americans never really clued into what the pentagon papers were about - it all got sidetracked with watergate and nixon's impeachment for lying. lying was not the big crime - going to war based on lies was the big crime that the pentagon papers exposed!! and here we are, still in iraq, based on lies. yellowcake, dirty bombs, and "saddam supports the taliban" were just a few of those lies of bush2 leading up to the invasion of iraq. 9/11 may or may not be one of those lies... [building 7 surely was!] in the vietnam war, there was a "9/11" called something like "the gulf of tonkin incident", another false flag event. an american warship was supposedly attacked by the nvn/chinese side, and that led to a declaration of war. so, on it goes, the american public none the wiser - and when they do hear the truth they just say "oh ya, it goes on all the time like that" and they shrug it off.