Does anyone remember the Oklahoma City bombing?  I remember the news coverage immediately blamed Osama.  If we thought he had the capability to do that back then, we should have went after him (I understand Clinton actually could have had him killed but didn't).  Some people also suggest Osama may have been dead before the OK city bombing, and Osama is just a ploy our govt uses to justify war.  I haven't heard a good explanation as to the videos of him speaking about current events though, other than some folks think it is doctored video, or a look a like.
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Yes, and at that time the news media was spelling his name with a "U", as in "Usama".  And yes, Clinton could have killed him, but played armchair warrior instead, firing a few million dollar Tomahawk missles into some two dollar tents...not ragging on Clintoon for that, but it was definately a wimpy move.
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Thank you.  I lost family members on 9/11.\n\nOn the whole, I agree with your sentiment and much of what you say.  I believe that people in our government were complicit with the attack on 9/11.  Israel kept their people out of the WTC on 9/9, 9/10, and 9/11.  The Egyptian president made 3 separate phone calls to Bush concerning the impending attack.\n\nIt is my feeling that most of the world knew about it except us here in NY (and the rest of the Amercan populaton).  If you remember the news broadcasts the previous summer, most of it had to do with shark bites and a boy who was too old for little league baseball.  No real news.  i was wondering why there was no actual news the whole summer.  I understood the morning of 9/11.\n\nThe Bush family does multi-million dollar business with the Bin Laden family.  why would they hunt down and kill a business partner? Not in their interest.\n\nI also am convinced that there was no passenger plane hitting the pentagon. If you see the actual pictures after the explosion you will undertand that the hole it made was much too small for such a larged winged missile to have hit.  Plus, the area of the pentagon that was damaged was closed for repair.  If I were a terrorist, I would aim for the area that held most of the high-ranking individuals.  if I were the in the White House, I would aim for the portion of the Pentagon that would do the least damage.\n\nAdditionally, I believe no one (including the attackers) had any idea the attack on the WTC would be so successful.\n\nI was told by someone whom I trust that he read that Bush had plans to go to war with Iraq before he even usurped the presidency.  I haven't checked it out, but it does make sense to me.  The fact that he went ahead with his plans despite world-wide protest indicates that he and the rest of the crew are single-mindedy carrying out their own agenda for world domination.\n\nAs I'm writing this I realize how radical it sounds, but it seems to be true anyway.
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I'm getting chummy with the Ken Lay is still alive one.  9/11--there are so many that seem plausible, some not so.  I have been entertaining my theory too (btw, thanks for asking):  the cheney shooting--I wonder if the old buddy of his that got "peppered" was not the only victim.  I'm just asking.  There are probably websites already dedicated to that one--about cheney killing someone "by accident".   I feel better-thanks.
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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!! That is hysterical. You know... what's very interesting to note is, Osama bin Laden has said that God/Allah speaks to him and that his murderous activities are God's retribution on us(the Taliban & al-Quaeda, too)... President Bush has said that God has spoken to him and told him to go into Iraq.\n\nSo... one of these men is a terrorist, and the other is a "liberator." \n\nHmm... it seems to me that both of them attacked a nation that had not previously attacked them, and put doubt and fear into the hearts and minds of the people in those countries. \n\nI'm not saying that President Bush and Osama bin Laden are the same guy, I'm just saying that President Bush is WAAAAAY closer to being a terrorist than a "liberator!"\n\nPS. BY THE WAY... THIS QUESTION IS AWESOME! EVERYONE WHO IS ANSWERING SO ANGRILY ARE JUST REAL IDIOTS!
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I wonder if you'll get one intelligent liberal answer to this question...or just ignorant name calling and Bush bashing.\n\nI had asked what would Clinton have done if the towers were attacked (knowing full well they were Feb of 1993). You'd be surprised at the ignorant answers.
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Osama was a bit of a spent force already then. He's always been the paymaster of the organisation rather than its Supreme Commander, so I'm not sure that much would have been achieved (except for a propaganda blow to al-Queda) by simply napping him. I agree with the administration's decision that the whole network in Afghanistan had to be crushed, not just a few figureheads. That said, though, I blame Bush & Co. for letting Osama get away with how many top men and active fighters when they had them holed up in Tora Bora. All because they feared massive American losses if they had to fight up hill. So they allied themselves with cash-hungry local warlords. Lesson one: if people can be bought once, they can be bought twice...
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OK, since I am a dumb hick, I will read less of Fox News (?)\n\n\nFirst off, assuming that "hicks" uniformly believe that Saddam was behind 9/11 is a mistake. Many people realize that he was involved in acts of terror, including funding worldwide terror cells. Although that doesn't make him responsible for 9/11, it does place him as a prime target in the War on Terror. And although our reasons for going in were admittedly miscalculated. \n\nI can't believe you stupid liberals forgot 9/11 so easily. We're not just getting revenge for 9/11 in the war on terror...we're trying to prevent anything like that from happening again. Please stop listening to Howard Stern and Dan Rather and actually try to get a backbone.\n\nThat, was, obviously, a parody of your added details.\n\nThe Wise One\nNorth Carolina (a hick?)\nLived in New York City for 10+ years (...or not a hick?)\n\nP.S. Is the answerman a saint? Is he a holy man with a PC living in a hermitage out in Gailee?
