[Steve_Seattle]

The thing I don't get about the "controlled demolition" theorists is that they (usually) don't deny that the planes hit the building. But if the planes hit the building, wouldn't that in and of itself be regarded as an act of war, regardless of whether the buildings eventually collapsed?

If 9/11 was an inside job, why would the conspirators have had the planes fly into the buildings AND wired the buildings for demolition? The whole thing is nuts. My local public access TV channel is full of 9/11 crap, and I get livid listening to it. ("Then don't listen to it.") I just want to smack those people with their smug, slanderous paranoia.

[jmacusa]

The building was not wired for demolition. It was not the kind of building that could be demolished that why since the supporting steel columns were on the outside of the building and the floors were carried off by trusses. Heat, softening the trusses and then those trusses pulling away from the supporting steel beams is what destroyed the Trade Center. not explosives.

[Toddsterpatriot]

The thing I don't get about the "controlled demolition" theorists is that they (usually) don't deny that the planes hit the building. But if the planes hit the building, wouldn't that in and of itself be regarded as an act of war, regardless of whether the buildings eventually collapsed?

Exactly! I wanted to nuke somebody, before the towers collapsed.