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Posted on 04/19/2006 9:10:40 AM PDT by SmithL
With the upcoming release of the film "United 93," the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have returned to the fore of public consciousness. While for many Americans such painful memories remain forever seared in their minds, for a small but vocal minority the Sept. 11 attacks have taken on a mythical character. These are the Sept. 11 conspiracy theorists.
If Web sites such as whatreallyhappened.com, 911truth.org and scholarsfor911truth.org (among countless others) are any indication, the Sept. 11 conspiracists have become a movement in their own right. Despite a host of differences, they share the belief that the widely accepted version of what happened on Sept. 11 is merely a front for a shadowy plot to fool the American people.
Rather than accept that Islamic terrorists flew planes into buildings and slaughtered innocents in the name of a fanatical ideology, the Sept. 11 conspiracy theorists believe the perpetrators included members of their own government -- that somehow the Bush administration, with the collusion of the Pentagon, was either behind the attacks or simply allowed them to happen in order to institute a quasi-police state.
Whatever one's criticisms of the administration and its approach to the war on terrorism, one would have to be awfully cynical to believe that it would kill or allow thousands (at the least) of Americans to die, simply to accumulate additional powers. But even if one assumes the government acted purely in its own interests, why on earth would it risk weakening the economy and creating instability for the foreseeable future? Not exactly a winning formula for the so-called ruling classes.
Flying in the Face of Common Sense
Undaunted by such appeals to common sense, Sept. 11 conspiracists point to...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Many of the 9/11 conspiracy theorists are quite obviously paid agents of Saddam Hussein's financial interests, or of the crazy people running Iran and AlQaida.
OK, now can we talk about the kooks still clinging to hanging chads and rigged voting machine conspiracies?
They're the same people.
Real giants of science.
Must be some of the same loons who say Bush lied to get us into a war that would be for his political GAIN. What a laugh.
IMO, there is nothing complicated or boring about the demise of building seven.
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It was the boogeyman who knocked down the towers. The boogeyman decided trade center 7 building had to go too! The boogeyman also knocked the Pentagon and made it look like a plane hit it. The boogeyman decided to do this so that Bush would have good reason to invade Iraq!
Hahahahhahahahhaa!
Cinnamon Stillwell....ya gotta like her...
It is always amazing to me how many people really believe that 911 was staged. There are quite a lot of those where I work.
"They're the same people. "
They are the useful idiots of the left. The same people who believe that we went to war in Iraq for Halliburton and the earth is going to burn up because we eat hamburgers.
"Then again, I could be part of the conspiracy, too. "
I know I am! :-)
Agreed.
These are some of the same nuts that think Vince Foster was murdered and Waco was destroyed by the US military.......oh wait Vince Foster was murdered.....and....
Everyone know is was the Jooooz, the Freemasons and their trans-dimensional, shapeshifting reptilian overlords!
Yeah, wasn't it an amazing feat to plant all the charges necessary to take it down in such a short time while it usually takes a few days to a few weeks to do it normally?
These conspiracy folks are nuts, completely unhinged, driven by their hatred of Bush.
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