[McGavin999]

This is beyond dispicable. Don't these people have any conscience at all? Don't they care how much talk like this hurts the families of the heros of Flight 93? Of course, weasely little cowards like this would have no conscience.

I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I've just about had it with these demented conspiracy types. They were mildly amusing during good times, but they are downright dangerous to this country now.

[Paul Atreides]

Don't these people have any conscience at all?

Of course not. This is the party of Bill and Hillary, of Teddy Kennedy, of Cynthia McKinney, of Janet Reno.

[walden]

Here's my theory of history: there is a real, sub-surface set of facts, and there is the surface story. Usually, the surface story is just an abbreviated subset of the real story, but not always. However, the motivation of our leaders to cause the stories to diverge may be either malignant or benign. Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone? No. Did Timothy McVeigh act alone? No. Were the motivations of our leaders to either fail to determine or to fail to disclose the truth in each case primarily malignant or primarily benign? With Oswald, my guess is benign, with McVeigh, my guess is malignant. I base that judgment on the characters of our leaders at the time (executives, legislators, law-enforcement & intelligence, etc..)

I like to know the truth about what goes on, to the extent that anyone outside the corridors of power ever can. That truth is in books, not newspapers, and one must be very, very patient, and read shelf after shelf of books. One also has to be willing to accept more evidence as it is presented, which can stretch out over decades (people tend to tell more of the truth in the books they write as they get further in time from the events and closer to their own death.) I figure that by the time I die (if I'm lucky, I'll live to the mid 2050's), I'll probably have a good understanding of history up through the 2020's or so. :)

[walden]

The other thing people should keep in mind is that a fair amount of stuff happens in life that NO ONE can explain. Young people (and naive older people) always treat anything attributed to or explained by "experts" as gospel. Well, I'm pretty bright and fairly old, and have frequently been described as an "expert". Suffice it to say that I've spent a lot of time as a so-called "expert" just standing around, scratching my head, and trying to come up with a reasonable explanation for stuff that makes no damn sense. :)

[UncleJeff]

How do you suppose those families feel to hear “You know, when I was running for president, in Chicago, somebody said, would you ever have deficit spending? I said, only if we were at war, or only if we had a recession, or only if we had a national emergency. Never did I dream we’d get the trifecta.”??