Thursday July 13, 2006
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Loose Change 2nd Edition is a 9/11 documentary that focuses primarily on inconsistencies with the 9-11 Commission's report about what it was that flew into the Pentagon and what actually caused the twin towers to collapse. Although it did manage to raise a few good points, as a whole I'm afraid to say that its reliance on circumstantial evidence and flawed reasoning left many conclusions it derived on rather shaky ground and accordingly the argument as a whole may be easily dismissed by mainstream media as yet another wacky conspiracy theory. What I did find interesting was the historical footage that was shown about US military planning during the 1960's which included proposals to incite domestic terrorism to build up public support for an invasion of Cuba. The full documentary can be viewed here.

The unintended consequence of poorly-constructed conspiracy theories on this subject as described by Terry Allen is that "the 9/11 conspiracy hypotheses distracts from the growing chain of evidence documenting how the Bush administration actually manipulated this country to war on a train of lies riding tracks of fear -- cynically using the bodies of the 9/11 victims as fuel."
posted by Jason Boyer at 06:12 PM EST | permalink