Posted on 08/03/2006 6:48:31 AM PDT by presidio9
More than one-third of Americans suspect federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new poll. The survey also found that 16 percent of Americans speculate that secretly planted explosives, not burning passenger jets, were the real reason the massive Twin Towers of the World Trade Center collapsed.
The national Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll of 1,010 adults also found that anger against the federal government is at record levels, with 54 percent saying they "personally are more angry" at the government than they used to be.
Widespread resentment and alienation toward the national government appears to be fueling a growing acceptance of conspiracy theories about the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Suspicions that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job quickly have become nearly as popular as decades-old conspiracy theories that the federal government was responsible for President John Kennedy's assassination and that it has covered up proof of space aliens.
Seventy percent of people who give credence to these theories also say they've become angrier with the federal government than they used to be.
Thirty-six percent of respondents overall said it is "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that federal officials either participated in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon or took no action to stop them "because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East."
"One out of three sounds high, but that may very well be right," said Lee Hamilton, former vice chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
His congressionally appointed investigation concluded that federal officials bungled their attempts to prevent, but
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Sounds like that 1/3 of Americans who are leftist Bush haters.
Beat me to it. Sure isn't any of the people I know, meet or hang with.
This can't be true.
Um, IBTZ?
Gee, ya think the brainwashing will stop now?
Sounds liker Democratic Underground must be a lot larger than I thought...
Quite shocking figures, really.
Gee, I wonder how many of the people polled could name the veep, their Congress critter and senators, three judges on the SCOTUS, and find Iraq on a map?
Where was this poll taken? Wait let me guess. SF, LA, NYC, DC.
Saddest of all. One in three Americans are complete idiots or one in three Americans are actually apologists for terrorists groups.
Where was this poll taken, New Fallujah (formerly known as Dearborn, MI)?
Same percentage as broken glass democrats. Same people.
I watched the liberal fairy tale V for Vendetta last night. It's no wonder people are doubting their institutions. Modern western entertainment brainwashes this notion into their heads.
Seems about correct. 30% hard left. 30% hard right. 40% independent. If you factor in that all the hard left aren't moonbats against the typical leftward sampling slant of any MSM poll, it comes out about right.
....doesn't say in what order these questions were asked..I suspect if this above was question #1...and the answer was YES...then I guess the poll continued,...typical democratic poll takers.....Right Harvey?
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It's amazing how many people out there think Bush, Cheney, Haliburton and big oil are the puppet masters pulling all the strings. And I mean people whom I would otherwise consider sane. They listen to nothing but the MSM and that cr@p has affected their ability to reason.
And in other news: 37.0% of Americans identified themselves as Democrats.
And everyone of these deranged lunatics votes Democrat!
Great, one third of the population is retarded.
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