Dominick:This means that the buildings had to be rigged with explosives strategically placed on all floors below the impact floors. The explosives charges would have had to be sequenced to fire as each building was falling.
Correct.
This is indeed a monumental engineering feat.
How so. This technology has been around for a long time.
It doesn't seem to be the kind of quality that we've come to expect from government.
The govt doesn't care about providing good healthcare. The govt does care about transferring money from the taxpayer to itself and it's buddies. It also cares about having people believe in it's virtue. I think the govt is doing an absolutely amazing job at doing all those things. So if we look at education, the type of quality you're talking about is completely different from the type of quality they want it to be.
So the 'the govt is imcompetent' claim is a complete misrepresentation of the nature and goal of government.
Maybe the buildings were built with the explosives already in place.
Not necessarily.
There were unusual and long (and unprecedented) powerdowns with lots of engineers coming in and out in the buildings prior to 9/11. Bomb sniffing dogs were removed. And George Bush's brother and nephew were in charge of the company that was in control of security of the WTC complexes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc1y33bCUJc