Were the 9/11 attacks (as suggested by some people) somehow justified by America's "highhandedness"?
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BlindedByTheDarkness, Your question is off base. \nSee 3 sources below:\n \n\n1) The former head of the Star Wars missile defense program under Presidents Ford and Carter has gone public to say that the official version of 9/11 is a conspiracy theory and his main suspect for the architect of the attack is Vice President Dick Cheney.\n\nDr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret. flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the recipient of the Eisenhower Medal, the George F. Kennan Peace Prize, the President’s Medal of Veterans for Peace, the Society of Military Engineers Gold Medal (twice), six Air Medals, and dozens of other awards and honors. His Ph.D. is in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from Caltech. He chaired 8 major international conferences, and is one of the country’s foremost experts on National Security...Bowman trashed the 9/11 Commission as a politically motivated cover-up with abounding conflicts of interest, charging, "The 9/11 Commission omitted anything that might be the least bit suspicious or embarrassing or in any way detract from the official conspiracy so it was a total whitewash."\n\n"There needs to be a true investigation, not the kind of sham investigations we have had with the 9/11 omission and all the rest of that junk," said Bowman.\n\n2) HOW THE CORPORATE CONTROLLED PRESS AVOIDS THE TRUTH OF 9-11:\nRather than face the uncomfortable facts presented by William Rodriguez, a key eyewitness and survivor of 9/11, the controlled press simply avoids him because his testimony exposes the lies of the official version. \n\n3) Read Christopher Bollyn's complete article
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Peace:  It is completely immoral to kill 10,000+ innocent civilians in Iraq, regardless of whether or not there is a connection to 9/11 (and there isn't).  If a suspected terrorist lived in Texas, would the appropriate action be to bomb Texas?  Completely Illogical!\n\nThe idea of "preemptive strike" is also ridiculous.  If I believe that I may be beaten by a racist police officer, should I have the right to shoot him first for the sake of safety?  Completely Illogical!\n\nIt is not that the Bush II administration are totally foolish (although they are often painted that way), but they are simply pursuing their own interests, and these interests are at odds with the interests of most people.  What happened to democracy in the US?
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Yes, but not very soon.  I'm sure that careful planning is being taken by Al Qaida and its allies worldwide nowadays, to ensure that they will inflict  hundred times they had done during 9/11. Security of the Americans are of prime inportance.  The CIA, FBI, NSA and the Homeland Security in coordination with its allies should ensure that such thing will never happen in american soil, otherwise, hundreds of thousands of innocent people will suffer the consequences of thier neglidience.
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Dont take offense to anything I say please I dont mean this to across as dickheadish.\n Its because we think about things longer and harder and explore every single option. When the President told me Osama Bin Laden attacked the towers on 9-11, I didnt just take his word for it, I researched it, I read up on the history of Bin Laden and Afghanistan and Russia, I read up on the childhood on Bin Laden, I tried to find out why hated us, not just because of our "freedom". Then upon finding out somewhat why he hated us, I decided to look into the history of the last 100 years or so of the Middle East. I looked into the history of oil in our country as well as when it was discovered in the middle east. I looked into our countrys history of involvement with the last world war and helping to create the UN and Israel. I didnt just lightly come to the conlusions I have. I didnt get them off of a political ad or chat room or because someone else told me to think that way. I try not to make a judgement on something until I have all of the facts and history in place. I just knew there was something wrong with the idea that terrorists could slip into this country unnoticed and hijack four planes. I just do not believe that it was possible to do this, without our government having advanced knowledge of this. \n Uh I dont know if this will help to explain some lines of thinking either about this war being for oil, but it basically boils down to some people feel the government is all powerful and controlled by outside corporations who sway its policy into what is best for them to make money. Some other people see the government for what it was intended to be.
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Unfortunatly/fortunatly the US has been so sheltered geographicly and culturaly that the bulk of the population doesn't understand the situation we're in. Consider the level of terrorist activity that exists in Europe, Asia, or Israel. Bombings in England, 3 weeks of COORDINATED rioting in France, rioting in Denmark by muslim extremists too, multiple bombings in Idonesia, Abu sayaf group in phillipines regularly beheading christian missionaries, etc etc etc. Americans being 'sheltered' haven't found the balance between national safety and freedom.\n\n"domestic" spying in this case was on groups and individuals specificly communicating with or tied to acknowledged terrorits organizations. In addition there was a documented authorization process in order to get the 'taps' in the first place. The controvesy is entirely domestic politics. The same people who are outraged by the "spying" will be the same people outraged that the gov't didn't do enough WHEN the next attack occurs on US soil.\n\nTheres a cliche saying "don't confuse the argument with facts". It's all too true. The issue is only debatable when you think with your heart instead of your head. I guess 9/11 wasn't enough to wake them up.
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Your mixing apples with oranges.  Do you think that flying into the Twin Towers was an act of war? Now that was a true act of murder.  It was also a cowardice act, because no one gained anything out of it. That attack was also aimed at most of the countries in the world.  There were citizens of other countries which were murdered in that crash.  That is why the Twin Towers were called "The World Trade Center".
