Reply #36: LIHOP = Let it happen on purpose

[teach1st]

MIHOP=Made it happen on purpose. There are pages and pages on MIHOP, and there are compelling arguments for it, but I think an action of this magnitude would be very hard to keep hidden. LIHOP doesn't necessarily involve too many actors. I lean toward thinking that someone in the Bush administration thought the 9/11 action would be simple hijackings and, if allowed to happen, would be a great way to advance their agenda. Bush was not doing well in the polls at the time.

Do I think any other President was capable of this? Yes. Johnson (Gulf of Tonkin) and Roosevelt (Pearl Harbor) are alleged to have done so. The Sinking of the Battleship Maine comes to mind as well. I don't know about Clinton. As the 9/11 commission releases info, the actions the Clinton administration took against those involved with terror suggest he didn't wag the dog.

On top of reading the PNAC documents, Google "Operation Northwoods", a plan formulated by top Pentagon officials in the 60s to fake Cuban terrorist strikes on the U.S.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=operation+northwoods