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Originally Posted by Snakeeye
The thing I do not understand about the "missile hit the Pentagon" conspiracy theory is why bother?
Terrorists already had planes, so there is no reason for them to hit the Pentagon with a missile rather than a plane.
The US government had no reason to attack their own installation. There was nothing to be gained by that, as whatever "ammunition" the US government needed to go after the Taliban, to go after Hussein, to do whatever they wanted they gained when the WTC was hit.
As is typical with virtually every conspiracy theory ever concieved, the "why" simply does not mesh with the "what" and "how".
What is the motive here?
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Good question Snake eye. The whole idea was to give the impression that the United States was under attack, and that the whole system (financial, military and governmental) was being attacked by an outside element. The attack on the WTC was supposedly a strike at the financial core. The strike at the Pentagon was supposed to be a strike at the military core. The last plane was supposed to be a strike at the governmental. That was the foundation of the attacks.
Here's a few more "why" questions that mesh with the "what and how" you so eloquently bring up.
* Why was the Pentagon attacked where it was? The Pentagon had been under-going renovations in that wing for months. A highly organized attack like this would have known this and would have selected a more appropriate area for attack. It was well known that the "brains" in the Pentagon were on the other side of the building. Attacking this area made no sense.
* Why would the terrorists decide to attack this side when it took an incredibly difficult maneuver to get the plane to hit this side in the manner it did? The easiest attack angle would have been straight on and would have generated the most damage in the place where the most important targets were residing.
* Why attack the Pentagon at all? The Pentagon has five missile defense batteries in case of attacks to Washington. These defense batteries, and many more like them around Washington, account for the extremely narrow traffic corridor for commercial flights. Amazingly these defense systems all failed on this day, long after the WTC was struck. Why?
* If creating death and destruction were the reason behind the attacks, why would the hijackers just not fly the planes into a nuclear reactor? The planes all flew close to reactors (the second plane flew directly over a reactor on the way to New York IIRC) so why not just crash the planes into these reactors and kill hundreds of thousands and make the north east uninhabitable for a few thousand years?
Lots of unexplained questions all around. That's what makes this subject so interesting and so controversial. People refuse to think that the government would dare allow or conspire to let these events unfold, but they readily accept that a group of 19 hijackers who were barely capable of flying cessnas were capable of pulling off this devious plan. Coming up with the plan is one thing, but execution is another.