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[rone]

Could the Bush Administration actually be responsible for the London bombings? (Yes, the site's advertising is so strident that it makes Al Franken look like Mr. Rogers, i know, but try to ignore that while you read.)

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Re: Given this

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

It's not preposterous to suggest it, but I haven't seen any actual evidence apart from "cui bono?" reasoning and old family connections with bin Laden's estranged relatives, and some bizarre claims that are contrary to abundant evidence (that the Pentagon plane didn't exist, that there were actually no hijackers at all and the planes were electronically controlled).

If you're suggesting that the administration's general incompetence at running the country and political bloody-mindedness contributed to the Sept. 11 attacks (as seems to be the case here), I think that's already clear to anyone with eyes to see.

Re: Given this

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Sure, those guys were going to head back to Afghanistan for reassignment had Gore been elected.

I mean

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

more specific complicity--deliberately ignoring foreknowledge, deliberately botching intervention--as suggested in The New Pearl Harbor and Fahrenheit 911. Their stretching of "appearance of impropriety"-type observations into questions of culpability was pooh-poohed as preposterous, baseless accusations. How long before public perception of them changes from preposterous to merely unlikely?

On a different but related note, I forget whether it was Randi Rhodes or Laura Flanders that I heard last summer talking about a former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan threatening Taliban representatives with war in July 2001 if Afghanistan didn't agree to the Unocal pipeline. I never got around to following up and looking for news stories about this, but the conspiracy theorists seem to have plenty to say about "carpets of bombs or carpets of gold." Since my immediate reaction to seeing the towers in flames was "What the hell has our President gotten us into?" I find it really frustrating that our news media have had nothing to say about this in four years even though the Grauniad (http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4262511,00.html) reported something like it less than two weeks after the attack.