Senator John McCain, who this week made a crass and bumbling effort to smear Ron Paul as a fascist appeaser, appeared just as deluded at a recent speaking engagement at which he was asked why he penned the foreword to Popular Mechanics' Debunking 9/11 Myths book.
At the time of its release, Popular Mechanics Editor James Meigs claimed that their investigation was "not political," and yet the foreword to their book is written by none other than GOP darling McCain, who re-hashes an abhorrent amount of Neo-Con detritus that relies solely on 9/11 having happened exactly as the government claims it did.
"We liberated Afghanistan from the murderous rule of the Taliban, our attackers' proud hosts. We chased Al Qaeda around the globe," barks McCain.
In the video clip taken from a November 18th function, Kathy Walker, whose father was in the north tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11, asks McCain why he lent his name to "a book that's aim is to stifle the efforts of those trying to bring about justice, accountability, and closure in regard to 9/11." McCain responds that an "overwhelming majority of Americans believe the conclusions" of the 9/11 Commission before going on to triumph the expertise of the Commission.
Watch the video.
McCain's contention that the majority of Americans still have faith in the government's official fairy tale version, which was rubber-stamped by the 9/11 Commission, is manifestly wrong.
- An October 2006 CBS/New York Times poll found that just 16% of respondents thought the government was telling the truth about 9/11. 81 per cent thought they were "mostly lying" or "hiding something" and a further 3 per cent were unsure.
- A 2006 Zogby poll found that opinion on whether there was a cover-up and the accuracy of the 9/11 Commission was roughly split down the middle, hardly the "overwhelming majority" that McCain claims.
- As far back as August 2004 a Zogby poll found that half of New Yorkers believed the government had foreknowledge of the attacks and consciously failed to act.
After the speech, McCain made another faux pas when he claimed that the majority of 9/11 families were content with the conclusions of the Kean-Hamilton whitewash farce.
This is another bare-faced lie.
Bill Doyle, the head of the largest 9/11 families group, told the Alex Jones show that the majority of family members are unsatisfied with the 9/11 Commission and still have many lingering questions - and that was nearly 18 months ago!
Despite Osama Bin Laden's best efforts to follow his masters orders by insisting that he alone carried out 9/11 (methinks Osama doth protest too much), allied to the alleged trainer of the hijackers - and CIA informant - Louai al-Sakka's attempt to firm up the official story, increasing amounts of Americans are just not buying it, as the polls continue to show.
Just as it didn't pull the wool over our eyes during the debate on Wednesday night, the sycophantic applause of the carefully screened Neo-Con audience in the video clip doesn't mask the fact that the majority of Americans know they are being lied to and won't tolerate that fact for very much longer.Printed from: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/301107_deluded_mccain.htm
Too bad it took me until 2005 to truly WAKE UP!!!
Rather than focus on that, Johnny, how about telling me about your friend CHARLES KEATING?
