Conspiracy theories about the American government always fascinate me -- many Americans sense their government can't be trusted, but when coming up with theories, they always miss the mark.
I outlined my reasons above for not thinking this is a conspiracy. It's too clumsy for Cheney's work -- Cheney would've chosen Saddam as conspirator, not bin Laden -- and if it had been Bush, he'd have used model airplanes.
Besides, the CIA seems to have been against this whole Iraq War, and its hard to pull off anything without them.
And the alien-conspiracy theories are way out there. If the US government were hiding aliens, Clinton would've trotted them out to distract people from Monica Lewinsky.
But then, when it comes to the real, well-documented conspiracies -- especially CIA shenanigans of the 1970s and 1980s.
Plus, there's probably enough evidence of election fraud in Ohio during the last presidential election to impeach the president, if any of the lily-livered democrats would be brave enough to try.
But for some reason, the conspiracies with solid evidence backing them don't seem to capture the imagination :/
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regna
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Date: 2006-08-16 12:02 am (UTC)I outlined my reasons above for not thinking this is a conspiracy. It's too clumsy for Cheney's work -- Cheney would've chosen Saddam as conspirator, not bin Laden -- and if it had been Bush, he'd have used model airplanes.
Besides, the CIA seems to have been against this whole Iraq War, and its hard to pull off anything without them.
And the alien-conspiracy theories are way out there. If the US government were hiding aliens, Clinton would've trotted them out to distract people from Monica Lewinsky.
But then, when it comes to the real, well-documented conspiracies -- especially CIA shenanigans of the 1970s and 1980s.
Plus, there's probably enough evidence of election fraud in Ohio during the last presidential election to impeach the president, if any of the lily-livered democrats would be brave enough to try.
But for some reason, the conspiracies with solid evidence backing them don't seem to capture the imagination :/