Can we put the 9/11 conspiracy to bed now?
I've occasionally encountered people who, for reasons I haven't really figured out yet, are convinced that there's some vast conspiracy behind the 9/11 attacks.
Today, Osama bin Laden ended all doubt. In his most recently-released tape, he took sole and full responsibility for the 9/11 attacks.
Sole responsibility.
Sole.
Responsibility.
He also took responsibility right after the attacks, but some people didn't listen. Then he released the actual tapes the hijackers made before the attacks declaring what they were going to do. But some people didn't listen.
I've heard people claim no plane hit the Pentagon. Well, I was working at Crystal City at the time and I saw it go in. Another reporter I know was blown back off the lawn by the impact as it went over head. So, a plane hit the pentagon. And it was a jetliner.
And I'm not honest when I say I don't know why people believe in the conspiracy theories. I know why. Bush.
All that's happened since seems to have been orchestrated to give a lot of power to one man, upsetting the checks and balances system of the country. Well, it may have benefited Bush, but in the last couple years we've seen how big a backlash such an attempt at a power grab in our country will cause. In truth, there's no conspiracy needed to explain what happened post-9/11, with the Patriot Act, and the embracing of Nazi Herman Goering's philosophy of control by the Right ("Voice or no voice, controlling the people is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are under attack, and then label the pacifists as unpatriotic.")
The answer as to how things seem to fall into place so smoothly for Bush was simple: Opportunism.
We know from Richard Baer and others who worked on counter-terrorism that from day one, the intention was to spin the attack into a war against Iraq. In all likelihood, they were going to try and pull us into this war anyway, but they didn't know how to do it.
Osama bin Laden gave them the reason they were looking for.
The irony, of course, and of no surprise to people who know a modicum of history, is that bin Laden's so-called attempt to "save" the Middle East from western influence has led to the largest bloom of western influence in the middle east since the Crusaders took Jerusalem.
By declaring himself the enemy and attacking when and how he did, he empowered his worst enemy to galactic proportions.
Apparently, Sun Tzu isn't translated into Arabic.
Today, Osama bin Laden ended all doubt. In his most recently-released tape, he took sole and full responsibility for the 9/11 attacks.
Sole responsibility.
Sole.
Responsibility.
He also took responsibility right after the attacks, but some people didn't listen. Then he released the actual tapes the hijackers made before the attacks declaring what they were going to do. But some people didn't listen.
I've heard people claim no plane hit the Pentagon. Well, I was working at Crystal City at the time and I saw it go in. Another reporter I know was blown back off the lawn by the impact as it went over head. So, a plane hit the pentagon. And it was a jetliner.
And I'm not honest when I say I don't know why people believe in the conspiracy theories. I know why. Bush.
All that's happened since seems to have been orchestrated to give a lot of power to one man, upsetting the checks and balances system of the country. Well, it may have benefited Bush, but in the last couple years we've seen how big a backlash such an attempt at a power grab in our country will cause. In truth, there's no conspiracy needed to explain what happened post-9/11, with the Patriot Act, and the embracing of Nazi Herman Goering's philosophy of control by the Right ("Voice or no voice, controlling the people is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are under attack, and then label the pacifists as unpatriotic.")
The answer as to how things seem to fall into place so smoothly for Bush was simple: Opportunism.
We know from Richard Baer and others who worked on counter-terrorism that from day one, the intention was to spin the attack into a war against Iraq. In all likelihood, they were going to try and pull us into this war anyway, but they didn't know how to do it.
Osama bin Laden gave them the reason they were looking for.
The irony, of course, and of no surprise to people who know a modicum of history, is that bin Laden's so-called attempt to "save" the Middle East from western influence has led to the largest bloom of western influence in the middle east since the Crusaders took Jerusalem.
By declaring himself the enemy and attacking when and how he did, he empowered his worst enemy to galactic proportions.
Apparently, Sun Tzu isn't translated into Arabic.
posted by Dark Lord at 5:13 PM
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