How the 9/11 Truth Movement Helps Bush & Cheney!!!!????

[fixuplooksharp]

Taken from Counterpunch

How the 9/11 Truth Movement Helps Bush & Cheney
Proving Nothing

By JOSHUA FRANK

I really have no interest in debunking all the nutty conspiracies revolving around September 11, 2001. I find the exercise about as entertaining as discussing the virgin birth with a Christian fundamentalist. The truth is, it's is damn near impossible to convince a zealot of their senselessness.

I concede that there are a lot of questions yet to be answered about that dark day five years ago. But of all of the inquiries, none, in my opinion, if answered, would ever indicate the US government was behind the bloody affair. Sad thing is most 9/11 conspiracy theorists, conveniently dubbed the 9/11 Truth Movement, are on par with Bush for the Super-Negligence Award: what they are now propagating will never stop this out-of-control administration or any of our government's homicidal policies.

With all the banter about the Bushies and the neocons taking down the World Trade Center or flying a missile in to the Pentagon, the Truth Movement seems to willfully ignore that we've got real wars going on in the Middle East right now. And most of these battles started well before Bush took office or Bin Laden's combat teams flew commercial airliners in to the WTC.

I've yet to comprehend how sending out mass emails, which "prove" George W. Bush and company were behind 9/11, will ever bring our troops home or curb US imperialism. Never mind these hollow tirades "prove" nothing, the senders' obsessive tendencies (my inbox overflows with this nonsense) are a huge diversion from the actual crimes our government commits on a daily basis.

While some BYU physicist rattles his brain over the intricacies of WTC #7's collapse, our government is dropping toxic gas on poor peasants in Colombia in attempts to eradicate coca production. While David Ray Griffin pens his next best seller, forests in Alaska and Appalachia are being obliterated in the name of corporate profit. While so many truth seekers attempt to convince us (how they can seek the truth when they already think they have all the answers is beyond me) that the Jews who worked in the WTC were told ahead of time not to come to work on 9/11, Lebanon is being invaded and destroyed by Israel.

What's the Truth Movement doing about the hundreds of thousands of poor non-violent drug offenders who are rotting in US prisons, or the thousands more who are decaying on death row? What are they doing for the teenage girls who slave away in sweatshops piecing together our clothes and sneakers? What have conspiracy theories ever proven, anyway?

Just last week Al-Jazeera (not exactly an apologist for US aggression) aired an old video, which allegedly showed Osama hanging out with a few 9/11 perpetrators. Will the conspiracy pushers now try to convince us that Al-Jazeera is in cahoots with Fox News?

Indeed this administration, like so many before it, needs to be stopped at once. But we certainly don't need conspiracy theories to make the case.

Joshua Frank, author of Left Out! How Liberals Helped Reelect George W. Bush, edits http://www.BrickBurner.org

link: http://www.counterpunch.org/frank09112006.html

[foliagecop]

"What's the Truth Movement doing about the hundreds of thousands of poor non-violent drug offenders who are rotting in US prisons, or the thousands more who are decaying on death row? What are they doing for the teenage girls who slave away in sweatshops piecing together our clothes and sneakers? What have conspiracy theories ever proven, anyway?"

Oh, what a terrible, terrible argument. And this guy's a writer??

Jeez Louise.

[Woodee]

So we are not allowed to search for 9/11 Truth because there are other bad things going on in the world? Riiiiight. Well.... one at a time ... one at a time!

[marky 54]

[conspiracy analyst]

[John White]

Its was Diebold & Co that got Bush re-elected, not Liberals

This guy seems to be led by events and his opinions are reactions to them

911 truth is about getting to the root of events, and gaining clarity over them

[lostpomme]

[xmasdale]

[aggle-rithm]

[marky 54]

sloppy thinking? the whole thing dosnt add up, and i wouldnt say it was sloppy thinking. most people when they watch the evidece agree that 9/11 needs reinvestigating. but because of the media control most people are not allowed to see the points raised. and if you think false flag operations have never been pulled of before your wrong. some countries openly admit to it, and files have been declassified from the past that show certain events to of been a false flag. so when theres questions raised in any inccident and they are ignored, or not answered, there is reason in what people think. the points people raise are because of psyical evidence not because it was dreamt up from nothing. its not like we just woke up and thought, hey i know lets make something up. there is stuff around that shows things that dont add up and the goverments like to call them conspiracy theorys, because people are asking difficult questions they want to avoid. you have proved time and time again aggle that you think you should just trust the goverments word. and yet they said osama ordered 9/11, then changed it to massarui as bush said during his speech to get laws past so they can torture prisoners yesterday. they said wmd's definatly exsisted in iraq but found none,they said saddam had links to al-qeada, the senate said there was no evidence of that and the whitehouse should of known it. they said he could strike in 45 mintues, again nothing was found to claim that. every reason they told us they were going into iraq for was false. and bush now says its because iraq is key to fighting terror. so they just make up rubbish as they go along and lie. so why the hell do you seem to think they'd never lie to you aggle? they just lie and get away with it because of people like you. even the commission just let them avoid ,not answer questions and just blag their way through it.

[marky 54]

and if seeking the truth is a conspiracy theory, there is no hope in this world. all we ask for is either a reinvestigation or some of the questions to be answered. truth means truth, it means the truth could be what we have already been told, but when theirs things that dont add up and no one wants to answer them or even accept yeah it looks dodgy but theres properbly an explaination, when we are told that we are conspiracy theorists when we are looking at actual footage and getting the conclusions it makes it obvious something is being hidden. especially with the efforts made to avoid us and put us down rather than just explain to us the questions raised. if we dont live in a free country and if we are not allowed to question something when we have doubts then somebodys please say. either we live in a democracy or we dont, dont preech democracy and take it away at the same time. dont use freedom as the tool we are protecting with the war on terror and then condem people for being free, when all that needs to happen is questions answered or a reinvestigastion. i am sick of having my opinon and then being slatered for doing so, called a nutter, numbskull ect. ect. do we live in a free country or dont we, its shocking to think that we do but we are not allowed to disbelief what we are told if we think there is doubt, or evidence to doubt, that isnt freedom thats a dictatorship. we told you this happened and you will believe it! we are preeched. even though they lied in front of everyone about iraq.

[John White]

[coconut]