Roger H. Sterling
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shaun.lawson
Punta del Este, Uruguay
Surprisingly good thread this has turned into. Excellent stuff from Rog throughout and Dank above too.
Are there still "unanswered questions"? Well, sort of. The idea of some grand conspiracy has always been fucking ridiculous, for the reasons others have set out. Not least because a conspiracy theory gives a wildly incompetent administration far too much credit: they'd have to have been geniuses to pull that off, and all that went with it, in plain sight of the whole world. But that said:
1. There is no way the 9/11 Commission was robust, comprehensive and transparent. Plenty of testimony was private and/or redacted - which must beg questions as to why.
2. At no point since 9/11 has the US ever gone after the country where the terrorists were originally from, Saudi Arabia. It's just gone after a bunch of other often less important countries instead.
3. Under Bush, despite an unprecedented global war on terror, the US never caught bin Laden.
4. Much the most important: what happened after 9/11. Because in the US government, after a fraudulent election of an idiot, were a bunch of complete lunatics and subscribers to the Project for the New American Century, whose stated goal was "full spectrum dominance": dominance of air, dominance of land, dominance of seas, dominance of communication.
And it just so happened that 9/11 gave those people - Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz et al - the perfect opportunity to put that plan into action. All of a sudden, you were either with the US or against it; all of a sudden, all sorts of international norms and rules in place since the war were being ripped up under the pretext of "we are under attack. The whole world is under attack". So much so that the Democrats and most Democrat voters were cowed into silence.
Of course, if it had all been a big conspiracy, it hardly makes sense that the US went on to fuck Iraq up so spectacularly, wrecking its reputation and prestige in the process. But it's that opportunity which the Republicans seized upon which, I think, will always lead others to question just how it came about in the first place.
Can you imagine the scale of any conspiracy to take down the WTCs and fly a plane into/shoot a bazooka into the Pentagon?
It would have to be hundreds of people involved. Hundreds of people who were quite happy to kill thousands of Americans. And not one whistle blower? And who authorised it? George Bush?
shaun.lawson
Punta del Este, Uruguay
Roger H. Sterling
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Zizou
Drunk Cretin & Hassle Magnet
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Dr. Colossus
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Does anybody seriously believe any other conspiracy theories? Always like reading about JFK but defo not sold on it
Roger H. Sterling
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Roger H. Sterling
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Lewis joining the "ah goat ye's" brigade yeah?
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