Believing the Impossible and Conspiracy Theories

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2. Don’t get me started…

Someone close to me pressed a copy of “Loose Change” into my hands years ago…


A friend who trusts my judgement asked me just the other day about “whether the government blew up those buildings.” After some thought, I finally came up with this simple refutation:

The key premise of the 9/11 conspiracy theory is that the Bush administration staged the events to justify a war with Iraq. If that’s true, why didn’t they clearly implicate Iraq at the time? You know, like, why not use Iraqi terrorists (instead of Saudis) or at least claim that the terrorists were Iraqis? (Instead, they played rhetorical games, to get Americans to associate Iraq with the attacks.)