Today marks the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Al-Qaida members hijacked airplanes and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The World Trade Center was torn down completely by the impact of the planes, the Pentagon lost one side of its structure. Thousands of people were killed.
Back in May of this year, Navy SEALs tracked down Osama Bin Laden, the man who orchestrated the terrorist attacks, and shot him in his bunker.
There is one major issue I have with this topic, and that is the fact that so many people still falsely accuse former President George Bush for orchestrating the tragedy just to agitate for war. It wasn't his fault. Are Americans so enamored of sudden little plot twists in stories that they try to apply the same rule to real life? Granted there are some real creepy politicians in Congress, but when something as colossal as 9/11 occurs, people still point the accusatory finger at whoever happens to be in power. If Bush really was agitating, he would've spread rumors about the killer next door prior to the attacks. But there were no such stories. And since we've started fighting this war, there have been no terrorist attacks on our country. And that's nothing to sneeze at.
So to those people still blaming Bush for the deaths of thousands of people in the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, I say stop it. It's not true and you know it. It also gets really old quickly, and it is not a reasonable response to the tragedy.
Popular Mechanics ran an article about the various debunked conspiracy theories about the attacks. It's amazing what some people come up with when horrifying events like this occur.
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