I don't think Truthers lack brain cells because they ask difficult questions; they lack brain cells because they continue to spout the same tired arguments (e.g., melting point of steel, airlplane profile lacking in the Pentagon debris, downward implosion) that have been fully debunked already. Nothing wrong with questioning what governments do; it's just an issue when you continue to raise the same questions after getting the answers. While the Bush family's relationship with the Bin Ladens is problematic, it hardly rates important enough to bring down the twin towers and the resulting microscopic attention paid to the event in order to continue, strengthen or protect the relationship.
Do you honestly think there are more 'unanswered queries' in the 'official' account than all the other alternative theories? Occam's razor comes to mind.
Dealing specifically with Bush/Cheney involvement, how do those theories account for the fact that planning and preparations for Sept 11 were underway months before Bush was ever elected President?
Was it all some big conspiracy where Bush arranged with Bin Laden to attack the US while he was governor of Texas, while Cheney rigged the Supreme Court so that they could award the presidency to Bush (after someone else presumably ensured that the election came down to a single very tightly contested state which would allow the Supreme Court to even get involved), so that when Bin Laden attacked once Bush was in power, he could then have an excuse for invading Afghanistan, removing Bin Laden's patrons in the Taliban and chasing Bin Laden himself out of his comfortable setup and into the mountains of the Pakistani border region?
You both are right. It's a conspiracy theory, emphasis on
theory. If WOD's master plan was to seize control of Iraq's oilsands and topple Saddam's authoritarian grip on the region, then it would look better in the world's eyes if it were carried out under the guise of retaliating against an attack on the world's only democratic, pluralist superpower, no? There also was a racial/faith-based component involved too, where essentially Arab Mulsims attacking a "white" capitalist Christendom would embroil the many millions of the conservative right-wing of Middle America, which of course it did. So with one of their own at the helm, there was
carte blanche free reign to enact some terror of our own whereby 200 Iraqi civilians had to die for every one (1) person that perished in the September 11 terrorist attacks. That's not to say the same outcome would not have happened were a Democrat elected president instead.
I personally do not question
how the Twin Towers were destroyed. But it's highly plausible to assume that there were larger sociocultural mechanisms afoot that instigated the entire incident. We can start with the West's interventionist foreign policies that superceed the traditional Rule of Law tolerated in Muslim autocratic societies. Our backing of corrupt regimes to take out our adversaries during the Cold War, resulting in the deaths of millions. Xenophobia of Islamic cultural norms has further strained the West's cultural/socail/economic linkages with the region and as our oil dependency grew it mattered not to us what the Arab world did so long as they were willing to trade that commodity with us. As such when things went wrong in the Middle East it could always be traced back to foreign intervention either in the forms of arms dealings, militia backing, opium trading or empowering totalitarian clerics by giving them an insurmountable amount of money from the oil trade with which to be able to
buy their job security to lead.
Where Bush factors into all this is uncertain and I won't claim to know what his personal involvement was
prior to 9/11. However the CIA
did have ample warning of an imminent attack from spring of 2001, several months before the attacks. You'd think that they'd inform the President of this. And the "War on Terror" has been a self-serving profiteering cash-cow for Bush-partnershiped companies such as Arbusto/Harken and the Carlyle Group, as well Haliburton and more than 150 U.S. companies that were awarded contracts for post-war work totaling more than $50 billion USD. If this was really about liberating the Iraqi people why all the cronyism, when able-bodied civilians are in desperate need of money and oppurtunities to improve their labour skills? Sometimes you really have to stop and wonder just how much ideologically different or superior our own leaders are from the "big-bad" Commie Fascists afterall.
