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To: jttmab who wrote (201955)	9/8/2006 12:15:52 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"36 percent suspect the U.S. government promoted the attacks or intentionally sat on its hands." I fall into this group. I think they may not have even "promoted" the attack, but may have allowed it to go forward, assuming the results would be far less severe - as I think the attackers themselves believed. I don't think anyone expected the collapse of the buildings. It gave the neocons the "new Pearl Harbor" they had stated they desired in their PNAC manifesto, signed by prominent members of the Bush admin in 1996. americanfreepress.net Of course, if this could ever be proved, mere execution would be too mild..