9/11: 49.3% of NYC believed the government "consciously failed to act."

[dajoki]

WP
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14723997/

9/11 conspiracy theorists multiply
Many Americans suspect U.S. government involvement or complicity

By Michael Powell
Updated: 1 hour, 54 minutes ago

NEW YORK - He felt no shiver of doubt in those first terrible hours.

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It was a year before David Ray Griffin, an eminent liberal theologian and philosopher, began his stroll down the path of disbelief. He wondered why Bush listened to a child's story while the nation was attacked and how Osama bin Laden, America's Public Enemy No. 1, escaped in the mountains of Tora Bora.

He wondered why 110-story towers crashed and military jets failed to intercept even one airliner. He read the 9/11 Commission report with a swell of anger. Contradictions were ignored and no military or civilian official was reprimanded, much less cashiered.

"To me, the report read as a cartoon." White-haired and courtly, Griffin sits on a couch in a hotel lobby in Manhattan, unspooling words in that reasonable Presbyterian minister's voice. "It's a much greater stretch to accept the official conspiracy story than to consider the alternatives."

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A recent Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll of 1,010 Americans found that 36 percent suspect the U.S. government promoted the attacks or intentionally sat on its hands. Sixteen percent believe explosives brought down the towers. Twelve percent believe a cruise missile hit the Pentagon.

Distrust near Ground Zero
Distrust percolates more strongly near Ground Zero. A Zogby International poll of New York City residents two years ago found 49.3 percent believed the government "consciously failed to act."

[orwell]

1. Who cares...

...They're all loony left conspiracy nuts.

They aren't in the "mainstream" like the other 50.7%.

Conspiracies can't happen in our "free democracy," only in caves in Afghanistan.

I'm so glad we cleared that up...