Michael wrote:
As utterly despicable and hateable as Bush, Cheyney, and Rumsfeld are, there is nothing here to prove anything other than what was said in the official story occurred. I can understand why people love conspiracies, I used to be a Roswell Aliens, crop circle, JFK assassination, etc. believer. The problem with conspiracies is that, largely, they are doomed to failure. People hate keeping secrets. Especially secrets that would have such earth-shaking impact. The number of people that would have to be involved in such a conspiracy could not possibly keep it a secret for long. All the leaks in the White house on genuine scandals and the leaks about torture of prisoners in Iraq are representative of this. A secret this big simply could not be kept. Beyond all that, Bush is too stupid to think up something like this, Cheyney's health is too precarious to handle the stress of such a conspiracy, and Rumsfeld being the mastermind of such a plot strains credibility as he doesn't stand to gain enough from committing such a despicable act.
The one possible conspiracy that would require few people to commit and would thus be more easily contained; willful negligence. De-emphasize the importance of vigilance against terrorism, ignore reports of terrorist activity, basically pretend to be totally incompetent and assume that the terrorists will hit eventually and give you your justification for...
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