Posted on 11/24/2007 8:36:01 AM PST by Sub-Driver
'BLAME U.S. FOR 9/11' IDIOTS IN MAJORITY
By ANDY SOLTIS
November 24, 2007 -- Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the federal government had warnings about 9/11 but decided to ignore them, a national survey found.
And that's not the only conspiracy theory with a huge number of true believers in the United States.
The poll found that more than one out of three Americans believe Washington is concealing the truth about UFOs and the Kennedy assassination - and most everyone is sure the rise in gas prices is one vast oil-industry conspiracy.
Sixty-two percent of those polled thought it was "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that federal officials turned a blind eye to specific warnings of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Only 30 percent said the 9/11 theory was "not likely," according to the Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll.
The findings followed a 2006 poll by the same researchers, who found that 36 percent of Americans believe federal government officials "either assisted in the 9/11 attacks or took no action" because they wanted "to go to war in the Middle East."
In that poll, 16 percent said the Twin Towers might have collapsed because of secretly planted explosives - not hijacked passenger jets flown into them.
And what hit the Pentagon? Twelve percent figured it was a US cruise missile.
Anger at the federal government and skepticism in general by younger Americans is fueling the popularity of crackpot conspiracy theories.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
There is an easy way to make a “truther”’s head explode..
Just mention “Ductile Material Failure Levels”
This is the result of public education.
Does that make me crazy?
The polled 811 “adults”. Safe to say they got the results they were looking for and stopped.
There’s a reason for why the U.S. is not a democracy...
I give it 50 more years tops.
New York Post reporter conducts research for this story
You beat me to it but yeah, combine the pathetic level of public education with the constant "Blame America First/Corporate America is Evil" drum beat coming from the MSM, and there you have it. Two thirds of the country have become terminal navel contemplators. We really are in big trouble in this country. Whats left of it anyway.
“November 24, 2007 — Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the federal government had warnings about 9/11 but decided to ignore them, a national survey found.
And that’s not the only conspiracy theory with a huge number of true believers in the United States.
The poll found that more than one out of three Americans believe Washington is concealing the truth about UFOs and the Kennedy assassination - and most everyone is sure the rise in gas prices is one vast oil-industry conspiracy. “
And yet, these same people consistently want to give more and more control over their lives to the government.
Post must be trying to steal Weekly World News readers away.
I fear for our country, when I read drivel like this.
That there are so *many* DemoLiberal DIS-educated ignoramii,and that they so blindly follow the corrupt and suicidal pervert DeathoCrat Judas Piggies to their own destruction.
If this poll were actually not just another piece of ‘Poll the Village Idiots’ crap, this country would be as doomed as the Islamo-Fascists say it is...Ripe for pillaging.
Well they did have warnings of unspecified attacks and did not take them seriously enough. But that is much different than most Americans believing that the US had specific information and let the attacks happen, as most of the DU goof balls believe. We've had warnings of terrorist attacks for decades.
A large part of this is because the one political party in this country that is composed of responsible adults hasn’t the backbone to stand up and call out the Democrat propagandists.
The Left is allowed to operate in a vacuum.
Excellent turn of phrase.
BDS is alive and well in ‘University Polls’. fact of life, most University students went to gummit schools.
I think your being a little optimistic here. I give it more like 30 years at most before all pretense of a sovereign US Republic is dropped.
Well sure. How many times has OBL warned america to stop the war in iraq?
Thank you, :o)
But I *do* need to work on my brevity. ;o\ :o)
All these types of polls are a joke. What did they do, ask 100 people and 36 of them gave them the answer they were looking for? Did they actually ask 36% of the American people? These guys are fools.
Come on, guys! The Federal Government did have “warnings” that something was going to happen. The problem is—they were vague, subtle, and isolated. In addition, the rules back then made it almost impossible to connect the few dots there were. But saying there were warnings is Not an untrue statement. However, this is a LONG WAY from a conspiracy theory that the Government was actually behind 9/11.
I suppose it would depend on how "specific" we want to get. There is no doubt in my mind that Clinton ignored some warnings and covered up others.
You're a real optimist! I'm guessing more like 15, or less if Hillary is elected.
The parties surveyed must have been the mailing lists of moveon.org and the dailykos.....
Will we ever learn?
"If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5
"I will bless them that bless thee (Israel), and curse them that curse thee" - Genesis 12:3
Push poll. Depends what the questions were.
For instance, I remember when UFO fever was widespread, and books were coming out every few weeks. Now, I don’t know anyone who ever even thinks about it.
But what do you say if someone asks you if you think UFOs might exist and the government might have covered it up.
You can’t prove a negative. You can’t prove something doesn’t exist. You can’t prove the government didn’t secretly do something. And frankly the government is stupid enough to do just about anything.
So, would I answer a positive “No” to that question? Probably not.
And did the government know that terrorists were threatening an attack on the US? Of course they did. Clinton repeatedly ignored terrorist attacks or covered them up. But the question doesn’t mention clinton, of course. The implication is that it must have been Bush.
