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Hurricane,et al., WTC 7 was severely damaged by falling debris and burned for close to eight hours before it collapsed. Not a single reputable structural engineer has come out in the last 6.5 years to question the collapse of WTC 7. What, are they all part of the conspiracy, too? Did Cheney go to all their houses and threaten to shotgun them if they spoke up?
The 9/11 "Truth" conspiracies all fail this simple test of logic: for it to have been a government plot, the number of people involved in the cover-up would have to be astronomical. This administration couldn't cover up the outing of a single obscure former CIA spook, and yet they are capable of pulling off the greatest feat of misdirection and planning in history? Please...
I am a die-hard liberal, Obama booster and Bush loather. I certainly think the administration used 9/11 to further their despicable agenda. But I can not for a single second entertain the idea that they could have set up 9/11. The idea is utterly and totally preposterous.
The Truthers would rather believe that the Government is an all-powerful Super Society that controls everything down to the last detail than admit the real truth: There is no single Government watching out for us, for good or evil. There is, rather, a loosely affiliated set of interconnected agencies, many with different agendas, all at each others throats for a bigger piece of the pie. And that's all.
The 9/11 attackers saw a loophole in our security mindset, they exploited it, and that's it. Nothing more sinister.
Isn't that scary enough?
