Reply #71: Yet the tapes and interviews [View All]

[H2O Man]

of him declaring holy war against the USA were made before 9-11, and both his supporters and enemies agree it was indeed him. One could say they don't believe it has been proven that George W. Bush is really himself .... yet that level of suspicion is a symptom of distorted thinking, not of Bush being someone else. It is the same with bin Laden. There is no reason that I am aware of to doubt that the tapes of bin Laden since 9-11 are not him, also. I think that is perhaps the weakest part of the "conspiracy" theory .... everything becomes part of the plot. Again, distorted thinking occures in groups as well as individuals. I have a paper I may put on basedon some of Eric Fromm's works about nations that suffer from distorted thinking.

There would be no reason to think that bin Laden is any less capable of planning and carrying out 9-11, except for a strange sense of nationalism ..... again, to think that he is less capable than say Dick Cheney is a weak point.

There have been several interesting and strong points on the conspiracy side. The fake and/or incompetent bin Laden ideas are not among them.