Who has changed their mind regarding the intents of government and subjects like the war in Iraq and 9/11?

Question

It seems to me that whenevery people answer these questions a large part of it is emotional. I was just wondering if anyone has changed their thoughts on these matters. ie. Thought 9/11 wasn't a conspiracy then thought it was ... or thought Iraq was about oil then thought it wasn't.
And also please tell me what led to the change in mind. Thanks.

I want to know your own experiences don't worry about what I've discribed and please don't limit answers to the examples I've used

Why wekker? why did you not think so to start and how did you end up changing your mind?

Answer 1

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!

We 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.

The 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.

Donald 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)

U.S Intelligence conducted exercise to simulate plane crash into government building morning of 9/11. (Boston Globe, USA Today)

Rumsfeld announces Pentagon lost track of $2.3 trillion the day before it gets hit (CBS, DoD)
Final budget of 9/11 commission was 3 million dollars. Commission interviews two of it's own members about attacks.(Newsweek)
Bush 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)
Sept. 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)

Pakistani 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)

Marvin 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.

Of 18 PNAC members, 10 will be in the new Bush Admin. (ABC)
Rumsfeld predicts terrorist attack in US 2 minutes before 1st WTC plane crash (Fayetteville Observer) and later predicts Pentagon crash minutes prior. (Telegraph)

Five of the alleged 9/11 hijackers receive training at secure US military bases. (MSNBC)
FAA manager mangled, cut, and destroyed 9/11 tapes. (Washington Post)
White House staff given Cipro on 9/11, full month before first cases of anthrax reported. (Washington Post)

Rudolph 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.

The 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.

Made public on November 18, 1997 by the Assassination Records Review Board.

Actual Operation Northwoods de-classified document from George Wahington University -Home of the National Security archive.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/doc1.pdf

Wikipedia- Operation Northwoods overveiw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

Signed 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.

The plan calls for Foreign Nationals to be framed for bombings they did not commit; and for planes to be hijacked and crashed into landmarks. Using the phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on a foreign country, thus giving Political and Military leadership the excuse, as well as the public and international backing, they need to launch a war.

Here is the fbi most wanted file for Bin Laden. It says he is left handed(not to mention it doesnt say anything about 9/11)
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm

So why is it when I watch the BIN LADEN CONFESSION TAPE that made us all believe he did it, he is writing with his right hand? Do you do that?

Please watch this one minute clip and then answer.... Its not much...but it just doesnt add up......what do you think?

(1 min Confession VIDEO)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5199846507078029476&q=bin+laden+confession

The official story just wont fit anymore. Thats what changed my mind. We have not been told the truth.

Answer 2

The answer this question is quite simple. The overwhelming support that the administration received just prior to our incursion into Iraq, stemmed from a people who were still enraged by the outrage of 9/11. As with anyone, when they are enraged, they lose all sense of rationality. The end result of this blindness is that the American people all to easily were giving the Bush administration, and their corporate backers, carte blanche to behave as they wish, and to kill and violate who they desired. Now jump to the present day, and the acrimony about 9/11 has been abated due to the passage of time, and people are seeing things a bit more lucidly. They now are more vigilant and skeptical of their government, which is what they should have been from the very start. After all the lies concerning WMDs, and the supposed connection Saddam had to Al Qaeda had been exposed, the American people have finally turned on this administration, and that is why you have such an overwhelming opposition to the war now. It’s sad, because we did not have to come to this, if Americans would just heed a few basic lessons from history. Heads of state from all forms of governments – from dictatorships to democracies – have always used national tragedies to illicit consent from their people, to conduct a whole host of atrocities and abuses of justice. I know I may sound like a conspiracy nut, but I think part of the reason why there has been a concerted effort across most of the nation to increase funds for math and science education at the expense of the humanities –specifically English, history, and sociology – is because it is the intent of ruling powers to produce a citizenry of automatons who maybe good at engineering or medicine, but who are inept at analyzing rhetoric and the machinations of the government. How else, after all, can you explain a country who can produce such inventiveness that created such marvels as, the PC, Microsoft Windows, and the IPOD, but simultaneously produces many high school and college graduates who cannot articulate themselves much better than George Bush or who cannot tell you the underlying reasons behind WWII.

Answer 3

Only a very very un-informed person would believe Iraq was about oil. Only a very uneducated person.
Only a very gullible person could twist facts in order to believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy.
Clinton probably may have caused 9/11, but it wasn't intentional or a conspiracy.
He didn't want it to happen.

Answer 4

Not so much 9/11 but I've certainly changed my mind regarding Irag. When we first went in there even though I wasn't 100% for it, I gave the administration the benefit of the doubt. Since then, with all the contrary evidence I see it as one of the most collosal mistakes we've ever done. There's too much to write on but the unilateral attack was the worst.

Answer 5

Haven't changed. I've always known that Islamofascists were responsible for 9/11 & that the war in Iraq had nothing to do with oil.

Answer 6

My mind hasn't changed at all.
I have read all the conspiracy theories, they're all bunk.
I think the conspiracy theorists are probably the same ones who keep whining that drugs are still illegal.
http://usawakeup.org

Answer 7

I have precisely the same mindset as I did that morning of 9-11. The only thing to do is to kill/capture terrorists before they're successful and demonstrate that not only will they not win, but that they will be utterly discredited to others who are watching and waiting to choose sides.

Answer 8

I get the facts and I pretty much stick with them. I work for the truth. I guess i don't like surprises, nor be taken for a chump. There seem to be many on here willing to fill the chump slot though.

Answer 9

I have not changed my mind, and I will not.
I am afraid the "change of mind" seems par for the course for Dems, especially, - Vietnam etc, Run away when it gets nasty! - very predictable and, unfortunately the way the rest of the world sees us.

Answer 10

i have changed my mind about some of that kind of stuff, but not in the ways u described