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Has anyone seen the movie Farenheight 911 by Michael Moore?/\nWhile all our planes were grounded ......Somehow George Bush managed to get all of Osama Bin Ladens  Relatives safely out of the USA without them even being questioned...Hmmmmmmm!!!! \nMakes you think dosent it ?\n*Coughs*..And it had nothing to do with the fact that his dad Goerge Senior was big  "Oil Buddies " With The leader of that country that was visiting at the time ..Coughs* \nYeah ....funny that eh ? millions of people was stranded at airports the whole world over because of 9/11 ...and yet all of Osama's relatives was whisked outta the good ole USA within a couple of days of it happening .....Hmmmmm !!!  I rest my case
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There is NO DOUBT in my mind that the US government was behind it! Who benefited MOST from it. Bush got his war, the "Military Industrial Complex" is making hundreds of BILLIONS, Osama got away with it and is a martar to his followers. \n\nSome people will never believe no matter what the facts show. The same kinds of tactics have been used for hundreds of years. The German people didn't believe it in the 1930s & 40s either, and many still don't. But it happened.\n\nCalling people "conspiracy nuts" for entertaining the idea of OUR government being corrupt, doesn't change the fact that it ALWAYS has been. Some folks just refuse to consider such things. \n\nDoubters explain this: \n\nHow is it that burning jet fuel does NOT burn hot enough to melt steel, yet that is the "Official" explaination for the collapses of all 3 WTC buildings?\n\nWhy did the towers fall STRAIGHT DOWN? Physics would dictate that if the top was too heavy for the damaged area, it would have fallen to one side. \n\nWhy were police and firemen quoted as saying they witnessed multiple explosions in several locations (including in the basement) many far from the impact area. One so large it was measured on a reichter scale nearly 100 miles away.\n\nWhy did WTC building 7 go down? It was not hit and sustained very little damage from a fire in a small area of one floor.\n\nWhy did the owner of the buildings tell the FDNY to "pull" the building? It takes weeks to prep a building for demolition, yet they had it wired with explosives and leveled by 8 pm on september 11th.\n\nThese are the ONLY modern high rise building IN HISTORY to be brought down by fire!\n\nSo before discounting it offhand, at least try to answer the questions being raised.
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That's a little over 5 years, so is it Fair to give Bill Cinton credit for no attacks for the 7 years from 1993 to 2001? If you're logic isn't flawed both are true, also if Ronald Reagan hadn't fled Beirut would that have prevented attacks on American soil in the first place?  After all it was that incident the Bin Laden states poved to him Ameican had no stomache for casualities and escalated the threat. I can use your logic to extrapolate to the same type of conclusions you're reaching for but reach an entirely different conclusion
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9/11 was an inside job. (see link) Planned and implemented for this purpose: \nPetrodollar Warfare: Dollars, Euros and the Upcoming Iranian Oil Bourse (see link)
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Not even close. The reason for 9/11 is that radical muslim terrorists view all non-muslims as infidels that need to be wiped off the face of the earth. This was just ONE attack in that plan!
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One man's fight for his/her rights is terrorism for another. That does not justify attacks like 9/11 but if you pick up any history book, the majority of wars of independence have been won by retaliating against prevailing, strong authorities by covert tactics, at least initially. This includes American independence as well. If you were to consider the British view point at that time, the founding fathers could not have been considered very favorably! Unfortunately, modern day armaments are so destructive that the innocent always suffer, more than at any time in the history of man. While this makes their actions criminal, it does not remove the validity of their demands.
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Because after 9/11, we needed someone to blame. We had to have a scapegoat, and the government and media gave us one: Islam. We did the exact same thing with Japan during WWII. Hitler did this as well with the Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, etc. (note: I am NOT comparing America to Nazi Germany, I am merely pointing this out as an isolated fact). It's just human nature; we believe that everything has a cause, whether it be good or bad. And to us, the cause of 9/11 is Islam. Of course, discriminating against anything with a turban and a Qu'ran is a very unfortunate effect of this, but it's something we do as a species.
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I have tossed this one back and fourth for some time. I don't think our Government is responsible for the events of 9/11, but there are some holes in the official report. Those holes lead people to believe that this Government is covering things. We may never know in our lifetime what actually happened beyond the obvious, but I am 90% certain that we did not do this to ourselves.
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It would probably be more symbolic than anything.  The Sears Tower is the tallest building in the United States, and terrorists are into symbolism and such.  That's why they attacked the WTC - it was the symbol of America's economic might.  The Pentagon was attacked because it's the symbol of America's military might.
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If you read history, our own and almost every government since Roman times has done what are called "false flag terror attacks".  It wouldn't be any kind of stretch to see 9/11 in the same light as Pearl Harbor (which we intentionally "let happen"), the sinking of the USS Maine in Cuba, the now very debunked "Gulf of Tonkin" incident.  Internationally, these operations have been par for the course in our dirty foreign policies for the last 100 years.\n\nPretty much every major war for the last 100+ years in the US has been started over a proven lie or "manipulation" to garner public support, why should 9/11 be any different?
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I feel more confident that Al Qaeda can't mount an attack on the U.S. as easily.  In those days following 9/11, we didn't really know what Al Qaeda might be capable of.  Besides the 9/11 attack, there had been the anthrax incidents, which are still unsolved, by the way.\n\nI also think that airline passengers would respond differently to a hijacking attempt.  Prior to 9/11, most American hijackers just wanted to go to Cuba.  Heck, that's sort of an adventure.  Since 9/11, passengers are in no mood to let a hijacking take place without a fight.\n\nIn conclusion, yes, I feel more confident and safer, but if you want me to give the credit for that to George Bush, I am not prepared to do that.