- Wed Aug 16, 2006 12:22 am
#178410
I watched the 2001 clip and didn't see this "prediction" of 9/11. He's talking about terrorism, but that's pretty general. The mention of the World Trade Center is clearly a reference to the 1993 bombing. It's hard to remember now, but terrorism, and specifically Islamist terrorism, was a pretty big concern at the time (nothing like it is now of course). The Cole bombing had been less than a year earlier, the Al Qaida-planned millenium attacks were all foiled the year before, and you had the embassy bombings in 1998 and Khobar towers in 1996.
I don't like the way our government has chosen security over liberty, or the way our people have rolled over and accepted it, but that doesn't mean the whole thing was a vast conspiracy from the start. Government is far too incompetent to pull off something like that.
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