Re: RE: with 911 coming up ,w
earth_as_one said:
I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I can't claim to know what happened on 9/11. But I'm pretty sure the official story or common perceptions of events that day aren't the whole truth.
Certainly the media cooperated with the US government to manipulate perceptions to generate support for the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Some facts just don't make sense:
We know little about the people alleged to have hijacked those planes.
Most people don't know their names or which countries they came from.
The US government didn't make a big deal about most hijackers coming from Saudi Arabia.
The American government grounded all planes after 9/11 except charters destined to Saudi Arabia.
The Bush administration interferes with all attempts to get at the truth of this event.
I could go on, but I think you get my point that the American government's handling of 9/11 and our media's reporting on these events fail the smell test.
It shouldn't be a surprise that the absence of facts, obvious media manipulations and suspicious American government behavior lead to speculation and conspiracy theories.
You would have to be pretty weak minded to believe that American government has told the truth about this event and has not used this event to manipulate perceptions regarding related events in the middle east.
9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Iran...
???
You don't have to believe that the government is not telling the whole truth to conclude Bush was behind 9/11.
Bush and his advisers were setting their sights on China and Russia. They dismissed intelligence about a possible attack. How stupid do they look? These cold war dinosaurs were defaulting to the only threat they knew and ignored the real threat to the security of the United States. Rice, for example, is a Sovietologist by training. The Bush administration was frozen in time.
The Republicans are supposed to be tough on foreign enemies. Yet, 9/11 happened on their watch. Could you imagine how the Republican party would have reacted if Clinton was President?
Its enormously embarrassing both to the United States and the Bush family that 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, not to mention to the House of Saud.
There were major screw-ups between the FBI and the CIA. Not only was 9/11 a massive intelligence failure, but those two government agencies were engaged in a turf war that hindered the flow of intelligence. How stupid does that look?
Etc., etc., etc.
There was no way the 9/11 commission was going to lay fault or blame on any one or two people or entities. 9/11 had an enormous effect on the American psyche, one that few foreigners understand. The only way to come to any conclusion through the political process was to blame systematic failure. That's partly true, but there is more culpability towards certain parties than what the report concluded. And for certain, not all the facts came out, because if they had, then insitutions and people would have to take more responsibility for the greatest act of war perpetuated on US soil in country's history.
So why would anyone be surprised that the official story isn't the complete story?
