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We saw the jets go through the trade towers. It wasn't made up.
Yes, there was gold in the bottom of the wreckage. Read American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center, by William Langewiesche. He has a talent for making large, complex subjects digestable. This information was all over the news within hours of the towers being hit. I never thought it was a secret.
It's the similarities between the conspiracy people and the current administration that are striking. Apparently, only the USA is capable of doing anything on such a grand scale. It was this conceit that allowed it to happen.
Relevant information is out there, it just doesn't seem to be in Loose Change. The Bush administration began to conspire on how to get the American people to support a first strike on Iraq, and as near as I can tell, the whole thing has backfired.
In some dark twist of fate, Dick Cheney, the career oportunist without much practical experience, ended up being in a position to manipulate events. Most of America doesn't even like him.
I think Seymore Hirsch nailed it a couple of months ago when he reported that Iran was the target all along.
