4.16.2002

Ted Rall disassembles a French 9-11 conspiracy book using the same techniques recently used against him.

Yahoo! News - FRIGHTFUL DECEPTION:

Meyssan asks: "Could such an operation been conceived and directed from an Afghan cave and carried out by a handful of Islamists?" Here's the converse of the standard retort to those who accuse the government of running conspiracies because they're too big and disorganized to pull them off. Neither line of reasoning makes sense, of course. Big things can be carried out by either big or small groups; series of coincidences neither prove nor disprove the existence of conspiracies. 9-11 probably wasn't carried out by Afghan cave dwellers, but that doesn't mean Bush did it either.
Emphasis mine, because a "series of coincidences" is what Rall, Michael Moore, and others are using to construct the notion that Bush used 9-11 as an excuse to bomb Afghanistan in order to build an oil pipeline (see Spinsanity - Return of Rall: Oil conspiracy redux). Maybe he's just jealous of Meyssan having a best seller.....

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