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Oder Aderet reports at Haaretz that the United States considered using nuclear weapons against Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attack according to Michael Steiner, who served as a political advisor to then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, as reported in Der Spiegel. "The papers were written," Steiner said when asked whether the U.S. had considered using nuclear weapons in response to the attacks orchestrated by Al-Qaida's Osama bin Laden, in which almost 3,000 people were killed. "They had really played through all possibilities." Steiner added that Schröder feared that the US, which was in a state of shock following the attacks, would overreact. "After Sept. 11, the entire administration positively dug in. We no longer had access to Rice, much less to the president. It wasn't just our experience, but also that of the French and British as well. Of course that made us enormously worried."
Original Submission
(Score: 2, Informative) by Gaaark on Tuesday September 01 2015, @12:35PM
Boo-yah, and Bingo! Spot on, my man. It seems that the U.S. likes using sticks where diplomacy would help more (and yes, i think 911 was their Pearl Harbour for entering into a war they wanted to enter... let it happen (even possibly cause it to happen), then you have plausible reason for going to war.
They go to war unilaterally and without diplomacy, and they end up with multiple stings to their asses. They need to stop being so damn 'Bushy'.
Architects for 911 truth http://www.ae911truth.org/ [ae911truth.org]
http://www2.ae911truth.org/downloads/29_Structural-Civil_Engineers_2009-06-17.pdf [ae911truth.org]
http://www2.ae911truth.org/downloads/NIST_Analyses_Brookman.pdf [ae911truth.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xif0jIT_ZM [youtube.com]
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(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @04:09PM
let it happen (even possibly cause it to happen)
I think they found out about the plan to hit the Twin Towers with airplanes because they had moles planted in Al-Qaeda.
Then they weakened the buildings themselves and planted thermite and explosives in time so that they would collapse when the planes hit. They also made sure that the buildings would not collapse by earthquakes, strong winds, fires or under their own weight before they were hit by planes.
...or maybe the planes were remote controlled.
Then there was the thing with the Pentagon.