What motivation would the US government have to covertly conduct the 9/11 attacks?

Question

I know there are some who think that terrorists did not conduct the attacks. What would be the US government's motivation?

(It certainly hasn't helped our oil prices)

Answer 1

As an old historian, I have read and seen the theories which have been laid out for nearly all of the major events of our nation.

There was even one for the Boston Tea Party! Theory is fun to try to plan, figure all the details and extremely hard to co-ordinate in a timely concise manner.

Example: The Kennedy assassination theory, as laid out, would have taken concise timing, many hours of trial and error drills and more time to conduct than the theory gives. The Pearl Harbor Theory has many loopholes in it also. No, I don't believe the Twin Towers incident was an inside job. Bush is not smart enough to lay it out, nor is Cheney. It would take most of the masterminds in military strategy to pull this scenario off.

Answer 2

Some people don't want to face the reality that we were attacked by Terrorists.

A conspiracy theorist or, anyone with Internet access or a library card can look at national tragedies past and present and find a way That government could have benefited from it. It doesn't mean the government Did it.

A lot of people believe you need a reason to kill people. It's hard to wrap your head around the possibility the those attackers were conducted because they hate us. Nothing more. Not money, revenge jealousy.

Murder happens. There is no good reason sometimes. No amount of conspiracy theories will change that.

Answer 3

Well first, it would not be the "US government".  Rather, it would be criminal elements inside the government and their associates outside the government. Most members of the government were honestly deceived, threatened into silence, or frightened into self-censorship.

It appears to be at least in part a conspiracy.  Col. Robert Bowman summarized it well with these words

"… at least they made it impossible for those planes to be intercepted.  If our government had merely did nothing, and I say that as an old interceptor pilot—I know the drill, I know what it takes, I know how long it takes, I know what the procedures are, I know what they were, and I know what they’ve changed them to. If our government had merely done nothing, and allowed normal procedures to happen on that morning of 9/11, the Twin Towers would still be standing and thousands of dead Americans would still be alive. My sisters and brothers, that is treason."

- Dr. Robert Bowman Lt. Col., USAF, ret., Decorated air combat veteran; head of Star Wars programs under Presidents Ford & Carter; Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from Caltech; leading expert on national security.

The question "what would the movation be" is more complicated. The case cannot be made in a few short paragraphs. Sorry for the length of this answer.

Understanding motivation for 9/11 requires an understanding of what the President's father, George H.W. Bush, meant by "New World Order", in this words "a big idea". In short, "new world order" means global government.  There are so many theories about new world order that people overlook what is happening NOW.  That is, gradual implementation of global government and dismantling of national sovereignty. I discussed it in more detail in my answer to this question:-

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Learn about the Council on Foreign Relations and how globalist organizations effectively control foreign policy. See:-

http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/merupert/...

http://presidentialcandidates.wetpaint.c...

Read from the CFR's web site and its publications (including North American integration) and connect the dots. It is patently obvious that CFR wants global government.

http://www.cfr.org/

The global government proponents are not exactly shy about their ideology.  Freedom and democracy are not in the plans. The vision is similar to communism, with wealthy elites and corporations controlling the government. The new world order crowd is well on their way to success. We are already half way there with the WTO. How laughable it is that most people think that North American union is a myth yet there is a draft bill in Congress opposing it (HR40) .

The Constitution and Bill of Rights are major impediments to global government. An excuse was needed to begin the dismantling thereof, and 9/11 delivered that. How convenient was it that a single event also served (indirectly) to induce us to accept illegal war.

If the official excuse that air defense and intelligence failures were honest mistakes, then why were people at the top not held accountable? If the government was a corporation, heads would have rolled and there would have been mass-firings, including the CEO. That did not happen after 9/11. Rather, people responsible for "mistakes" were promoted. The first order of business should have been addressing the reason for the failures and firing many people. Instead, the government chose to start the gradual and on-going undermining of the Constitution and creation of a surveillance state in America.

