Which one scares you more with regard to 9/11?

Question

Believing that someone in the government was involved (either by perpetrating it, or letting it happen); or believing that the government (with resources such as the FBI, CIA, etc etc - so many resources) was incompetent enough to let a band of lunatics from a third world country pull off such a thing?

Please note: it doesn't matter which scenario you believe to be true - the question is about which scenario is the scariest to you.

Answer 1

If anyone thinks the Govt did not know ( at least ) the possibility of an attack, or did not have a stake in being involved then they should go back to their christian coalition compound and hide under their bed filled with oil money!
The intelligence community had spent so much time developing in the cold war, and with the increase of technology; it is only an ignorant person who says that the govt had no way of stopping the attacks. Two points which still make no sense. The pentagon, and flight 93. Have you seen the points of crashing? and the VASTLY ridiculous amount so of no evidence that a plane flying hundreds of MPH crashing? and To compare that to Lokerbee, flight 800, or any such event which involved a plane as large as those.
Looks more like a missile hit them both, more then a full size plane spanning well over 100 feet wide.
Long and the short of it, we the people of America have been duped. Duped by an Administration that tile this day is being caught acting illegally and invasive into the lives of each citizen it was build to serve.
Is terrorism real? sure. I don't doubt that USL and crew have done some awful acts. So of course it would make sense to blame them. But there are way too many odd co-incidences, and close relations of people, ideas, and events to say this was something the the Bush Administration is innocent of.

I think this administration stole the presidency, from the beginning, and I think they have high jacked the government to serve their self serving purposes. And I think they had involvement in 9/11. This strikes me hard as I had three Friends and co-workers die that day. I had been on the phone working with them overnight as part of my job. I left work at 8 am, to their comments about how I suck cause I was going home to bed, and their regular day was just beginning. Good guys, family men, and I enjoyed working with them and even enjoyed their razing me about ending my shift. I was awoken at 11am, to see that these great guys, innocent guys were murdered in a building that fell. They worked near the top.
SO this is very personal, and I take it very seriously the idea of who is truly to blame, and I have looked at any and every bit of evidence I could find. And there is WAY to much to say either the Gov.t was NOT involved, or that the govt was too incompetent.
I worked in Telecommunications, at that time, and I know how easy was and is to find out all kinds of info transmitted and received across any lines of wide area communications. A Govt that spent over fifty years in the cold war, with the biggest budgets, and the top minds in the world to resource from? And you think that they could not have known enough to put things together? What a primrose path you must walk to believe that!

Answer 2

Actually, if you think about it they are both very frightening. There were some FBI people who tried to warn their bosses and no one listened. that's scary. I can't imagine why they didn't at least investigate. Then the other scenario is scary too. I can't imagine how I would feel if it ever came out that the government was really involved. Your question does make one think -- very good. Although I guess you could say either way the government was involved. Either through stupidity or intent.

Answer 3

No on in the US Government was involved with the tragedies of 911...at least not in specific planes crashing into the buildings nor that plan. To believe, suggest or think contrary is immature and baseless.

The second part of the question is the real isssue and is obviously a concern to ALL Americans

Answer 4

Definitely the latter. The first one is like believing in the tooth fairy, it just isn't real. The fact that the government wasn't able to act on the intelligence they had before 9/11 happened, is scary as hell. That is one reason why I don't mind the government doing whatever is necessary to track terrorists in and out of this country.

Answer 5

Believing the government was involved. I have believed the government to be supremely incompetent for a long time. To even think that out government is so corrupt that they would engineer an attack against their own people makes me shiver.

Answer 6

The Bush administraton had that memo: "Bin Laden determined to strike within U.S." and then downscaled their anti-terrorist efforts. I blame Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Armitage, and Rove.

The Clinton administration knew Bin Laden was a bad guy and tried to take him out, at least -- remember the bungled bombing of a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan? That was an attempted strike on al-Qaida.

Answer 7

I thought it was the same thing. The CIA is part of the government are they not? The FBI too? I'm not really sure.

Answer 8

Probably the latter. If it was the above, then we just know to vote smarter, try to vote in someone who will actually try to improve the nation, or choose the BETTER of two evils at least. If it was the latter, there is too much chance it could happen again.

Answer 9

Both ideas are scary, I just hope the government will learn and do better in the future

Answer 10

what scare's people the most about 9/11 is their life and their childern's life.That there also scaredand wondering if it is going to happen again without any warning.