Just for the record, what I think happened is this:
In the mid-to-late 1990s, the Oil Boys get together and decide they want a pipeline. This occurs both for financial and strategic reasons, some good, some bad. They decide that they can't put up a pipeline while the Taliban is ostensibly in control of Afghanistan, 'cause the Taliban don't really have control. It's too risky for the pipeline. And they can't go through Iran. So they decide they're gonna have to deal with Afghanistan.
The U.S. election rolls around, and Bush is appointed "President" by the Supreme Court. What would've happened if Gore were in the White House, I can't say. Possibly the same thing ... Democrats are really just slightly leftist Republicans these days.
Now, you can argue all you want that the Shrub really is the President, but the unavoidable fact remains that most of the people who voted didn't want him in office. Not much of a "mandate from the people." Things are looking bleak for the Shrub Administration, and as he manages to screw up everything he touches, he gets into more and more trouble. They even end up with defections in Congress. The media starts to turn on him. He's "The Accidental President."
So they send some boy from the CIA, which the Elder Shrub tended to use as his own personal financial investigators anyway, to meet with Bin Laden while he's in the hospital. Yes, the guy we supposedly can't catch is, theoretically, wandering around in the desert with kidney disease. So the CIA makes Bin Laden an offer he can't refuse, wherein both sides win.
Al-Qaeda puts together the plan. The CIA keeps tabs on them. The CIA knows that Al-Qaeda plans to hijack plans and slam them into the World Trade Center and the White House (I'm still not clear on this part -- what the plan actually was might never come out). This is why Attorney General John Ashcroft is criticized in the months before 911 for spending taxpayer money on private jets, when he should be taking public airliners.
Now, we know what happened. Planes crashed into both towers of the WTC, and it came down. I don't think the CIA realized that the WTC might come crashing down (I can only imagine the looks on their faces when it happened).
We also know that something blew up a big chunk of the Pentagon, but the details remain sketchy there. I've yet to read a credible report on exactly what did happen, but there's enough doubt that the official story shouldn't be taken as gospel.
Likewise with the flight that went down in the woods (I think that was Flight 97). The story that heroic passengers sacrificed themselves is a good one, and I'd like to believe it, but for some reason it sets off my bullshit alarm. The most likely event is that by this point, somebody did scramble the jets (about half an hour late) and this flight was shot out of the sky. I'm not sure why the Shrub Administration would feel the need to concoct a cover story, but I think it's just pretty much reflex with these guys, now.
It's also worth noting that this particular jet is one of the ones that changed course (the other was the one that supposedly hit the Pentagon). Both of the planes that changed course have something screwy going on with their stories. Worth noting, but I'm not sure what to make of it. I suspect that what happened is that the White House was the original target (the Shrub was safely away giving a speech to some kids at a school), but the hijackers changed their minds.
Maybe it was a little coup-within-a-coup, or something. I don't know. But I suspect that when the third plane didn't follow the plan (that's the one that supposedly hit the Pentagon), the decision was made to take down the fourth plane.
Okay, so now we've got a nation in mourning. I remember talking to a friend of mine about some experiments in trauma-assisted mind-control being carried out by the government, and remarking that it would be interesting to see what sort of event might be used to traumatize an entire nation into pliability. Those words have come back to haunt me.
So, to keep the hysteria going, they start sending out anthrax. When the FBI, with the help of the media, manages to track the source of the anthrax attacks down to the CIA, serious shit starts flying behind the scenes. Note that the FBI is now being punished severely, and that the CIA is basically taking over (also on CNN: most of the new agents heading into the FBI are CIA agents). They want to make sure there's nobody around to investigate their next batch of evildoings.
Meanwhile, the pipeline is going through. The Shrub Administration has managed to accomplish more to send us back to the Civil Liberty Dark Ages than anybody ever would've dreamed possible. It's a right-wing orgy out there.
There's a bit of speculation on the details, here, but the basics remain unquestionable unless you're a conspiracy theorist yourself and you don't want to take CNN and the mainstream media as gospel (funny how that's really the short definition of a conspiracy theorist).
The pieces of the puzzle have all been reported, they just aren't going to put it together for you. If you can argue any individual piece (where I haven't admitted that it's just speculation on my part), I'd love to hear it.
If you can't, I suggest that you take a little leap and think for yourselves. Waiting for CNN to tell you anything means you're never gonna know shit. We all know the phrase, "The revolution will not be televised," right? Well, that goes for a lot of things. The transition of our government from republic to dictatorship will also not be televised. The would-be dictators own the TVs.
And guys? I really wish you would put together a coherent argument. 'Cause frankly, when you come back with nothing but jokes and the implication that I must be nuts for thinking anything other than what the Shrub Administration tells me ... that really just proves that there aren't very many arguments to be made.