There’s no simple yes or know answer to the question. Clinton certainly screwed up repeatedly in this area. Democrats undermined the security agencies and built walls of separation between them. Bush inherited that mess, and because of the chad war and confirmation blockages, only named an FBI director a week before the attack. And Tenet at CIA was clinton’s guy.
Did Clinton deliberately ignore terrorist threats? Yes, probably. Did Bush deliberately ignore terrorist threats? No. But those weren’t the questions that were asked.
Probably not. Of all the wacky conspiracy theories out there, the UFO one actually makes sense in it's own way. If the government had discovered an artifact of alien design containing highly advanced technology, it would be madness to allow that kind of information to fall into enemy hands until it was thoroughly understood and implemented by us first. Having said that, I have yet to see any incontrovertible evidence of a UFO cover up. <;-)
Great comment
True.
“The Left is allowed to operate in a vacuum.”
The ‘LEFT’ is a vacuum.
Yeah... Well these “pollsters” didn’t ask me or
ANY conservative I know if they believe the U.S.
had prior knowledge of the 9/11 attack.
P.O.L.L. = Pressing Opinions from Leftist Losers!
There is a certain personality type who want to be polled.
So it makes some sense.
Don’t forget to blame the MSM because even educated people still believe The Old Gray Lady.
No doubt! And these dolts writing or dreaming up these theories should have considered a career as screenplay writer. They give even intelligent students or graduates, just enough information to make it plausible, while spinning and distorting the facts. While they may have made an excellent movie, in a twisted espionage sort of way, young Americans do not have the experience, the knowledge in engineering, codes, metallurgy, or anything else to decipher these things.
You couple that with them being taught in school to feel guilty about the fact that this is the greatest country God gave man, and they believe it.
Well of course. But most of these young people, believe the WTC buildings were actually imploded, that the planes didn’t take them down. They also believe Clinton/Bush team worked together on it. I still hear “fire doesn’t melt steel” and ok, but the fire wasn’t hot enough to melt steel”, “the buildings came down in less than 10 seconds, they were imploded” and “what about building 7”
There doesn’t seem to be any way to convince them otherwise, even when you tell them who is behind these theories, and who is backing them and feeding the flames. It’s heart breaking to me.
I heard Islamic terrorists might have done it.
Wait a minute, here. This question was not asked correctly, because there are legitimate responses as well as kook responses that could be counted together.
What if the question was re-phrased: “What responsibility does the government have for the 9-11 attacks?”:
1) Some parts of the government had some information they were not allowed to share or consolidate with other parts, because of existing law, which could have led them to conclude that an attack was being planned or about to be carried out if it had been shared and consolidated. (reasonable)
2) The government knew about specific targets and that an attack was imminent, but chose to do nothing. (kook)
3) The government was involved in carrying out the actual attack. (very kook)
You can see, big difference in how you ask the question.
Between the Muslims and Mexicans I give it 20 years!One bomb over the border and maybe the American people will unite! Maybe.
Agreed, there are subtle wordings about terrorism warnings that Freepers could agree with. Less subtly — the CIA failed us and we have not addressed the problem. The American people know that there is a problem, but because of the media and pool political leadership (even on Bush’s part), they are having trouble crystalizing it.
God help us all if these people vote because it is OBVIOUS that they will vote for the Democrat Party.
No doubt these are the same people who believe that Iraq is Vietnam, the economy is crap, that we’re burning up the earth, and that we never went to the moon.
Polls are hereby irrelevant.
I'd bet the correspondence between Hillary and her hubby that's being held from the public would show the extensive role she played in all the screw-ups of that Administration.
The 9-11 truthers agree that “it’s our fault” but they disagree on basic elements of the theory:
1) we knew but we let it happen ANYWAY
2) we knew but the planes wouldn’t have done enough damage so we put explosives in place waiting and waiting to detonate them and to blame it on Iraq even though we’d have had “forthknowledge” that it was Saudis doing it.
3) we did it to ourselves with a hijacker crew of blond white “Timothy McVeigh” types (this was the first theory to spring forth within the first week, courtesy of Lyndon LaRouche’s supporters. I think Michaal Moore wanted all of the journalists he could to provide him the “supressed” details about the hijackers being white (he was in the throws of editing Bowling for Columbine and was dumbstruck at how this massive attack was pulled off WITHOUT guns); he blogged his request on his site. It is probably still there.
4) We did it to ourselves with remote control airplanes that flew into the WTC towers and a missile painted to look like a plane in DC (why not just use missiles in all of the attacks? Where are the people from the plane that disappeared and was replaced with a missile?).
5) Then there are those who proclaim that “we did nothing” to stop the attacks but are certain that the military shot down the plane in Pennsylvania. Didn’t they want the other planes shot down too? Which is it? Or was there no winning move to please them?
Just call them Red Dupes and Stalin’s Useful Idiots.
They are being played by the Communists yet again but they refuse to open their eyes. Give them gift subscriptions to Pravda.
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