There is a great deal of compelling evidence for government foreknowledge in the 9/11 attacks.  You can read about some of it here:-

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info...

http://www.rense.com/general24/t500.htm

http://911research.wtc7.net/disinfo/dece...

Also see this one hour video taped speech of Mike Ruppert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy9JCDchk...

Keep in mind that if the government was involved, it was not "the government". Rather, it was criminal elements inside the government and their associates outside the government. Most members of the government were honestly deceived, threatened into silence, or frightened into self-censorship.

The corporate main stream media protects the criminals by muzzling the 9/11 story and painting anyone questioning it as a radical moron so as to divide the people and discourage any questioning of the official story.  I discussed that in more detail in my answer to this question:-

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

As 9/11 was EXPLOITED to kick the global government agenda into high gear, it is more fruitful to focus 9/11 learning on "why" and "who benefited" rather than the "how was it done". We may never know how it was done because much of the evidence was illegally destroyed.

To inspire thought about "why", research the neo-conservative think tank "Project for a New American Century". Read its 2000 manifesto, "Rebuilding America's Defenses, Strategy Forces and Resources for a New Century", describing their geopolitical aspirations. It seems eerily familiar to what we see happening now.  This page contains a summary as well as a link to the full text:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info...

Learn who the members were and their ties to and positions in the Bush administration and the CFR (for starters, d**k Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, Scooter Libby, Richard Perle, John Bolton, William Kristol .. ) Is the word neo-con starting to jump out at you?  Don't let that mislead - there are neo-liberal ties to 9/11 as well.

Also watch Mike Ruppert's film about geopolitics, criminality in government, evidence of foreknowledge and exploitation of 9/11:-

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...

Ruppert only briefly connects the dots to discuss global government then the film ends abruptly. Watch for that, otherwise you may mistakenly interpret his message as meaning the wars are merely about peak oil.  

Ruppert also discusses Zbigniew Brzezinski, foreign policy adviser to Obama. Brzezinski's ideology is eerily familiar to that of PNAC.   Look up Brzezinski's connections to PNAC members, Council on Foreign Relations, and globalist and traitor, David Rockefeller.

Both Brzezinski and PNAC were prophetic about the need for a false flag operation to kick off the war plans.  9/11 served their geopolitical agenda marvelously.  [It was intentional that I did not pluralize the word "agenda" in that last sentence.].

For a full understanding of 9/11, it is very important to know the flaws of the 9/11 Commission and its investigation. See the speeches of David Ray Griffin, both at Google Video:-

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...

To assist with analyzing the 9/11 Commission Report, use the report mirror at "911 Research" site. The mirror addresses the problem that the official report online is not presented in a way easy to evaluate (hmm). The mirror ties it all together with hyperlinks and commentary to note contradictions and omissions.

Main page - http://911research.wtc7.net/post911/comm...

Report Mirror - http://911research.wtc7.net/mirrors/comm...

Families of victims of 9/11 documented frustrations with the 9/11 Commission in their film:-

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...

Don't buy the myth that is just kids, kooks, and hippies questioning the official account of 9/11. There are high profile people questioning 9/11.  See this list for a sampling:-

Patriots Question 9/11

http://patriotsquestion911.com/

Even some 9/11 Commissioners have spoken publicly about obstruction to their investigation. Surprisingly, that story was covered by main stream media (a rarity for anything that questions the official account of 9/11). See:-

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/0...

