ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: Violation of another Nations Sovereignty (5/21/2009 12:23:44 PM)
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I have no problem at all agreeing that there's a lot to this story we don't know, and maybe never will. And it wouldn't surprise me in the least to learn that there were members of the Bush Administration who had a lot more foreknowledge of what was going to happen than they'd ever dare admit. And furthermore, I want to make clear that I have no argument with anyone advocating for a deeper investigation of what the Administration knew, when they knew it, and why they didn't act on it. The problem I have is, the more people make these outlandish conspiract theories (like controlled demolition, there really wasn't a plane crash at the Pentagon, etc.) the centerpiece of their argument, the more they're undermining their own credibility and making it easier for the average guy to just dismiss the entire issue. If someone pops up tomorrow and says he has evidence that Cheney knew the night before that Al Qaeda was going to fly airliners into the sides of the WTC the next morning, everybody's just going to say, "Oh, christ, another one of those idiots. When are they going to shut up?" Even if it's rock-solid, genuine, indictable evidence, very few people are going to take it seriously. If they separate out the silly crap from the real issues - the genuine questions - they might actually get some serious attention, but the more they go around talking about stuff that's just ridiculously false, the harder it's going to be for anyone to ever get to the bottom of some of those real questions. And that's why I get so passionate about this - what they're really doing is damaging, perhaps fatally, the real quest for truth. The more they go on with this stuff, the less likely it's going to be that any of us will ever really find out what happened. And that's a tragedy.
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