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>1. the family of first person identified as responsible for 911 (Osama) has been in business with the Bush family for decades? This family was also allowed to fly in US restricted aisrspace when noone else was?

Wouldn't a properly executed plan have flown them out of the US BEFORE the attacks, thereby avoiding this problem? Rather than try to sneak them out after the fact? Easier to send them home 'on vacation' a month before than days after. If Bush (or his handlers) KNEW when the attack was...

<2. the second person identified as responsible for 911 (Saddam) was working with the Bushes for decades

Nobody believes Saddam was involved. It's a Bushco lie.

<3. the bushes seem have established a pattern of turning against their former friends to instigate military action:
- Saddam Huessein
- Osama bin Laden
- Manuel Noriega

I accept the fact that Bushco are idiots, who will betray people in a heartbeat to push thier agenda. It doesn't prove anything about 9/11 though.

<4. Halliburton is cashing in billions of dollars of no-bid contracts, and is still paying the vice president over a million dollars a year. Halliburton was doing business with Saddam Hussein while Cheney was calling them evil in his provate foreign policy think tank.

That Bushco/Cheney would cash in on any oppertunity, no matter how shady, I'll accept as a given. Doesn't prove anything. (It does provide motive, but motive is only one leg of the tripod).

<5. Bush found out about the attacks and still went to seek a plausible cover in an elementary school, while the terror plan was executed. Can you believe that the pentagon was left completely undefended after two jets crashed into the WTC towers?

Negligence. Incompetence. Sounds like Bushco. Malice unproven. The strike on the pentagon was unneeded, it does not push the cause forward. If the pentagon was not hit, does anything change? If not, why hit the pentagon?

<6. The 9-11 attack produced a huge ratings spike and unlimited power and loyalty to the administration who used that loyalty to tell lies that got over 30,000 iraqis and americans killed in another subsequent quest for fossil fuels.

Bushco will exploit any oppertunity is a given. That exploitation does not prove guilt.

<7. There has been no investigaton of 911, but instead stonewalling

Stonewalling can hide incompetence and negligence, or even the LIHOP theory, in addition to making it happen.

<How can any thinking person accept these things and shrug them off?

Easy. Filter the information, extract the knowledge. Allegations are not proof. Assertions are not evidence.

<Does anyone really believe that the really Republicans had some other elaborate plans for Bush's presidency? What agenda would they have been persuing without 911?

Which provides some evidence for letting it happen. Personally, I think they would have done damn near the same thing, except that without the 9/11 attacks they wouldn't have gotten the international support in Afghanistan, so they probably would have had to put off Iraq.