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Old 06-16-13, 07:51 AM   #1
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WC Fields called it. There's a sucker born every minute.
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Old 06-16-13, 08:13 AM   #2
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I've read a book (the title & authors are mentioned in What are you reading now thread) and the reasons why the towers collapsed are explained pretty decently there, even for laymen.
But I dunno tbh There is 1% of truth in every lie so...
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Old 06-16-13, 08:55 AM   #3
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Sooo...

9/11/2001:
Morning- Two towers of the World Trade Center are hit by airplanes, the Pentagon is also, one plane crashes in a field. No one knows how many more planes there might be.
Later- The two WTC towers collapse, with resulting death, destruction, fear, and panic. The entire south end of New York is in chaos.
Afternoon- WTC 7 is burning, and the owner decides to destroy it for the insurance money.
That same afternoon- The owner manages to contact a demolition company to come in and set charges in a building that is actively on fire, amidst the wreckage of the twin towers. Not only does the owner get a demolition company to come in and do this, he manages to get them to do it within a time span of a couple hours.
Later that afternoon- Secret demolition ninjas manage to sneak past everyone in the area, set up the demolition, and get out without being seen.

My gods, you're right. That is a much more reasonable explanation than fire and debris damage.
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Old 06-16-13, 09:01 AM   #4
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WC Fields called it. There's a sucker born every minute.
I thought that was P.T. Barnum
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Old 06-16-13, 09:12 AM   #5
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7 were destroyed, but mostly because they were so damaged when the two big
ones went down, they were total write offs.

Nothing new.
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Old 06-16-13, 09:17 AM   #6
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Of course the question that begs for an answer is why.

Why?
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Old 06-16-13, 09:21 AM   #7
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Yes, Tonschk, we know. We know because you have brought it up before. The last time you did I asked you to actually show some evidence, rather than "reverse evidence" of the "they can't deny this" type. Is there any actual evidence at all that shows this happened they way you (and they) claim? Do you have anything at all?

Here is a question for you personally: If the point was to make it look like Muslim Extremists did this just to give Bush and friends an excuse for war, why did they do such a bad job of it? Did they think Building 7 wouldn't get noticed? Why bother to destroy a building that had no connection at all?

Every time you bring this up, you never actually have anything to say yourself. You link to what other people say, assuming they know more than anybody else. When I called you on this before you started PMing me with more links. When I challenged you to say something original you sent me more links. When I asked if you had any original thoughts at all you sent me still more links.

So here's my challenge again: Are you actually capable of discussing this in your own words? Do you have any original thoughts at all? In all the time you've been playing this game you haven't actually said anything. Just links. It's time to show whether you are capable of a real discussion.
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Old 06-16-13, 09:31 AM   #8
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I thought that was P.T. Barnum

Actually I think you are correct.
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Old 06-16-13, 09:33 AM   #9
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Old 06-16-13, 09:52 AM   #10
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The real question that comes to my mind, would the warmongers need to stage such an attack to have a reason to go to war

Afganistan had more than enough terroist training camps and bin Laden was a thorn in the western world long enough to get enough public support just by hyping it on the media.
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I blame the Mexicans, or maybe the Italians.
Yep, it is Italians, Pisa was dry run at the towers
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I blame the Mexicans, or maybe the Italians.
Yep, it is Italians, Pisa was dry run at the towers
Gasp !!!!

Italy is only 30km from where I live
And we also have a WTC
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Old 06-16-13, 12:41 PM   #13
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I blame the Mexicans, or maybe the Italians.
Yep, it is Italians, Pisa was dry run at the towers
Mexican illegals DO cause a bunch of problems....

I don't like the Mexicans TBH...they have some good food...but it needs to stay in Mexico.
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