Some view "truth" as being dependent of ones' point of view. I view truth as incorruptible fact.
A good example would be 2 people arguing over the color of a piece of cloth, but one of them is color-blind.
Neither can deny that the cloth is made of canvas, or that the piece of canvas is square. The issue of contention is whether it is blue or green in color, but how do you convince a color-blind person that the canvas is blue and not green?
Moore is calling the piece of cloth a triangle shaped piece of cotton that is blue, which is not entirely true. Blue it may be, but it is not made of cotton and it isn't a triangle!!
Yes we were attacked by Al-qaeda on 9/11, yes the WTC center collapsed; but to say that the whole event was engineered by Bush is akin to saying FDR knew that Pearl Harbor was going to be attacked and allowed it to happen. Were bad decisions made? Of course there were bad decisions, it's an official american past-time to make terrible decisions and not learn from the mistakes of others (take the war in the atlantic for example).
What happened was a classic case of falling asleep at the wheel and receiving a rude awakening. We had already been attacked several times before 9/11 but our sh*t for brains government couldn't connect the dots if their life depended on it.
1982–1991 Lebanon: Thirty US and other Western hostages kidnapped in Lebanon by Hezbollah. Some were killed, some died in captivity, and some were eventually released. Terry Anderson was held for 2,454 days.
1983
April 18, Beirut, Lebanon: U.S. embassy destroyed in suicide car-bomb attack; 63 dead, including 17 Americans. The
Islamic Jihad (Islamic Jihad has close ties to Hamas, the current leadership in the Gaza Strip) claimed responsibility.
Oct. 23, Beirut, Lebanon: Shiite suicide bombers exploded truck near U.S. military barracks at Beirut airport, killing 241 marines. Minutes later a second bomb killed 58 French paratroopers in their barracks in West Beirut. (Islamic Jihad also claimed responsibility for this act, and did so with IRANIAN help).
1993
Feb. 26, New York City: bomb exploded in basement garage of
World Trade Center, killing 6 and injuring at least 1,040 others. In 1995, militant Islamist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 9 others were convicted of conspiracy charges, and in 1998, Ramzi Yousef, believed to have been the mastermind, was convicted of the bombing.
Al-Qaeda involvement is
suspected. (File this comment under REALLY HORRIBLE DECISIONS: FBI is put onto this case as a criminal investigation and not as an act of terrorism).
1996
June 25, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia: truck bomb exploded outside Khobar Towers military complex, killing 19 American servicemen and injuring hundreds of others. 13 Saudis and a Lebanese, all alleged members of Islamic militant group
Hezbollah, were indicted on charges relating to the attack in June 2001. (Hezbollah is openly backed by Iran).
1998
Aug. 7, Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: truck bombs exploded almost simultaneously near 2 U.S. embassies, killing 224 (213 in Kenya and 11 in Tanzania) and injuring about 4,500. 4 men connected with al-Qaeda 2 of whom had received training at
al-Qaeda camps inside
Afghanistan, were convicted of the killings in May 2001 and later sentenced to life in prison. A federal grand jury had indicted 22 men in connection with the attacks, including Saudi dissident
Osama bin Laden, who remained at large.
2000
Oct. 12, Aden, Yemen: U.S. Navy destroyer USS
Cole heavily damaged when a small boat loaded with explosives blew up alongside it. 17 sailors killed. Linked to
Osama bin Laden, or members of
al-Qaeda terrorist network.
2001
Sept. 11, New York City, Arlington, Va., and Shanksville, Pa.: hijackers crashed 2 commercial jets into twin towers of World Trade Center; 2 more hijacked jets were crashed into the Pentagon and a field in rural Pa. Total dead and missing numbered 2,992
1: 2,749 in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon, 40 in Pa., and 19 hijackers. Islamic
al-Qaeda terrorist group blamed. (
See September 11, 2001: Timeline of Terrorism.)
Even with all of these events and other I didn't bother to mention, our government was so busy with domestic politics and political scandals that they were incapable of action.
Lastly, one of the more irritating things I hear from people is that Bush is an idiot, and those same people claim that Bush engineered the 9/11 attacks to work in his favor. For god sakes people, either Bush is an incompetent man who should be removed from office or he's one of the most frightening masterminds we've ever come across in our nations' history. PICK ONE.
