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Where Do All These Nutters Get Their Crazy Ideas?

The New York Post is shocked, shocked, by a new poll that shows a staggering of number Americans believe that President Bush and/or his administration knew the 9/11 attacks were coming, and did nothing to stop them :

Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the federal government had warnings about 9/11 but decided to ignore them, a national survey found.

Sixty-two percent of those polled thought it was “very likely” or “somewhat likely” that federal officials turned a blind eye to specific warnings of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

The findings followed a 2006 poll by the same researchers, who found that 36 percent of Americans believe federal government officials “either assisted in the 9/11 attacks or took no action” because they wanted “to go to war in the Middle East.”
In that poll, 16 percent said the Twin Towers might have collapsed because of secretly planted explosives – not hijacked passenger jets flown into them.

And what hit the Pentagon? Twelve percent figured it was a US cruise missile.

Anger at the federal government and skepticism in general by younger Americans is fueling the popularity of crackpot conspiracy theories.

Crackpot conspiracy theories?

So where are all these Americans getting such crackpot conspiracy theories?

The New York Post (in 2002) !

Fantastic.

Think Progress has more on all this.

It’s a remarkable thing to consider that every year, on September 11, when memorials and retrospectives fill the evening news and current affairs shows, and President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney roll out the speeches, more than 6 out of 10 Americans watching it are thinking “They knew it was coming, and they didn’t stop it.”

It’s time for the official investigations into the 9/11 attacks to be completed.

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