“Fahrenheit 1472”

Terrorists strike Connecticut...or maybe not! During the day of March 25th, the Department of Homeland Security alerted Connecticut officials about a terror threat targeting the Interstate-95 corridor in Bridgeport. That same night, a tanker truck carrying 12,000 gallons of home heating oil exploded on...you guessed it... the Interstate-95 corridor in Bridgeport! Maybe we should ask Richard Clarke what the President knew about Bridgeport.

It’s only a matter of time until the Family Steering Committee (FSC) demands an independent investigation into the truth about I-95. Perhaps FSC Co-Chair, Kristen Breitweiser, can put together 23 penetrating questions concerning the explosion...“Please explain why no one in any level of our government has yet been held accountable for the countless failures leading up to and on 3/25?”

And next come the conspiracy aficionados. We all know from the post 9/11 super sleuths that, not only was Paul McCartney replaced by a clone after he died three decades ago, but jet fuel laden 767’s crashing into the World Trade Center were incapable of creating fires hot enough to melt steel. As we have been reminded, ad nauseam, the hottest the WTC fires could have reached was 800˚ C or its equivalent 1472˚ F and it takes 1500˚ F to catastrophically weaken structural steel. So how could a truck full of home heating fuel melt a highway bridge?

In an unprecedented role as a co-conspirator in an Administration-based cover-up, the AP reported that “Bridgeport Fire Chief Michael Maglione estimated the fire burned at 1,800 degree to 2,000 degrees.” An additional co-conspirator, the New York Times, chimed in that “As engineers surveyed melted and warped girders and the remnants of a rain of concrete at the site... the southbound span sagged like a hammock as 30-inch beams glowed orange in 2,000-degree heat.” 2000 degree heat indeed...we all know that this was a joint White House- Mossad operation!

The Connecticut State Police maintain that a car driven by a local woman forced the tanker truck into a concrete barrier. Yeah, right...a suburban kid chatting on a cell phone herded a fully loaded tanker truck off of the highway with her mommy’s car. Next we will be told she was suffering from road-rage because she had just left a highway McDonald’s and found a Filet-O-Fish in the bag instead of the Big Mac she had ordered. Drive-through terrorism!

Somebody has to be held accountable (and get sued) for this. Of course, there is always the probable truth...for some reason a car forced a truck off of the highway and the truck exploded with the heat from the resultant fire melting a bridge. But, then again...that truck might have been part of a terrorist plot. Perhaps it departed Basra on the Bridgeport ferry and slipped into Connecticut via Long Island Sound. Is there a Hussein connection here?

And speaking of Hussein connections...Kristen Breitweiser’s FSC, in question 22, asks the President “Do you continue to maintain that Saddam Hussein was linked to al Qaeda? What proof do you have of any connection between al-Qaeda and the Hussein regime?” But she already knows the answer to that question.

Breitweiser is a plaintiff in a 2002 multi-billion dollar lawsuit, Kathleen Ashton et al v. Al Qaeda, against the perpetrators of 9/11 (Case # 02cv06977, U.S. DISTRICT COURT, SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK). The lawsuit alleges that “Defendants are co-conspirators who intentionally, willfully and knowingly conspired, planned, financed, supported, executed and carried out a plan to murder, maim and injure United States’ citizens, residents and others on September 11, 2001; and all participated directly or indirectly in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States of America.” These defendants include “Al Qaeda, Iraq, the Sudan and Iran.” But I thought that Iraq had no connection to 9/11.

I can understand loss, anger and frustration. The loss of loved ones is a terrible tragedy. The anger at an ineffective U.S. bureaucracy (INS, CIA, FBI et al) that rarely shared information and never preempted either the 1993 or 2001 WTC bombings is perfectly infuriating. The frustration resultant from years of executive orders prohibiting, and even encouraging, these agencies not to do their jobs is beyond frustration.

In the name of civil rights, political correctness, bureaucratic snafus, political self-interest and just plain old naïveté...thousands of Americans were sacrificed. But the blame is not one President’s or one Administration’s or one agency’s. Look at the squealing produced by post 9/11 detainments, retaliatory strikes and domestic intelligence efforts. God forbid we secure our borders or honestly profile terrorists in 2004...an even greater impossibility in 2001.

But that is the great advantage of terrorism against civilized nations...to a point, the terrorists understand the soft under-belly of a “Cake and Eat It Too” society. Many of those now pointing fingers and trying to fix blame should look at their own pre-9/11 politics. To bemoan the Patriot Act and demand airtight national security is just...childish. There is enough blame to go around.

But, of one thing, we can all be certain. If anybody is to blame for 9/11, it is the enemy! This “He Said, She Said” fiasco currently taking place in Washington is a pathetic distraction from the real crisis of eradicating terrorism. Hugs and apologies are nice, but slaying our enemies is better.

I travel that stretch of highway every day to and from work. The area has been "under construction" for years.
I could believe that a woman in a subcompact could cause that accident.
The highway has many bends and twists to it.....often changing from month to month due to the constantly changing placement of the New Jersey barriers. Combine this with out of state moron drivers (mainly NY and NJ) who do not heed the CT "unspoken" laws of the road:
"left lane = hammer lane" Even though the posted speed limit is now 45 (was 55) and speeding tickets in "work zones" are Supersized....twice the regular fines.....no one dares to actually impede the normal flow of traffic by actually abiding by the posted speed limit. If you do choose to drive the actual speed limit, do not do so in the left lane......or suffer the wrath of hundreds of pissed of CT divers who will pass you in the middle lane and cut you off with 3 millimeters to spare. You can easily spot the typical out of state moron travelling the EXACT same speed as the 18 wheeler, immediately to his / her right.....all the while leaving an empty space in front of him / her in the left lane of at least 3/4 of a mile.......oblivious to the fact that life would be much easier for all involved if they would pull over into the middle lane and let the automotive freight train pass them in the left lane, thus actually easing the trafic situation.

"Middle lane"....this is the Truckers "fast lane"....no nose picking or cell phone yacking here, folks, or you will wind up a blotch of DNA on the front bumper of 180,000 lbs of Peterbuilt.

"Right lane" is for brain addled out of state drivers, Illegal criminal trespassers, stacked like sardines in a 1978 Chebbie pick-up truck (who still abide by the Mexican national speed limit of 25 miles per hour), grand ma's who clench the steering wheel with kung-fu grip while teetering on a full blown panic attack from being squeezed between weaving 18 wheelers and the aforementioned concrete barrier. Here in the right lane, we also have the mini van / SUV driving soccer moms, who think thier birthright means that she does NOT have to slow down, or speed up, to let people on the highway.....instead....she stares dutifully ahead....all the while aware that you are there, just inside of her periphial(sp?) vision......she'd be perfectly happy screwing you into the front of the next available bridge abutment as you try to gain acess to the highway, just to "claim her space" in her God annointed right lane.

.....hmmmmm, I just don't know who to thank for turning my normally 22 minute commute to work, into an hour and 55 minute fiasco....

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