Simple minds, hmmm? The lower a person’s intelligence, the easier it is to convince them of the impossible.
The terrorist attacks, if carried out by radical Muslims required as few as 20 people to be in on the plan (there were more, of course, but probably not hundreds). It required some flight training, money and planning. The actual plan was brilliantly simple.
For the US to have engineered it, including bombs placed in the towers, it would be the most complicated, wild, labor intensive, crazy and expensive plan ever devised by a Machiavellian mind. That anyone would actually believe this is amazing. It is even more amazing that the same people who believe Bush capable of such an intensely complicated and difficult plan are the same ones who make fun of his speech errors and go on at length about how stupid he is (according to them).
The outcome was also impossible to predict. The implications could well have included a stock market meltdown, destroying the value of the stocks held by the same people who were supposed to have engineered the whole thing for their gain. It could have kicked off a very severe and long lasting recession or depression, also bad for industry and stock values.
Bgates is right. If the government wanted to manufacture a terrorist attack as an excuse to invade the middle east, they would have used a much simpler plan with far fewer variables as to execution, outcome and potential discovery.
Although I have no proof of this, I would not be surprised if our government has acquired nuclear weapons, removed from the former Soviet Union, in an attempt to keep them off the black market. It would be much simpler to arrange for one of these nukes (or one of our own) to be detonated somewhere where our financial markets and government buildings would not be endangered. Voila! Easy plan, few people involved, simple execution and big impact.
Is it possible that the government was warned? Sure. I am certain that there are tens of such warnings every day. Each time a decision must be made as how credible the information is and to what lengths we must go in a preventative measure. Sometimes only hindsight and actual events tells us which of those threats are the real deal. How can anyone think for even a moment that information pinpointing the time and location of such a horrific event would be ignored? Does anyone really imagine a board room where the president receives such information, perhaps for events that are to happen in a few days, and right there comes up with a wild plan to spin a war and enrich Halliburton? At the same time he just decides to write off whatever buildings that might be destroyed within Washington? So what if a huge hole is blown in the Pentagon and that the rest of it just might burn down as a result. Who needs it anyway! “Yeah,” he must have said, “lets just roll the dice. Maybe the damage won’t be too bad.” Rubbing his hands together, Bush turns to Cheney and says, “Just think of those Halliburton contracts!”
