The elephant in the room

When you have made your mind up about something, it's possible you might be wrong. Actually much of what I believe about the world is accumulated stuff picked up from a variety of sources - people, the media, TV, rumour, hearsay, whatever. Does it matter if I don't think again about it? Accepted wisdom is a large part of what we believe. Accepted lies are too. And it is possible to believe something to be true in the face of clear evidence that it is not. Just don't look too closely. We as a country are now involved in two wars, and may be involved in a third which is very likely to escalate into a third world war. These wars have been entered into on the basis of lies concocted by the US government with the help of allies like the UK. The facts were fitted around the policy - they needed to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. We none of us want these wars, but we have no means of bringing the madness to an end. We feel powerless. But the one thing which gave the impetus to all this, which enraged the people so much that we gave our governments carte blanche to go ahead, was the belief that it was a righteous war, a justified response to a terrible act, that of the attacks of September the eleventh. We know this much: that we have been dragged into a disastrous state of affairs that no one agrees is desirable in any way, in the name of "freedom". We know now that it is not a righteous war at all. If it was also a lie that Bin Laden was the guilty party (and the FBI have admitted they have no evidence to this effect), then there is a huge question hanging over all of us. Our responsibility to all those who have died in the last 6 years, in New York, Afghanistan and Iraq, is to be sure that we know the answer to that question. Who was responsible? I suggest, and this is not going against the grain of what we know about our governments, that what we have been given as the answer to this question is a whitewash. Many of us can't really accept that as a possibility. Our unwillingness to address it means we continue on the present path. The question needs an answer.