How many people believe the official story about the 9/11 attacks is not true?

Question

Are they all the same in your opinion or are there gradations?

Do you take some more serious as others or are they all... in your honest opinion?

Answer 1

Anyone who takes the governments version of what happened at face value is in some serious need of help.

Answer 2

I think what happened is that we were sucker punched and that we should have been able to prevent the attacks. but no one was taking the threat seriously enough.

I question whether we are taking the threat seriously enough today.

Obviously, those who believe that "9/11 was an inside job" are not taking the threat of terrorism seriously at all. My theory is that they find it easier to believe that Bush did it, because that problem can be solved easily by an election, or an impeachment, followed to a return of the perceived idyllic Clinton days. If they force themselves to consider the truth - that there are legions of suicidal, homocidal, genocidal maniacs out to cause us grave harm - then they have to face the fact that we are in for a long and costly war.

Denial compels the conclusion that Bush did it.

The facts compel the conslusion that that is not the case.

PS Many liberals react to the "Bush did 9/11" stories the same as many conservatives did to the "Clinton Arkansas death list" - they say that the president may not be doing a great job, but the attacks on him are going too far.

Answer 3

I dont believe it was orchestrated by us, and a lot of wingnuts need help, however they sure are withholding a lot fo things I dont understand why they would release such as the cameras of the pentagon etc.. these videos could easly end the debate. Lots of wierd unexplainable things but I think at least 99% it wasnt orchestrated by our government. The thing about the planes not being scrambled and the fact that even an hour after the first plane had hit the towers no jets ewre scrambled is a bit fishy. If anythign they recognized a genuine oppertunity to go into the middle east which weve wanted to do for over a decade and ordered a stand down. Just like JFK, we may never know

Answer 4

I'm pretty sure that the official story was true. It might not be a complete report, but the 9/11 attacks were not an inside job. I'd say that there are probably some details that are being kept from the public until they are investigated more thoroughly, but that is to be expected with these things.

Answer 5

I don't believe Bush & co was less surprised and horrified by 9/11 than the rest of the world, the issue I have is how they responded to it.

Answer 6

Latest polls show almost 50% here at home, and more overseas.

There isn't a single piece of evidence that backs up the official story. It's just a fairy tale we've been told, with nothing to back it up.

To believe the story is to believe that not only were the alleged hijackers the most brilliant criminals in history, but they could also defy the laws of physics.

Answer 7

The first reply to this answer was the best. 9/11 was not an inside job and anyone who believes it was should be fitted for a straightjacket right away.

Not only are the formulas to arrive at conspiracy theories such as these false (taking small discrepancies that anyone will obtain in the course of a long running and multiply sourced investigation as "evidence" that something is amiss), the conspiracy theorist is truly narrow-minded in that if he believes the deceivers are controlling all the information (Such as it is with the 9/11 conspiracy) he will only trust the sources that already agree with him. There is no exchange of ideas nor room for growth.

Answer 8

I dont believe the official story because some things dont add up. I dont know why there is so much that is being hidden from us if it's simply terrorist flying airplanes into buildings.

All all how have done nothing but bash people. did the question say that it was the government? No, all he asked was do you believe the offical story. Why do you people get so worked up over simple questions, does it hurt your tiny brains?

Answer 9

Lots, including me! My main beef with the official version is the bogus claim that there were no jets available to prevent the planes from hitting the Twin Towers or the Pentagon... it's just plain flat-out a LIE! There WERE planes available that COULD have prevented the tragedy, IF the government had CHOSEN TO DO SO! - They LET it happen, at the very least... Whether they actually PLANNED the attacks, I don't know...

Answer 10

There was a time months ago, that I still believed the official story. Although, I had great problems accepting that WTC7 imploded with only minor damage. The fact that the "collapse" of #7 went underreported by the national media and completely avoided by the 9/11 commision report, only fueled my suspicion.

After doing some research on the 9/11 tragedy, I now understand that the attack was most probably perpetrated by forces within our own government: Bush's NeoCons to be more exact.

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Most all the evidence that is available to us, show that the WTC buildings were rigged with explosives. Our own government had motive as was well as an opportunity to do this crime. Here is the evidence, presented for your scrutiny.

