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Forget the pics and videos. Simply based on the machinations of Bush/Cheney surrounding the 9/11 Commission Report and its demonstrably flawed analysis, the official report that Mr. Manjoo accepts will always be open to suspicion by critical thinkers.
If, like Mr. Manjoo, you believe the official explanation, then you too are a conspiracy theorist. At this late date, without a legitimate, no strings attached, fully funded, subpoena powered investigation, we will never know the truth.
However, lost in the debate is the indisputable fact that while we invaded Iraq over WMD, the only real WMD attack this nation has ever suffered has gone uninvestigated and unsolved. I can't wait to read what Mr. Manjoo thinks of the anthrax attacks that (coincidentally?) occurred during the same time period of 9/11.
Weapons grade anthrax that could only been made at 2 sites in the U.S., requiring technical expertise that only a handful of people had, that was sent by mail before 9/11 and arriving a week after, that shut down Congress for a month at a cost of billions, killing innocent people, targeting 2 Dem leaders who were holding up the passing of the Patriot Act, etc. And to date, the crime is still unsolved.
Until Mr. Manjoo has demonstrated that he has done even the most rudimentary research on the attacks surrounding 9/11, both anthrax and WTC, he is no more credible on the issue than Philip Jayhan.
