On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:42:07 -0400, "Paul@BYC"
wrote:

On 10/27/2010 8:35 AM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute! wrote:
On Oct 27, 7:41 am, wrote:

If "critical thinking" (aka indoctrination) is what happened to my
oldest, you can have it. A product of American U, just finishing up her
masters, she still thinks George Bush pushed a button in the oval
office, sent missiles to take out the twin towers, the pentagon, and the
plane over PA, "there were no planes, the footage was faked", "the
witnesses were staged"... Yeah, critical thinking... Pffffttttt...

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No, actually I think it was more the pseudo - intellectuals she got in
with earlier at U-Hart...


I doubt many intellectuals, even pseudo-intellectuals, believe that
"George Bush pushed a button in the oval office, sent missiles to take
out the twin towers, the pentagon, and the plane over PA, "there were no
planes, the footage was faked", "the witnesses were staged"..."

If I were you, I would look elsewhere for the origins of those thoughts
in your child's head.

University is meant to teach rigor. Conspiracy theories generally
lack much rigor.

That said, I wouldn't doubt that George knew something was afoot, to
happen and planned to use it to invade Iraq, whatever it was.

The neocon crew were hoping for an incident that would allow them to
launch a US military force, the specific goal being change in the
mideast. Certain of them also liked the idea of controlling all that
oil.

That said, to string everyone's worst nightmare together to form a
theory probably isn't a good idea but certain aspects of each of them
are at least considerable.