On Jan 3, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Richard Baker wrote:
Dave said:
But I'm not really that concerned about being that freaky
relative: If a group of men with last names like Bush and Cheney
and Rove in fact murdered 3000 of my fellow Americans to further
their political aims, then I owe my son and his generation nothing
less.
Don't you think that if Bush and co had been behind it, their
reaction would have been less slow, confused and downright
incompetent?
This is probably the strongest argument against a conspiracy on 9/11
-- it gives the bunch that sent truckloads of ice to *Maine* in
response to a hurricane in Louisiana and Mississippi way too much
credit.
Also, I am very leery of conspiracy theorists for some of the same
reasons that John Horn cited: they give far too much creedance to
statements of amateurs under stress (as well as professional
firefighters and the like).
Also, in this particular case, one of the web sites connected with
this video goes on and on about a supposed laser targeting spot that
appears on the second tower just as the plane goes in... The spot
moves slowly to the right and off the building, across the smoke that
emerges from the side of the building, and onto another building that
is obviously much closer to the camera than the twin towers. They
assume that the fact that it moves across the frame of the video and
intersects with the target building and another building a mile and a
half away is proof that it is a laser -- what else could move that
fast, they ask. Well, some piece of floating paper or a bird or just
about anything else between the Manhattan skyline and the camera. In
fact, it could only have been a targeting laser if the laser just
happened to be coincident with the camera.
Anyway, after a good night's sleep, I've decided not to become the
freaky relative, but I'm going to keep an open mind to the idea that
we may have been led into a costly and pointless war for reasons that
have more to do with the desire for a particular group to maintain
control over this country than the desire for another group to bring
it down.
Dave
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