Posted on 08/30/2006 8:32:01 AM PDT by UnklGene
Debunking this 'professor' is like taking batting practice from my little sister. Just too easy.
Just for the record, I believe that a cell of Islamist terrorists led by Mohammed Atta carried out the 9/11 attacks. But that puts me in a fast-shrinking minority.
Steyn says it like it is. I guess we need to state it now, but it seems so obvious.
It's amazing how many people will suck up the notion that we did it to ourselves, and worse, that we somehow 'deserve' it, rather than the truth that terrorists are gunning for us. A real issue with denial.
BTTT
As in, "my name is Shelly, I like walks in the rain and cats"?
Where are Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, and the Lone Gunmen when ya need them???!!!
Well, you know what BS means.
MS is just More S***
PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
Shalom.
Ah, the old mid-air plane switcheroo...
They need to show the footage of the plan slamming into the south tower, then both towers streaming smoke into the air while people jump to their deaths, at every station identification.
Shalom.
Well said Omar. That is my interpretation of your religion in a nutshell. Now if only the Muslim apostates and Muslim heretics continue to believe in a more peaceful approach to the Infidels, us Infidels have a good chance of doing you in. - tom
Hi, everyone. This is my first post on FR; I've lurked here for about two years, and feel the need to post on this subject. I work in a facility run by the Mennonites; most of my co-workers are conscientious objectors. Needless to say, we have frequent debates about the current geopolitical situation. What I have found is that people who embrace the concept of "world peace" do not have a workable solution to deal with a threat that is external, evil, and implacable. Their usual responses are to (1) deny the reality; (2) ignore the reality; (3) blame someone who won't retaliate (i.e., the Jews, the Bush Administration, the USA), or (4) invent some alternative theory about what the reality really is. One of my co-workers actually told me she would not read the Koran, "because there are things in it that might upset me." Their world view is so idealistic and so fragile, that it cannot stand up to reality. The truth creates a terrible cognitive dissonance for them. These people do not have bad intentions, but I fear that their "peaceful" world view will ultimately cost a lot more lives than it will save. After all, no one wanted to believe that Hitler had bad intentions back in 1938, either.
Welcome to FR!
So...it WAS the Germans who bombed us at Pearl Harbor!!!
Steyn ping!
" a University of Western Ontario professor puts it down to a carefully planned substitution of transponder codes"
No matter how educated or intelligent a person is, we are all equally capable of being delusional.
For some morons, it was not convincing enough that Bin Laden acknowledged on film that he organized 9/11.
Welcome HS.
The reason the "world peace" folks can never come up with a workable solution is that they are dreaming of a different world. Just as the sun rises in the East, our fallen world is full of war & slaughter & rape & murder & oppression & torture & jealousy & greed & lies & betrayal & disease & difficult decisions. To think any different is equivalent to wishing the sun to rise in the West.
It's irresistible to get incensed with idiots like the 9/11 conspiracy kooks especially when they phone radio shows and potentially spread their kookiness. The host(s) should say:
1) Conspiracy theorists are narcissists. They take comfort, even pride, in 'knowing' some deep dark secret.
2) Most of the conspiracy nuts are XXL ignoramuses. They know every minute detail of 9/11 or JFK in Dallas yet they probably can't name half the state capitals, tell you what the chemical formula for water is, or explain why sound travels faster in water than it does in air (just to pick a few at random). In other words, they are mentally ill and absorb thousands of 'facts' to cover their illness while being deficient in almost every other area of cognition.
Oops... I meant "Welcome HG"
Won't happen again - promise.
Amen. They can't show it enough, imho. I'm surprised the people I know who now, if not before, think it wasn't terrorism by others. Recently, I had an opportunity to visit Ground Zero. I've never seen in person the Towers while they stood. Around that same time, Charlie Sheen was quoted as supporting a 'we did it to ourselves' theory. I was, and am, aghast. And then the 911 phone calls were released. And still people prefer to believe that it was some government thing.
It's frightening how far some people will go to shove their heads deeply into the sand to avoid the truth and deny that terrorists wish us harm.
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