Paul: > I do not, in any case, expect anything from the > likes of McDonoald-Douglas, Halliburton and Cheney > - except acceptance of Bush's conspiracy theory that > those bad 19 Arabs done the whole goddamn > operation under the direction of a man in cave.
Paul's claim that the above theory of Bush is also a conspiracy theory is a claim I agree with wholeheartedly. This is no less a conspiracy theory than that it is Al-Qaide in Iraq who is creating all these problems, without which everything would have been nice and dandy, and all the Iraqis would have lived happily ever after the USUK liberal democratic occupation. The way I see it, Paul is questioning Bush's conspiracy theory. Why is it that questioning Bush's conspiracy theory makes Paul a conspiracy theorist? Another interesting thing is that I do not remember the use of the word "conspiracy theory" from the 1970s when I was growing up. Such a word did not exist in our daily vocabulary in those days to my recollection. But I remember that I started to hear the word quite frequently in the early 1990s, although it might have started to gain popularity earlier than that, possibly in the late 1980s. However, I have no way of knowing this since in those days I had been deeply immersed in mathematics, so had not had much time to pay attention to what was going on in the real world. It may be interesting to do a search on the word "conspiracy" in the LexisNexis database to see if there is any change in the use frequency of the word over the past few decades. Best, Sabri
