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Thread #113349   Message #2420536
Posted By: CarolC
23-Aug-08 - 02:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: War in Georgia (2008)
Subject: RE: BS: War in Georgia
The Vietnam war was a conspiracy on a grand scale (Gulf of Tonkin, and the Pentagon Papers are my evidence for this). We didn't have proof of the conspiracy until many years later. Many people suspected there was a conspiracy involved and they talked about it in much the same way we are discussing the possibility of one here in this thread. The people who discussed the possibility that there was a conspiracy behind the Vietnam war were not conspiracy theorists. The people in this thread who are discussing the possibility that there is a conspiracy behind Saakashvili's decision to attack and invade South Ossetia are also not conspiracy theorists.

So far, people have only suggested the possibility of a conspiracy, and they've shown their reasons for considering it a possibility (in my case, I only posted articles that I felt contained some interesting possibilities, and they provide their own justifications for the things they postulate). When they (we) get to the point where we are stating it, not as a possibility, but as a fact, that's when people can start demanding proof.