Quote from man:
i am very interested in evidence and - really - i am still
open to arguments. nevertheless i think that we guys
here really can not perfectly judge what happened to
an extent to entitle name giving.
did you guys ever read the leuchter report on auschwitz
lie? sounds really convincing somehow. then see the
documentation on fred leuchter and everything just
vanishes.
what i am trying to say is: be sceptic to both sides in
an emotional case like this. it is not necessary that
people are lying, just maybe have some distortion of
their memory due to preformed opinion. just consider
the lieutenant had said: "as if they had ordered that
we stay down." cut out part of it and you have "evidence".
no intentional misunderstanding. just normal stuff. but
in this context: morning of 911, norad center, lieutenant
"orders", things start to get a meaning that never was
there.
Quote from Bitstream:
isnt it a awefully strange coincidence norad was running a strategy sim on freaking aircrafts hitting buildings? right on 9/11 and apparently the first sim of this kind. it defies the odds of a coincidence.
Quote from FightTheFuture:
Everyone blames everyone except the terrorists.
Suppose there was suspicion of a hijacking? What were they supposed to do about it? About all they could do is run sims. About all they could do is react after the fact. There were all kinds of intelligence reports of possible attacks just like there are now.
How well do you think banning all passengers that looked like Arabs of the Middle East would go over?
If terrorists are going to hijack a plane, they will one way or another.
Like suspicious activity that occurs now, there is even more opposition to what the authorities are allowed to do for fear of upsetting those of middle eastern descent.
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/woods.htm
Claim: Actor James Woods observed and reported four hijackers making a trial run on an airline flight before the September 11 terrorist attacks on America.
Status: True.
A great deal of "What if?" soul-searching and hand-wringing follows in the wake of any disaster. Should we have foreseen it coming? Would lives and property have been saved if we had taken preventive measures? Did we miss signs we should have noticed, or ignore signs we should have heeded?
James Woods had noticed four men "of Middle Eastern appearance" acting strangely on a flight he made from Boston to Los Angeles a week before the hijackings, but when he reported his suspicions, they were not taken seriously: Woods mentioned what he had noticed to a flight attendant, "who shrugged it off"
I suppose the flight attendant is in on the conspiracy too.
Woods is pro Bush, so I suppose he's part of the conspiracy. He knew about it before anyone, but did nothing.
I bet there are people that are hoping for another huge terrorist attack while Bush is in office. These people will first blame Bush for the failure to prevent that act, then years later they will say it's part of the conspiracy.
Quote from FightTheFuture:
I see government incompetence written all over it. What has the gov ever been any good at?
Look how the Bush admin is working now. Do you really think they could pull something like 9/11 off? Dozens of agencies and thousands of employees would have to go along with the plan and keep their mouths shut.
The anti-Bush media would have finished this off years ago.
Of all the "evidence" for a conspiracy, all anyone has to do is start a rumor.
Middle East terrorists have been at it for decades. Something much worse than 9/11 will happen eventually and it has to be dealt with realistically.
Quote from FightTheFuture:
I see government incompetence written all over it. What has the gov ever been any good at?
Look how the Bush admin is working now. Do you really think they could pull something like 9/11 off? Dozens of agencies and thousands of employees would have to go along with the plan and keep their mouths shut.
The anti-Bush media would have finished this off years ago.
Of all the "evidence" for a conspiracy, all anyone has to do is start a rumor.
Middle East terrorists have been at it for decades. Something much worse than 9/11 will happen eventually and it has to be dealt with realistically.