It’s a bit shocking to me when I see people online putting 9/11 conspiracies in the same box as “MAGA” conspiracies (for lack of a better term, sorry).

For reference, I was 24 in 2001 living in central NJ. Even without social media or fake news websites or what cable news has become today, I have vivid memories of people having the firm belief that there was something up with the attack on 9/11. Was this just my social circle?

Jet fuel melting steel beams was one of the more fringe and unfounded (and quickly debunked) ideas but the rest of everything on that day was questionable. Tower seven falling, the missing plane debris at the pentagon and central PA, the military / president not responding to known threats, if a person with limited flight time could hit a tower, the fact that Bush attacked a country that had nothing to do with the event, and so much more are still, I thought, reasonable questions - especially when looked at together.

This is not about rehashing each theory. Or maybe it is? Have I missed that everything has been debunked?

I mean, I still believe 9/11 was an inside job or at least high level officials, including Bush, were aware it was going to happen and did nothing to stop it. I thought this was still a common opinion of most or many Americans over the age of forty.

  • stinerman [Ohio]@midwest.socialEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    we were attacking a country for the president’s personal vendetta

    This had nothing to do with 9/11. Invading Iraq was much later. You’re conflating the two.

    “Bush did 9/11” is crazy talk. “Bush invaded Iraq because he wanted to get back at Saddam Hussein and make money for Halliburton” is not.

      • stinerman [Ohio]@midwest.socialEnglish
        16·
        2 months ago

        My brother in christ, I’m not talking about the pretext the government used to attack Iraq. I’m talking about the fact that the two things had nothing to do with each other.

        Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. The fact that the government used that as a pretext doesn’t magically link the two things.

        • oxjox@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          I see.
          Iraq - the country, had nothing to do with 9/11 - the attack.
          Not, Iraq - the invasion of, was disassociated with 9/11 - the attack or national moment.

          I mean, 9/11 and Iraq are indeed magically linked, thanks to Bush. “Magically” is actually a great word to define the link between the two. Look - Cheney just pulled a Saddam out of a Bush!