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Originally Posted by allisonthegreat
ONE IN 3 AMERICANS SAY U.S.
AIDED 9/11
SURVEY SHOCKER
By THOMAS HARGROVE and GUIDO H. STEMPEL III
The plots thicken
August 3, 2006 -- More than one-third of Americans suspect federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new poll.
The survey also found that 16 percent of Americans speculate that secretly planted explosives, not burning passenger jets, were the real reason the massive Twin Towers of the World Trade Center collapsed.
The national Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll of 1,010 adults also found that anger against the federal government is at record levels, with 54 percent saying they "personally are more angry" at the government than they used to be.
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Hmmmn, I wonder whether one third of americans would also be suspicious of straw polls taken on paranoid conspiracy theories as well, I would suspect it would be higher than that. In terms of the alleged conspiracy, lets look at that for a moment.
It suggests that a nebulous "secret government organization" in the U.S. was capable of pulling off the craziest foreign policy escapade of all time, destroying a large section of lower Manhatten and much of the Pentagon (which is supposedly the bastion of all secrets such as aliens and the like),
leaving no hard evidence of any kind and no reliable witnesses. Why then do the same security services find it so difficult to simply assassinate the leaders of hostile regiemes, which would be much cheaper and carry far less risk, as well as not involving killing fellow citizens and their own agents, damaging the economy of U.S., and destroying their own headquarters and a prime symbol of capitalist success and achievement? Methinks that perhaps in such instances the more simple (if mundane) answer that none of what happened on 911 or following has been of any benefit to the U.S. and that the U.S. government although very powerful is not
all powerful , just another run-of-the mill goverment trying to deal with events (good or bad) as they arise (just like every other government on planet earth, non earth goverments may be different should they exist). This to me would be a more believeable scenario.
Though perhaps many people find the idea that somehow there is some kind of evil force in the world controlling everything more appealling. It used to be the Catholic Church or the Jews, but now its the U.S. goverment. In fact the truth is that no-one or nation is in control of events to any great extent as there are too many people, countries, companies, organizations, religions, philosophies, and ideas for anyone to have the kind of omnipitent control that you describe. I'm not saying that there are not people who would like that to be the case, and sometimes such people have even gained power in various countries, but as yet no-one has managed to achieve anything like that, and more than likely never will as that is the way of the world, thank god.
Also, more generally, if the U.S. needed a pretext to go to war with another country, it could come up with a far less intricate series of events such as the sinking of ship, or the bombing of an embassy, or some alleged imminent danger that that country posed to the U.S. After all the U.S. didn't need to devastate Pearl Harbour in order to declare war on Japan as the Japanese obiliginly did that themselves, they didn't need to Bomb London to declare war on Nazi Germany, as again the Germans did that all by themselves, in fact they didn't even need to assasinate Jane Fonda to create a pretext for Vietnam they just used national interest to get involved there. So perhaps it was indeed Al Queda who bombed the WTC etc on sept 11th and it is they who wish to see a general conflict in the middle east and upon the west in general, after all they keep saying they did it and they do.
In short, its purile nonsense.