Reply #29: Questions I've always had about 9/11 and the official story...

[warren pease]

Why would anyone believe the official conspiracy theory, which was composed entirely by the Bush administration and disseminated by the notoriously unreliable US mass media, when that very administration has lied about every single thing they've done since 9/11 and had those lies sanctioned by the same M$M gatekeepers?

And why is it so difficult to acknowledge the fundamental role 9/11 played in enabling the entire PNAC/BushCo agenda -- creating an external threat, scaring the population into submission, demonizing an entire religion to whip up fundie war frenzy, stealing individual rights in the name of providing protection, invading countries that played central parts in implementing various fossil fuels schemes -- from the Unocal pipeline through Afghanistan to the blatant resource grab in Iraq and the upcoming one in Iran, gaining consensus for obscene war budgets (meaning obscene profits for the war industry), creating a private army with no accountability or consequences for its actions, institutionalizing torture, spying on and harassing US citizens with nonsense like TSA gropings at airports, no-fly lists, national ID cards, RFID-equipped passports... the list is nearly endless.

Every single piece of repressive legislation, every single signing statement, executive order and presidential directive, every single governmental violation of the Constitution, every single wingnut judicial appointment, every single instance of election fraud... every outrage this administration has committed has been legitimized by the tired line that, well...9/11 changed everything.

The official conspiracy theory is so ridiculous that it insults my intelligence and would be absolutely hilarious if it weren't the keystone that supports the entire BushCo agenda. And yet there are millions of seemingly intelligent people, including many here on DU, who profess to despise BushCo and all it stands for, yet cling to the official story like a drowning man to a piece of driftwood.

After all, if high ranking US government officials would think nothing of murdering about 3,000 people, destroying three skyscrapers and attacking the pentagon simply to advance their agenda, then there's really nothing left of the American creation myth to cling to.

And even though physical, anecdotal and circumstantial evidence make mincemeat of the official fairy tale, it seems that many people would rather believe it than deal with the cognitive dissonance that admitting government complicity would create.

Amazing.


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