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I won't attack.  I've opened my mind.  The motive, Martial Law.  This "attack" didn't happen exactly as it was supposed to, due to crossed signals.  Had that third plane hit the Capitol, George W. Bush would have had the rhyme and reason to declare martial law and have all of his "citizens" live in a police state.  Also, all of the footage from that horrible event shows people standing in the holes of the building, begging to be rescued.  Now, if this jet fuel was hot enough to melt steel and bring the towers down, how did people's human flesh survive long enough for them to plead that their lives be saved?  They were standing in Ground Zero, right were the planes hit.  How is it possible they didn't just burn up?  I'm sure I'll be attacked for my views, but I'm also sure I will be attacked by people who have never opened themselves up to the other side, who actually have no knowledge of the events themselves.
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I heard about that tape on President Bush being briefed on the storm before it happened. I was not shocked by the tape as everybody knew that the storm was coming. He must have known. Since they knew it was coming then the response should have been quicker. I am not sure what to say about this. Everybody is to blame. Nobody was making enough noise about it.
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you really think this is all about Bin Laden??How can you believe such propaganda?\nTell me,how is Osama communicating with his operatives world wide and pulling off all these mastermind stunts?
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LOL!!! Thank you, I almost fell out my chair I laughed so hard. Whew, that is great! The U.S. government caused the 9/11 attacks, LOL!! You have got to be kidding me. There is no way anyone could honestly believe that the government could possibly be that cruel. Hell, I thought all the Bush haters thought he was an idiot. Sounds to me like you would have to a genius to set up a mass cover up like that. How can the guy go from an "ignorant cowboy" to a maniacal criminal mastermind? I guess next people are really going to start believing that we never went to the moon, or that LBJ had Kennedy shot. LOL, thank you, thank you very much!
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I have watched this video and although it is very well put together, I do not believe any of it. Honestly people! Think about how much planning and people would have to be involved in what happened. Do you really think that in the year that Bush had been president his administration could have coordinated something like that? Considering the amount of people that would have had to have been involved, why wouldn't anyone be speaking up? Find some of these people and then maybe I'll start to consider some of these crazy ideas!
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The Russians say they killed Osama Bin Laden 15 years ago. The video they keep posting has no validity with me, since George Bush can't seem to produce Bin Laden. George Bush wont even talk about the number one terrorist to America and I think that is really strange.
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It appears that the guy was involved in Al Qaeda, but was either inept, a coward, or both.  He used his time on this earth to aspire to be the lowest scumbag you can imagine ... and he couldn't even succeed at that.  I am so glad he gets to think about that while he grows old and rots in a concrete cell, rather than get his last chance for martyrdom.\n\nAs for whether 911 was staged by our government, I don't believe it for a second.  Bush and crew are far too *incompetent* to pull that off.  They can't even leak a CIA operative's name without getting caught ... to pull off a secret operation like 911 would be impossible for them.\n\nThat said, I think the war in Iraq is a sham.  The American people were (rightly) ready to take heads after 911, and Bush directed us at the *wrong target* for the *wrong reasons*.  (1) There is no evidence of any Saddam involvement in 911; (2) was plenty of evidence showing that Saddam and Bin Laden *hated* each other; and (3) Saddam was was not an Islamic idealogue, he was a cowardly power-hungry secular dictator who cared about nothing but staying in his cozy palaces ... attacking the U.S. would have been the *last* thing he wanted to be involved in ... gained him nothing, lost him everything.  \n\nWhen we had Bin Laden on the run in Afghanistan, and then Bush stops and goes after Bin Laden's hated enemy Saddam Hussein ... Bin Laden must have wet his pants from laughing so hard at Bush.  And then to have us dismantle our precious freedoms with a USAPATRIOT act, and then to leave Iraq in a political shambles just ready for a fanatical Islamic theocracy like Iran ... Bin Laden right now must be smiling ear to ear with how well 911 worked out for him.  Thanks Mr. Bush!  "Bring it on."\n\nOh, and let me add, that I think any enlisted soldier serving in Iraq deserves nothing but respect and praise.  Nothing detracts from their heroism.  It is *for this reason* that I have no kind words for any President who would put our soldiers in harms way without a very *very* good reason!
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Despite what the others say I do think that the goverment had something to do with 9/11.my thoughts are slightly different though.I think the government wanted to start a war so that they wouldn't look so bad starting a fight over oil, money, or drug dealings gone bad.They blamed the whole thing on one terrorist but went after a different one.Here it is one war and another term later the issue of 9/11 and the truth still hasn't been understood. it is rarley even talked about. All those people died so that "key players" wouldn't look guilty.This is just an opinion not a fact.
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Osama bin Laden, aka "Tim Osman", had been a paid CIA asset for years.  What kind of message would we send to our current CIA assets if we busted or killed this guy?  No, let him live out his retirement in peace and continue to serve as the big name bogieman that they can whip out whenever they need to raise the "terror alert" level.\n\nhttp://www.orlingrabbe.com/binladin_timosman.htm\n\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Tim+Osman
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Why would I feel safer when our very government was behind the 9/11 atrocities?\n\n"Clinton, Clinton, Clinton" -That's all I hear from you damn Neo-cons... Get a grip! Your man is in charge now... And failing miserably. Take responsibility and get your head out of the past.