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This started as a reply to odessa's comment on "Osama Bin Pooh", but then it just kept getting bigger, so I made it a full post.

I hate 9/11 conspiracy theorists. I'm willing to believe that the public story of what happened isn't quite true. Maybe some warnings were ignored, maybe some mistakes were made, etc. But the conspiracies are just ridiculous.

So apparently the Bush administration convinced a group of Islamic fundamentalists to hijack several planes. (After, of course, giving the fundamentalists flight training and allowing them to live in the country safely.) Two of the planes went to New York, where they hit the World Trade Center. Those buildings were already set up with explosives, so they could be detonated when the planes hit. Another plane was blown up by a missile somewhere near Pittsburgh. And then someone fired a missile at the Pentagon, to make it look like another plane hit there. (Apparently the plane headed towards DC was also blown up by a missile, because it sure didn't land safely.)

How is that more credible than the standard story? Why do people believe that our government would kill thousands of US citizens for political gain? Or, for that matter, that it's possible for the government to create such a massive cover-up without there being any leaks? But the biggest hole in this theory is the same as many other conspiracy theories. Let's say everything in my second paragraph really was true, and I make a movie explaining the truth. Why doesn't some CIA agent just come and kill me? We've established that the government kills people and covers it up all the time. If there really was an effort to cover up a conspiracy, then people wouldn't be allowed to talk about it as freely as they do. The conspiracy logic is self-defeating.