B-Seeing
You
 In
1942 America was getting its big, fat heinie
kicked all over the Pacific by Imperial Japan's
war machine. Because of this the public mood
in America was
dour and
there was some talk of coming to terms with the
Japanese. As the raw materials of southeast Asia
(oil, rubber, mostly oil) were too rich a treasure
to simply abandon the military made a bold gambit
to hearten the electorate while our industry
was still frantically gearing up to fight a two-front
war.
His name was Jimmy Doolittle, a lieutenant
colonel in the U.S. air force and he worked up
the remarkable idea of launching B-25 bombers
from an aircraft carrier deep in the North Pacific
to strike at the heart of the enemy. The idea
was designed to sow doubt among the people of
Japan
about
the
veracity and reliability
of
its
leaders.
So on February 3, 1942 sixteen heavily-modified
bombers lumbered into the air from the deck of
the USS Hornet, 650 miles from Japan. Six
hours later
they began
their
bombing run and history was made. No other bomber
was ever launched from a carrier the rest of
the war, and no B-25 has ever made a longer attack
flight. None of the planes were shot down and
most of the crews survived by either crash-landing
or
bailing-out
in China. One crew landed in Russia.
As expected, the attack both heartened the American
public, who celebrated its success, and altered
the scope and range of Japan's defensive posture
as they now
realized
they weren't quite an invincible as they once
believed. Jimmy Doolittle was hailed a hero and
was eventually awarded
the
Medal of
Honor.
Then there's 9-11, where 19 men commandeered
four airliners and, as we all know, crashed them
into three important buildings. In a way, this
was similar to Doolittle's attack as it was meant
to remind the American public they were not as
safe as they thought. In this, our enemies were
entirely correct.
Here's what puzzles me, though...
why is it we don't hear the names of these men
mentioned as heroes or martyrs from their native
lands? The answer is they were neither heroes
nor martyrs, just patsies. In fact, of the 19
men named on the list of hijackers, at
least 9 are still alive.
The FBI shrugs this off as a result of "stolen
identities", but if FBI knew that then why
release the list with incorrect information?
This is
just another of the many, many pieces of the
9-11
puzzle that
don't
fit. (One of the biggest is the mystery of Building
Seven).
I'm not comparing Jimmy Doolittle with the hijackers
(if , indeed, there were any humans on those
planes at all), I'm comparing their results
as they were both small
parts of
much
larger
plans
designed
to tighten
America's
grip on the world's oil reserves.
It's always
about the oil. Always.
=Lefty=
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