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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Because the last time the towers were attacked it was Bin Laden wasn't it? And Bin Laden was known to be based in Afganistan.
Hell even just a guess would be enough of a reason to turn them around, there aren't many people who'd carry out such an attack, you'd scramble to be ready to invade all of them and then order an invasion once you'd narrowed the list down from the original 4 or five.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranYeah I imagine a general order of "everybody to high alert, if you're near a crazy unstable part of the world get closer because we might need to invade" went out strait away and a "yeah it was Bin Laden, begin shifting troops to near Afganistan in case we need to invade" one a few hours later.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranSpeaking of Cracked, I saw one of their little photo slideshows once, and one entry was on this report dating to the George H.W. Bush administration about Iraq, saying that it wouldn't be a good idea to invade due to how much of a clusterfuck the country would turn into if Saddam were removed from power. Said report was written by a certain Dick Cheney. Is there any truth to this?
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?I'll never understand why Bush Sr. has come down in history as a wet noodle. He flew dive-bombers off a carrier during WWII. He was director of the CIA, fer cryin' out loud. He knew first-hand just how terrible all-out war would be, so he quit while he was ahead. And yet Michael "Munchkin" Dukakis said, "Hey, look at the big wimp!" and somehow it stuck.
edited 19th Jun '16 10:51:26 AM by pwiegle
This Space Intentionally Left Blank.Well I look the video in craked page and is....intersting, I find the mentality of conspiracy theorist a fascinanting thing, like diet version of seria killer.
For what I see, Charlie was a hippie(and he admit itself) an it show by taking of revolution and stuff, once thing dosent add up he back away, Charlotte since the typical "I want a order world" and she become agresive went the idea is brought, almost as the idea of theory should be respect in itself, the indian guy since to use his degree as validation of itself rather to investigate
In way I can see how people will come to some point: the US killing is own population is not strange consider what all kind of crap they pull on latin america and middle east country or them own population before, also is this idea of goverment being abstract subject that can do anything, at best "the goverment" become pretty much magic: they can do whatever they fucking want and dosent need to explain shit
But as Charlie said, is pretty much a religion in itself: the idea have end goal, they use patch here and there to made ad-hoc theory, and in sense they mantain the feeling of certeinity they cannot get otherwise, in sense what they really said is "I lost faith in you and now I have something else, give me faith or leave"
Is there any ficcion with show this side of conspiracy theorist? the closet I have seen is Ronaldo of Steven universe, to surprise of no one, is consider the scrappy by all the fans, what surprise
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"Apparently the NRA thinks Trump's gun policies are nuts. I guess even they realize that a crowded place with lots of noise, little light, with almost everyone is drunk and firearms don't mix.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/19/politics/donald-trump-chris-cox-nra-orlando-shooting/index.html
edited 19th Jun '16 12:25:07 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

They didn't initially, but the personnel knew something was going to happen. Mind you, it only took a few hours for al-Qaeda to be identified as being behind 9/11.
As for me, I don't remember too much about those dark days after 9/11.
edited 19th Jun '16 8:57:16 AM by Greenmantle
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