OK - ya got me there. My crazy was a little more crazy than your crazy. OK, a lot more crazy. But, with any conspiracy theory, the more people supposedly involved and the more complex it is, the crazier it is. And with a conspiracy theory that has Bin Laden already dead before the Seal Team claimed they killed him last month, there would have to be an enormous number of co-conspirators, including enemies of this country who would have discernable interest in going along with the ruse. So yeah ... it gets filed in the crazy bin.
Actually you'd probably be surprised to know that a lot of the time, it's the opposite.Sometimes, in certain cases almost exclusively, it's the only way it works. How complex would be too complex or how many people would you say would be too many people in keeping with it still being considered "realistic" and plausible to happen? A hundred? Couple hundred? Maybe even a couple thousand people? That's probably pushing it for a lot of people that believe that way, but it's not even close.
One of the most amazing and,at the same time, horrifying achievements of all time in our history took up to 130,000 people, almost all of whom not knowing exactly what they were working towards or what exact purpose they were serving for almost their entire length of time serving it in undertaking a project that took place all over the country and overseas over the better part of a decade and of which details of weren't known for about another quarter of a century later. The Manhattan Project, by numbers of people involved, is the single biggest provable conspiracy theory to this point. But what it's a better example of is compartmentalization. Large groups of people not knowing exactly what they are involved and to what goals they are helping to achieve by their involvement.
No gov't or leadreship of any type, including Mommy and Daddy, are truthful about everything. You and I both know that there really are things out there that does not need to be disseminated to the general public, simply becasue they really dont need to know, and it could cause grave and serious harm to the United States and its people.
When you keep saying things like this I can only hope you don't fully understand the kind of actions and lies and the consequences of those actions and lies you are defending, because you're talking about a whole country full of people that shouldn't really know what some of their friends, their moms, dads, brothers, sisters are really dying for. Maybe you misinterpreted something somewhere along the line, but you keep giving this same excuse just about every single time this sort of discussion comes up, and all I keep thinking when I hear that, every single time, is: Where's the line in that? How far do you take that? Because Pistol Pete here wasn't discussing something like training exercises for top secret SEAL members or their strategies or protocols or anything like that that we really don't need to know. He was talking about reasons to go into war and what we were being sold on to support it.
You think maybe it's gotten too far when citizens of the United States
are being harmed by the consequences and the actions of those who aren't being "completely truthful"? Maaaaaybe when we've got 10 years worth of it (from the initial alleged pursuit of one man/group) and countless amount of soldier's and innocent people's lives alike destroyed and/or altered forever in so many different ways we can't even comprehend it, especially when factoring in what their future is or what happens to their families, that
maybe just MAYBE there is some information we really ought to know about things that weren't "completely truthful" all those years ago? Think maybe that's reason enough? Think maybe it's simply the humane thing to do instead of pretending you're doing the humane thing by not wanting to know what's really the truth?
If not, what it's going to take? What's it going to take for us to be allowed this "hallowed right" of being able to question and to be able to demand things that WE NEED TO KNOW on something that's making as big an impact on people's lives as this War on Terror is without being seen as crazy? Another 50,000 dead to get us up to around the KIA count like in (another war fought on false pretenses) Vietnam? Is there a magic number that's counting down that we have to wait for? 5 years from now? Another 10? More? You tell me, what will it take?
