Posted on 05/16/2006 4:59:04 PM PDT by veronica
The minute the Pentagon released images of the Sept. 11 attack on its building, the message boards at ABCNEWS.com lit up with conspiracy theories.
Some blame it on an inside job by members of the Bush administration to benefit their business interests. Some say it was planned by neoconservatives to advance their worldview. Others don't know what happened but doubt the official story put forward by the government.
The world of conspiracy theories surrounding the Sept. 11 attacks is vast, and more than four years after the worst terrorist incident on U.S. soil, countless scenarios are put forth on the Internet, in academic forums and on talk radio each day. Some are of the "MIHOP" variety, which claim people in power made it happen on purpose, while others are of the "LIHOP" kind — they let it happen on purpose.
With Tuesday's release of video footage of American Airlines Flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon building, an attack that killed 184 people on Sept. 11, questions rage again.
"It doesn't clarify anything — I don't see a plane in that image," said Michael Berger, spokesman for 911Truth.org. "In fact, I thought that was underwhelming."
Berger said 911Truth.org "would like to see various conspiracy theories laid to rest as well" and does not believe the government has addressed "inherent contradictions" in evidence and testimony surrounding the events of that day.
"We would like to know what happened," he said. "Four-and-a-half years later, we still don't have definitive proof that a plane hit that building."
Berger said the group "has never said one way or another what happened at the Pentagon," but it did support the Freedom of Information Act requests that led to the Pentagon releasing the footage.
But 911Truth.org does believe Sept. 11 has been used as the "justification for broader policies," both foreign and domestic, he said.
Barrie Zwicker, a Canadian investigative reporter, documentary filmmaker and author of the upcoming book "Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-Up of 9/11," said the video does not answer the question of how any aerial vehicle — "a 757 or a missile or a fighter equipped with a missile or a fighter alone or a blimp or a Cessna" — could make it to the "central headquarters of the greatest military power that ever existed."
"Even if it was a model airplane, for God's sake," Zwicker said.
He also questioned the timing of the video's release.
"For them to be releasing this video so late, why so late and why now?" he said.
The current embodiment of P.T. Barnum.
Then where did it go, you dope?
Here's a sample thread from the DUmbsh*ts over there. Even some of their 1000+ post members can't believe how their hatred blinds them to what happened: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1205964&mesg_id=1205964
most appropriate!
This one was probably posted by Howard Dean.
They are so stupid. It's breathtaking how stupid they are.
Oh, he's a smart one. Actually, nothing happened. It was all faked because Cindy Lou in room #301-B wanted to repaint her office Honey Bee Yellow and somewhere within those few minutes of the first plane hitting the WTC, she came up with this elaborate scheme. There, now you know what really happened.
Where the hell do these people think flight 77 went and what dot they think happened to the people on board? If I were so stupid I would hope someone would shoot me and put me out of my misery because I would be to stupid to live!
LOL, you need to see these pictures.
drip, drip, drip. George W. Bush is no good. George W. Bush is no good. George W. Bush is no good. Change the headlines, seem to change the subject. Abu Ghraib. European disdain. Tom Delay. Katrina. Deficits. Valerie Plame. Gas prices. Karl Rove. Death in Iraq. Angry mothers. NSA wiretaps. Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, the lede is always the same. George W. Bush is no good. George W. Bush is no good. George W. Bush is no good. George W. Bush is no good. George W. Bush is no good. George W. Bush is no good. Forget the good news, bury the accomplishments or ignore them altogether. Drip, drip, George W. Bush is no good, George W. Bush is no good, George W. Bush is no good.
There isn't anything short of using a time machine to drop the doubters on the plane right before impact that would convince them that their doubts are unfounded.
If we had a time machine, we could swap the passengers for the doubters and bee better off.
I have seen interviews with people who were in the building. Their stories are horrifying. Water and gasoline and blood and body parts, all floating by them. It breaks your heart.
I just love the way that sounds. I made it my tagline.
I hope you don't mind.
ABCnews is a card carrying member of the "american hating crackpots"
That's a good link. I've directed many people to it over the last few years. I posted it on an earlier thread on this topic when someone expressed doubt about it being a jet.
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