Actress Marion Cotillard Questions 9/11 Attacks
According to some French actress who won an Oscar, the 9/11 attacks were just the United States wanting to destroy a couple of big buildings that were simply too expensive:
Referring to the two passenger jets being flown into the Twin Towers, [Marion]Â Cotillard said:"We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes. Are they burned? They [sic] was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burnt for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [in New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed."
She added that the towers, planned in the early Sixties, were an outdated "money-sucker" that would have cost more to modernise than to rebuild altogether, which is why they were destroyed.
She said: "It was a money-sucker because they were finished, it seems to me, by 1973, and to re-cable all that, to bring up-to-date all the technology and everything, it was a lot more expensive, that work, than destroying them."
She also doesn't believe a man walked on the moon, although I include that more as a sad attempt at comic relief:
She said: "Did a man really walk on the Moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don't believe all they tell me, that's for sure."
Okay, Marion. I get that we shouldn't swallow every line of bull that comes down the pike and that you're a quirky revolutionary thinker who thinks on a level above the rest of us peons (heretofore to be known as "Citizens Of The Real World"), so here's a cookie.
I suppose the almost 3000 people killed that day were just "collateral damage". The attacks on the Pentagon and the downed plane in Pennsylvania, reportedly on its way to another attack site, were both red herrings designed to take the focus off the demolition of the Twin Towers. The widespread panic, air pollution, injuries, and aftershocks in New York were just because the planes didn't hit the buildings at the optimum angle for a clean implosion. The firefighters and first responders who were injured and killed attempting to rescue those trapped in the buildings should have stayed out of a demo site. All the people, including children, on the four airplanes involved were expendable and needed to be on the planes to give the impression that these were just routine flights.  I suppose one could say that the towers collapsed in "minutes", because Tower 2 stood for 56 minutes before falling and Tower 1 stood for 102 minutes. Nearby buildings that were damaged in the attacks, such as the other WTC buildings and St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church? Well, maybe they needed to be torn down too, and it was just gravy that they happened to be damaged.
I'm not gullible. I know that there are many things about the attacks that horrible day which have yet to be explained, and there are many things we will never know. I understand that we shouldn't believe everything we hear, and not all is as it seems when it comes to politics and those involved in making it digestible. Many, many mistakes were made both during and after the attacks, mistakes with long-term ramifications. But for some actress to tell us that the planes full of innocent passengers flew into the towers because the buildings were outdated and needed to be torn down is at best stupid, and at worst...stupid. She, of course, knows how the buildings properly should have burnt and fallen because she recieved her engineering degree at acting school...the same school that graduated Sean Penn with a degree in economics and Angelina Jolie with a diploma in world affairs.
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