[quote author="gypsyuma" date=1259830706][quote author="no_vaseline" date=1259823099][quote author="gypsyuma" date=1259809537]But then there is the WHO? WHY? WHAT? that are up for discussion because they are not factual. And it is this that I am still unclear about.</blockquote>
None of the conspiracy theorists have an S.E. license and are working. Every engineer I know who does seismic (that includes my wife) believe the conventional wisdom. One of them wrote the current codes for seismic. Certainly you are free to believe who you like, but I believe the structural engineers I know.</blockquote>
Thank you for the RESPECTFUL response. But my questions go beyond structural ones.
Since I can see that there are racists just waiting and ready to pounce on anything I say, I will just leave it at that.</blockquote>
In order to suppose that our own government was responsible for 9/11, you have to zoom out a bit and question the goal: what is the point of staging a fake terrorist attack? Ostensibly, the point would be politically popular excuse for war with the offending group, but why OBL and AQ? Since you brought up the missing WMD and Iraq, it would seem a logical conclusion that if 9/11 were staged, they would have framed a more belligerent and more politically viable target like Iraq and Saddam in the first place instead of some backwater 4th world country like Afghanistan. And why frame Saudi nationals when the risk of popular uprising against our "ally" was so high?
Finally, what I consider to be the nail in the coffin of the idea that Bush & Co. were part of a 9/11 conspiracy: any evidence would be out by now, proclaimed publically, verified by independent sources, and indictments and investigations would be all the news covered. While absence of evidence isn't always evidence of absence, with as polarizing a Presidency as Bush's (and even a few faked news stories from CBS) if there was any truth out there it would have been revealed already. The only thing keeping this conspiracy theory alive is the inability of people, who find the overall idea intriguing, to investigate the debris for themselves and put to rest any lingering doubt.
But again, there is NO credible, verifiable, and unequivocal proof being kept from you and you risk your own credibility by beating the dead horse. Unless you also believe Obama was in on it.
