Jill Stein joins the growing number of sane voices...
Jill Stein’s Statement On 9/11: Stein/Baraka Campaign Call for a New 9/11 Inquiry
Global Research, September 12, 2016
Fifteen years ago the world reacted in horror as more than 3,000
individuals were murdered. We honor those victims, and the heroic first
responders of that day.
The same day the Green Party issued a statement calling for this act
of terrorism to be treated as a crime against humanity and for the
culprits to be criminally prosecuted. We pleaded, “Do not turn our cries
of grief into a cry for war.” Our national leaders and the corporate
media ignored us.
The Stein/Baraka campaign stands for truth and transparency in
politics. Since September 11 of 2001, secrecy and lies, endless war,
torture, and a frightening “surveillance state” have become the new
normal. On the 15th anniversary of 9/11, it is past time for sober
reflection and public discourse about this tragedy.
We now know with absolute certainty that fraudulent claims of
“weapons of mass destruction” and of links between Saddam Hussein and
al-Qaeda were used as pretexts to invade Iraq. That illegal and immoral
war cost the lives of over 4,000 US soldiers and maimed and wounded
almost a million more. In Iraq, another million people were killed.
Fifteen years later, American troops are still in Iraq and
Afghanistan. The pretext of “humanitarian relief” was used to invade and
devastate Libya. And the escalating violence has intensified the Syrian
civil war into a disaster of the highest order. The Obama
administration has expanded a drone war into Pakistan, Yemen and other
countries. Hundreds of thousands of people—many of them children—have
died as a result of the invasions. Millions more have become refugees.
The September 11 attacks were used to launch a war against terrorism,
yet terrorism has soared worldwide. This war has been used as an excuse
to squash civil liberties and to scapegoat Muslims and other
immigrants.
This year the Islamic celebration of Eid al-Adha coincides with the
anniversary of the tragic events of September 11. We join with people of
all faiths and beliefs in standing with our Muslim friends and
neighbors and demand an end to Islamaphobia in public discourse.
It is time to end these failed wars and to heed the Green Party’s initial call to build a new world based on peace and justice.
The families and friends of those who were murdered on 9/11 deserve justice. They also deserve to know the truth.
Led by the families of those who died on 9/11, the American people
wanted—and deserved—a comprehensive and independent inquiry into the
attacks. The Bush administration initially said an inquiry was
unnecessary, claiming that the perpetrators had been identified and
their methods and motives were clear.
It is well known that the 9/11 Commission produced a report containing so many omissions and distortions that Harper’s Magazinedescribed
it as “whitewash as public service”—a document that “defrauds the
nation.” The co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission wrote a book just two
years after the final commission report, saying, “We were set up to
fail.” The 9/11 Commission was not given enough money, time, or access
to relevant classified information.
The Stein/Baraka campaign believes a new inquiry is necessary.
Under our administration a new inquiry would have access to the
considerable body of responsible independent research that has emerged
over the last 15 years. We would create an independent 9/11 Commission,
not one dominated by members with an interest in protecting the
reputation and careers of foreign affairs and intelligence communities.
The US government has finally released the long-classified 28 pages
from the 2002 Congressional Report, which have raised many questions
about Saudi intelligence as well as other intelligence agencies and
their relationship to 9/11.
It’s time for a full accounting of what happened, and an end to the
misguided post-9/11 wars that are actually making us less safe, not more
safe.
No comments:
Post a Comment