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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These people really do live inm lala land
This poll is proof that propaganda is effective.
Clinton is a genius, yet he couldn't keep his BJ's a secret. Bush is an idiot, yet he has been able to keep the worlds biggest conspiricy a secret.
Go figure?
I dont trust polls at all.
I am on a political poll groups phone list. They call me all the time..which by itself ought to tell you something. Namely that since its apparent that they call the same people all teh time these polls are suspect to begin with. Hardly "random" when they have alist of numbers that they identify will answer questions and so they frequently call them.
Secondly the questions are always posed in such a way that they encourage answers. I can t count the number of times I didnt want any of the choices they gave me for the response.
Thirdly, by design they actually intentionally leave off answer options when they ask the question. I cant remember the exact question or answers on this particular incident because it was some time ago..but they asked me a question and provided the responses. I responded that I wished a certain answer was an available option and the pollster actually told me. "well it is an option but Im not allowed to tell you that it is."
Polls are just bogus.
Having said that I dont doubt that there are people who beleive this tripe. The country is full of leftists, off their rocker, 5 beers short of a six pack, morons who hate themselves and hide it from themselves by hating America.
LOL One would have to be deaf dumb and blind not to know if one were from NY. Does Chuck ever get any work done or does he spend all his time chasing camera trucks?
One in three Americans apparently couldn't find their @sses with both hands.
Confirmation that more than a third of Americans are idiots. Thinking that the government was complicit in 9/11 is shameful enough, but to admit it to a pollster?? Here's your sign.
People find out about things like Operation Northwoods, and they get distrustful. This isn't that strange.
Well, Chuckles apparently finds time to check out the odd credit report or two...
I'd like to know if they asked a follow up, like if it was staged did Osama praise Allah for the US killing its own citizens, or was he praising his own efforts?
If you haven't taken had the chance to actually watch this BS-fest, you might want to. I finally got rid of Showtime about two months ago, but before I did it was still in their regular rotation (especially if you have digital cable where it seemed like it was playing every night). With the 5-yr anniversary coming, I suspect that is still the case. I watched it one night, and most of the premises were so innane I figured only a complete idiot would believe them.
Plenty of Americans think that government officials didn't do enough to stop 9/11, and it seesm that this stance is melded into the insane stance that government officials had concrete knowledge of the plan ahead of time and did nothing and the gibbering, drooling stance that government officials helped plan it.
It's official. One in three Americans are barking moonbats.
Mentioned this very thing to a coworker yesterday.
It is easier to pretend evil does not exist that to confront it.
But, of course, he emerged to leave American buisness with the Sarbanes-Oxley millstone.
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