How can any American?

Question

Honestly believe 9/11 was a conspiracy? How can anyone believe our elected leader could plot to kill thousands of people on home soil? Especially when:

a. Said president was only in office 7 months when this tragedy occurred.

b. The media would be on this like a fly on poo....There would be no suppressing it, I don't care who runs it.

c. Hundreds of eyewitnesses gave the same story. Was this mass hypnosis?

d. Dozens of structural engineers' explainations on how the towers fell.

I am sure there are many more credible reasons, but to me these are the biggies.

arcticchick - great point!

nickf - i never said anything about opposing bush, even i don't agree with all his policies, but I'm not gonna cry conspiracy because of my disagreement with his policies

Answer 1

Their blind hatred of Bush makes them incapable of rational thought.

I always ask the conspiracy theorists why they think *they* haven't been killed yet. If the gov't was really willing to slaughter 3000 people just for showing up at work on 9/11, they sure as hell wouldn't think twice about creating "convenient accidents" for the loose change guy and his minions.

Answer 2

I don't think 911 was a conspiracy by our government. I do think our government will lie to us and does so on a regular basis. They give us enough to keep comfortable so that we really don't stay involved enough to have the slightest idea what is going on. Keep focused on what is important. There are people now saying that the holocaust didn't take place. Then there was the JFK assassination. I sat there and watched everything. I went to Dealy Plaza. I know from the Zapruder film that Kennedy was shot through his head with matter going all over the policeman behind him. I stood on the spot where Zapruder shot his film at Dealy Plaza. No way that shot came out of the depository--grassy knoll all the way. There may have been other shots but there is no doubt about the head shot. And yet, there was this big lie the next morning about how the bullet richoceted into his head. Please. . .and yet the general public said and did nothing. But I know the holocaust took place and I saw what I saw. . .Focus on what is important. . .the government is capable of most anything. . .Check out the beginning of WWII and what our government knew and didn't stop. . .It just goes on and on. . .

Answer 3

There will always be a fringe group that will sometimes -- sometimes -- promote a conspiracy theory which looks appealing from a certain perspective.

Take the "lunar landing filmed in a sound stage" conspiracy theory; the Kennedy-is-alive-in-Cuba theory...

I knew someone who witnessed the plane crashing into the Pentagon. He saw it. At the time, he and perhaps hundreds of others in traffic stopped dead and watched in horror and silence.

And yet, there are those who insist that a plane did not strike the Pentagon.

Go figure...

Answer 4

I don't think it was a conspiracy. Despite all of the different theories and explanations - the simplest is usually best.

Some fanatic ideologues hijacked some planes and flew them into buildings.

It WAS on the other hand an example of willful ignorance on the part of President Bush, and several other members of his administration. Despite repeated warnings about the threat that Al Queda presented, they steadfastly refused to take the threats seriously.

And we all know how that turned out.

Members of the Clinton administration were repeatedly ridiculed and marginalized when they attempted to give the incoming Bush administration a heads up on possible threats.

Meanwhile, neoconvervative think tank idiots had actually written out their manifesto which they claimed themselves would take a long time to implement, barring some catastrophic event, like 'another pearl harbor' (their exact words).

You do the math. Someone has to pay for allowing this to happen. Bush had only been president for 7 months, and cons constantly use this as an example of why he shouldn't be held responsible.

Although Clinton had only been president a few months when the first WTC attacks happened - and they still blame him for them (despite the fact that everyone involved was captured and brought to justice).

It's time to wake up people.

Answer 5

These are the same people who go with how we staged the moon landing, the initial Mars landers of the 60s/70s, the JFK assanitation, etc, etc.

It was a highly complex feet to pull off to take over 4 planes simulataneously, fly them to intended targets, all the while not having the Air Force shoot you down or the passengers regain control of the plane while your only weapons were box cutters and knives.
Also the fact you had to train people to fly a large passenger airliner.
Besides, you could either political party planned this as a win-win. If your opposing president was in office, you could blame the whole lack of security on them. If your own party was in control, you could use it to fight whatever little conflict you wanted.

Answer 6

My biggie is this : What about all the phone calls from the passengers on the planes ? Calls to family and loved ones . They give explicit details of what was REALLY going on in those planes . Does anybody think for one moment that a victim's family would lie about talking to their mother, father, brother, sister, husband, or wife for the last time . . . . . Please !

Answer 7

not only that but the whole thing is rediculous. If it were such a grand scheme, why did we not just plant some WMDs in Iraq and said "here they are". How easy would that have been? I suppose in a country of 300 million people we are going to get a few hand fulls worth of goofy opinions on just about anything.

Answer 8

Terrorists started that rumor to divide our country. Thankfully 99.9% of Americans are smart enough not to believe that crap.

Anyway, I always wondered if it was such a "controlled demolition", why did the second tower (that was hit) fall before the first tower?

Answer 9

THANK U, thank u for brining this up, and i believe u 100%, why would anyone want to kill that many people in the 1st place, maybe the terrorists! i cant believe that people r constantly attackin bush, they need to stop, and soon! HE DIDNT DO IT!!!

Answer 10

well i don't think that it was a conspiracy, i don't know it doesn't feel like it, some people say it's just that some people around the world are getting sick of the american "pride", all americans come accross as cocky and arrogant, for reasons not everyone is ok with, and well i suppose the people who were behind those attacks were trying to them a lesson...which don't get me wrong,i'm not ok with this attacks i think it was really unfair that so many innocent people died over this...and all that's left to be done is to learn from this and see what could've provocked, not to look for the country or people behind it, and blow them off.