was 9/11 caused by our government?
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Indirectly, yes.  During Clinton's administration, Al Quada attacked US military targets, and no one in the White House or in the country really cared.  The terrorists had to kill 3000+ civilians before you people even knew who Osama was.  Clinton had a chance to extradite Osama after the USS Cole was bombed, we already knew he tried to take out the World Trade Center with car bombs twice.  But, against his advisors' advice, Clinton didn't think he posed enough of a threat.  \n\nThe difference between the terrorists attacking us and us attacking Iraq: The U.S., as a soveriegn country, attacked Iraq, a soveriegn country.  We destroyed their military with our military.  Now, we are trying to rebuild their country and make it better for them.  \nThe terrorists are not a country they are a bunch of fanatics that want to destroy our way of life.  They commit organized, cowardly acts against civilians.  If we completely pulled out of the Middle East and abandoned our allies in the region, Al Quada would grow stronger and redouble their efforts in our country.  \nWhat's better, terrorists attacks in Iraq and Afganistan against our troops or terrorist attacks against unarmed civilians in the United States?  That's our choice.  \n\nDon't talk to Al Quada about peace because they will not make peace with Christians, Atheists, Agnostics, Hindus, Bhuddists, Shintos, or Jews.\n\nIf you want peace with them so bad that you would turn the US over to them, look at Afganistan under the Taliban.  No education for women; women can't work outside the home; no elections for anybody; no health exams for women (women actually died from yeast infections in Afganistan under Taliban rule); no music; no movies; only state approved newspapers; books and magazines; no education aside from approved religious teachings; curfews at dusk; no alcoholic beverages (including cough syrup); and most important for all of you that bash the President. . . NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH! \n\nRemember too, that it is Congress that makes the laws, not the President.  As far as Katrina is concerned, FEMA is and always has been a  bureucratic mess, but to play devil's advocate, they had to deal with a disaster that covered two medium states. That is why the states and cities are supposed to have emergency plans for disasters.  I haven't heard anyone blame Louisiana or New Orleans for their lack of planning, but I guess it's not their fault because the mayor and governor are Democrats. \n\nBTW, I am not a Conservative Republican.
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War in the Middle East was only ONE of the pretexts. I've said it before, and I'll undoubtedly say it again: 9/11 mainly happened as a pretext to getting the Patriot Act passed. The Patriot Act was originally written up following the Oklahoma City bombings but was considered too reactionary. I mean, the Global Agenda has been calling for "Big Brother" type scenarios all over the West, not just the States. So, they needed something bigger to further their Agenda. Hence 9/11. It got people to say to the government, "Do something!!!!" so they pulled out the Patriot Act and formed the Department of Homeland Security in order to justify widespread wiretapping and surveillance of the American people. And it's not really "terrorists" HS is after, people. It is domestic dissenters, grassroots left wingers and the militias, all of whom are the REAL threat not only to the governement but to the military industrial complex which is really running the show. Under the Patriot Act, people like ourselves, who are on this site, answering THIS question, and thereby questioning the gov't's actions are committing a terrorist act. So, therefore, any of us can expect to have our phones and internet lines tapped. This, folks, is the post 9/11 world we live in. I know, some people are in total denial about it and simply write off people like myself as "conspiracy theory kooks" and "left wing nuts", but lemme tell ya, it's us kooks who are going to have the last laugh in the end, because we'll be laughing at all those poor fools who'll be saying, "Damn, I should have listened to the conspiracy theorists; they were right after all!"\nMyself, when the fit hits the shan and the police state really starts kicking in, well, I'll be long gone by then, headed for the hills somewhere and dissappear off the face of the earth. Because I sincerely believe that within the next five years, ten tops, the world we live in and take for granted will no longer exist. We'll all be living in a variation of Nazi Germany; kiss our civil rights and freedoms goodbye. \nThe irony is, unless incontovertible evidence is produced, the real truth behind 9/11 will never be officially exposed. It's worse than the JFK assassination and the UFO question put together, because if the truth ever did come out, well...I think America would turn into 1789 France overnight. I hope...
