Were the 9/11 Attacks Carried out by the U.S. Government?
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Must be nice to be 23 and have all the answers. I've been in the military for 22 years and have yet to gleam the wondrous amount of information that you have accumulated in Lancaster PA. Wow your observation and research skills are truly profound. I was talking to my buddy big foot, and his wife the tooth fairy and we all think you are onto something. Golly I need to drop out of the service and get a blog page so I can look all hip and deep, with the ploy of looking like an intellectual, when in fact I'm actually trying to get laid. Yes Steve you are cool.
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Wow! I wasn't aware that everyone knew about the terrorist attack prior to it happening.\n\nDemocrats & the Liberals would have you believe that it was only the government that knew.\n\nCan you guys get your stories straight please. Its no wonder you are all so messed up with your thinking, you can't even coordinate consistancy with your lies.
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9/11 Was An EVIL Act Of "SYNTHETIC TERRORISM"\nPlanned And Executed By The Bush Crime Family\nTo Justify An Illegal War\n\nThe Collateral Damage Was The 343 Firefighters\nThe 3000 Victims\nAnd The American Public\nAlong With Several Constitutional Rights
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Yes i do believe that the Bush administration was behind 9/11 !! Too much evidence pinpoints at Bush!\n\nEvidence refers that the WTC buildings 1,2 and 7 didn't collapse simply because of fire as told by the Bush admin. but because of pre-planted explosives!! \n\nNever before in history has a steel high rise building collapsed simply because of fire. On 9/11, by coincidence, three such buildings collapsed in ten to fifteen seconds, almost freefall speed. \n\nIn other words, if you dropped a brick from the top of the World Trade Center it would have taken about that time to hit the ground.\n\nFor further verification visit this website:\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6545313046180631815&q=contrary+9%2F11&pl=true\n\nI know that after you watch the video included on this website you will all believe that Bush was the one behind all this!
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Try this link. It will reveal and answer a lot of questions you may have.\n\nhttp://fpiarticle.blogspot.com/2006/04/911-in-plane-site.html\n\nI dont believe a plane crashed into the pentagon. Flight 93 was made up. The planes that crashed into the WTC's were not commercial airlines. There is no proof! With all the video footage... you never really see the commercial logos. It's all bogus.\n\nThink about it. Why would the government do this? To create FEAR! This is the new era. There is no more cold war. No more bad super power. So where does the government turn for war? To an invisible word called "Terrorist". The war on terrorism is only a few words. \n\nFear makes me people more controllable. They spend more. They submit to anything that will protect them. And in exchange for it all is our freedom.
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No "Paul I", those people are not crazy.  In fact, they represent a growing consensus about what happened on 9/11.  They are  brave people who have enough courage to question our governments white wash of the attack.\n\nMost all the evidence that is available to us, show that the WTC buildings were rigged with explosives. Our own government had motive as was well as an opportunity to do this crime. Here is the evidence, presented for your scrutiny. \n\nFAKE CONFESSION\nThe official government story is that the 9/11 attack was orchestrated by Al Qaeda, which is lead by Osama bin Laden. The proof our government provided was a video with Osama confessing to the crime. The problem with the video is that the person in the video does not look like Osama bin Laden: See picture.\nhttp://911blimp.net/vid_fakeOsamaVideo.shtml\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk519bkcLjg\n\n\nEVIDENCE\nThere are many other factors that do not fit the official story. They include, secondary explosions that were seen, heard, reported, and recorded by firefighters, in and around the WTC buildings.\nhttp://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4574366633014832928&q=firefighter+bombs+in+the+building\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcRs1fv8i3I\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHz9YWVgJWM\n\n\nHere is a video clip showing a trail of explosions just before the destruction wave.