Scripps poll: One-third see U.S. hand in 9/11

People irritated with their goverment because they blame it for higher gas prices... I buy that. 

The gov't having anything to do with planes slamming into two major buildings and killing thousands of people just to go to war and get more people killed in the Middle East... gimme a break.

bts 

What adults? Where do they live? What is their economic background? What is their education level?

That is bullsh*t. People are angry about the war and gas prices, yes, but this doesn't mean 1/3 of the "American public" thinks we had a hand in Sept. 11.

A rebuttal:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blflight77.htm 

Here's a fun tidbit I found:

"The catalyst for most of the Pentagon-attack sleuths can be traced back to the incendiary propaganda of French author and radical socialist Thierry Meyssan, president of the virulently anti-American and pro-Communist French think tank Reseau Voltaire."

http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_1253.shtml

Of course, this website is, no doubt, part of the cover-up.

Oh, it just gets better and better. From the same website:

David vonKleist, for instance, features on his In Plane Site website a glowing endorsement from David Icke, the New Age guru who peddles fantastic conspiracy theories claiming that George W. Bush and other world leaders are actually reptilian shape-shifters from another galaxy.

Reptiallian ssssshape-ssssshifters!  That'ssss jussssst sssssilly! 

ok - my last post on this topic, I promise.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/defense/1227842.html?page=1&c=y 

When all else fails, blame the French!

I am not convinced either way although I tend to think that the gov't is not smart enough to pull off the attacks.  However, the question of whether they turned a blind eye to heightened threats is a different story.  I would however question the reasoning for going to war.  It seems that the 10's of thousands of lost lives in Iraq is as rediculous and as incomprehensible as those lost on 9/11....and some could argue that both incidents were preventable; the Iraq war certainly was.

Much of the military was on heightened alert in the months leading up to the attacks... what the intel was that got them that way I couldn't say.  But many bases had their alert levels ramped up.

Either way... there are much easier ways to get the U.S. inflamed w/o killing that many people.  And if we simply wanted to attack Iraq, why not do something to implicate them more directly?  The Iraq tie-in to 9/11 is pretty round-about.  If you were going to stage the whole thing, why not just frame the Iraqi gov't?

It's rather sad that it's come to this...

bts 

Structuring a survey to get results you want is easy. Wording it so it's unbiased isn't.  

I went to the original article at Scripps News and found this quote:

"The level of suspicion of U.S. official involvement in a 9/11 conspiracy was only slightly behind the 40 percent who suspect "officials in the federal government were directly responsible for the assassination of President Kennedy" and the 38 percent who believe "the federal government is withholding proof of the existence of intelligent life from other planets."

I'll give surveys from Scripps/Howard a bit of skepticism from now on, thank you.