon was done by people based in Afghanistan. In my opinion,

neither of these is sound.” It’s the oil, stupid, he says, and suggests that the Bush cabinet, which looks to him like a “military general staff”, has had designs on Afghanistan for a long time. bin Laden is a trumped-up villain. The gov’t had foreknowlege of the attack that was criminally covered up. The administration was facing a confluence of crises from which they were temporarily rescued by this event. The increased domestic repression that will arise from the crisis serve the powers-that-be well as they face “the beginning of a

permanent and precipitous decline in worldwide oil production, the

beginning of a deep and protracted worldwide recession, and the unraveling of the empire.”