If you do your own research, be careful. Government disinformation sites exit all over the web, designed to throw you off the trail. They discredit truth seeking by putting out ridiculous theories that are easily debunked (e.g. the "no planes theory" ). There are paid agents all over the web posting as users in forums like this one. Some of my Yahoo contacts discussed that issue recently, in this question:-

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

For online 9/11 research, you might start with this well-sourced site:-

http://911research.wtc7.net/

Arab terrorism is real.  The terrorists hate us because of our foreign policy, not because of our freedom. Despite shoddy port and border security, we have not been attacked here since 2001. Hmm. Why then is dismantling civil liberties more important than securing borders and ports? For ports, the reason is there is no real threat. For borders, the reason is the criminals pulling the strings in government WANT illegal immigration. Dissolving borders is necessary for North American union and later for new world order. That political parties blame each other for failing on illegal immigration is just pageantry to forestall action. Both sides want illegal immigration because both sides have been hijacked by globalist interests.

Answer 4

This is just another place where the conspiracy theories fall apart.

All of the 'reasons' they give are simply lame.

Answer 5

A good question... try this one:

Why attack Afghanistan or Iraq on the basis of 911... ?

Why not Saudi Arabia?

Why invade two countries in any case to 'fight terrorism'?

Now to go back to your question, it clearly seems to be a pretext to invade 2 countries with seemingly little in common except oil and oil pipelines.

The higher the price of oil the more valuable the 'oil prize' they won!!

Answer 6

Because there are MANY within our government who are Controlled by Rich Elites who profit from Unending Wars.  Also, you can examine the many Bills that have been passed in the name of terrorism that have only worked to take liberties away from the people.  I agree with BJK, Violator and many of the others who have answered your question in detail.  These people have researched this subject very thoroughly as have I and it's not very difficult to connect the dots when it comes to who BENEFITED from the attacks.  

This is a GREAT website for 9/11 research.  

http://www.911research.wtc7.net/

Answer 7

A lot of money has been made by Haliburton in Iraq .

Answer 8

I'm not saying the govt. did it.  But look at how it affected Bush's presidency!  Bush got into office with the lowest majority in history (if indeed he was legitimately elected at all, which is actually debatable).  No president can succeed with <50% popularity and Bush knew (or should have known) that his success in office depended on working to win over some of the people who had voted against him.  Instead from the day he came into office Bush worked to polarize the nation, throwing red meat to the far right and cheesing off everyone else.  His popularity ratings began an immediate downward slope.

This went on until 9/11.  Right after 9/11 his popularity figures rose to the highest of any president in history, >90%. He immediately abandoned any sense of fiscal responsibility.  He got the PATRIOT Act passed because nobody in Congress dared criticize it.  He began acting like  a right-wing dictator--tapping phones, authorizing illegal arrest and detention, secret prisons, etc. etc.

The warrantless wiretapping, you know, did not start after 9/11.  It started two weeks after Bush came into office!  He didn't care at all about terrorism in those days, he did warrantless wiretapping to keep track of Democrats and 'liberals'.  Like Nixon, Bush wanted to use every agency and office of his administration for political purposes, to achieve permanent one-party control of our government.  This is what was covered up by the bill giving telecommunications companies retroactive immunity.

As a 'war president' Bush could openly thumb his nose at the Constitution.  He could use the 'emergency' to shovel taxpayer money to his friends.

Immediately the profits of well-connected corporations--the oil comanies, Halliburton, GE, Bechtel, etc.--shot upwards, along with their stock prices.  d**k Cheney's Halliburton stock went up 3000%!  A lot of this money came back in campaign contributions to the GOP.

Bush could also bash anyone who criticized him as being unamerican.

Bush has used every crisis and emergency during his time in office as a justification to do what he wanted to do when he came into office.  When there were prospective budget surpluses, Bush gave a big tax cut to rich people.  When the budget had the highest deficits in history, his only idea was more tax cuts for rich people.  He came into office wanting to depose Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq, so he used 9/11 for that, even though Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.

And nobody, whether they like Bush or not, can deny that Bush wouldn't have had a chance in h**l of a second term without 9/11.

So it's really helped him!  I still don't think he did it, but he certainly used it to his advantage.

Answer 9

The PNAC found it to be to their advantage.  You tell me.

