I've posted this before but it bears repeating:
My 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
Some religious fanatics decided they wanted to kill a bunch of people in the name of their god. They decided to hijack planes and fly them into buildings.
The W Bush administration was obsessed with Saddam and discounted the threat of Al Qaida. Certain intelligence reports were overlooked due to negligence and distraction by key US leaders. When 9/11 happened, it was more due to negligence of the Bush administration than the tactical genius of the terrorists.
Note that I say "negligence" and not "complicity".
Anyway, after it all happened, some in the W Bush administration were willing to take advantage of the situation to stoke fear into a shocked public, that they might be uncontested as they push their internal and foreign policies. All the controversy about W's theft of the 2000 election was forgotten. All the political resistance to his then radical agenda (now centrist by today's GOP standards) disappeared. W had 8 years of nearly absolute power.
However, shocked as the public may have been, they couldn't attack Iraq right away. They weren't able to find or successfully fabricate any evidence to pin the attack on Saddam. So they put some minimal effort into Afghanistan, dropped a few bombs, collapsed the government and called it a day. Bush even said on video that he didn't care about Osama. It wasn't important to his agenda.
Enough phony evidence was fabricate and assembled to convince the public that Saddam was in league with these terrorists (he wasn't) and that he was making WMD (he wasn't). Any in the CIA who dared to contradict or debunk the case for war with Iraq had their career's ruined and they were made examples of. A reporter in the White House Press Room finally had the temerity to ask W Bush a pointed question about Iraq ...in 2006. Her career was subsequently destroyed.
Today, we have a spineless media that is completely owned by corporations and cowed against reporting any information but rather into sticking to being stenographers and "reporting the controversy". At most, reporters today reviewing serious problems with our political system are allowed to say "both sides..." and "Washington (in general) is broken". This fake and compulsive centrism provides cover for an increasingly radical right wing and a GOP that has gone completely insane.
That's my conspiracy theory. I think it's supported pretty well by the facts.
My 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
Some religious fanatics decided they wanted to kill a bunch of people in the name of their god. They decided to hijack planes and fly them into buildings.
The W Bush administration was obsessed with Saddam and discounted the threat of Al Qaida. Certain intelligence reports were overlooked due to negligence and distraction by key US leaders. When 9/11 happened, it was more due to negligence of the Bush administration than the tactical genius of the terrorists.
Note that I say "negligence" and not "complicity".
Anyway, after it all happened, some in the W Bush administration were willing to take advantage of the situation to stoke fear into a shocked public, that they might be uncontested as they push their internal and foreign policies. All the controversy about W's theft of the 2000 election was forgotten. All the political resistance to his then radical agenda (now centrist by today's GOP standards) disappeared. W had 8 years of nearly absolute power.
However, shocked as the public may have been, they couldn't attack Iraq right away. They weren't able to find or successfully fabricate any evidence to pin the attack on Saddam. So they put some minimal effort into Afghanistan, dropped a few bombs, collapsed the government and called it a day. Bush even said on video that he didn't care about Osama. It wasn't important to his agenda.
Enough phony evidence was fabricate and assembled to convince the public that Saddam was in league with these terrorists (he wasn't) and that he was making WMD (he wasn't). Any in the CIA who dared to contradict or debunk the case for war with Iraq had their career's ruined and they were made examples of. A reporter in the White House Press Room finally had the temerity to ask W Bush a pointed question about Iraq ...in 2006. Her career was subsequently destroyed.
Today, we have a spineless media that is completely owned by corporations and cowed against reporting any information but rather into sticking to being stenographers and "reporting the controversy". At most, reporters today reviewing serious problems with our political system are allowed to say "both sides..." and "Washington (in general) is broken". This fake and compulsive centrism provides cover for an increasingly radical right wing and a GOP that has gone completely insane.
That's my conspiracy theory. I think it's supported pretty well by the facts.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
