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I really don't want to devote more time to this, but just wanted to mention a few things. I was not ascribing or taking at face value the 911 report, I was simply saying, that i DO lend more credence to CNN, BBC, 911 Commission, etc than I do to a website claiming that Nazis run the CIA and that the Bush adm. is trying to sell anti-psychotic drugs to americans. To put these on a level playing field is foolhardy, .. just b/c the other sources are biased does not necessarily legitimize the opposite point of view. Do you see what I am saying here? .. What is more likely, that a rogue group of Islamic extremists got box cutter onto a plan and hijacked it, or that the US government set up a ridiculously complex plot in order to??? (well we aren't sure exactly). Start a preemptive war? Cause panic? Short sell stocks? I mean these are just highly unlikely goals, and thats why i have a problem with giving them the time of day. Also, the conspiracy theorists try to have it every which way, they do not form a coherent conspiracy, but rather string together a chain of "possible" theories. For example, they claim that the events of 911 were sabotage by the US government, yet they claim the US probably shot down flight 93 (rather than it being taken over by the passengers). etc etc. You cannot have this both ways, either they were purposefully using jets as weapons to wreak havoc on their own populace, or they were attempting to save urban populations by shooting down the aircraft over a vacant field. I would have no problem believing the latter, or even a coverup of the latter, but the former? Common sense dictates that this is HIGHLY unlikely. Conspiracy theorists often cannot see the forrest for the trees, because if they do then their case falls apart. They microanalyze to the point of reinvention... step back for a second, put your imagination aside, and ask yourself, what situation is trully more likely?.. Can you honestly say that these conspiracies are MORE likely than the basic version of events "sold" by the mainstream media? Sure certain things were spun, to make this person or that person or this administration or that administration look better, but was the overall set of events so vastly conspiratorial? I guess I just do not understand how a clear-thinking person can answer affirmitively.
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