\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_DkzhonpGY&mode=related&search=\n\nMolten, beyond red hot, "steel" was video recorded coming out of the South Tower just before it collapsed. Jet fuel does not burn hot enough to turn steel to liquid.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=ExrVgioIXvk&search=thermite\n\nA chemical analysis of the solidified molten iron,conducted by independent firms, yielded an explosive, called Thermite. Also found was a WTC core beam; most probably cut using the demolition cutting charge (Thermate). No core beams were left standing beyond a few feet high, for it to have been cut by an Iron Workers torch. Click on pic. to enlarge.\nhttp://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/341238.shtml\n\nCONFESSION \nWe also have a video recording, where owner Larry Silverstein, admits to demolishing WTC7.\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7750532340306101329\n\nTESTIMONY\nThere is also a problem with the Pentagon attack. Listen to this retired general, He says, "The Plane does not fit the hole."\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2VoUN-7RVU&eurl=\n\nMOTIVE\nThe New Conservatives (Neo-Cons), with the help of their friends, started planning the invasion of Iraq, shortly after Pres. Bush took office. Apparently, the plan would include the attack of the WTC buildings. It did this to get the support of congress and the nation, to attack Iraq. Read it from their own PENAC document. Pay special attention to the section entitled "Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force" page 50 and the top of page 51, where it states we need a new Pearl Harbor attack to get the ball rolling.\nhttp://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf\n\nOPPORTUNITY\nWitnesses saw a work crew going into the WTC buildings with rolls of wire, supposedly for internet upgrades. Tenants were moved around while crews "upgraded" the cable systems. The Port Authority cut power to the building for a whole weekend, just prior to the attack; shutting down the entire security systems. Witnesses also heard crews operating heavy hammering equipment that left a gray cement like dust, in the building. This activity took place just weeks before the 911 attack: The Port Authority had released control of the buildings to Larry Silverstein, six weeks prior to the attack: He made upwards of $5 billion off of the attack.\nSee "9/11 Mysteries" video: Time = 1:03:55 through 1:07:00 and 1:19:55 through 1:24:09\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6708190071483512003&q=911+mysteries&hl=en-CA
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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 believed the official story of 9/11 for a while. Then I woke up. Though some of the official story may be true, too much of it has been de-bunked and now it just doesnt add up. People can beleive what they like, but lets take a look at some issues of concern. Great question!\n\nWe are a country that spent five years and $100 million investigating President Clinton. We probed the depths of the Iran-Contra scandal – a debacle that would have never come fully into the public eye had a special investigator not been appointed.\n\nThe 9/11 Commission interviewed two of it's own members and spent only $3 million. We have spent far more energy, money and time seeking the leak of Valerie Plame's identity and Barry Bonds' use of steroids. \n\nDonald Rumsfeld, Gen. Myers confirm there were total of four war-games on 9/11 taking place in New York city and Washington D.C. (C-SPAN) \n\nU.S Intelligence conducted exercise to simulate plane crash into government building morning of 9/11. (Boston Globe, USA Today) \n\nRumsfeld announces Pentagon lost track of $2.3 trillion the day before it gets hit (CBS, DoD) \nFinal budget of 9/11 commission was 3 million dollars. Commission interviews two of it's own members about attacks.(Newsweek)\nBush signs Airline Transportation Stabilization Act which if 9/11 victim's families except, they can't sue airlines or US gov't for any reason. (Gurdian, LA Times) \nSept. 10, Former Pres. and ex-CIA dir. Bush Sr. met with Osama's brother at Carlyle Group meeting in D.C. and is at the White House morning of attacks. (Washington Post)\n\nPakistani president Pervez Musharaf met with the House and Senate chairs of the intelligence committee during an emergency session at 8:30am 9/11/01.(CBS Wall St Journal) \n\nMarvin Bush was head of company that did security for Dulles and WTC. Bush’s multi year WTC contract was to end on 9/11/2001. Bush signed W199I- WF-213589 months before 9 11 ordering FBI not to stop Al-Qaeda. John P. O'Neill accepted Bush’s old job. He was the 25 year head of counterterrorism with the FBI. He angrily quit the FBI as a result of George Bush’s Order W199I. His first day on the job 9/11/01 he died in the north tower.