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Old 04-30-2006, 04:35 PM   #51
Hack&Lube
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Originally Posted by Snakeeye
The logical argument for the failure of the missile batteries is that those in command had not yet given any orders to shoot down a commuter plane in the 40 or so minutes since the WTC was struck. As we saw with Katrina, the Bush administration isnt exactly quick to respond to national emergencies.

Possibly becuase the terrorist leaders are smart enough that what would effectively be a nuclear attack would be returned in kind? All leaders are more than willing to send their subjects out to die, but they usually arent so quick to do so themselves. If this scenario came to pass, much of Afghanistan would be a parking lot today.

And we have seen with the invasion of Iraq and the response to Katrina that the Bush administration isn't all that competent either. I suspect few people believe this conspiracy theory because it is much easier to believe that people with minimal flight training can fly a jet liner in a straight line for a short time than it is to believe that the US government would attack itself.
Great post. We've seen how slow to action, disorganized, and incompentent the Bush Administration has been time and time again. Perhaps in some twisted way some people find it easier to believe in a unified X-Files type government order being in control (and attacking itself) than "poor, uneducated" (which they weren't) hijackers being able to cause so much damage.

That's really the heart of all conspiracy theories work from anti-semitism (world order of Jewish control working toward ultimate end) to Marxism (world order of capitalists working together to opress and decieve), etc.
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