I don’t believe those in the “9/11 Truth” movement understand what their leaders are saying. They are not liberal or conservative, but radical. When you lump those of us donating money to Joe Biden in with those who think Jimmy Carter and Henry Kissinger sacrificed lambs together outside San Francisco, the right comes out on top, because the left, who they still caricature as 60s radicals, is considered crazy.
Meanwhile, the right is the side that is supporting Giuliani, who doesn’t remember such things as the Vietnam and Somalia timetables for withdrawal, and will attempt to treat the Iraq insurgency the way he treated Manhattan’s homeless. (Problem is, unlike terrorists, the homeless don’t learn to hate home owners from a young age and spend their teen years preparing to become homeless, infuriated by real estate developers who continue sticking their noses in places they have no business). The right embraces Ann Coulter’s bigoted and often-homicidal remarks as satire, with the excuse Al Franken does the same thing on the left, though he doesn’t. It’s kind of like the right’s go to excuse, “Clinton did it, too.”
It is a fact that the Bush Administration has been one of the worst, most corrupt, ill-sighted in our history. They have lost a world united behind us. They have created a blunder in the Middle East that will take years, if not decades, to fix. They have created a war against the poor, working, and middle classes of this country, all in the name of low taxes and Reagan’s unfounded trickle-down economics.
But they did not kill 3,000 of their own people in a false-flag operation. They didn’t plant bombs in the World Trade Center or control those four airplanes with remote control joysticks.
Are lefties more prone to conspiracy theories? Probably. But there’s no reason for liberals to be lumped into a category of people who believe our government is inherently evil, no matter the party. Because when you believe our government was willing to do such a thing, you lose the recognition that our policies and nit-pickings in the Middle East and elsewhere (Iraq sanctions, government overthrows, consistent bombings of over 200 countries since World War II) may have also played a part. And you choose not to learn from these mistakes.
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