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Originally posted by dreamrebel
Put me down for a big fat No, Nada, I dont think so!
But its a convient battle cry for the haters..
Radical Islamic Wahibists did it. They have publically claimed it stated why.
[Edited on 3-2-2004 by dreamrebel]
Originally posted by Eljay
I'm taking a survey.
Who thinks that the 9/11 attacks were a joint Mossad/CIA operation to make Americans hate Muslims and to steal Iraqi oil?
If I publically claim that I am your mother, would that make it so? Do not let wishful thinking blind you. Does it make you feel better thinking it is some incivilized, religiously-obsessed bunch of middle eastern people than to consider for a second that it could be someone much closer to home? Someone who has power over you? Do you let your own "preconceptions" and "desires" sway your opinion? Or not?
Originally posted by Esoterica
If I publically claim that I am your mother, would that make it so? Do not let wishful thinking blind you. Does it make you feel better thinking it is some incivilized, religiously-obsessed bunch of middle eastern people than to consider for a second that it could be someone much closer to home? Someone who has power over you? Do you let your own "preconceptions" and "desires" sway your opinion? Or not?
If I publically claim that I am your father, would that make it so? Do not let wishful thinking blind you. Does it make you feel better thinking it is your own government, which you do not trust and have bias against, than to consider for a second that it could be someone with a vendetta that doesn't fit into your world view, and that your government actually cares about your well-being? Someone who'd you hope could never touch you? Do you let your own "preconceptions" and "desires" sway your opinion? Or not?
Very cute.
*Snip
Originally posted by Esoterica
Well, I can't really help you here if you think the shadow government is slowly attempting to take over the world by putting mind control drugs in Cheerios. That's your opinion of things, and arguing with someone never changed their mind.
However, I believe the government to be too incompetent to manage to pull something off like that, and have nobody find it out. Somebody in the administration has a conscience.
No, I do not believe that the administrations only goal is to grab as much money as they can and hightail it.
Our CIC is a Fundamentalist, for Chrissake. Whether what he's actually doing is right or wrong, he believes it is for the good of the people.
I can't believe he'd allow 3000 people to be murdered like that, when there would be much easier ways of getting public support behind kicking terrorist ass.
There are likely no WMDs in Iraq. Now, if the evil shadow government were a scompetent as you say, couldn't they have jsut planted some there, or couldn't they have simply used their media mind-control ray to brainwash reporters into saying they were there?
They can't. First, because they don't exist. Second, because our current government is not competent enough to have pulled a hoodwink of that magnitude off on us. If 9/11 and Iraq are some huge conspiracy, they're doing one #-poor job of it.
However, I believe the government to be too incompetent to manage to pull something off like that, and have nobody find it out.
If anyone is heading anything, we let them.