Conspiracy theory based on what? 9/17/2009 12:31 AM More and more people are adopting the belief that somehow the attack on the Trade Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, was the result of a conspiracy by the U.S. government. Now Charlie Sheen is promoting this idea. The people hawking this view sound so imperative about finding "the truth about 9/11."
I don't understand all this angst, but I have a few questions. First of all, did we not all see planes crash into the buildings? To this some reply that a mere jet airliner couldn't possibly cause all that damage. Well, yes it could. But suppose for a moment that charges were set in the building to make the damage greater. First, why bother with the airplane, why not just blow up the building and blame it on someone else? Second, how do you get engineers, technicians, construction workers, etc., to weaken the building and strategically place the charges and the detonators without being seen, without being paid (if they were paid, there would be a paper trail), without talking to anyone about it - even to their wives or closest friends?
The most important question, I think, is this one: OK, so you want us all to believe that our government destroyed these buildings so that we would have an excuse to go to war for oil. Why didn't the government take weapons of mass destruction and plant them in Iraq? Where is the paper trail on the oil that we supposedly stole from Iraq? Where is the oil? There are manifests, invoices, bills of lading - a veritable mountain of paperwork on any large load of any kind of freight. This kind of trail would be impossible to hide.
Furthermore, I have to ask this question: If you proponents of this belief succeed and we all begin believing this story, then what? All will be well with the world? What do you hope to accomplish by convincing the rest of us? If you "demand to know the truth," do you think there is someone who is in on this conspiracy that will all of a sudden confess their involvement in this grand conspiracy?
If all this is true, then it would be so easy for a few reporters to find the massive paper trail and scores of loose lips and unravel this entire mystery. But alas, there is no credible evidence of any of this. Even if you say that the evidence was eliminated, then what? Are you going to emulate a dog chasing its tail for the rest of your life? Do us all a favor and just be quiet until you have some credible evidence of this or any other conspiracy theory. Otherwise, you people are just annoying.
Robert John Roushar Jr.
North Augusta
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Posted by: WW On: Monday, September 21, 2009 9:25 PM
Comment Title: Inconsistant Ideas
On one hand, we have people saying that the Bush administration was totally and completely incompetent in all things, from basic intelligence gathering to emergency response, such as post-Katrina, and it certainly leaked information like a sieve. On the other hand, people -- some of them the SAME people -- are saying that the Bush administration orchestrated a conspiracy that would have involved hundreds if not thousands of people, many of them part of a tiny number of specialists in their fields, and kept the entire operation a tighter secret than the Manhattan Project ever was. Which is it -- competent or incompetent? Was the Bush administration unable to manage a Sunday school picnic, or was it able to mastermind the greatest conspiracy in American, possibly world, history? It can't be both ways. Furthermore, there is a minor industry in tell-all books by former Bush administration insiders. Yet not one such person has come forward with a guaranteed best-seller like "How I Blew Up the Twin Towers (and blamed Al-Quaida)." Not one person who was involved in this supposed conspiracy has had an attack of conscience with regard to the murder of thousands of people and the instigation of a war that killed thousands more, and brought forth proof that he drilled the columns, he set the charges, he ran the miles of wiring, and all the rest. Nor have any of the people who escaped from the WTC said they saw the place wired for implosion when they arrived for work that morning -- and it's not something they'd be able to miss. Plus, how did the government just happen to have the WTC rigged for demolition on the exact same day that terrorists flew planes into the towers? Suicidal CIA agents hijacked the planes too? Now this is going from the realm of wacko conspiracy theories straight into la-la land and straitjacket territory. If they could do all that (and keep it totally secret) ... couldn't they have just slipped a few curies worth of fissionables into some Iraqi weapons site just before it was inspected? It would seem to be a lot less complicated and a lot more practical. And then there's Al-Qaida itself. Osama bin Laden knows whether or not his operatives were involved. In some versions of the conspiracy theory, he was working with the US government (or vise versa) on it. So, if he wanted to cause maximum chaos in the US, not to mention get the US Army off his rear end, he could have brought down the Bush administration and caused a political catastrophe. Does anyone seriously think that motherless son wouldn't have done that if he could have? It just doesn't fly.
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Posted by: On: Saturday, September 19, 2009 8:14 PM
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This notion is ridiculous and ranks right up there with the "Birthers". I do like Martin Sheen, but I can't go along with this, even though I disliked Bush/Cheney I find this hard to believe, but you will have some that will jump on the bandwagon, just as you have those that don't believe the president is a US citizen.
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Posted by: jasmine On: Saturday, September 19, 2009 5:14 AM
Comment Title: Get your head out of the sand peoples!!!!!!
You have evedence, just look at building 7, and thats just bit of evedence, what about all the hundereds more? Just look at all of it, loose change etc..., just answer the questions. You guys have not one answer to any of Charlie's questions and he has a right to ask them.
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