The orthodox 9/11 falsehood has been so successful in its appeal to the deeply ingrained quasi-religious notion of American exceptionalism and has been such a useful tool for marshaling political support that it will take a rare politician indeed to challenge it. Look at all the flak Ron Paul took even suggesting that the 9/11 attacks were some kind of blowback for American abuses in the Middle East, much less that they were the direct false-flag products of the American security and surveillance state apparatus, possibly in conjunction with their Israeli counterparts.

Mr. Obama has quite clearly aligned American foreign policy with the 9/11 falsehood notion, declaring his almost unconditional allegiance to Israel and using the idea that America was attacked by foreign agents based in Afghanistan to continue and expand the murderous and ultimately disastrous war in that nation.

The 9/11 falsehood must go down in history as being the modern equivalent of Manifest Destiny, the pernicious 19th Century American exceptionalist myth that the North American continent and, ultimately, the Pacific Ocean were and are some kind of divinely mandated property of the United States.

My 2008 presidential vote went to Cynthia McKinney because she was the only candidate who explicitly challenged the 9/11 falsehood. I cannot vote for any drone murdering agent of the MIC and the surveillance state apparatus.