I COULD play Devil's Advocate here for a moment. No, really.

Okay. Let's assume that the Government is in control by some group or another -- some private group that has the whole "Ends justify the means, and the Ends are only understandable by us, thus, we're always justified" group...

Then let's assume that Bush is part of this group, or at least has something to gain from a relationship with said group.

Okay. So we have a conspiracy already. But now the conspiracy gets worse -- take in that Bush's family dealt with oil, and that they needed an excuse to go to Iraq. Well, if you attack the twin towers, and then attack the Pentagon, two stong symbols in America, you run into the little area of patriotism. Add in the patriotic music videos and ideals in the prevailing month, and you suddenly have time where the people can be moved into acts of patriotism.

The Patriot Act, which basically lets the Government imprison whoever they want, as long as they "think that they're terrorists" is passed; many of those arrested, some of which are undoubtably innocent, are moved into secret camps and tortured.

I dunno, if you ask me, I can actually see a motive here. You can't assume to know all of the picture in a conspiracy, but enough of it is clear to say "motive"... you just have to make assumptions. Like, say, the moral bankruptcy of those in charge, and a conspiracy group good enough to hide all the facts.

But that's the key -- I can explain *WHY* decently enough (at least, enough to seem plausible); but the "HOW" floors me. How do you do all of that without confuzzling every physicist, engineer, construction worker, etc., across the nation (and in other nations as well)?

Edit: Now that I'm really thinking about it, isn't it kinda interesting that the majority of Americans are really starting to realize the dwindling abilities of fossil fuels? Ironically, just when we're practically finishing up an occupation into a country that holds a vast amount of oil reserves.

Y'know, I should probably stop being devil's advocate before I actually convince myself >.<

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