what do you think about 9/11 conspiracy theories?
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I am beginning to think the Bush Admin let it happen.  He has some explaining to do. Regarding the 9/11 Commission Interview with President Bush \n\nhttp://www.911independentcommission.org/bush2162004.htm...  \n\nStatement and Questions 1-23 submitted February 16, 2004 \nQuestions 24-39 submitted March 18, 2004 \n\nThe Family Steering Committee believes that President Bush should provide sworn public testimony to the full ten-member panel of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States . Collectively, the Commissioners are responsible for fulfilling the Congressional mandate. Therefore, each Commissioner must have full access to the testimony of all individuals and the critical information that will enable informed decisions and recommendations. \n\nBefore an audience of the American people, the Commission must ask President Bush in sworn testimony, the following questions:\n\n \n1. As Commander-in-Chief on the morning of 9/11, why didn’t you return immediately to Washington, D.C. or the National Military Command Center once you became aware that America was under attack? At specifically what time did you become aware that America was under attack? Who informed you of this fact? \n\n2. On the morning of 9/11, who was in charge of our country while you were away from the National Military Command Center? Were you informed or consulted about all decisions made in your absence? \n\n3. What defensive action did you personally order to protect our nation during the crisis on September 11th? What time were these orders given, and to whom? What orders were carried out? What was the result of such orders? Were any such orders not carried out? \n\n4. In your opinion, why was our nation so utterly unprepared for an attack on our own soil?\n\n5. U.S. Navy Captain Deborah Loewer, the Director of the White House Situation Room, informed you of the first airliner hitting Tower One of the World Trade Center before you entered the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida. Please explain the reason why you decided to continue with the scheduled classroom visit, fifteen minutes after learning the first hijacked airliner had hit the World Trade Center.\n\n6. Is it normal procedure for the Director of the White House Situation Room to travel with you? If so, please cite any prior examples of when this occurred. If not normal procedure, please explain the circumstances that led to the Director of the White House Situation Room being asked to accompany you to Florida during the week of September 11th.\n\n7. What plan of action caused you to remain seated after Andrew Card informed you that a second airliner had hit the second tower of the World Trade Center and America was clearly under attack? Approximately how long did you remain in the classroom after Card’s message?\n\n8. At what time were you made aware that other planes were hijacked in addition to Flight 11 and Flight 175? Who notified you? What was your course of action as Commander-in-Chief of the United States?\n\n9. Beginning with the transition period between the Clinton administration and your own, and ending on 9/11/01, specifically what information (either verbal or written) about terrorists, possible attacks and targets, did you receive from any source? \n\nThis would include briefings or communications from\n\n• Out-going Clinton officials\n• CIA, FBI, NSA, DoD and other intelligence agencies\n• Foreign intelligence, governments, dignitaries or envoys\n• National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice\n• Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism czar\n\n \n10. Specifically, what did you learn from the August 6, 2001, PDB about the terrorist threat that was facing our nation? Did you request any follow-up action to take place? Did you request any further report be developed and/or prepared? \n\n11. As Commander-in-Chief, from May 1, 2001 until September 11, 2001, did you receive any information from any intelligence agency official or agent
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The Pentagon was hit by a plane on 9/11, bud, so try reading a paper occasionally.\n\nThe 'proof' about the Pentagon conspiracy theory is based mainly on one ambiguous photo of the damage done to the building after the plane hit. This is mostly the work of a French journalist Thierry Meyssan who wrote the book 9/11: The Big Lie soo after it happened.
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How about you do some more research, and then tell us what YOU think.  A little common sense will get you thinking the right way.  Good luck.\n\nhttp://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/911_pentagon_757_plane_evidence.html\nhttp://www.ccdominoes.com/lc/LooseChangeGuide.html\nhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/05/911_documentary_removed/\nhttp://wtc.nist.gov/\nhttp://www.popularmechanics.com/science/defense/1227842.html\nhttp://911myths.com/
44944
As an individual and in my personal opinion. Yes it is a conspiracy.\n\nSince the public at large now has a means of sharing information and views it is becoming more and more difficult to con them.
602004
Find out the truth for yourself.  Watch the video in the link below.  It also has stuff about the WTC and about the Pentagon.  Its really interesting and gives us all insight on what could be a possible truth to 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden.  Tell me what you think about it after you watch it!
