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Originally Posted by maximusveritas
(Post #10) There's no secret conspiracy here, it's all right in the open. The thing is, hardly anyone has been paying attention.
PNAC was a think tank formed by so-called "neoconservatives" in order to develop a new foreign policy for conservatives in the post-Cold War environment. This policy had nothing to do with countering the threat of terrorism here at home. Instead, it had to do with asserting American power and influence abroad in the hopes of maintaining order and challenging unfriendly regimes.
When 9-11 occurred, these guys saw their opportunity and tried to use the threat of terror against the United States as an excuse to push their unrelated agenda. Afghanistan was merely a launching pad from which to begin their previously determined plans in Iraq. Even though they said that a "key goal" should be to "capture or kill Osama bin Laden", they were all too ready to move onto goal #2 before the primary mission had been accomplished. As a result, they severely compromised the War on Terror.
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You declare that "There's no secret conspiracy here", as if it was fact.
Then....you write as if it is also accepted fact that 9-11 "occurred",
apparently with no pre-knowledge, approval, collaboration, co-operation,
or conspiracy on the part of the Bush executive branch, the neocons, or our military.
Note that the attack on the pentagon was on the least populated section
of that complex, all of the airliners involved seemed to have fewer than average <br>passengers aboard, and the twin towers were attacked at a time of
day when terrorists were certainly aware that they would not be populated <br>with anywhere near the maximum number of workers and visitors.
Compared to a peak number of 50,000 in the WTC, only about 2450 of
the 2711 total WTC dead were not the 43 police or 340 firemen killed !
All coincidences, or, especially when coupled with Rumsfeld's alteration
of the standing airliner shoot-down order/procedure to military pilots in
June, 2001, and Ashcroft's sudden personal avoidance of commercial flights,
should we ignore noting who gained the most in terms of authority, prestige,
and reputation in the days and months after the 9-11 attack ?
<a href="http://liberty.hypermart.net/voices/2003/When_Democracy_Failed_The_Warnings_of_History.htm">Was 9-11 America's "Reichstag
Fire"?</a>