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Yes, Al Quada was responsible for the attack on the twin towers on 9/11/2001, but Bin Laden may not have been responsible.\n\nBin Laden is said to have approved the attack, but he had nothing to do with the actual planning and he is not in charge of Al Quada.  Bin Laden is a rich Saudi and a great contributor to the cause of Al Quada.  Without a doubt some of his money was used to fund the attack, but it is doubtful if Bin Laden is in charge of Al Quada.  However, at the time the Bush Administration announced its vendetta against him he was the highest Al Quada leader we knew of.\n\nThe death of Bin Laden will not stop Al Quada; in fact it will survive the death of any one of its leaders, even if we are able to kill the entire leadership someone will rise from the ranks to take over.  We have seen exactly this happen in Iraq.  However, if Bin Laden were killed then that would cut off a lot of Al Quada's funding.\n\nIf cutting the "head" off the beast won't work then the US Government will be happy to cut off the "foot" (Bin Laden) so it can't keep running.\n\nAl Quada would not take the blame from anyone else.  They are quite proud of their crime and are extremely happy to take credit for it.  The successful attacks prove that Al Quada is a powerful force in the world of international terrorism.  Hamas and Hezbollah would love to pull something like that off in the US.  Because of their attacks against the US Al Quada are heroes in the Middle East.\n\nI also don't believe the conspiracy theories that the US somehow helped, wanted, or pulled off the attacks.  There are much easier ways to plan for a war in Iraq.  In fact Bush's staff was looking for some excuse so George Junior could "finish" Daddy's War.  I don't like the Bush Administration, but I don't think they would be capable of doing something like this.\n\nIF however, I were wrong, if somehow they or part of the government were behind the attacks then the news of that would have surely leaked out by now.  News that powerful simply can't remain hidden.  The thing that most conspiracy nuts forget is that it takes more than 2 or 3 people to pull off these big conspiracies.  It has been said, "Two people can keep a secret, if one of them is dead."   Talk about a huge story, if someone just had a rumor of proof they could go to any newspaper and become famous overnight.  Then they could go on the talk show network and become rich, all the while being a huge hero in the eyes of every American, not to mention the book deal.  That kind of temptation is too strong to resist and that is why I know that the big conspiracies aren't real. People love to gossip too much and the rewards for busting a conspiracy this big would be worth almost any risk, even the risk of your own life and the lives of your family.  If someone got that news out then they would have it made for the rest of their lives.\n\nWhat we need to worry about is Al Quada’s threat to take out the Capitol or White House.  Al Quada was behind the first bombing of the World Trade Center.  When that failed they came up with a new plan.  They are working on another plan right now.  Hopefully they are too tied up fighting us in Iraq to pull anything off, but as so many leaders have said, “The terrorists only have to get lucky once.”\n\n·Al Quada was behind 9/11, they are proud of that fact and it makes them a force in the Middle East.\n·Bin Laden supported 9/11 with both money and his blessing, but he was not responsible for it.\n·Any conspiracy that the US government could have somehow been involved in the attack just won’t hold up to scrutiny.  The simple fact that no credible evidence has been found to date that the US had something to do with the attack proves it.
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according to everyone (exaggeration) on yahoo answers:  9/11 was caused by bush (after he created AIDS, Death, and the Devil) and then he also paid all the Terrorists to attack us in Iraq to keep this whole thing going.  Bush must spend his weekends pissing off the users of yahoo answers.\n\nhere are the reasons for the Iraq war (9/11 only made us worry more about those who were out to get us it was not a cause of the war):\n\nIraq broke a treaty so they were invaded \n\n(What treaty)\n\nthe one that ended the Gulf War\n\n(how did they break it)\n\nThey did not allow inspectors to look for banned weapons\n\n(Did they have banned weapons)\n\nYes, they had lots of banned missiles and a few WMDs but not the large stockpiles we were looking for.\n\n(why were we at war the first time)\n\nBecause they invaded Kuwait, end of story
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I wish I could give you that answer straight up, just like a shot of Tequila.\nThe Government made a lot of Propaganda movies for us during WW11, and showed us sending , Chocolate, wheat, Cigarettes to France and Italy. It was a train, and wow, hey, where were we when Katrina hit. Not a plane one, here was our President begging us to give our money to the Red Cross which is really controlled by the Government isn't it? \nI'm confused sometimes. We are in a fix. I would have to hire the Pentagon to tell me where my taxes go. Certainly not the FBI. They no longer exist, now that the Pentagon has given them a workover, and also, given them a large part of the Blame game.
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Please calrify your question.\nAre you trying to JUSTIFY 9/11??????
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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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This is a little long, but very insightful and thorough.  If you have some time you NEED to watch this.\n\nhttp://www.planetquo.com/Loony-9-11-Conspiracy-Theories\n\nI think that there is something bigger going on here.
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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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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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Yes YEs YES. 9/11 was and still is a conspiracy. I've been saying that since that very day. The problem with the US is GWB. That dark day the first thing GWB ask Congress was "How does this involve Iraq?" They said , "What, it doesn't at all" GWB: " I'll ask again...as President 'How does this involve Iraq?" You see 9/11 was just a way to get back to Iraq..he had to start what his daddy started. GHB and GWB are pissed at the US for not electing GHB for a second term. They learned, after Clinton :)serving 8 years that they must make a plan to rig elections and to get people on their side. Their 9/11 plan went to well.  I could go on and on but I think you get my point.\n Take care my firend.
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Come on, anybody that really knows the facts know that the goverment had something to do with the towers! Maybe not bringing them down but maybe allowing them to be hit! DO YOU REALLY TRUST BUSH AND CREW AFTER ALL THEY ARE BEING CAUGHT DOING LATELY?
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It might be withholding some information on the grounds of national security of for legal reasons but in the main the events of that day are so well documented that it would be difficult to withold any of the salient facts.\n\nThere are conspiracy theories that 9/11 was orchestrated by the FBI and other US agencies but as with all conspiracy theories, they don't stand up to even the most basic of examinations and are based on ignorance not fact.
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If you mean was the government story about what happened a hoax? Absolutely. But the event itself was all too real ... 3000 people and several buildings are gone.\n\nFor a fantastic documentary exploring many of the questions about what happened 9-11, watch Loose Change.\nGoogle video has it here for free:\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848
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I think that's what provoked the US to begin with, 9-11.   Radical Islamic terrorists do not care about little details like families.
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9-11  Are you serious?  I watch it the conspiracy is the oldest wrong info around.  My father work in Homeland Security.  The facts are what we saw the stories people tell are just that.  We were attacked!!!!