Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Reader Question
Sorry for not posting -- we're on a lighter schedule for the summer. Meanwhile here's an interesting email from Poor Reader Scott:
- i'm guessing by the lack of blog updates that you're busy, but i just have what could either be a quick question or a long one. just reading thru the letters on salon's article by manjoo about some crackpot 9/11 conspiracy movie.
what do you think about 9-11 conspiracies? (i mean other than the fact that it was, by definition, a conspiracy - but i'm talking the 'we never landed on the moon' definition here)
i have an uncle and an aunt that both work(ed) at the pentagon. she was working that day - luckily not where the explosion was. honestly, if she hadn't been, i'd be a lot more skeptical about a plane crashing into it, given the (lack of) photographic evidence we've seen. i'm still not clear on it though, and as many incorrect news reports as there were in all the confusion taht morning, i can't get out of my head that the first thing i heard (either on cnn or a local station out here) was that it was a suicide bomber in a truck.
i'd like to think that the passengers of 93 brought it down before it could do damage to the capitol, but i do wonder if it was shot down. and i also don't necessarily think that would have been the wrong move, as much as i despise cheney with every fiber of my being.
but i think the point that these more wacko theories tend to overlook, and at worst, obfuscate, are the PDBs, Richard Clarke, the saudi money trail, and the administration not wanting a investigation (into what was possibly the greatest crime ever committed on american soil?); and then the subsequent limitations they imposed on the comission.
I certainly dont think the administration planned the attacks (at least not while i'm sober), but were they complicit? Bush because he didn't care, and the neo-cons 'cause they knew an attack like this would play into their plans, and so then didn't do anything with the warnings they were given?
i guess it was a long question. feel free to post it up for a discussion, i'm really curious as to what like-minded rational thinkers really think about this.
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Spending too much time thinking about conspiracy theories can be damaging to your sanity. We will never know the truth. I personally believe the theories are bogus. I am no fan of President Bush, or his administration, or the government for that matter, but I just cannot see any of it being true. Then again, maybe I am the problem? There are people who believe everything the Bush Administration says about the war on terror; and I view them as a problem.
Now I do believe that our government uses 9/11 to control the masses. But that is a different subject entirely...I think...
Now I do believe that our government uses 9/11 to control the masses. But that is a different subject entirely...I think...
I myself often wonder if they let it happen. (on purpose--not through negligence.) But then I think--"Could they really be that evil?"
I think there are definately some things they are not being entirely up front about, but that's par for the course with these guys.
I think there are definately some things they are not being entirely up front about, but that's par for the course with these guys.
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12:39 PM, July 05, 2006
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12:39 PM, July 05, 2006
I've thought all along that they knew it was coming and allowed it to happen. chickengeorge didn't look very surprised to me.
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12:42 AM, July 06, 2006
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12:42 AM, July 06, 2006
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