\n\nOf 18 PNAC members, 10 will be in the new Bush Admin. (ABC) \nRumsfeld predicts terrorist attack in US 2 minutes before 1st WTC plane crash (Fayetteville Observer) and later predicts Pentagon crash minutes prior. (Telegraph) \n\nFive of the alleged 9/11 hijackers receive training at secure US military bases. (MSNBC) \nFAA manager mangled, cut, and destroyed 9/11 tapes. (Washington Post) \nWhite House staff given Cipro on 9/11, full month before first cases of anthrax reported. (Washington Post)\n\nRudolph Giuliani in his testimony to the 9/11 Commission said FEMA arrived in New York on September 10th to set up a command post located at Pier 29 under the auspices of bio-warfare exercise TRIPOD II scheduled for September 12.." New York’s Command post was in building seven before it was moved to the pier hours in advance of the attacks.\n\nThe FBI has further delayed the release of a video that they promised to us on NOV 9 and that may show the impact of flight 77 into the Pentagon on September 11th 2001. Out of 83 confiscated videos, we have only seen two.\n\nMade public on November 18, 1997 by the Assassination Records Review Board.\n\nActual Operation Northwoods de-classified document from George Wahington University -Home of the National Security archive.\nhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/doc1.pdf\n\nWikipedia- Operation Northwoods overveiw\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods\n\nSigned into order by the CHAIRMAN and EVERY MEMBER of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the plan (read it yourself) calls for innocent Citizens to be shot on American streets; American ships to be sunk on the high seas; for a wave of violent "terrorism" to be launched in major East coast cities.\n\nThe plan calls for Forei
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As a very good 9/11 researcher once said "I seek to establish the conspiracy FACTS not "conspiracy theory".  There is literally a mountain of physical and scientific evidence to counter the "official 9/11" story, far more than necessary to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it was not the way the official report says it happened.  There's also many in various industries and our government that benefitted tremendously from the aftermath of 9/11.\n\nThose that hold to the belief that "our government could never do such a thing" forget that in our history it has done such things before and it is well-documented fact.  People that choose to remain willfully ignorant just don't want to shatter their thin bubble of belief, if our members of our government were indeed complicit in such a tragedy, "something" would then need to be done and their whole world view that had been established for the last 4 years would crumble.  Their very identity as Americans, being good vs the evil, would crash down like a house of cards.  They would have to admit they had been lied to and they fell for it...better to keep your head buried in the sand.
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We don't need a "commission" to find out how 9-11 happened. The truth is in the timeline: \n\nPRESIDENT CARTER, DEMOCRAT \n\nIn 1979, President Jimmy Carter allowed the Shah of Iran to be deposed by a mob of Islamic fanatics. A few months later, Muslims stormed the U.S. Embassy in Iran and took American Embassy staff hostage. \n\nCarter retaliated by canceling Iranian visas. He eventually ordered a disastrous and humiliating rescue attempt, crashing helicopters in the desert. \n\nPRESIDENT REAGAN, REPUBLICAN \n\nThe day of Reagan's inauguration, the hostages were released. \n\nIn 1982, the U.S. Embassy in Beirut was bombed by Muslim extremists. \n\nPresident Reagan sent U.S. Marines to Beirut. \n\nIn 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut were blown up by Muslim extremists. \n\nReagan said the U.S. would not surrender, but Democrats threw a hissy fit, introducing a resolution demanding that our troops be withdrawn. Reagan caved in to Democrat caterwauling in an election year and withdrew our troops – bombing Syrian-controlled areas on the way out. Democrats complained about that, too. \n\nIn 1985, an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, was seized and a 69-year-old American was shot and thrown overboard by Muslim extremists. \n\nReagan ordered a heart-stopping mission to capture the hijackers after "the allies" promised them safe passage. In a daring operation, American fighter pilots captured the hijackers and turned them over to the Italians – who then released them