9/11 conspiracy theories

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I believe Bush was aware of a major threat, and I believe things were being done behind the scenes to try to stop it. About a month before the attacks, I was taking the kids (I was a nanny) to storytime one day and the metro Atlanta area was crawling with military forces. They were even directing traffic in a couple of intersections I went through. I never heard anything about it, so I forgot about it until Sept. 11.

I never did hear anything about why they were there that day.

 

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Real. The explanation for any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, and it would take a helluva conspiracy to work all that out.

And if it turns out I'm wrong, forget about lethal injection for anybody involved in the conspiracy. Execution by firing squad will get everyone's attention.

 

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And they aren't contained enough to keep it from leaking out.

 

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I respectfully disagree. I'm not laying any blame at the doorstep of the Oval Office. With all the supposedly brilliant minds we have working on behalf of our national security, why is it impossible to think outside the box? The possibility is dismissed just because no one had ever done this before? I don't know what it costs to upgrade one door on an airliner, but it's peanuts.

 

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I try to stay away from conspiracy theories, so I hadn't heard most of the ones mentioned here.

 

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Excellent points, of course. And I agree.

But then I remember the breathless "Who does Palin's baby REALLY belong to?!?!?!?!?!" posts.

Some want to believe the bullshit stories, for their own reasons.

 

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I think it was the goddam Alaskans. They did this just to create a climate where their Gov. can be made the running mate....

 

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Palin's baby was a product of Area 51. Hell, don't you people watch King of the Hill?

 

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Problem is, they get all kinds of briefings like this. Hundreds. Maybe thousands. Most just chatter, of course.

But I liken this event to the Apollo 1 fire. Sure, it was always a possibility. Pumping 100 percent oxygen into a cockpit seems so stupid in light of what happened. But to NASA, every possible disaster scenario involved something happening in space. There was no imagination about a tragedy happening on the ground.

Likewise, there was no imagination about flying planes into buildings. It hadn't ever been done anywhere else.

Let's say that in late August 2001 the FAA announced that as a security precaution, all cockpit doors were going to be strengthened to withstand any intrusion.

However, this was going to mean the cancellation of hundreds of gights over the next several weeks, and the measure would cost the average passenger an additional $50 per flight.

We would have screamed bloody murder at this "overreaction!"

The toughest job any president has is knowing how to react without overreacting. It's a test no one has scored 100 on.

 

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ragu, thanks for making 9/11 real for me. i visited ground zero three months later. i had been on the observation deck atop the old south tower.....but i never realized how big the site was. the enormity of the destruction, even months later, still was a bear.