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i totally agree with those that are asserting that the bush administration allowed the attacks to happen..
reasons for the attack..
1. like riechstag it was used as a tool to clamp down on dissent and spur a security state with all the trappings, such as increased security and armes sales for the bush supporters(economic security).
2. to unite support for a war of imperialism- new contracts, new control over oil and a switch from iraqi oil counted in euros(big threat) to iraqi oil counted in dollars(national security)
3. to destroy an enemy of isreal.. (from what i've read the isreali intelligence had been covering up the terrorists mistakes so they wouldnt be caught before they boarded the planes.) a prosperous iraq was a tremendous threat to isreal.
4. increased 'threats' means increase in funding for the military industrial complex. as powel said when the ussr fell .. 'folks we're in trouble now for we have no enemy to fight' or somesuch.. the military industrial complex requires an enemy to stay in power.. war on terror is such a threat.. for one its a perpetual 'war' and a foggy enemy requiring unlimited resources and can be pointed at folks on the homefront as well as international.
oh yeah 5. war is always profitable for the ready. hmm, economic recovery anyone?

yeah, i know it's alot to swallow, but these issues won't go away no matter how much they are denied.