Answer 10

The simple answer is this:

This has helped the oil companies. George Bush and his daddy are both oil tycoons. They are raking in tons of money. Also, the Bush family has investments in companies that only make money in times of war. So, they are also making money off that.

Terrorizing America did nothing for the "terrorists", it helped Bush make the laws of our freedom more transparent. He has been allowed to sign more bills into law that would NEVER have passed if people were not terrified about terrorists taking over the country. Our privacy has been eroded and our rights have been violated in the name of safety.  Our Free country has more laws on the books that take away our freedoms that ever before. Many have not turned on American citizens yet, but they will!

Bush is also a pawn in the hands of Bilderberg Corporation. The world banking system. Their goal is not wealth. They have all they need. Their goal is POWER.  They would like to see north and south America merged financially which would further erode our freedoms.

  The question you should be asking is what did the terrorists really gain from what they did... IF they actually did it. The outcome for them was being bombed in their home countries. Becoming fugitives. And just making the American public mad. They have gained nothing but Bush and Bilderberg have gained a LOT.

Answer 11

Well it's not the government per say since we are ultimately the government.  but it is simple really.  Using the biggest stage ever built 9the world) some try to manipulate human emotion to get what they want or need.  In this case it happened to be for a whole lot of things, but it was a big event.  Here they are.

#1 to divert attention away from the fact that rumsfeld testified to losing 2.3 trillion defense dollars

#2 Enron onvestigation was going to get some pretty powerful people locked up (WT7 collapsing)

#3 Squander the gold from the biggest reserve in the world (the other 2 towers had the biggest gold vaults)

#4 To pass the Patriot act which was attempted 2 times prior, same text, different names.  Allowing the corporate run government the ability to deem "any person who violates a state or Federal law, while endangering human life" As a terrorist.

#5 Pass the Military Commissions act removing the 4th Amendment, allowing for no trials for military unlawful combatants

#6 to go to war with Iraq to control thier oil since this country makes a lot of money off of petro dollars and saddam was preparing to switch to euros which would take from our economy, we needed a moral reason other than because we will lose money.

#7 To take over military power and the power to declare war for Iraq without the consent of it's government for future use in starting the war with Iran since they knew there would be "truthers" that would catch on and try to stop the invasion of Iran, the only country to stand and fight against globalization of powerful corporation.  Plain and simple Iran doesn't play nice with the companies that want to sell everything to everyone in every country so they are unstoppable.

#8 To test military psyops warfare equiptment as well as the Nasa space station weapons they have been developing.  What I mean by psyops warefare is presenting both sides of the truther movement like loose change and Alex Jones that tell you a part of the story and then some bull so it can be discredited because none it can be true if you disprove parts of it.  Dividing our nation making it easier for submission and forcing us into seperate groups farther from learning the truth since we debate stupid little mundane facts that might not be facts.  So many thoeries who is right....right?

And I can go on and on but that is a good portion of the story.

Answer 12

To give them an excuse to invade OIL rich nations and take control1

Answer 13

i dont know the exact motives but george bush made money from the twin towers being destroyed

Answer 14

agree with It's That Guy.

9/11 was allowed to happen.....

same as pearl harbour (all those years ago ) was " allowed to happen " & it had the desired effect ,getting a dithering US general public on-side.......

this time A Dithering world needed to get on-side & the World Trade Centres were perfect candidates.

before any one starts with the thumbs down.................

I lost family on 9/11.

Do I feel one of my family died for the greater good of the West?

No. I don't.

they died so Bush & his administration his backers, friends, family contacts  ( the obvious & the not so obvious ) could make a perfect plan come together.

To dominate the worlds Oil supplies & pander to a paranoid but powerful israel.

& high oil prices still PROFIT oil companies.

If the price is higher won't people be more responsible with their reliance on it?

the Oil companies lied year after year about reserves & the painful truth is catching up.

There's less than they thought & the Untapped areas of great interest have not turned out to be the wonderful strike that they envisaged.

