Do you belive the u.s goverment was behind 9/11?

Question

Please have an open mind and maybe you need to watch this http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848

Answer 1

Oh, for heaven's sake. Do you KNOW how many times this has been asked about Loose Change? Yes, I have an open mind. Yes, I watched it. I'm not going to waste my time writing out a whole new answer, because I've answered this question in about fifty different ways. Look in my Q&A if you don't believe me. Here's my favorite answer that I've written for this question:
IF the government was reponsible, then they would have to bribe all the people who were on the planes, all the family members of the people who were on the planes, all of the people who saw the planes... et cetera et cetera. A conspiracy like that would take YEARS to come up with, and even longer to execute. Which would mean that it would have had to have been thought up around the time that LBJ was in office, because that's about the same time that J Edgar Hoover was head of the FBI. Why is that? Because Hoover conducted many wiretaps.
Now, considering the fact that we had a Democratic president in office from 1992-2000, and changes in the Senate, not to mention the FBI and CIA (and the NSA!), that would mean that either A) Clinton, former and current members of Congress and the Senate were in on it, as well as all of the FBI and CIA. Or B) That there was no conspiracy theory because something like that would have leaked.
Did the government have prior knowledge that the US was going to be attacked? YES! But just like Pearl Harbor, they didn't know when, where or how. The ONLY way 9/11 could have been prevented would have been to shut down all flights to, from and within the US. That wouldn't have made much sense, now would it? And then when there was no terrorist attack, the Bush administration would have been at fault.
Now, if there truly WAS a conspiracy, don't you think the goverment would be going to greater lengths to shut down the accusations? Loose Change has been around for awhile now, and Michael Moore hasn't been assassinated yet either.
Why don't you put all that energy that you have, and that thirst for the truth, into something a little more productive? Like, research. The www.popularmechanics.com site would be a great place to start. The story is called "9/11: Debunking the Conspiracy Myths." You could also look into how many other events in history had their own conspiracy theories. And how many of them were disproved.

Back to now. If you read the article I mentioned, and you still believe that it was all a conspiracy, I recommend getting fitted for a tinfoil hat.

Answer 2

I like the comparision to Pearl Harbor and FDR. I'm pretty sure the President didn't cause it to happen in anyway. But he had a pretty good indication that something like it could happen or was about to happen and let it happen anyway for complex reasons.

A good parallel is this situation: Pretend you are the President. One day you recieve very trustworthy intelligance that a horrible terrorist group is about to attack a major city with large weapons. You don't know the target city, but you know it will happen 12 days from today. You also recieve intellegance that says that if an attack takes place, the terrorist leaders will gather together in a vulnerable location to plan a new attack.

You have three chioces based on your intelligance.
1.You can Evacuate all the major cities in your country for 12 days. It will prevent the attack and noone will be killed, but it will ruin your economy from all the lost revenue, your poll rating will go down and the terrorists group will not be caught.
2. You can both try to attack the terrorist group now AND try to evacuate some of your cities. This choice leaves you both open to attack in your occupied cities, and you still might not hurt the terrorists group.
3. OR (Some say this one happened on 9-11/Pearl Harbor).....Just let the attack happen. Don't try to protect the city in anyway. If you try to evacuate the city, it will tip of the terrorist group and they will escape. Instead, what until after the attack and then strike to completely wipe out the terrorist group. In this chioce, you are promised to defeate all the terrorists, but your city and all its people could be completely destroyed.

The choice is up to you. Which would you make?

Answer 3

The real idiots are those that are close minded to this possibility.
They think it's unpatriotic and "weak on terror" to question the gov't.
If they would just review the mountains of evidence showing gov't complicity with an open mind, many of them would change their position.

And yes, the gov't had something to do with it, although it's very hard at this time to know how much. From just knowing about it and letting it happen to a full scale orchestration and planning of it. The truth is probably somewhere between those 2 options.

Answer 4

I don't know if I'm to the point of thinking the gov't was behind it, but I have found this aspect interesting-- who died at the WTC? A lot of 25-45 year old males, a LOT of whom were Jewish. I spent a lot of time reading that big book the NY Times put out with a short story about every person killed. You'd be amazed to see how many of the people fit the profile I'm talking about. It's like the perpetrators really got what they wanted, the cream of the crop, entreprenerial capitalist Jewish males. It wouldn't shock me to find out someone else was in on it.

Answer 5

Ward Churchhill did 9/11

Answer 6

Clean litmus test to see if any attack was government sponsored "false flag" or the real deal, here it is:

See if ANY government agency was running drills or excercises identical to the actual attacks at the time and location when the real attacks take place.

Go ahead and look it up, you WILL see a wierd pattern.

Oklahoma City bombing (2 drills, FBI and ATF, same day different locations in the same area, dealing with bombing the building)

9/11 (4 different drills dealing with different aspects, FEMA at the WTC, FAA dealing with hijackings, NORAD dealing with hijackings, Pentagon EMT dealing with bomb attack, all taking place within 1 day or ON 9/11)

Virginia Sniper (no drills, legit)

London 7/7 (2 drills, MI5/6 and local police, dealing with "bombs on the subway")

USS Cole (no drills, legit)

All operations are a matter of public record and were planned months in advance. Scientific chance of such a random occurance, 1 in 27,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Answer 7

I guess if it's on the Web, it must be true.
Good Lord!! Out of what hole did these people come from and what did they do before the Internet?

I didn't see broxolm 's response. It actually happened in WW2. As a result of breaking the German code, the British knew Coventry was to be bombed. Evacuating the city however could tip the Germans off that their code was compromised. They did nothing and let the bombs fall.

Answer 8

Why would a country hijack their own plane just to smash it into it's own building.. a superior country would not be well served by playing the 'pity me' card and intentionally showing to the world that they are so vulnerable. This would surely only encourage more violence.. We have bigger issues to concern ourselves with than feeding into the fantasy world of conspiracy theories that all contradict the known facts of what happened. 3000 people is too big of a price to pay to support the conspiracy.. and Bush didn't even find WMD before jumping on his pony and riding wrecklessly inro Iraq.. and I suppose you could bend this into your theory.. I don't see the connection. Osama and Saddam needed to be neutralized long before and long after the WTC event.. unfortunate tradjedy and total coincidence.. the conspiracy theory is unfounded and lacking any real factual proof.. that makes it.. propoganda.. and that is a tool of the foolish and ignorant among us.

Answer 9

the second edition seems to be more popular, however i am still partial to the first edition.

less interviewing, and more explaining (possible)facts.
you cant trust eyewitnesses because some say the saw a comercial jet, some say a fighter jet, some say a UFO.

my opinion on the whole ordeal is this:
the US is not fully responsible, but i DO believe that they probably aided in it.

you cant trust anyone on it though, no one really knows what happened.
well someone does(The Govt.).

and please, people dont send me (or this guy) emails about being against american for bringing this up.
i love this country, and it is horrible what happend, truthfully.
but i wouldnt put it passed the bush regime to do.

Answer 10

I have seen that video and it was pretty conivincing and what makes it more believable is that USA has been accused of many other huge conspiracies in the past like the moon landing etc. In all of them the skeptics and the ones that say its true both sound pretty convincing. Its hard to decide which one is true.