This morning I read that a great number of Muslims believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy created by the US government to justify the invasion of Iraq. This worried me. How could so many Muslims be so wrong?
But then I thought that the U.S. government and some EU countries did lie to invade Iraq. They lied about the weapons of mass destruction conspiracy and the connections between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.
So if I were debating with any of those Muslims who believe that 9/11 was an excuse to invade Iraq, I would have to say "9/11 was not a US/Israeli conspiracy, there is tremendous irrefutable evidence that it was a terrorist attack perpetrated by Saudi terrorists and led by Osama bin Laden." And that part is true.
But then I would have to explain other painful truths. I would have to admit that we invaded Iraq despite knowing that neither the 9/11 terrorists nor the WMD where there. That in our countries we created the false impression that Saddam was behind 9/11 and that many believe this lie now. And this is one weak side of the debate.
If we can create conspiracies about WMD and "Muslim terrorism," as if all Muslims act together (Saddam=Osama=Ahmadinejad), attack and destroy the wrong country (Iraq), torture their citizens, post pictures of how we torture them in Abu Ghraib, take some to Guantanamo and approve their torture, share the blame in the killing of 25 times more innocent civilians than those who died in 9/11 and admit to using white phosphorous (chemical weapon) attacking Fallujah; if we can commit such atrocities, why is it so farfetched that most Muslims believe that 9/11 was perpetrated by US and Israel in order to invade Iraq and control the second largest oil reserve in the world?
Moreover, in this Wikipedia entry you will be surprised to find out that one third of Americans actually AGREE with the majority of Muslims. They also believe in 9/11 conspiracy theories even though 2% of Americans are Muslims.
Can our argument just be "yes, we do horrible things but not precisely the horrible things you believe we do"? My hope is that, during this decade, we will truly gain the high moral ground against terrorism and cooperate with moderate Muslims to eradicate Muslim extremism without violating human rights in the region. In the end, terrorism is an industry that feeds on angry young men. We have to make it much harder for Muslim terrorists to recruit. As we have been behaving over the last 10 years, it is not surprising that terrorism has greatly increased since 9/11.
Editor's Note: An earlier version of this post claimed a majority of Muslims believed 9/11 was a conspiracy. The source material linked to in this post does not substantiate that claim, and thus, that claim has been removed from the post.
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One possible cause is the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, who have just sponsored Monsieur Meyssan to the tune of one million dollars to produce a book about the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafiq Hariri back in 2005. Meyssan claims his book will contain evidence that the state of Israel was behind the murder.
Hezbollah said a similar thing two months ago, producing aerial photographs it says shows Israel had been tracking Mr Hariri long before his assassination.
Hezbollah has been minding Meyssan from his new base in Beirut, in particular for his frequent forays, totalling six months, into Iran to write and research his book.
One feature which will remind those familiar with Meyssan style is that he will say the attack on the Lebanon prime minister as by a missile and not the car bomb which everyone else (excepting Hezbollah says). Mons Meyssan said that the Pentagon was hit by a missile and not by American Airlines 77 – this despite scores of witnesses to the crash.
How about this, whenever someone alludes to the existence of irrefutable evidence they are obliged to state what it is and why it is irrefutable. Like Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
"This worried me. How could so many Muslims be so wrong?"
Not so many Muslims. Just you.
It is every American citizen's duty to question highly suspicious events such as this, especially since so much death and destruction have resulted from 911. Our country was founded on the principle of mistrust of power. Don't ever forget what it means to be an American.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/doc1.pdf
"Take off times of the drone aircraft and the actual aircraft will be scheduled to allow a rendezvous south of Florida. From the rendezvous point the passenger-carrying aircraft will descend to minimum altitude and go directly into an auxiliary field at Eglin AFB where arrangements will have been made to evacuate the passengers and return the aircraft to its original status. The drone aircraft meanwhile will continue to fly the filed flight plan. When over Cuba the drone will begin transmitting on the international distress frequency a "MAY DAY" message stating he is under attack by Cuban MIG aircraft. The transmission will be interrupted by destruction of the aircraft which will be triggered by radio signal."
I'm a peace-loving activist, but considering what you wrote above, if it was the Saudis that attacked us, then why are we not at war with them?
Either way, you don't know the first thing about 9/11 if you have bought into the government's official conspiracy theory about it.
If these hijackers did it, they had some serious help or they were monitored and were going to take the hit for the real conspirators. We just don't know, but we know we were lied to and W was a liar and so he lied about 9/11. He wouldn't testify alone or under oath and did everything possible to NOT have a serious investigation including packing the commission. Martin, you are terribly naive and should study false flag operations - Gulf of Tonkin, Sinking the Main, USS Liberty and you will realize that things are not what you believe them to be.
Considering all the lies of gov, of intel and the fact that intel works in the dark, there's a good chance they were in on it. Let's take another look.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/09/anniversary-of-911.html
Vice Chairman of the 9/11 Commission Lee Hamilton: "We got started late; We had a very short time frame... We did not have enough money... We had a lot of people strongly opposed to what we did. We had a lot of trouble getting access to documents and to people... So there were all kinds of reasons we thought we were set up to fail."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSApOavkHg8
http://www.911docs.net/cutter_charges_wtc.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DChR1XcYhlw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnR4A4zb8B0&feature=related
That's brilliant, let's try it.
What have we got to lose ?
this phrase is taken from this article http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101002/ap_on_re_eu/eu_attacks_the_theories
As long as we have secret, or opaque, or closeted systems that either do the bidding of the powerful, or serve to cover up their frequent follies, we'll have plenty of conspiracy theories to write about.
Please view the David Chandler videos posted above and educate yourself.
Lol! Good advice!
It just demonstrate how some western intellectuals indeed perpetrate and proliferate this rubbish to advance their ideological standing.