• Mossy Feathers (She/They)
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    11 months ago

    Honestly, it’s much easier to come up with a reasonable conspiracy theory around 9/11 than most people think. There’s proof that the FBI and DHS knew that the attacks were being planned (iirc they were warned multiple times by Mossad), so it isn’t that much of a stretch to believe that the US intentionally ignored the warnings with the knowledge that such an attack would justify another war in the Middle East.

    Ignoring the warnings would be a win-win. You get to go to war for oil if they’re real, and if they’re fake, then nothing happens and life goes on like it always has.

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      11 months ago

      I think the DHS was set up in response to 9/11 so it didn’t exist yet, but the CIA and the NSA also knew about the upcoming attack before it happened.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, I might have misremembered that part, I do remember reading that the US had received multiple warnings about it.

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      11 months ago

      I think the us government dug its head in the sand on purpose so that they could invade Iraq and take oil