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To: stockman_scott who wrote (164351)	6/18/2005 8:48:01 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi stockman scott; Re: "Yet, if your analysis of the physics is correct, it seems to have not been addressed by the Kean-Zelikow Report (see Note 1) in any serious fashion." Why should they address it? It's obvious why the buildings fell down. Airplanes ran into them. Fires with huge billowing flames got started. Eventually the building collapsed. There's really no need to explain this in a government report because it is obvious what happened. Re: "I'm also wondering why it's the case that the FEMA report (see Note 2) on the collapse of the WTC 7 building late in the day of 9/11 concluded that they 'could not explain the collapse at this time'?" Again, the collapse was not something they put a lot of trouble into explaining. No need to. It was obvious to anyone there that planes flew into the buildings, there was a fire, and the buildings fell down because of some combination of the structural damaged caused by the planes and the damage due to the fires. But exactly which was critical is something that would require a lot of work. I don't think you understand the nature of war. It is the nature of war that huge amounts of bad things happen. When Coventry cathedral was destroyed by German bombers did the British investigate exactly whether it was bomb damage or fire damage that did the building in? Of course not. It was clear that the building was destroyed by enemy action, and that the enemy was the Germans. In the case of the WTC, the big question was not how the buildings were destroyed, but instead who destroyed them. Re: "Finally, why did both Dick Cheney and George Bush personally ask Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to desist from trying to organize any investigations into 9/11?" Tom Daschle was a Democrat. It's pretty clear what a Democrat investigation into anything will reveal: "The Republicans caused this mess." I don't think that having a partisan fight over whether the Bush administration or the Clinton administration was responsible for the WTC attack would do the country a lot of good. As it is, the primary effect of the far left's repeated insistence on blaming the Republicans for deliberately causing the WTC attack has been to shift the public away from these obvious nut cases. -- Carl