deathy...

ill gladly and freely admit that id readily turn a somewhat "blind eye" to certain events. in fact, im as blindly pro-american as you come off blindly anti-american. thats, really, our main/only difference; im glass half full, you're glass half empty.

the bottom line is, neither of us know shit (i know shit!) about what happened yesterday, much less on sept 11th. you werent in any secret conference room, and i wasnt there next to you. and neither of us was president at the time, and able to react in a way to understand what was going on in his mind, for better or worse.

you tend to see the bad in things (at least in this situation). you assume a lot of things, based on little or no evidence, that make the worst of nearly every person in every situation.

i'm the reverse. i assume a lot of things, based on little or no evidence, that make the good of nearly every person in every situation.

putting it bluntly, we're both retarded.

i just tend to think that its a safer bet to go with the 'lighter' side, if you will.

for bush to pull off what you're suggesting, not only would he have to be smart enough to come up with it, he'd have to be smart enough to pull it off (not to mention ballsy). THEN, he'd have to be skilled enough to lie to millions of people, and a good enough actor to do so convincingly. for someone you claim to hate so much, you're giving him boat loads of credit, beyond a cartoon supervillain level.

i tend to think this hit him hard, and as a shock. again, im not basing this off of any proof or facts or documented reports from foreign magazines, complete with hubble telescoped images. mostly, i base my assumptions off myself -- how i would (or did) react in a similar situation.

maybe thats stupid, maybe thats naive, and maybe thats dumb. but its no better or worse than jumping to the conclusion that he masterminded the entire event, then spent the night doing hookers and brooding at castle greyskull.

my way, to me, makes much more sense. its much more logical.

you can jump to conclusions and conspiracies in ANY situation. maybe byron scott wanted the lakers to win last night. maybe the weathermen actually work for snow plow companies. maybe #3 pencils give people super strength. any possible plot that you can conceive COULD be true, and could have some factual backing to the story.

but i tend to think that what actually happened is what you heard about -- that there's not something deep-routed going on. that there's no need to look for the trees when you are in the forrest; they're right there.