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Subject: Can't find provocative post re 9/11 From: Mark Cohen Date: 03 Jun 02 - 08:04 PM Within the past week or two, somebody posted an article suggesting that there may have been some U.S. government complicity in the 9/11 attacks. I didn't see any response, and now I can't find it, or even remember what the original thread was. It may be just another conspiracy theory article along the lines of the "faked moon landing", but some of the questions raised by the article were ones I've wondered about as well. Does anyone remember anything about this? Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: Can't find provocative post re 9/11 From: catspaw49 Date: 03 Jun 02 - 08:09 PM Hark, enter pentagon in the filter and set the refresh for 30 days and you get two threads. I remember both and I think it's what you're looking for. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Can't find provocative post re 9/11 From: catspaw49 Date: 03 Jun 02 - 08:14 PM Should have said 90 days....Here they are: Pentagon Attack Not True Hunt the Boeing Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Can't find provocative post re 9/11 From: Mark Cohen Date: 04 Jun 02 - 04:15 AM Neither of those were the thread I had in mind, 'Spaw. Though some of the questions were partly answered in the first thread. Someone posted the whole text of an article that suggested the U.S. Government actively planned the attacks. I'm not gullible enough to believe that one outright, but soon after the attacks, when I saw what Bush, Cheney, and Ashcroft were doing, it occurred to me that they had gotten exactly what they had hoped for all along. And there is precedent..."Remember the Maine"? So I'd like to read the article again and see how much truth may be in there. Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: Can't find provocative post re 9/11 From: Devilmaster Date: 04 Jun 02 - 10:04 AM Mark, I'm not trying to be a prick about this, but do you think that the pros of being able to go fight a war, outweigh the cons of the terrorist incident? That is the question you have to ask yourself. If you honestly believe Washington benefitted more from 9/11 than what America lost. Comparing the start of the Spanish-American war, which was because of the Maine, compared with billions upon billions of dollars lost, through industry(air, oil), family claims, increased national security, etc. is pretty much ludicrous. Some politicians at the Capitol, and the media, which are politically motivated, don't forget, are taking info, which in hindsight(which is always 20/20) can now be placed together to show that the information was possibly there to show the attacks. Remember, politicians are politicians. I'm one. If a politician is out of sight, he's out of mind. And most politicians will do anything to garner media attention. Especially ones who feel that down the road, they could be running for the nomination of their party. A war did not save George Bush, Sr. from losing his second term. He had a good approval rating during the Gulf war, but it got him nowhere. There is no guarantee that George Jr. will survive for a second term. The truth of the matter is that the attacks plunged the economy into recession. At the end of his four years, will everyone still be in love with him, and how he handled 9/11? If they had a hand in this attack (which they didn't IMO) they picked the worst time to do it. You do it nearer the end of his 4 year term. That way, his approval rating would skyrocket come next election. People who sit there and believe, like conspiracy theorists, that the government had a hand in this, they just look at one thing, but usually forget the big picture. The real picture is that the attacks have cost the U.S. BILLIONS of dollars. Yahoos would say that business picked up in the defense sector, but at the expense of nearly destroying the travel sector? Airlines are not a high margin business, and still haven't recovered from having all their aircraft down for two to three days. In fact, their are airlines that still haven't got back into the air. Canada 3000, Swissair. Hotels, any business that deal in the travel sector have been decimated by 9/11. The oil industry, lost tons of money due to the fact that they had no planes in the air for 3 days. That means less production, and less jobs. They still haven't returned to production levels. The monies to reimburse companies who were in the towers, the monies needed to pay loved ones who were lost, is still being calculated, but is expected to be in the hundreds of millions. Was all of this worth it to start a little war against terrorists? Very simply, No. Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Can't find provocative post re 9/11 From: leprechaun Date: 04 Jun 02 - 10:31 AM Heres some 20/20 foresight. After the next attack, the information will be shown to have been there before the attack. And the kookballs will blame the government. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Can't find provocative post re 9/11 From: DougR Date: 04 Jun 02 - 08:03 PM And, as I'm sure you know, Mark, reading it doesn't make it so (referring to your last sentence, last post). DougR |