Loose Change... Loose Screws

Logging onto AOL this morning, I was greeted by the usual annoying welcome screen. From AOL news there was a story named "Conspiracy Film Rewrites 9/11." Based on the theory that the American government orchestrated the events of that day, Loose Change takes what it calls unanswered questions and turns them into a conspiracy movie that suggests, among other things, that the Pentagon was hit by a missile launched by the military. Evidently this film can be downloaded on the internet and is being shown all over this country and around the world.

Made by (Korey) Rowe and friend Dylan Avery, 22, from Oneonta, N.Y., on a laptop computer for less than $10,000, the film contrasts sharply with United 93, a film opening Friday that portrays the struggle for the jetliner that crashed in Shanksville, Pa.

Internet chat rooms are full of promos for screenings of Loose Change in such locales as the Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Building in California; the Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec; Graz, Austria; and a theater in London's Soho district.

"It's been breaking like nobody's business the last two months," says (Gypsy) Taub, 36, who is sponsoring a showing Tuesday night in Oakland. "It's all over the place."

The makers of the film, in the tradition of the anti-war crowd and liberals in general, don't let facts get in the way of their political agenda.

Among the assertions in Loose Change is that a missile hit the Pentagon even though eyewitnesses saw the jet, numerous pieces of wreckage were found including the flight recorder, and those on the flight and in its path at the Pentagon are dead.

There is also the claim that because jet fuel burns at up to 1,500 degrees and steel melts at 2,750 degrees, the World Trade Center's infrastructure could not have been brought down by the airliners. However, as reported by the Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, steel loses 50% of its strength at 1,200 degrees, enough for a failure.

"The only thing they (the filmmakers) seem to have gotten right about the Sept. 11 attacks is the date when they occurred," says Debra Burlingame, whose brother was the pilot of American Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon.

After perusing this story, AOL offers the reader the opportunity to express his opinion and here are the results:

What do you think of 9/11 conspiracy theories?
They're outrageous: 70%
They're valid: 30%
Total Votes: 2,896
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060428074909990003

30%... 30% ? Let's just say for argument that 5% are stupid people that can barely manage to log onto the internet and vote in this survey. That would leave 25% who are likely Democrats that hate President Bush so much that they are willing to trash the legacy and heroics of countless fallen Americans and scrap the truth surrounding that pivotal day in our country's history... just because they can.

Oh, and by the way, Barbara Olsen has turned up alive in Europe:

Germany--September 22, 2005--TomFlocco.com--French and American intelligence agents have arrested Barbara Olson, the wife of a former Bush administration official, a few days ago on the Polish-German border, according to agents close to and with knowledge of the incident.
The alleged 9.11 Pentagon crash victim was found to be in possession of millions in fake InterBank Italian lira currency, according to the agents.
http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/OlsenArrested.htm

How nice for Ted.

I don't think we can summon enough disdain and criticism for these pathetic and mean individuals that reject truth and make a sick joke of themselves ...in the presence of the honor and heroics that have expressed themselves in the war on terror.