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Yes, I do.  It's very sobering to become a sceptical person about our government and to realize that they would knowingly condone this heinous act of murder.\nI once was one who believed that Al-Qaeda was soley behind 9/11.  Then about 2 months ago my wife brought home a DVD that reexamined all the evidence about how the WTC buildings collapsed, and it also showed a lot about the Pentagon attack.  Yes, I once was a person who thought that all these "conspiracy theorists" were just a bunch of nut cakes.  But, again, the physical evidence about what happened is quite shocking. \nThe web page below contains a lot of technical articles.  It is also easy to find other web sites that present a lot of information.  If you go to an "official" web site about 9/11, it's interesting to see how they side-step the hard questions that are being presented and cannot be sufficiently answered by jets simply crashing into buildings.\nSo, what does all of this mean?  We, the American public, have been duped.  But, what does that really change?  Has any of our personal lives really changed all that much?  How much of a difference does it personally make to us if it was Al-Qaeda or our own government that murdered innocent American lives?\nAnd so, we go on.  We live each day.  I ask myself what can I possibly do to get the truth out?  Being on the other side, one of the "conspiracy" nuts, is hard .. it's hard because no one wants to believe you.
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A great deal is implied in your question. If I read it as I think you intended it, you mean to illicit some of the various conspiratorial beliefs surrounding the events of that infamous day.\n\nThe official, and still controversial version of events, are recored in the “9/11 Report.” You can get a copy for free here : http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911... if you care to “thumb” through the 580 some odd pages of report.\n\nAs an aside, there were no 737's used in attacks. Two 757's and Two 767's were used to attack economic, military and, it is believed, political targets. I say believed because in addition to the World Trade Center, it is believed that the White House and The Capitol were among the originally intended targets. \n\nWhile you can get a chronological breakdown of what happened that fateful day, most people seem to miss the fact that Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda succeeded in proving that radical Islam and the West were at war. This is a fact that few American leaders from either party chose to recognize,  until 3,000 Americans were murdered on 9/11. See references to the prior WTC, the Khobar Towers, Embassy's in Kenya and Tanzania, and the USS Cole bombings, all of which occurred before 2000 and about which nothing was effectively done.\n\nIf you are inclined to entertain conspiratorial ideas about 9/11, fine, but keep this in mind;  contradictions don't exist. If your faced with one, check your premises because one or more of them must be wrong. This is not to say that conspiracy is impossible, but rather, try to reconcile the facts before moving on to conjecture. \n\nWe remain at war to this day.
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I'm very weary of the conspiracy theories. As one of the people who watched the plane go into the Pentagon (literally watched it hit), it makes me very annoyed to see how many people think so many other people could be wrong, imaging things, or a part of a conspiracy. Maybe the theory would be credible if no one was around to watch.  But between NYC and DC/Arlington, both in the tail end of rush hour commuter traffic, you'd have to get about 50,000 people to agree to this conspiracy. I find it insulting and I am immediately annoyed by anyone who actually thinks these web sites are reporting the truth.
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It was a conspiracy....by terrorists.  Duh....
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I read parts of the Scientific American cover story debunking 9/11 myths; it was some time ago but it seemed to thoroughly refute all the conspiracy theories it covered.\n\nMany conspiracy theories seem convincing on their face; it's only when you dig deeper that the inherent flaws are revealed.\n\nThe biggest flaw with this and other conspiracy theories is the sheer number of people who would have to be involved in the cover-up.  Hard to believe that so many people could be coerced, bribed, manipulated or forced into this and not one of them would spill the beans -- some secrets are just too good not to tell!
