"As I see it, it's almost helpful for the administration to have to deal with a bunch of crackpot conspiracy theorists who fantasise about demolition charges and deliberate state action because it helps deflect attention from years of stupidity and state inaction in US foreign and domestic policy."

Exactly, Captain Ginger. That's a point I have been trying to make.

There is no doubt that the Bush administration was criminally neglegent in ignoring the many warnings and indications. My "conspiracy theory" (and it's more that just a theory; there is a great deal of tesimony to the effect from people who tried to sound a warning and were simply ignored) is that the Bush administration was fairly sure that such an attack was indeed coming, and since it would suit their purposes (provide an excuse to establish a military presence in the Middle East), they simply sat back and let it happen.

That is bad enough!

What's the point of concocting elaborated scenarios to try to make the Devil look more evil than he already is? It tends to obscures the enormity of truth.

Don Firth