Are conspiracy theories on 9-11 wacky?

Question

The most common conspiracy theory regarding 9-11 is that the World Trade Center towers were brought down by "controlled demolition" or "explosives". The theory is that Bush carried out this plan. Don't you think that theory is wacky?

1- Where would Bush find 9 suicide pilots to crash into the buildings? (3 suicide pilots per plane)

2- Large structures can take up to 3 months to prepare for demolition, so where would Bush get 50-100 volunteers who WOULD keep a secret and kill 3000 Americans without saying anything?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_implosion

3- How could could a task this large (and so long) be achieved without any common person or security not discovering anything suspicious?

4- Why do the VAST MAJORITY structural engineers believe there was NO conspiracy? Could it be that the people who KNOW structural design understand that buildings CAN be brought down by crashing huge jet planes full of fuel into these buildings?

Answer 1

Yup! They are all wacked. The one most important thing they ALWAYS leave out is the FACT that OBL admitted the crime on video. All of those conspiracies are about as wacky as they come and any who believe them are just as wacked and I know one of them personally, he's a fruit loop.

Answer 2

The theories are wacky if you want to say that it was Bush alone who was behind it. But most people who believe 9/11 was an inside job aren't saying "Bush did it"; most say that it is unknown who was ultimately behind it, but that it didn't happen like we were told - and that is because it is obvious that it didn't happen like we were told by government and media.

To address your individual points:

1 - you're assuming that "suicide pilots" were used. If 9/11 was an inside job as so many people say it was, you need to get rid of the assumptions. Obviously, planes flew into the towers. Beyond that, you do not know who was flying them. The technology exists and existed in 2001 to fly commercial jets by remote control. I'm not saying that's what happened; I'm saying it's a possibility. As for where a person would find 9 suicidal pilots, well, doesn't the "official story" say that "al Qaeda" recruited the "hijackers"? Well even if "Bush did it", he obviously wasn't going to go out and do the recruiting, was he? Something few people care to realize is that it is very well possible that al Qaeda is run by the CIA or some other "American" agency. The CIA did, after all, create Pakistan's ISI, which in turn created the Taliban. Oh, and let's not forget the hundreds of millions of dollars of funding the CIA gave bin Laden in the 80's.

2 - if 9/11 was an inside job, the planners could have had all the time in the world to plant explosives. All it would have required is a person with 100% access to the buildings. You might want to look into who was in charge of security for those buildings, and then you would have a clue. Oh, and while you're at it, check and see who was in charge of airport security for Boston and Newark on 9/11.

3 - I would suspect this was achieved the same way it would have been achieved if 9/11 had not been an inside job. Actually, foreign intelligence groups DID learn of certain details and DID warn the US. The high-level US officials didn't pay attention to the threats because... 9/11 was an inside job. Lower-level FBI, CIA, INS and other agents had been investigating certain links for a long time and were continually thwarted by superiors in Washington DC. Well, there's a very logical explanation for that...

4 - When did you talk to the VAST MAJORITY of anyone? What, you think because Popular Mechanics does a piece "debunking" 9/11 conspiracy theories that is reason enough to believe the official story? Who owns Popular Mechanics? Who owns the media? We've caught government lying via the media over and over and over again over the past few decades. The details that have come out about 9/11, not to mention the few years of history that followed it, are quite enough to show any reasonably intelligent person that it was OBVIOUSLY an inside job. As it relates to the structural elements of the WTC, I'm sorry, but jet fuel from the planes crashing into the buildings would not even come close to melting the columns. And even if the damage from the plane impacts and the heat from the fires were enough to bring the buildings down, then the buildings would not have come down perfectly in the way in which they did. Oh, and then there's the problem with WTC7.

But to answer your actual question (are conspiracy theories on 9/11 wacky?), the answer is:

Some of them are. It appears that the "wacky" 9/11 conspiracy theories were created to distract people away from the legitimate theories, and so there would be easy arguments to "debunk". Popular Mechanics and other mainstream media sources never spend any time debunking the main points the "conspiracy theorists" have been arguing. It's much easier tearing down a straw man.

Answer 3

To poster #8 - Yeah, there's always a few exceptions to the rule.

To poster #10 - Of course there are a minority of people who think this was a Bush plot, but don't worry. They can't answer the simplist of these questions either.

To the poster 2 below me - Nobody is saying that the official account is 100% correct. However, the reality is that the towers were not controlled explosions. Of course there are questions. Nobody has all the answers.

To poster (4 below this post) - 1) So you are saying that Bush got Al Qaeda to recruit hijackers? Wow!!! I wonder what percentage of democrats believe that? Even 98% of Bush haters would have a hard time believing that. 2) One person to demolish a 100 story tower? LOL! It takes a TEAM 3 months to demolish a building working 8 hours a day. Read the link in the original post. "All the time in the world" huh? You mean ONE person plants an explosive each day, then one the next day until 100 days later, the building is fully prepared? That's funny. So what you're saying is that multiple bombs throughout the building will be left there for months? Hahaha...funny! 3) Prove it. 4) The public knows that the engineering community as a whole does not support the towers being rigged. Very few "experienced structural engineers have spoken pro conspiracy..

Answer 4

Even if we assume that it were possible for the necessary conspiracy to have taken place and kept secret, there's one other fact you didn't mention.

Those buildings were structurally supported at the corners.

Had it been a controlled demolition, the explosions would have been visible in the various tapes of their fall.

By the way... as far as it not being possible for the buildings to fall straight down... Isn't it possible that the engineers that put tall things up know that they have to come down "someday, somehow"? They aren't designed by kids playing with Legos, you know. It might have occurred to them to design the buildings to fall straight down, rather than fall over and take out several city blocks.

Answer 5

There never was any truth in these conspiracy. If people knew what it would take,like you said to caring out a 9/11 by Bush they would not have a second thought. They need to let it rest and go after the ones who planned this and carried it out. Stop blaming Bush!Is he really that smart? Liberals say he is an idiot.That is talking out of both sides of the mouth.

Answer 6

Politics have lots of grey areas. Physics are indisputable and neutral. Educate yourself about what free fall speed is. After you have done that, please explain how the towers can collapse completely in less than 10 seconds, and building 7 (not even hit by a plane) can collapse in 6.5 seconds. The NIST report says fires bought these buildings down at free fall speed, that breaks the laws of physics. This is indisputable science. If you dismiss what I have said here, then you are digressing from the scientific truth. As far as the corporate media goes, they are part of the political system. Google "lobbyists". The bottom line is that the politicians use lobbyist to accept legal bribes from corporate media sources. Also, google "Operation Mockingbird" you will find declassified documents which explain that CIA agents work in corporate media to promote the agenda of active politicians. Go ahead and google it. Answer my free fall speed question and google "lobbyists" and "Operation Mockingbird", then ask yourself what's COOKOO.

Answer 7

Hahahaha...Sorry, but seeing the opinion of "Charlie Sheen" versus "Rosie O'Donnell" as the basis to believe or not believe a conspiracy theory is just toooooo funny...

Answer 8

Or is it wacky that we just blindly trust our government and never question anything that happens?

I'm not saying I agree with all conspiracy therioes but there are still many unanswered questions about 9/11... and people who have a brain think about these things

Answer 9

I think the most damning evidence against the theory is Bush himself. I mean I'd be impressed if he could successfully start a campfire, let alone orchestrate something this collossal and devious.

Answer 10

I agree with you that most theories are whacky and give Bush and the CIA waaaaaaaaay too much credit.

But that doesn't make questioning the official account, whacky.

There are questions... unfortunately the ridiculous ones take away from the honest ones.