Rodzilla:
Stephen_Garrett:I don't get it.
Some people live with the irrational belief that the US government would never do anything intentionally to harm their fellow citizens. I've had conversations with people who dismiss the possibility of government complicity in 9/11 out of hand for this reason alone.
I'm totally with you, Rod. But I think there are plenty of better (and much more obvious) reasons to believe the Government was responsible for 9/11, than whether the "squibs" were a cause or an effect of building collapse. That just gets us all mired in technical details very few of us are competent to analyze.
9/11 was in the cards as far back as the early 1950's, and it was anything BUT a secret. There's mountains evidence right out in the open, that shows that. A massively complex, delicately timed, and yet mind-bogglingly discrete feat of engineering wizardry was not at all necessary for starting a war with the middle east, because decades of foreign policy adventures before it, combined with an accutely hightened degree of political hubris today, already insured it would happen.
As for harming our fellow citizens - Rodney King.