Quote Originally Posted by Lyle
Quote Originally Posted by meowza
I'm not for or against the conspiracy.
But you can't use that as an argument.
Because the US government has planned attacks on their own nation in the past. Officially documented. The government doesn't even deny these. (Wikipedia "Operation Northwoods")
So it's not inconceivable for them to attack their own nation as pretext for war.
I'm not saying that's what they did with 9/11 though. Just saying you can't use that as an argument against it. It happens.
#1 When specifically did the US attack itself?...the only example I can think of would be The USS Maine (which started the Spanish-American War) and there are doubts about what caused that too, I just think it was an accident but was used as propaganda anyways.

#2 Do you think that they would attack themselves on such a large scale?

I for one don't think they would.....as Eric Cartman says "It's not my fault Iraqi's(I'll switch Iraqi out for Islamic Terrorist) are full of hate"!
They did plan on attacking their own in the past.
But the Kennedy administration outright rejected the plan.
The documents were revealed during the Kennedy assassination investigation.
What's to say that just because the Kennedy adminstration rejected government sponsored terrorism in the past, that the Bush administration would do the same?

I'm not saying I believe in the conspiracy, mind you.
If I had to answer yes or no, I would say no I don't believe 9/11 was a conspiracy.
Loose Change is garbage with severely skewed "scientific" facts.
And if it was a conspiracy, I would suspect the government would've tried to make Iraq and Hussein directly responsible for it.
All I said was that people can't use, "The government wouldn't attack their own people" as an argument. Former Joint Cheifs of Staff Lyman Lemnitzer thought it was a good idea. Kennedy didn't. Thank god for that. There are just much better arguments against the conspiracy.

cc for your passion in the subject though Lyle.
These are always interesting reads.