Quote Originally Posted by Oneironaut View Post
With the track record that you're apparently aware of, why do you find it so hard to believe they would do the same thing with 9/11?

I'm not calling you out. I'm just curious.

Mainly because the two that I mentioned involved poorly documented attacks on military vessels whereas this one was an attack on civilians with a shit ton of witnesses.

For example, the sinking of the u.s.s maine, which helped to precipitate the spanish american war, was just assumed to be an attack from the spanish. This laid the the groundwork for the war and, surprise, we ended up with all of spains overseas territories including cuba and the philippines.

Here's wikipedia on the gulf of tonkin which gave johnson the excuse to blow up our scene in vietnam. I linked to the "later statements" part. Check the NSA report part too.