They're going to do it to us again!

[db44]

:redmad:

Yes, you can call me a conspiracy theorist, but something in the news last week made me want to post something like this last week. I never got around to it though.

Over the last few weeks, we've suddenly seen an escalation of shootings, of minor terror threats and now a small bomb in Times Square.

Why do I feel this isn't coincindence that it comes with McCain lagging in the polls? Is this going to be the Republican's method again? Scare people into voting for them? Bush didn't exactly clean up all he said he would, but how many poeple will they get to fall for it?

[db44]

That's what it was! Ricin in Vegas! So the police search a room when a guy hasn't paid rent, but it's the guy's concerned friend who finds the stuff days after? It's a thing that makes me go hmmm.

[Venisenvy]

I'm not as cynical as you but I have to admit day by day I get closer.

[tiger_rascal]

Im fairly cynical. But not when it comes to the Bush admin., I dont believe anyone is that smart half the time.

[SparkleHugs]

THe thing about the Bush Admin is that Bush himself isn't that smart, but everyone behind him is. I wouldn't put it passed anyone there. It wouldn't surprise me in the least.

[db44]

It's not necessarily about Bush, it's about the GOP, and considering their fondness for Karl Rove, I put nothing above them.

[Regis Philbin]

I thought I saw Karl Rove flying overhead in a black helicopter today...

[db44]

It wouldn't surprise me, even though you're joking.

[tiger_rascal]

I love conspiracy theories.

The only one that bothered me though was the 9/11 conspiracy theories. They just seemed so disrespectful to the victims and their families to ignore and disregard what was happening for the world to see.

[Richard Tafoya]

Like the one where we had to invade Iraq because of 9/11? That one continues to be offensive.

[tiger_rascal]

Uh, no Richard, the one where US Air Force jets were using cloaking technology and actually shot missiles at the Twin Towers. And if that wasnt enough, there were actually explosives on each floor to bring the buildings down. Oh, and UFOs were spotted around the buildings just weeks before the "attacks".

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[Richard Tafoya]

You don't count the "We're going after Saddam because of 9/11" argument as a conspiracy theory?

[Venisenvy]

Look the argument was not that we had to go into iraq because they were involved in 9/11 it was because 9/11 changed everything and the way we see things and we could no longer let saddam hussein be in power. I am still for the Iraq war no matter how much the Bush administration has butchered it.

[db44]

No, it was disticntly Bush saying Saddam was funding Al Qaeda, was harboring terrorists and was directly conneccted to 9/11.

[Annoyedlistner]

I thought I saw Karl Rove flying overhead in a black helicopter today...

Impossible.....all of us know that the helicopter wouldnt have enough lift to get off the ground with him in it.

[tiger_rascal]

I dont think its a conspiracy theory that the Iraq war is horribly mismanaged. That is a fact.

[DoubleEdgeSword]

Luis, that wasn't the bill of goods Bush tried to sell the American public. I distinctly remember 9/11 morphing into "Get Saddam." Soon after came the illusive WMDs, then it was al Qaeda in Iraq, and once, Bush actually admitted protecting American oil interests.

Don't get me wrong, I believe the Bush administration had Iraq in its sites long before 9/11. In fact, if you look at the Project for the New American Century, a think tank that counts among its members Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld, there is little doubt that Iraq, Iran and other countries in the Middle East play a large role in their master plan.

http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

[SparkleHugs]

I love conspiracy theories.

The only one that bothered me though was the 9/11 conspiracy theories. They just seemed so disrespectful to the victims and their families to ignore and disregard what was happening for the world to see.


PLenty of those familes agree with the theory.


The news this morning just said that Al Queda is getting stronger and is probably planning another attack on America. I hope American's dont fall for the trick and elect someone they shouldnt simply because they are too stupid to see a scare tactic when they see it.

Also, if the media is so liberal, why would they help so much with the fearmongering? :confused:

[db44]

A bomb going off is still news, and the media has an obligation to cover that and the various officials talking about it. Going further into it, like opinion pieces, well, that's why FOX is more likely to run with such a story than CNN.

As for conspircies regarding 9/11, I think some are just stupid, i.e. anything about UFOs (never heard that one. Have heard various missle stories which are also dumb. Heck, I know people who saw at least one of the planes go in with their own eyes).

I do believe some of the stories about what the government did and didn't know and did and didn't do on that day.