Originally Posted by a.k.a.
At the time, I
didn’t really pay attention to alternate theories. I was too busy trying to keep up with all the changes the Bush
administration was putting us through: Patriot Act, invasion of Afghanistan, new interpretations of presidential
authority, Guantanamo, airline bail outs, Homeland security...
It seems to me, that even if the official story
is correct, the Bush reaction has been extreme, self-serving, unconstitutional and counterproductive.
Now
that I look back at it I still don’t know whether the fire from a jumbo jet is hot enough to melt steel and
pulverize concrete. But it does seem unusual that this sort of thing has never happened with other skyscraper fires.
And it sure doesn’t make sense that a (paper) passport belonging to one of the alleged perpetrators could have
survived the WTC fires while the famous “black boxes” were destroyed.
And what really burns me up is how
easily somebody that questions the official story can be dismissed as a conspiracy theorist.
First of all,
there obviously was a conspiracy. Whether it was Al Qaeda, Mosad, CIA, Illuminati, or some combination thereof,
somebody obviously conspired to set these attacks up. And “They attacked us because they hate our freedoms.” has got
to be the most absurd conspiracy theory of all.
Secondly, we are currently fighting a losing war in Iraq on the
basis of a conspiracy theory that has been soundly debunked (Saddam’s WMD). Yet nobody dares to call Dick Chaney a
crazy conspiracy theorist.