FAKE CONFESSION
The official government story is that the 9/11 attack was orchestrated by Al Qaeda, which is lead by Osama bin Laden. The proof our government provided was a video with Osama confessing to the crime. The problem with the video is that the person in the video does not look like Osama bin Laden: See picture.
http://911blimp.net/vid_fakeOsamaVideo.shtml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk519bkcLjg

EVIDENCE
There are many other factors that do not fit the official story. They include, secondary explosions that were seen, heard, reported, and recorded by firefighters, in and around the WTC buildings.
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4574366633014832928&q=firefighter+bombs+in+the+building
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcRs1fv8i3I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHz9YWVgJWM

Here is a video clip showing a trail of explosions just before the destruction wave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_DkzhonpGY&mode=related&search=

Molten, beyond red hot, "steel" was video recorded coming out of the South Tower just before it collapsed. Jet fuel does not burn hot enough to turn steel to liquid. Melted red hot steel was also found in "ground zero" of all three WTC buildings, including WTC7; the one no jet ever hit.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ExrVgioIXvk&search=thermite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3D2myMbQjQ

FORENSICS
A chemical analysis of the solidified molten iron,conducted by independent firms, yielded an explosive, called Thermite. Also found was a WTC core beam; most probably cut using the demolition cutting charge (Thermate). No core beams were left standing beyond a few feet high, for it to have been cut by an Iron Workers torch.
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/341238.shtml
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc_charges.html

CONFESSION
We also have a video recording, where owner Larry Silverstein, admits to demolishing WTC7.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7750532340306101329

MOTIVE
The New Conservatives (Neo-Cons), with the help of their friends, started planning the invasion of Iraq, shortly after Pres. Bush took office. Apparently, the plan would include the attack of the WTC buildings. It did this to get the support of congress and the nation, to attack Iraq. Read it from their own PENAC document. Pay special attention to the section entitled "Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force" page 50 and the top of page 51, where it states we need a new Pearl Harbor attack to get the ball rolling.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

OPPORTUNITY
Witnesses saw a work crew going into the WTC buildings with rolls of wire, supposedly for internet upgrades. Tenants were moved around while crews "upgraded" the cable systems. The Port Authority cut power to the building for a whole weekend, just prior to the attack; shutting down the entire security systems. Witnesses also heard crews operating heavy hammering equipment that left a gray cement like dust, in the building. This activity took place just weeks before the 911 attack: The Port Authority had released control of the buildings to Larry Silverstein, six weeks prior to the attack: He made upwards of $5 billion off of the attack.
See "9/11 Mysteries" video: Time = 1:03:55 through 1:07:00 and 1:19:55 through 1:24:09
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6708190071483512003&q=911+mysteries&hl=en-CA

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There is also strong evidence to support a Douglas A-3 Skywarrior armed with a missile hit the Pentagon. One thing we can be certain about; it was not a Boeing 757, as our government claims. Listen to this retired General, He says, "The Plane does not fit the hole; so what did hit the Pentagon...?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2VoUN-7RVU&eurl=

One might expect to see three holes in the pentagon, one for the main body and two more for each engine. The engine and engine parts were found outside of the building, they never penetrated the building thus no hole was created by them. The deep 18 foot hole was most probably made by an on board missile and not the aircraft itself. A radiation expert claims high-radiation readings near the Pentagon indicates depleted uranium (DU) munitions may have been used.
http://www.rense.com/general67/radfdf.htm

Witnesses say, the U.S. military secretly had Raytheon Co. refit an A-3 Skywarrior with new jet engines, a missile, and a Global Hawk guidance system, just prior to 9/11. Coincidentally, five key executives of Raytheon Co. went missing on 9/11. The official word is they died in the hijacked planes on 9/11.
http://tomflocco.com/fs/WitnessesLink.htm

The Jet engine(s) found may be key to identifying what type of aircraft hit the Pentagon: At the very least, they help determine a Boeing 757 did not hit the Pentagon. Both the jet engine housing as well as a "front end rotor head" have been identified as belonging to a Pratt & Whitney JT8D jet engine. The P&W JT8D engine has been used on the smaller Boeing 727 as well as a retrofit for the A-3 Skywarior. Two P&W JT8D's do not provide enough thrust to get a Boeing 757 off the ground much less sufficient power to perform the military precision maneuvers the aircraft in question did.
http://www.rense.com/general63/ident.htm
http://www.karlschwarz.com/02-02-05_Schwarz.pdf

A photograph of a cracked windshield found at the crash site strongly resembles the top canopy glass found on the Skywarrior: No windows of this shape are found on a Boeing 757.
http://home.att.net/~carlson.jon/911Pentagon.htm

The landing gear is one part found in the crash site that may be linked to a Boeing 757. It could also be a part that was retrofitted on an A-3 Skywarrior, since the wheels would most likely need to be replaced with something still available.
http://www.pentagonresearch.com/084.html

A geometric analysis can show the aircraft that hit the Pentagon is under 85 feet long and therefore too small to be a Boeing 757, which is over 155 feet long. An A-3 Skywarrior is 76 feet 4 inches long. See geometric analysis: also see revision note under comments.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Avt4N5qfsIKkwbXeL7iLXmPsy6IX?qid=20061122203115AAj8XR6

Answer 11

I think we don't know what happened. There are many different possible stories.

I think Bush took advantage of it. He may have allowed it to happen, or worse. At the very least, he didn't take the threat seriously, he was informed and didn't act, and cut the antiterrorism budget.

I also don't believe Osama is the "ostracized" "black sheep" of the bin Laden family.