Saudi government allegedly funded a ‘dry run’ for 9/11 - Polidicks

It also means they'd have had to have kept it completely under wraps during almost all 8 of Bush's years. No fucking way.

I'm sorry but, if nothing else, I refuse to believe that the US government could do such a grand job of creating such a fantastic conspiracy and then do such a crap job of creating the WMD story to justify invading Iraq.

[QUOTE=David29;52692854]I'm sorry but, if nothing else, I refuse to believe that the US government could do such a grand job of creating such a fantastic conspiracy and then do such a crap job of creating the WMD story to justify invading Iraq.[/QUOTE] Yea it just doesn't make sense. Even if they used 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan as a jumping point to attack Iraq again, it doesn't make sense. The US has never needed anything but lame justifications to attack another nation, theres no way they would sacrifice American infrastructure, American lives, and the American economy to start a war-for-profit. Plus the American military is too effecient to be a industrial complex. Plus the US has never needed a physical war to have a bloated military budget and over spend on defense contracts. Unless theres some hidden agenda that we don't know about, like Bush just really hating New Yorkers, a malicious withholding of knowledge of 9/11 doesn't make sense.

these conspiracies always rely on the government being somehow competent

[QUOTE=Kyle902;52687207]The moment that its proven that the US was complicit in the 9/11 attacks [B]is also the moment half the US sparks into open rebellion.[/B] That in and of itself is why I seriously doubt US involvement at any level. The risk so highly outweighs the reward as to be absurd[/QUOTE] I doubt it, it would take something far worse to get American citizens to mobilize.

I think some folks come up with theories is the fact that they can't rationalize so many folks getting killed from planes crashing into a building and causing it to collapse. I'm not agreeing with it in case you ask, but I can see why people come up with conspiracy theories.

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;52693997]I think some folks come up with theories is the fact that they can't rationalize so many folks getting killed from planes crashing into a building and causing it to collapse. I'm not agreeing with it in case you ask, but I can see why people come up with conspiracy theories.[/QUOTE] I think it's also because of the tendency for people to hope for something to be more grand than it actually is. Like, two planes hitting the towers is too straightforward.

[QUOTE=jonu67;52693944]I doubt it, it would take something far worse to get American citizens to mobilize.[/QUOTE] If we're not going to rise up after we find out that the NSA has been spying on US citizens, then we're not going to rise up at all. Plus it would be pointless to revolt now, everyone that could have had anything to do with it is long gone.