--- In [email protected], "Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: <snip> > > Of course they lie. But that doesn't mean *everything* > > they say is a lie. In this case, there's no really > > good evidence they were lying about what happened on > > 9/11, at least about the main events. It just doesn't > > hold up under examination. > > >+++ The similarity has been noticed between this event and the > Reichstag fire in the thirties - they ended up with the Gestapo and we > have homeland security and ever increasing executive branch powers. N.
Sure. But bear in mind, that's a model Osama bin Laden would have had motivation to use just as well as the U.S. government. OBL's no dummy. He's played Bush and the neocons like a violin. The terrorist types aren't the existential threat they're made out to be. The real existential threat is the way we've been responding to them.