to safe harbor in Iraq. \n\nOn April 5, 1986, a West Berlin discotheque frequented by U.S. servicemen was bombed by Muslim extremists from the Libyan Embassy in East Berlin, killing an American. \n\nTen days later, Reagan bombed Libya, despite our dear ally France refusing the use of their airspace. Americans bombed Gadhafi's residence, killing his daughter, and dropped a bomb on the French Embassy "by mistake." \n\nReagan also stoked a long, bloody war between heinous regimes in Iran and Iraq. All this was while winning a final victory over Soviet totalitarianism. \n\nPRESIDENT BUSH I, MODERATE REPUBLICAN \n\nIn December 1988, a passenger jet, Pan Am Flight 103, was bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland, by Muslim extremists. \n\nPresident-elect George Bush claimed he would continue Reagan's policy of retaliating against terrorism, but did not. Without Reagan to gin her up, even Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher went wobbly, saying there would be no revenge for the bombing. \n\nIn 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. \n\nIn early 1991, Bush went to war with Iraq. A majority of Democrats opposed the war, and later complained that Bush didn't "finish off the job" with Saddam. \n\nPRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, DEMOCRAT \n\nIn February 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed by Muslim fanatics, killing five people and injuring hundreds. \n\nClinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing. \n\nIn October 1993, 18 American troops were killed in a savage firefight in Somalia. The body of one American was dragged through the streets of Mogadishu as the Somalian hordes cheered. \n\nClinton responded by calling off the hunt for Mohammed Farrah Aidid and ordering our troops home. Osama bin Laden later told ABC News: "The youth ... realized more than before that the American soldier was a paper tiger and after a few blows ran in defeat." \n\nIn November 1995, five Americans were killed and 30 wounded by a car bomb in Saudi Arabia set by Muslim extremists. \n\nClinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing. \n\nIn June 1996, a U.S. Air Force housing complex in Saudi Arabia was bombed by Muslim extremists. \n\nClinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing. \n\nMonths later, Saddam attacked the Kurdish-controlled city of Erbil. \n\nClinton, advised by Dick Clarke, lobbed some bombs into Iraq hundreds of miles from Saddam's forces. \n\nIn November 1997, Iraq refused to allow U.N. weapons inspections to do their job
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The Moussaoui case is only one of a number of indications that the US government had ample warning that a major terrorist operation was under way in the United States and yet did nothing to preempt or block it.\n\n* The governments of at least four countries—Russia, Germany, Israel and Egypt—gave Washington specific warnings of terrorist attacks in the United States involving the use of hijacked airplanes as weapons, in the months leading up to September 11.\n\n* The US government itself had multiple indications of the danger of suicide hijackings, based on its own investigations into other terrorist attacks attributed to Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network.\n\n* The US government was monitoring the electronic communications of bin Laden and his associates during the extensive period of advance planning which preceded the September 11 attack.\n\n* Several of the September 11 hijackers, including Mohammed Atta, the alleged ringleader, were under direct surveillance by US agencies as suspected terrorists during 2000 and 2001.Yet they were allowed to travel freely into and out of the US and eventually carry out their plans.\n\nSeptember 11 took place amid a virtual stand-down of the security forces which permits no innocent explanation. The circumstances of the terrorist attacks deserve the most serious and conscientious investigation. Both the Bush administration and the Democrats and Republicans in Congress have rejected any such probe, suggesting that to question the role of the FBI, CIA and other intelligence agencies is unpatriotic.\n\nBut the facts which are known so far point to the conclusion that officials at the highest levels of the US government knew that a major terrorist attack was under way and made no serious effort to prevent it. The political motive can be inferred: they permitted an attack to go forward—whether they knew its full dimensions or not—in order to provide the necessary pretext for carrying out a right-wing agenda of military intervention abroad and attacks on democratic rights at home.