Pay back & Irony.

Answer 15

Just as an answer to your question..... It may also be a combination with the original attack by terrorists yet the fall of the buildings by the government.  The advantage would be for the administration to be able to start a war to get even for the attack on a certain president's Daddy.  An added bonus would be the ability for Cheney and Bush to be able to dole out no-bid contracts to all their buddies.  War profiteers never go away, it's too profitable!

Answer 16

The reason the conspiracy theories can survive is that people can pull c**p out of their butts and claim it as fact.

For instance "that guy" stated that George W. Bush had the lowest percentage of the vote of anyone elected president.  Not even close, as Abraham Lincoln had less than 40% of the vote in 1860.  There must have been some conspiracy to put Lincoln in office and surely it violated the Constitution (though the nuts never bother to read Article II); maybe Lincoln's assassination was to cover up the conspiracy and the American Civil War was just a racket to make money of Edwin Stanton.  Stanton was Lincoln's second secretary of war and did profit from his interest in a shoe factory that sold boots to Union troops.  Thank God they did not have YouTube and PrisonPlanet in the 19th century.

Answer 17

You can look at BJK, That Guy, and others' answers for the details, but just to make it a simplified answer for your question:

Money

Power

Opportunity

would be the motivations for the government to covertly conduct a false flag operation.

Money & Power have been obviously explained to death, but to explain Opportunity, you've got to read the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) to understand the thought processes of the megalomaniacs in the US administration. They WANTED a new Pearl Harbour. They NEEDED a big reason, and a couple of jets crashing into the Twin Towers that burned for a few hours before petering out, while tragic, simply wasn't going to be enough to remain in the American psyche. "Frank A. De Martini, Manager of WTC Construction and Project Management, says in a documentary, World Trade Center - A Modern Marvel, that the WTC twin towers were designed to withstand a crash from a fully loaded Boeing 707, the largest aircraft at the time, and believes it could sustain multiple hits from jetliners, comparing it to poking a pencil through mosquito netting". The neo-cons needed to mobilize enough hatred intense enough to remake what the Americans did to the Japanese during WWII justifiable again. They needed something bigger than "poking a pencil through mosquito netting".

The opportunity was clear. Al Queda & Bin Laden was a CIA invention to fight the Russians in Afghanistan in the 80's, they even helped NATO & General Wesley Clark in their operations in Bosnia & Kosovo to prevent Serbia from winning the war in the former Yugoslav republic as late as 1999. With such close ties, it is unthinkable that when Bin Laden turned his attention to getting rid of US troops in his country, Saudi Arabia, a deal wasn't reached to accommodate him: Crash a couple of planes, and America will remove its military bases from Saudi Arabia.

On 10th Sept 2001, Donald Rumsfeld dropped the biggest bombshell in the history of American governments - he admitted that the Pentagon had "lost track" of 2.3 TRILLION dollars. (CBS News)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/2...

Less than 24 hours later, this shocking story was overshadowed by an even more shocking one. - Ask any PR professional, that is precisely how bad news is hidden when announced to the public.- Incidentally, on 9/11, the Pentagon is hit only in the section that kept important budget information, and fatalities included civilian accountants, bookkeepers and budget analysts.

It's easy to figure out the motivations of others involved: The Israeli government, WTC landlords, military logistics companies, and al-queda/Bin Laden. This loose association doesn't even have to be working closely together, just aware of what the other's goals, motivations, and advantages are to make sure it works for them individually.

As for the US government, losing 2.3 trillion dollars, false accounting, & fraud are motivations enough to conduct a false flag operation. You add to that the advantages of consolidating power in a select group of neo-conservatives and their holdings in private military logistics corporations, oil companies, and private security companies, then you have the mother of all reasons. Securing the oil reserves of a sovereign country, the ability to control the price of oil by controlling its rate of production, and making personal fortunes for anyone involved, - it would be crazy to think that elements of the US government were not directly involved in farming out 9/11 to Mossad and al-queda for their own benefit and job security.

