Well since we're on this topic...
I am very skeptical of this particular conspiracy theory as well, but consipiracy theories do tend to abound when so many things just don't add up. And there are a lot of things that happened around 9/11 that simply do not add up. And many of them do smell as though a more sinister truth is being withheld.
One of the most bothersome is the five Israelis who were photographed celebrating and filming with as the attacks happed. Once a suspicious citizen spotted them, they were called in arrested and later arrested. Police found $4700 in cash, a couple of foreign passports and a pair of box cutters like the ones used by the hijackers. Those five were later deported to Israel and are free. This, unlike conspiracy theories, is based on fact and as profiled by 20/20 a few months after the attack. Much of the media attention paid to this matter came to an abrupt end shortly thereafter and without conclusion.
Then there are a number of other factors...even those included in the 9/11 commission report such as the odd stand-down of defensive attack aircraft during crticial moments at the beginning of the attack.
...and on and on.
My point is, we, as a country shouldn't be so quick to react as though everything that questions the veracity of the generally proposed-truth or which sheds a bit of skepticism on the "powers that be" as anti-American or soft-on-terrorist logic. Quite the contrary...I think many of the people who look for and want answers to fundamental and very serious disconnects are those who care most about this nation and its defense. Many are unwilling to be blinded by the official line when the official line does not connect with the facts.
As for those people that died? Ask their families. The 9/11 families have pursued many of these answers but have been stonewalled time and time again and, to this day, many very basic questions remain unanswered. It took a public outcry before Bush reversed and permitted establishment of the 9/11 commission--finally created given the demand of the families and subsequent public pressure--but even then the commission was given a suspiciously limited investigation scope. Given that this was the worst attack on American soil, why wouldn't we want to know about everything that went wrong...and I do mean everything. Classification? Nope, the more sensitive findings could have remained classified.
Questions like these leave people, including myself with an uneasy feeling about many of the "official" stories. Yes our government does some things that are secret, but we should not get so complacent such that we trust the government to do the right thing or assume that we don't know something or if things don't make sense, and just write it off as though government officials are just protecting us and that ultimately they're doing the right thing. Don't take this personally but, but that's the sort of logic that will do more harm to this country than a couple of dozen hijackers ever could.
Just as the the Twin Towers seemed like infallable near-permanent structures to casual passerbys on September 10th 2001, seemingly powerful countries as big as the USA can become undermined or quietly usurped in a very short period of time. As long as recorded history has existed there have been great powers that, in their heyday, also seemed infallable.
...Now, before anyone jumps to ridiculous conclusions with knee-jerk reactions to the following...READ and THINK. If you disagree fine, but disagree based on LOGIC and not flag waving generalities...
But there are potent lessons from as recent as in the in the 1930's pre-Nazi era Germany. The public attitude was one of in the country largely gave way to allow excessive abuse of public protections and ultimately to the Germany of the 1940's that is very much reviled...and deservedly so.
"During the 1920's and early 1930's Germany was unstable socially economically and politically. The governments were more often in a state of disarray than not, the populace was disillusioned and scared, and the Great Wall Street stock market crash of 1923 saw the economy crumble before the population's eyes. These unfavourable factors combined to create a nation of precarious stature, a country which was looking for a savior....Once in power, Hitler was able to manipulate the minds and hearts of this disenchanted nation towards anything, once trust was gain. This is how normal people came to accept the horrific acts of manipulation, marginalization, and finally murder....". German citizens who disagreed (often logically) with the course that Germany was beginning to take were often branded as unpatriotic, the enemy, weak, etc.
This is not propaganda or spin, this is documented history. I have no intention of suggesting our president is like Hitler, but
there are many, many parallels in public attitudes and trends that anyone who truly cares about this country should at least be wary of.
- "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
And for God's sakes, don't take this as anti-Americanism or anti-Defense or anti-Semitism, anti-Mom & Apple pie, anti-Family, anti-God, etc. That's what so many Germans did in the 1930's. Instead...
* Consider it critical thought or logic and healthy skepticism of misleading pieces that keeps our government in check and which help to maintain this country as the strong republic that it has been for so long, or...
* Consider this an apolitical warning for Americans to start TRULY THINKING FOR YOURSELVES and stop basing major decisions about the future of this beloved country on SLOGANS, CATCH PHRASES, SPIN and RHETORIC of the team (or party) that you happen to associate with.
Whew, I got that off my chest.
