According to CBS News, 90 Million people believe the United States government was involved in the 9/11 attacks either directly or in the fact that they were aware of the attacks and let them happen as a reason to invade the Middle East.

This theory is not new to me in fact I read a little bit about it before my friend showed me the documentary Loose Change, which is a documentary that covers this exact conspiracy theory in depth. While I do not doubt that our government is capable of something like this, I just do not believe that their involvement was that great. Did the United States government know about the attack? That is a debatable point. I believe that our government officials knew about the possibility of an attack but I do not think that they knew exactly what kind of attack was going to happen.

Many people like to believe that Bush was fully aware that the 9/11 attacks were going to happen because it plays into their theory that he was looking for an excuse to invade Iraq. Kind of nice how that all fits together for anti-Bush speakers.

Me, I believe that while Bush might have wanted to invade Iraq, that he did not purposely let an attack on U.S. soil happen. I believe that our invasion of Iraq was based on several aspects and documents that the public is not yet privy to due to classification of that data. I do not believe that the American public should know everything their government knows and that so things should be kept confidential. And as a result, I believe that our government knew more about both 9/11 and Iraq than the public has been told about.

But, I enjoy a good conspiracy theory as much as the next internet junkie so keep them coming.

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