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# *red and blue flashing lights*
Conspiracy theory alert
Conspiracy theory alert
Conspiracy theory alert

*runs to put tin foil on walls*
(I helped save b3ta! magnum, Tue 23 Mar 2004, 14:11, archived)
# just cause something's a conspiracy theory
doesn't automatically make it untrue.
(I helped save b3ta! Dano, Tue 23 Mar 2004, 14:12, archived)
# Never said it did
(I helped save b3ta! magnum, Tue 23 Mar 2004, 14:13, archived)
# That's the trouble with these things.
As soon as somebody accuses a western government of a really big lie, the label "conspiracy theory" appears and instantly makes it look implausible for no good reason.
(Incidentally, it's not even a theory. Al Qaeda were trained, funded, and commanded by the CIA. The only chance that they're acting against America now is if they've actually gone 'rogue'. Which is unlikely, because there was the aforementioned meeting when they should have arrested bL but didn't)
(The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Tue 23 Mar 2004, 14:14, archived)
# It's true
that the Taliban were armed and funded by the CIA, but I don't think Bin Laden is doing all this just to help the Bush admin get it's own way.. he really is a complete cnut as opposed to a manipulated cnut.
(I helped save b3ta! Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Tue 23 Mar 2004, 14:23, archived)
# right.
A bunch of terrorists would never ever even think of double crossing the CIA. Nope. No chance. Honest guv.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Tue 23 Mar 2004, 14:23, archived)
# Fair point.
However, the mysterious meeting remains the wild card in this equation. And bear in mind that Saddam and bin Laden espouse radically different politics and in fact quite strongly dislike each other. Everyone in politics has always known this. It still remains pretty clear that the US administration has little or no wish to actually apprehend bL.
(The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Tue 23 Mar 2004, 14:26, archived)
#
apparently the label 'conspiracy theory' doesn't suit anymore because more and more americans believe in conspiracy theories
they now use terms like 'revisionist history' because that summons up thoughts of holocaust deniers, who aren't as popular or believable
(I helped save b3ta! hugo-a-gogo has no sig, the gayer, Tue 23 Mar 2004, 14:31, archived)