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Do you believe that 9/11 was an inside-job?

  • 28-03-2013 7:36pm
    #1
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭


    Firstly, I'm not a conspiratorialist and do not believe that 9/11 was an inside job. But the reason I've constructed this thread is to get to the wider audience as opposed to the minority audience of the forum for conspiratorialists and second, to gauge the opinion of boardsters on this matter via a poll.

    I personally wouldn't trust the US government with a glass of water but don't think persuasive evidence exists to point the finger at the US government let alone exculpate the real perpetrators of this heinous crime.

    Your views?

    Do you believe 9/11 was an inside job? 14 votes

    I believe the US government was completely complicit with the crime.
    14% 2 votes
    I believe the US government knew of the attack prior but did nothing about it.
    50% 7 votes
    I don't believe they were in any way involved.
    35% 5 votes


Comments

  • #2
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    It'd say it was an outside job.


  • #3
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    No, I don't believe the US was involved in the deaths of 3,000 of their own citizens. I do believe however that they exploited the situation and the anger of the American public to launch an assault on Iraq.


  • #4
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,592 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    They're not that clever,end of.


  • #5
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    dlofnep wrote: »
    No, I don't believe the US was involved in the deaths of 3,000 of their own citizens. I do believe however that they exploited the situation and the anger of the American public to launch an assault on Iraq.

    Yeah, that's pretty much where I am. For example, the PNAC involvement in Clinton's administration and then in power with Bush's administration, seems all too convenient a 'new pearl harbour' to exploit.


  • #6
    Schism
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Schism


    What kind of government can condone killing thousands of their own civilians? Of course it wasn't an inside job.


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  • #7
    youtube!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,265 ✭✭✭youtube!


    Never ever heard of this question being posed before.


  • #8
    0ph0rce0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,026 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    Yes


  • #9
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    dlofnep wrote: »
    No, I don't believe the US was involved in the deaths of 3,000 of their own citizens. I do believe however that they exploited the situation and the anger of the American public to launch an assault on Iraq.

    That, patriotism took a massive bump post-9/11. Fox News must have thought it was a gift just for them.


  • #10
    0ph0rce0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,026 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    Schism wrote: »
    What kind of government can condone killing thousands of their own civilians? Of course it wasn't an inside job.

    The American Government :rolleyes:


  • #11
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    Schism wrote: »
    Of course it wasn't an inside job.

    You must be surprised then with [so far] 45% of people believing in US involvement in some way, even passive.


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  • #12
    Clandestine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Clandestine


    I think it was. Too much contradictions in the official reports.. and the US had reasons to organise it

    Anyone here seen Zeitgeist?


  • #13
    Mister Gooey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 650 ✭✭✭Mister Gooey


    dlofnep wrote: »
    No, I don't believe the US was involved in the deaths of 3,000 of their own citizens. I do believe however that they exploited the situation and the anger of the American public to launch an assault on Iraq.

    Eh, the US attacked Afganistan after 9/11.


  • #14
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,323 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    The planes clearly hit the outside of the buildings!


  • #15
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    I need to see all the evidence









    of how FF got so many votes today :-(


  • #16
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    Mister Gooey wrote: »
    Eh, the US attacked Afganistan after 9/11.

    I think he's referring to the War on Terror which was instigated from 9/11, thus involving both countries.

    EDIT: Am I the only one now seeing 5 options on the poll after the vote?


  • #17
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Mister Gooey wrote: »
    Eh, the US attacked Afganistan after 9/11.

    The "neo-cons" made a (knowingly wrong) link between the nutters in the mountains and Saddam if you remember


  • #18
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Wasn't there intelligence gathered in the US during 2001 which hinted at an impending attack?

    Obviously they didn't know enough in time.


  • #19
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    No I don't think it was an inside job. They could've known that they were going to be attacked somewhere at some point though.
    realies wrote: »
    I need to see all the evidence

    of how FF got so many votes today :-(

    Memory span of fishes.

    That will be all


  • #20
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,592 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    I think it was an inside job by conspiracy theorists to make a fast buck off the gullable.


  • #21
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    kneemos wrote: »
    conspiracy theorists

    You mean 'Conspiratorialists', adding the word 'theorist' adds a nuance of legitimacy I think.


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  • #22
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    9/11


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