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ok i've watched loose change four times or so now, and spent way too much time reading on various websites, they make some convincing points...but then they ignore alot of stuff as well...like common sense.\n\ncould there be some conspiracy behind 911? yes there could be. is it these theories that are popularly being advanced currently on the web...no\n\nstart at the end and work your way forward: the point of 911 was to destroy some buildings.  there are easier ways for the government to pull this off than to.\nsecretly swap planes in the air for non-passenger drone places, fly two of them into buildings, which they already rigged with additional explosives, secretly land the planes, secretly kill the passengers, fake a plane crash at one location, get voice samples from passengers to load into a computer to produce fake phone calls to loved ones with, then swap one plane for a missle (never mind that some claim this was a smaller drone plane) fire it into the pentagon, get 100 or so people to claim they saw a plane(this is ignored by loose change which uses two of the four people that claimed to not have seen a plane) then run around real fast knocking over the light poles etc...loose change claims a plane couldn't knock over those lamp poles that way, but never tries to explain how they were knocked over, if we assume that not all 100+ witnesses were cia plants, then we have to wonder why no one went, "and there these guys ran around loosening all the bolts on those lamps and pushed them over and ran off! dam kids!"\n\nloose change and other sources also use alot of broadcasts from very early after the attacks took place during which there was alot of confusion about what happened, live news especially while something is happening doesn't always get things 100% correct and uses alot of speculation to fill in time while they figure things out.\n\nloud thuds of things like, say upper floors falling into lower ones, could no doubt sound very much like other explosions going off.\n\nthe list goes on and on, but this post is getting rather long.\n\nok so lets face it, thats one complicated plan to bring down some buildings.  you could just blow them up, blame who ever you wanted to, say you are investigating how security could have been breached to such an extent, and leave it at that.\n\nits just too complicated of a conspiracy, that would take way way too many people to keep their mouths shut.
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What do I really think?\nI think the US  had to show some kind of retaliation for the 9/11 twin tower attacks, no matter to whom.\nI think US is very eager to control gas/oil supplies.\nI think US has a mistaken idea that it can IMPOSE democracy on people who don't really understand or want it.\nAnd I think there are behind-the-scenes, very powerful figures in armament supplies, firms with military contracts,\netc. who stand to make a lot of money out of war, and who encourage it without any regard to human life: hospital supply manufacturers, body-bag makers, all the paraphanalia of war which makes millions and millions of $$$$ for the greedy people who can never have enough money.
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I do believe Bush and his people are behind the 9-11 attacks. Nothing out of the whole official explanation makes any sense at all. Its got more holes than a swiss cheese for christs sake. Cell phones on the plane? Where were the bodies from Pennsylvania? Etc Etc\n\nTwo of the planes are still flying around in broad fucking daylight and people are still believing the official lies. The level of denial in some people is just downright frightening.\n\n\npeace
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NO!!!!  Go to www.popularmechanics.com and find the article about debunking the 9/11 myths.  And please, please, use your common sense!  Why in the WORLD would the government do something like that?  And HOW?!  It would take YEARS to come up with such an idea, and longer to go through with it.  You should be ashamed of yourself.  Quit watching Loose Change!
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lucky2bealive, I don't want to disagree with you but I don't believe you are going to find anywhere in the historical records that Bin Laden claimed responsibility for the 9/11 bombings. What he has done is praise the matyrs of that event. However, there would be more clarity and the issue can be put to bed finally if the government gave us the names of all the people that died in the various events. Where are the planes that crashed? Do you really believe that a building like the Pentagon would have cameras that are intermittent and take pictures every 7/8 seconds. Come.. Come. We are talking about the most technologically advanced country in the world. Something smells fishy and the stench cannot be dispersed until the Government come clean. Have you ever seen reports of the examination of  the so called crash sites?
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Well, the 911 hijackings and terrorists attacks have been declared actions by B.Laden and his supporters.\n\nWith that said, there has since come to light a lot of evidence to support that it was an inside job by 'unknown' government officials. Most suspect Cheney and Rumsfeld.\n\nThere has also been quite a bit of evidence questioning whether or not actual planes hit the Pentagon... but rather it was a bomb.\n\nEither way, at this point, it is pure speculation and I highly doubt we will ever know the truth within our lifetimes.
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I think that people believe in conspiracy theories because they crave excitement. The reason that there is more talk about these ideas now is there is more media available. People seem to want to be the first to "know" what happened. What was the cause, the effect and the idea behind certain events. We thrive on "bad" news in particular. If we didn't, then the evening news wouldn't be nearly as interesting as it is for some. I do watch the news (some) but, it has gotten almost boring in that it is the same old same old all the time. I do like a good novel though so good luck in your endeavor, perhaps I will read a book by you one day.