Posted on 08/03/2006 6:48:31 AM PDT by presidio9
More than one-third of Americans suspect federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new poll. The survey also found that 16 percent of Americans speculate that secretly planted explosives, not burning passenger jets, were the real reason the massive Twin Towers of the World Trade Center collapsed.
The national Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll of 1,010 adults also found that anger against the federal government is at record levels, with 54 percent saying they "personally are more angry" at the government than they used to be.
Widespread resentment and alienation toward the national government appears to be fueling a growing acceptance of conspiracy theories about the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Suspicions that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job quickly have become nearly as popular as decades-old conspiracy theories that the federal government was responsible for President John Kennedy's assassination and that it has covered up proof of space aliens.
Seventy percent of people who give credence to these theories also say they've become angrier with the federal government than they used to be.
Thirty-six percent of respondents overall said it is "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that federal officials either participated in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon or took no action to stop them "because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East."
"One out of three sounds high, but that may very well be right," said Lee Hamilton, former vice chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
His congressionally appointed investigation concluded that federal officials bungled their attempts to prevent, but
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Why is C-SPAN even broadcasting this nonsense?
I'm a Maryland conservative and for the longest time, it would take me a few moments to remember my second Senator. I would always get Butch but Sarbanes was hard because he would virtually disappear between elections. My congress critter is Steny Hoyer.
I also believe we helped the attacks on 9/11.
We elected Clinton who allowed Al Quada to attack us without any retaliation.
Clinton had the chance to have Bin Laden handed over by Somalia and didn't take him
Clinton had the chance to take him off the face of the earth 4 different times and didn't do it.
I would not even dare to ask :-)
Seriously though, I have no idea. I would have thought such views would be fringe views, but then again I thought such views were fringe views in the US as well.
Scratch that, I still think such views are marginal.
I don't trust this poll one bit.
Cheers.
Scary to know that some people feel this way.
Nobody has gone broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
When I see a poll of only 1,010 respondents, I don't pay it any attention. 1,010 of 280,000,000 citizens doesn't reflect much in my opinion.
This can be interpreted in a few different ways.
Those who believe 9-11 happened because Bill Clinton didn't take Osama when he was offered to us, and those who believe Osama and his associates were emboldened by our performance in Lebanon and Somalia (I seem to recall a "paper tiger" quote from OBL) would therefore feel that the USA did have something of a hand in the events of 9-11.
There are of course the wackjobs who come up with all sorts of strange theories, whether they be anti-Semitic, anti-USA, or otherwise.
Frightening, isn't it. I wonder if distrust of the old media has a lot to do with how easy it is to get a lot of Americans to swallow tin foil hat beliefs.
I don't know who they poll, since I don't know anyone who believes that. And man am I glad! Sheesh, who ARE those people??
susie
Well, I'm from the great state of NY. One of the red bits from mostly red Upstate. And I'm only too well aware of who my pols are :(
Another reason to vote Republican in 2006.
One in three Americans drank the CODE PINK kook-aid.
Hang in there! I am just as surrounded by liberal twits here in the Peoples Democratic State of Maryland as you are in the "Great White North," but somehow, we both have Conservative/Republican chief executives.
Maybe their right.
After all,there is a "Vast Conspiricy" of Clinton Fifth Columists imbedded in our Government.
Would be interesting to know the exact questions and who they asked.
I know there are vicious weirdos out there but to say that one third of all Americans believe that is beyond belief.
That's not the verbatim quote but the gist of what she said.
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