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Originally posted by GorehoundLarry
Originally posted by TrickoftheShade
reply to post by BladeDraven
I agree with all of that.
Indeed part of the reason I distrust the Truth Movement is because I think it discourages people from looking at the real problems in the world, and particularly with the USA. IMO "truthers" who think that the sheeple are being fed a lie so they can feel safe and others can profit are, ironically, guilty of exactly the same thing. They haven't seen through the matrix at all.
Truthers seem to think there are no real problems in the world. They don't want to believe we're hated or there are indeed groups out there that are willing to murder our civilians or soldiers. So they decide to live in a little world together pushing everyone's opinions that don't go with theirs out the door.
Originally posted by webpirate
reply to post by Xcathdra
And you know all of this how? Because you have heard it all ex post facto by the same media and political organizations that have created this entire story.
What probably is the truth dates back further than 88-89. More like into the early 80's where Afghan rebels against Soviet occupation were backed by US CIA operations as part of the Cold War. We have been led to believe now that this entire scattered resistance force somehow miraculously morphed into this very sophisticated terror organization with capabilities that far outreach even the country they were supposedly hiding in.
The truth is, the "attacks" of September 11 were a very carefully orchestrated and carried out plan that would have been too extreme for a band of mountain fighter to even comprehend. More like the abilities of a government of a world power like the US or Israel.
The mountain fighters were though, all too happy to take the blame.
Originally posted by novastrike81
Originally posted by SmittyPuffs
reply to post by vigil gregor
Do you think we roam around Afghanistan blowing up random houses, kicking dogs, shootin women, adn burning fields? No. No we don't. We do plenty of humanitarian work that those people LOVE! Tell me the next time the media tells you about a school, hospital, or police station opening. You probably won't, but it happens EVERY SINGLE DAY.
[edit on 26-4-2010 by SmittyPuffs]
Actually, yes we do. Or maybe you weren't paying attention when our troops infiltrated a house and raped a 14 year old girl after they killed her family. Once they were done they shot her in the head and then set the family on fire. I watched a US soldier throw a puppy over a #ing mountain cliff and laugh as it cried the whole way down. Who the hell are you to say that doesn't go on when I've seen it my self (not those examples personally but it's on youtube) and you have soldiers themselves on VIDEO say they've seen it or have been a part of some inhumane act.
Pull your self-righteous head out of your ass and wake up. You aren't the only soldier to see combat. Grow up, holy crap.
[edit on 27-4-2010 by novastrike81]
[edit on 27-4-2010 by novastrike81]
Absolutely. It's an old TM saw that the hijackers were "cave dwellers", unsophisticated troglodytes who could never pull off something as fantastical as the 9/11 attacks.
If they weren't talking about such utter swine this might look perilously close to racism. Indeed I think there is at least a racial dimension to some areas of 9/11 "Truth" - far better to have a fat, mean, white capitalist pulling the strings than a hate-filled genocidal mystic from a dimly-understood culture thousands of miles away.
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And of course the summary is inaccurate anyway. The attacks weren't complex and the perpetrators were far from being sheep-herders.
Originally posted by impressme
reply to post by TrickoftheShade
Absolutely. It's an old TM saw that the hijackers were "cave dwellers", unsophisticated troglodytes who could never pull off something as fantastical as the 9/11 attacks.
The fact is they could not pull off anything as sophisticated as 911 without inside help.
If they weren't talking about such utter swine this might look perilously close to racism. Indeed I think there is at least a racial dimension to some areas of 9/11 "Truth" - far better to have a fat, mean, white capitalist pulling the strings than a hate-filled genocidal mystic from a dimly-understood culture thousands of miles away.
Racism? Perhaps, you would like to call all these credible people racist, who do not buy into the pandering lies from the media and the very government THEY work for.
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And of course the summary is inaccurate anyway. The attacks weren't complex and the perpetrators were far from being sheep-herders.
That is your opinion; however, here is my “opinion” that supports the facts, the attacks were very complex and were carried out with military position and accuracy.
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Originally posted by Xcathdra
I fail to understand the hatred towards the Bush Administration for "failing to act" when the exact same thing happened to Bill Clinton. Clinto had multiple opprotunites to take out bin laden, and refused to, with the exception of 1 cruise missile attack that he screwed up by tipping off Pakistan that we just violated thier airspace (Pakistani ISI in turn warned Bin Laden).
So please do me a favor.. When you want to bash people about 9/11, let us know up front where your anger lies.. Is it the fact that it happened, or the fact you hate Bush and jsut want to blame him for soemthing..
Originally posted by Xcathdra
The fundamental question for this topic though is Al Queda never existed. This has been proven false, and supported by legitmate sources showing the inception, and background, including that of Bin Laden.
Any other argument, including on whether they were responsible for 9/11, is irrelevant to the topic and question at hand.
Originally posted by SmittyPuffs
reply to post by vigil gregor
Time, circumstances, events. At the time we were in a cold war with the Russians. Their defeat in the Afghanistan was essential to our future security and their downfall. Could they have ever guess that one, lone, very rich Saudi was going to go off the deep end and form an extreme hatred for the U.S.? Absolutely not.
Originally posted by SmittyPuffs
reply to post by vigil gregor
Persecuted them for actions of others? I don't persecute anyone that doesn't shoot at me, blow my friends up, or kill innocent women and children. They may never have stepped on US soil, or directly committed 9/11, but they ARE my enemy. They want me dead, they want YOU dead. And they try their damned hardest to do it.
Originally posted by novastrike81
I don't think most people can grasp the fact that our government would be so vicious and inhumane to start a war by attacking it's own country. If you noticed that we lost a ton of money the first year Bush was in office. Not sure if it was carried over or not but the video just says that ca. 2.5 trillion dollars was missing. What's a great source of income? War! It makes great sense to create a war against a group of insurgents that hate us. We already knew the Muslims hated western society anyway what a great thing to capitalize on, right? Hence the videos of CIA training our guys and promising them freedoms and their reward with God (Allah) if they succeed. If you take a step back this is a great idea and one the government constructed very carefully and methodically.
Originally posted by time91
reply to post by mikelee
Amazing, it has been long enough and they don't need to cover it up anymore. I say this because many believe some element in the CIA with others (an international group) were complicit in the events of 9/11, and the CIA has been tied to the BBC for years (according to Cryptome's info). So they basically just said "Tricked ya!".
No one can stop 'them', and 'they' know it...
then President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski visiting ‘his boy’, Osama Bin Laden, in training with the Pakistan Army, 1981. Photo originally scanned from the New York Village Voice. Photo credited to the Sygma/Corbis Agency, Paris.
I'm not sure your post is worth responding to. It's just assertion, really.
Still, I'll take the time to point out that I'm not suggesting that the members of AE911 or whatever other organisations you're trumpeting are racists.
What my post says is that the notion that the hijackers were ignorant "cave-dwellers" is a racially loaded signification designed to belittle their abilities and thus bolster a Truth Movement narrative.
I'd also point out that your habit of invoking the groups you so respectfully highlight in yellow is a very thin argument.
Certainly in a brief random survey of AE911Truth I found very few people who would agree with your version of events.
And yet you continually appeal to their authority as though they were fully signed up to your crackpot theories.
Originally posted by baudolino
"Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians."