Why do liberals exhonerate the enemy with conspiracy theories about the US attacking herself?

Question

I can honestly say that I don't believe that there are a more stupid and naive group in the world as US liberals.

Conservatives do NOT engage in this conspiracy nonsense; however, even many conserves have their eyes blinded to the problem, even Mr. Bush. So, Lawrence Louis, I am on the same page as you are. I see wrong in the Bush mentality, and I see flat-out stupidity in the liberal realm.

Answer 1

I agree with you with the addition of one missing word:
Why do liberals ATTEMPT to exonerate...
I say that because the only ones who honestly believe this manure are the REALLY far left who are so intellectually dishonest that they have talked themselves into believing that the stain on Monica's blue dress was put there via turkey-baster by a "neo-con" dry-cleaner who somehow stole Billy-boy's sperm from his latest visit to the urologist.
They can come up with all sorts of conspiracy theories as far as I'm concerned. They just make themselves look all the more foolish.

Answer 2

If you honestly believe all that about anyone left of center then you must be living in the wrong country. According to you there's about 50% of the population here who are the stupidest, most naive people on the planet.

Maybe you should move away from all these stupid people. I hear houses in Iraq are going for dirt cheap--and if you don't like what your neighbors there think then you can just shoot them. That would seem to be right up your alley.

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I'm glad right-wing pundits and right-wing followers don't engage in conspiracy theory... like talk of Vincent Foster's death and the deaths of people close to the Clintons on talk radio that openly implied the Clintons were murderers. I remember that one.

The truth of the matter is that the right just doesn't get nearly as much juicy stuff to work with for conspiracies as the left does. Using fear as a tool for an executive and party power grab--and to declare war on a country just for the hell of it--just makes for higher quality conspiracies than BJ's for the chubby chaser in cheif and a small failed land deal. I'm not even a huge Clinton fan--until I compare his administration to Bush's.

The Republicans and Ken Starr wasted 50 million tax dollars trying to find something they could prove--some tasty conspiracy--and couldn't do it. If Democrats got an independent counsel for a witch hunt with a blank check and an open timetable you've got to know they'd find much better stuff.

I don't buy much of any of the conspiracy theories from either side but the right provides much more fertile ground for them.

Answer 3

Sure there are some within the liberal camp that posit grandiose claims about the events that transpired on 9/11, and how it was somehow an inside job. Of course what Mr. Skerry refuses to fess up to is that this represents the fringe of the left wing, and not its main constituency. It would be the equivalent of using the KKK, who proclaim themselves to be conservative right wing Christians, and portray them as the conservative norm. John Skerry, any individual that has to resort to vilification is a person who has just admitted that he has no merits to his arguments.

I would like to ask a question in reverse. You tell me why conservative politicians, - who are clearly representative of their constituency, and not a fringe group – could claim that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 and that after many economic sanctions, have the capital to create weapons of mass destruction? At least the so-called liberal conspiracy is not causing men and women to die under false pretenses. The conservative conspiracy, however, is.

Answer 4

Did you mean exonerate? Spell check is there for a reason.

The conspiracy theorists are grasping at straws in this case. I, personally, don't think BushCo had the time or the intelligence to pull off something of this magnitude. Did they ignore warnings? Sure. Is their current foreign policy exacerbating the problem? You bet.

Now, a personal question. Do you actually have anything worthwhile to contribute to a debate on issues or are you just here to insult and denigrate people simply because they don't march in jack-booted synchronicity with you?

Answer 5

You can say something honestly? Wow. I never knew.

But to answer your question, there's a difference between exonerating those who have actually committed terrorist acts, and exonerating the hundreds of millions of innocent people that you insist on lumping in part and parcel with those terrorists.

Then there's the fact that you apparently don't understand the definition of the word conspiracy. It's an agreement between two parties to perform some illegal action (let's say, cause harm).

Saying that more people were involved doesn't eliminate the guilt of those who were also involved. So, saying that the terrorists may have had help from within the US government doesn't mean that the terrorists are off the hook.

So, ignoring whether the conspiracy theories are true or not (I think not), your question still makes the usual number of blatantly incorrect assumptions about both facts and law.

Answer 6

Strawman Argument 101

Answer 7

Because they have bought into the 'Bad Bush' mentality that started after the 2000 Presidential election and have never opened their eyes to any other alternatives. The Bush bashers of today are the greatest threat to America, bar-none.

So many on this site simply repeat the DNC's talking points, it's unbelievable to me they are even Americans.

Answer 8

Explain how a paper passport of a terrorist can survive an inferno (and be found quickly in megatons of rubble no less!), when even the black boxes did not survive intact and took months to locate. Then perhaps the conspiracy nuts will pipe down.

Answer 9

It a simple answer. It's an easier problem to solve that way, you can vilify your political opponents and hope to get them voted out of office. Muslims as enemies, now that's a real problem that requires actual action - much tougher to deal with.

Answer 10

Stupidity. The notion that the twin towers were blown up by explosives is a classic example.