As for Bush, he got everything he wanted - a second term, killing his dad's nemesis, making his family & friends rich beyond avarice, diverting attention from his administration's fraud, and enjoying his favourite pastime ever since he became governor: Killing people.

Answer 18

Have you ever Read 'The Grand Chessboard' by Zbigniew Brzezinski ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Br...

http://www.wanttoknow.info/brzezinskigra...

That will start giving some Idea!

We must also think about this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd7-65Kln...

It is all rather complex and this is just a quick nibble!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3_GWO6U1...

What can we ever believe?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX56SSzg6...

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P.RtCqAic...

Naivety

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJAxCR4je...

Answer 19

Too many good answers here to debate anything else but truth,

Peace.. Follow the money, Rayethon,KBR,Hellburton, Lord Abbott Co , etc etc etc. h**l Lord Abbott Co just bought out Aquila and such last week. this shows takeover from outside investors to US companies. All planned man. The White House is not a Public governmental bodied house anymore it is a Corporation.

Answer 20

If you've been paying attention to world affairs, we are all becoming one happy family...USA, Russia, and Communist China...Yep...buddies-lol. I do believe that the vision here is to create a one world government, and these Middle Eastern countries are in the way. They wish to remain sovergn nations, and not be a part of a New World Order. So now we are forcing them to comply, to be as we are, and to be a part of the big happy family.

The American people would not get behind a war effort if there was no credable reason to invade nations. Our government (or shadow government) needed one( a Pearl Harbor sized one), and whether they had direct involvement in creating 9/11 or not, they knowingly allowed it to happen to get this result.

Don't you think it's odd that since 9/11 there has been no attack on US soil...AFTER we declared war on the 'evil' muslims? This very part just doesn't add up to me.

The end result is sickening. Iraq had no ties to 9/11, but had a 'evil' leader who had phantom (make believe) WMD's.

Saddam was bad, killed many people, and I am not a sympathizer to his regiem, but we have now killed over a million Iraqi's, and lost over 4,100 of our own in the process for what? We tore down a self sustaining nation using  excuses which have been proven false, and created a welfare state...wonderful! Who is the worse evil here?

Every move that Iran has made has been defensive...not offensive. We will start the fight with them also on bogus terms, and invade them as well.

Our government needed 9/11 to happen to start the war machine... If we keep acting like n**i Germany to the world, (forcing our politics, and Imperialism upon outside nations) we will suffer the same fate Germany did, and our cities will all look like ground zero when the world finially gets tired of the bully, and WWIII breaks out. History tends to repeat itself(over and over), and we are back on that page.

Answer 21

Because they 'zionest control our government' supposedly.  We live amongst wackos.

Answer 22

Simply to keep the wheels of the New World Order in motion.....

(See here)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5r7htckec-U

Do you honestly think Americans would accept the erosion of civil liberties as seen in the Patriot Act, the Military Commission Act, the domestic spying, not to mention the invasion of a foreign country.

This is nothing new.  Elitists have been doing things like this for centuries.  They funded both sides of nearly every major war benefiting immensely.  Here -on 9/11- they create the problem, then offer a solution.  It's really a great business deal....create the virus, then offer the cure.  Problem-reaction-solution.  

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln

"If tyranny ever comes to this land , it will come in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - James Madison

finally.... look at what Mr. Internationalist himself said:

"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure---one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." - David Rockefeller, “Memoirs”, 2002

Answer 23

The US gov none

The elites that run the gov- power and money, that simple.

If they kill us why would they want to fix oil prices.

Answer 24

Hasnt helped OUR oil prices but its lined the pockets of quite a few people

war is business, multi billion dollar business, it always has been and always will be

you think the american people would would sit back and allow a war if they hadnt been 'threatened'

wake up, its not a black and white world, look closer and never believe anything you hear and only half of what you see