The "Depleted Uranium" thread never left Paranoia. The "No WMDs in Iraq" thread stayed. The "No al-Qaeda/Sadam link" thread stuck around. Check out
post 230 in "The Mystery of the Disapearing 757" thread . That post might actually carry some weight as a thread in politics. Don't discount something because it doesn't seem likely on the surface. A conspiracy is simply an agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act. It semantically has nothing to do with paranoia. Yes, this is about a possible (probable) conspiracy. So what? Does that make us all basement dwelling, country hating, paranoid schizophrenics? Absolutely not. "Paranoia" and "conspiracy theories" are not fundamentally linked in reality. There are conspiracy theories that are born of paranoia, and there are conspiracy theories born of investigation and curiosity. This is the latter.
Just becuase this is a conspiracy theory does not mean it stems from paranoia.