The terror attacks of Sept. 11 in perspective

The fifteenth anniversary of the events of 9-11 has passed, and we have been at war ever since. In three months, we will lament the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, and we have been at war or preparing for war ever since.

In 1960, President Eisenhower warned of the danger of the military-industrial complex. He might have included the federal government in that gang.

Two years later, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The official version of that event claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald in the book depository shot Kennedy from behind, but the government withheld secret evidence, the Zapruder film, for five years before releasing the proof that Kennedy was shot from the grassy knoll.

Meanwhile, District Attorney Jim Garrison’s investigations turned up evidence that President Kennedy was actively perusing peace with the Soviets and the Cubans and was planning to recall our military advisors from Viet Nam.

When, for example, we consider that more than a thousand helicopters were shot down in Viet Nam and had to be replaced by Bell Aircraft, we can see why the military-industrial complex benefits financially from permanent war and why Kennedy had to be eliminated.

Soon after Vice President Lyndon Johnson became president, three phantom torpedo boats “attacked” our navy in the Gulf of Tonkin, thus justifying Johnson’s war with North Viet Nam.

Garrison’s investigations turned up irrefutable evidence of government complicity in the assassination. However, the official version persists.

Anyone familiar with the way buildings collapse in controlled demolitions immediately recognized that the way the WTC twin towers came down could only occur under a controlled demolition. Then there is the fact that WTC tower seven also collapsed later on 9-11, this one without benefit of an airplane. Many engineers and others have made careful studies of the events of 9-11 and have concluded that the official explanations are just a pack of lies designed to involve us into a never ending, centuries-old religious war. And President Dubya Bush, would have us believe that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction.

Not only has the military-industrial complex engaged us in eternal warfare, it has bought our senators and congresspersons to claim that climate change is just a hoax, and for the same reason. Greed.

With too many in the present crop of candidates for government offices, how will we ever manage to survive?

JOSEPH HENRY WYTHE

Sandpoint