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.
Force them to listen to eye witnesses tell the story and then force them be their butler or maid for 20 years.
I saw that also. I remember one women story and a sweater. She used her wet sweater to help someone breath and find their way out through a window.
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Agree.
Your logic is a little backwards. I'm not saying a college-educated person can't be a loon. All I'm saying is these people are applying what they think are educated theories to film analysis and mechanical engineering when it's likely none of them have any significant education in either.
Bump for tomorrow. Got a dimwit at work that needs to see this. I don't have time to cure their ignorance first hand.
I never saw footage of fatman and littleboy dropping out of the belly of the B-29, but I'm pretty convinced it did happen! It's amazing that these people cant come to grips with reality just because they were not an eyewitness to the event.
Perhaps the plane landed on a secret airstrip in the desert and all the passengers were executed?
But that's DU - they're just doing and saying what you'd expect them to do or say. What's bad is the fact that not so very long ago, the media wouldn't have given those loons the time of day, much less a national platform to spew their insanity. But their hatred of George Bush is so intense, their desire to destroy him is so strong, that they eagerly print this sh!t and give it creedence, and don't seem to care how crazy it makes them look.
"Seriously, DU is totally berserk."
I started to watch a video they have posted over there and basically it's the same as the stuff that was on Al Jareeza not long after 9/11.
Something has really stirred up a moonbat resurgence lately. Today there was a guest columnist in one of the "mainstream" Seattle papers writing that 9-11 was an inside job. His main arguments: A) The hijackers either never existed or were never on those planes, and B) Something other than the two jetliners brought down the twin towers. The writer was a philosophy professor but naturally the moonbats find him completely credible on these subjects. They will use anything no matter how debunked it is to back up their whackjob beliefs.
I will never forget listening to the radio on 9-11 (I was working and we didn't have a TV) and hearing some reporterette asking what was undoubtedly one of the most stupid questions I've ever heard. I'm paraphrasing, but I've got the gist of the question. In regards to the planes crashing into the World Trade Center: "But how could this happen in buildings like the Twin Towers, with all their security?"
Even in the shock of what was happening, the magnitude of the whole thing, I got this sudden mental picture of a security guard standing in a window with his hand up, like a traffic cop stopping traffic: "No, no, you can't fly that plane in here!"
I don't remember how the person she was interviewing answered that one, I was too stunned by the question.
Has anybody ever asked the dingbats just where the heck they think all those people on those planes that did not hit the towers and the pentagon disappeared to? I'm sure their families would like to know where Bush/Cheney are hiding them.
Give them Lithium instead.
I'd like to help.
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