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That's just what it is.
But you and I are not on opposite sides of this issue, except for the fact that you already believe what hasn't been conclusively proven, and I only keep an open mind to its possibility as well as a healthy skepticism as well.
But we agree that there are wide open questions that demand answers. We agree that politicians in Washington are refusing to deal with the tough issues. We agree that there is massive resistance to attempts to get to the truth.
The only difference is, I know that LIHOP or MIHOP are theories. Theories forumlated because of a slew of loose ends and open questions that may, or may not be accurate. There is only one thing that has been conclusively proven so far, and that is that Bush is guilty of depraved indifferenece. There is hard, credibly, documented, on the record, clear cut, factual evidence that proves that much.
This is a good thing, because it rightfully should lead to the asking for tougher questions - what was the scope of Bush's depraved indifference? How sinister was it? Did anyone in the Administration have any kind of participatory role in what transpired - either in the specific attack or in contributing to a generalized and deliberate vulnerability to future attacks? And every single one of the questions that LIHOP or MIHOP people raise demand real answers - and we the people deserve those real answers.
The only difference between me and you is that I know we don't have the answers yet - just a lot of questions, and then a of induction based on every kind of fallacious reasoning that always happens when people try to formulate absolute conclusions before there is the concrete evidence to support them.
What we know is depraved in difference. That much is clearly evidenced, tangibly. The next questions must be, what was the scope of this indifference - was it clandestine, participatory, willful? At what level? What was the nature of post 9/11 cover ups? To hide how much the administration dropped the ball in ignoring terrorist warnings (currently the most well evidenced theory)? Was it to cover up their direct hand in the specific attacks? Was it to cover up their more indirect, possibly more passive involvement in allowing the specific attacks? Was it other kind of damaning information on administration behavior, relationship to foriegn countries, etc?
These questions deserve answers.
My only problem, Q - is with people who act like anyone who doesn't believe the Bush administration planned these attacks, hired people to execute them and carried out the destruction of the world trade center and the murder of 3,000+ Americans for their own purposes is somehow and idiot. We are not idiots for reserving judgment while we continue to demand an exploration of the evidence.
Where are normal, rational, non conspiracy nutbag people today? Well, they are at a place where they know that the Bush Administration was guilty of depraved indifference to the issues of security. That much has been proven. Now rational people want answers to questions about the scope of that failure - was it deliberate and if so how specifically, what are the answers to the specific open questions out there? Was there an element of desire to allow this specific attack to happen, or was there an element of desire to allow a climate in which an attack like this would happen, or was there simply a blindness and disinterest towards these issues amidst the fixation and preoccupation with iraq, star wars, tax cuts, and whatever else?
I don't know the answer, and neither do you - yet. I'm not trying to tell you not to suspect LIHOP or MIHOP or anything else. What I'm against is people like you acting as though it is conclusively proven fact and anyone trying to think about a different theory might as well be trying to argue that 2+2=5. You are wrong to do that. And that's my biggest problem with the quote "conspiracy" crowd.
DI did happen. (And by doing so he certainly allowed a vulnerable framwork in which 9/11 happend)
LIHOP (and by that I mean having specific knoweldge of 9/11 and refusing to stop that specific event) may have happened - we need more answers
MIHOP may have happened - we need more answers
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Why did Jeb Bush and federal agents seize records from Huffman Aviation - Florida flight school of Mohammed Atta, and other 9/11 hijackers - in the middle of the night following the attacks of September 11th and load them onto a C-130? And why did Jeb Bush know, hours after the attack, where to look? 
