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Originally Posted by samcol
I still don't understand how you can so easily dismiss the CIA run drills on 9/11 (at the exact time of the attacks) that depicted flying hijacked jet airplanes into buildings. Then have the 9/11 commission turn around and conclude that above all 9/11 was a failure of imagination. How do you not see a problem with the scenario?
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Lets turn this around shall we?
If you were going to plan something is elaborate as this, would you run a drill on the same day?
But that being said, I am far more disappointed with the apparent manic nature of those who claim they were different aircraft which hit the buildings, ignoring all credible scientific analysis. Hell you would think that when a jet hit a building, it should make a cartoon like hole, and even then I don't think some people posting here would believe it.
I think its a combination of a lack of basic scientific education, gullibility, and paranoid distrust of authority that leads people to embrace such insanity. If I were a psychology doctoral candidate, I know what I'd be writing about for my P.h.D. thesis.
I will grant you that the possibility of 'who knew' should be investigated, it should be SOP when anything like this happens just to be sure, but when we start getting accounts of missiles, that its the wrong type of plane, that the WTC was really destroyed by bombs, we leave reality and enter someones paranoid dream where the weight of the evidence does not matter.
Is it possible that say Bush and Co had fore knowledge of the attack? Sure, they could have, that is possible and worthy of looking into. There are still people who think F.D.R. let Pearl Harbor happen (after all why weren't the carriers in port) so such thoughts are common in American history. It is possible because the number of people who knew about it would be very small, maybe only a couple. A small number of people can keep a secret. Most of these scenarios on the other hand would require 100's of people in on the plan, from the Airlines involved, the families of those involved, the men who would have planted these bombs that no one saw, the guys setting up the remote control aircraft, the experts which would have to be bribed, the eye witnesses who saw the event....well you get the idea. This administration can't keep top secret information out of the NYTimes but you think they could pull this off?
You don't need occam's razor to see the flaws in most of these scenarios, you need his safety scissors.