You think I'm saying that my indignation about the war justifies my believing in a conspiracy theory, Ron?

Huh? Why single me out for that? We both believe in conspiracy theories. Everyone believes in a conspiracy theory about 911, except the people who actually did it. Yours is the government sanctioned conspiracy theory, the popular one flogged by the media, that says those guys with boxcutters did it all by themselves, mine isn't that conspiracy theory, it's a different one, a more complex one involving more players, not just the guys with boxcutters. I like mine better, because it seems a lot more likely to me. Yeah, sure, it's just my opinion. Naturally.

You want me to retype all the data I've seen about it? Well, sorry, I just don't have time for that. And would it make any difference to the world if I found enough info to convince Ron Olesko of my 911 theory? Nope. It wouldn't make much difference at all. It wouldn't even change your or me in any useful way. We're just 2 people blathering away on an obscure internet forum, because we can't resist not doing so. (People like expressing their opinions...it strengthens their sense of identity. I like it. You like it. We're human, right?)

Here's another amusing thing about human nature, Ron. People will go out of their way to read and investigate any stuff that supports their established opinions strongly...they will waste precious little time on the stuff that doesn't. That stuff they skim over just so they can find something in it to attack. Thus, I do not really expect you to hunt out and enthusiastically absorb stuff that supports my favorite theories of 911. You wouldn't be acting like a normal human being if you did.

Neither do I expect that I will enthusiastically read, re-read, and memorize the material that supports the government position on the matter, because I simply don't believe those guys.

So we have, as usual, an insoluble divide on our hands. I don't know for certain who did it any more than you do. I'm just looking at probabilities, same as anyone else. I assess those probabilities differently than you do.