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Most all the evidence that is available to us, show that the WTC buildings were rigged with explosives. Our own government had motive as was well as an opportunity to do this crime. Here is the evidence, presented for your scrutiny.  The picture of the cut core beam should be of special interest to someone with demolition knowledge.\n\nFAKE CONFESSION\nThe official government story is that the 9/11 attack was orchestrated by Al Qaeda, which is lead by Osama bin Laden. The proof our government provided was a video with Osama confessing to the crime. The problem with the video is that the person in the video does not look like Osama bin Laden: See picture.\nhttp://911blimp.net/vid_fakeOsamaVideo.shtml\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk519bkcLjg\n\nEVIDENCE\nThere are many other factors that do not fit the official story. They include, secondary explosions that were seen, heard, reported, and recorded by firefighters, in and around the WTC buildings.\nhttp://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4574366633014832928&q=firefighter+bombs+in+the+building\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcRs1fv8i3I\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHz9YWVgJWM\n\nHere is a video clip showing a trail of explosions just before the destruction wave.\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_DkzhonpGY&mode=related&search=\n\nMolten, beyond red hot, "steel" was video recorded coming out of the South Tower just before it collapsed. Jet fuel does not burn hot enough to turn steel to liquid.  Melted red hot steel was also found in "ground zero" of all three WTC buildings, including WTC7; the one no jet ever hit.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=ExrVgioIXvk&search=thermite\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3D2myMbQjQ\n\nFORENSICS\nA chemical analysis of the solidified molten iron,conducted by independent firms, yielded an explosive, called Thermite. Also found was a WTC core beam; most probably cut using the demolition cutting charge (Thermate). No core beams were left standing beyond a few feet high, for it to have been cut by an Iron Workers torch. Click on pic. to enlarge.\nhttp://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/341238.shtml\n\nCONFESSION \nWe also have a video recording, where owner Larry Silverstein, admits to demolishing WTC7.\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7750532340306101329\n\nTESTIMONY\nThere is also a problem with the Pentagon attack. Listen to this retired general, He says, "The Plane does not fit the hole; so what did hit the Pentagon..."\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2VoUN-7RVU&eurl=\n \nThis video, obtained by a public interest group, shows the top rear fin of an air craft hiding behind a call box: Whatever is hiding back there, is under 48 ft. long, to small to be a Boeing 757, which is over 155 ft. long.\nhttp://www.clipaday.com/2006/05/pentagon_plane_crash_from_sept.html\n\nMOTIVE\nThe New Conservatives (Neo-Cons), with the help of their friends, started planning the invasion of Iraq, shortly after Pres. Bush took office. Apparently, the plan would include the attack of the WTC buildings. It did this to get the support of congress and the nation, to attack Iraq. Read it from their own PENAC document. Pay special attention to the section entitled "Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force" page 50 and the top of page 51, where it states we need a new Pearl Harbor attack to get the ball rolling.\nhttp://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf\n\nOPPORTUNITY\nWitnesses saw a work crew going into the WTC buildings with rolls of wire, supposedly for internet upgrades. Tenants were moved around while crews "upgraded" the cable systems. The Port Authority cut power to the building for a whole weekend, just prior to the attack; shutting down the entire security systems. Witnesses also heard crews operating heavy hammering equipment that left a gray cement like dust, in the building. This activity took place just weeks before the 911 attack: The Port Authority had released control of the buil
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Look at the 9/11 attacks. Was that necessary? Was it necessary to attack London and Spain? Was it necessary to attack us back in 91? That is why we are at war.
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Another conspiracy nut, Get a life, the 9/11 attacks were conducted by terrorists, but why do i tell you idiots this every time.  I should just ignore you, yet im still typing.
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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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In my honest opinion I wouldn't be surprised. Did you know that the american government knew about a possible attack on Pearl Harbor. They knew about it but did nothing. Why? Because they wanted to join the war, but the american people did not want to. So they needed a push, for war. What better push for war than having the enemy attack you on your soil. The one thing maked me believe that the government had something to do w/911, is that there was no plane wreckage or luggage or anything resembling a plane when it went down in the Pentagon and in Penn. Why?
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Why ask? You don't even believe 9/11 happened the way it did and you apparently don't respond well to questions as to what you do believe happened. \n\nAs to this question, absolutely it should have been responded to exactly the way it was except that our government should stop worrying about what liberals say and carry out the war with all the necessary force. Further, I just don't understand why some believe that Saddam Hussein or the Taliban is so much preferred to the U.S. democratic political system. That's what we know so that's what we teach. Seems to have served you well.