Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "The Second Plane: Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 (Episode #260)" video.

  1. President George W. Bush waited a full 440 days to do a full inquiry into the 9/11 tragedy. In all previous American tragedies the longest time any president waiting in setting up a federal inquiry was 6 days. 220,000 tons of structural steel supposedly fell down that day, yet the Manhattan bathtub--the underground parking floors remained intact. When a building falls, 12 1/2 % is the average size of the debris. There were 3 thousand toilets, as many computers, office equipment and nothing was left bigger than the size of a silver dollar. 3,000 porcelain toilets reduced to... dust. Tons of steel turned to dust in the air; you can see beams fall, start to de-materialize and end up like dust never hitting the ground. There is no evidence of 12 1/2 % of the material left where the towers were, in fact George W. Bush climbed on top the pile to do a news photo opportunity with one of the firemen who escaped injury, and as everyone who wears shoes remembers, 349 (please verify) firefighters lost their lives that day. He walked up a few meters, nothing more. The red flag of the whole thing to me is Larry Silverstein, the owner of the towers, who only a few months before had them insured for attacks from planes crashing into the buildings, and who said in a taped interview that the fire department told him the damage was so great from office fires to building 7 that they were going to have 'pull it': He agreed of course and right on schedule at 5 h 45 in the afternoon, down it went--into its footprint like the two towers. Oh and by the way, 'pull it' is demolition jargon for 'blow it up'. As an overseas viewer, our hearts go out for the thousands who lost their lives and to the families, friends and colleagues of those who lost loved ones, friends, acquaintances and colleagues. Do the math folks; make up your own minds. I don't like taking a position on anything unless all the data has been gone over by experts, but the 9/11 incident is a real puzzle to figure out.
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