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In reply to the discussion: Saudi Arabia: Legal expert says U.S. Government blew up Twin Towers on 9/11. [View all]metalbot
(1,058 posts)...is that the narrative just doesn't make any sense.
Let's assume that the government was behind 9/11 and wanted to use it as a false flag excuse to invade Iraq. Let's further assume that our government that was sophisticated enough to not only blow up buildings and hijack planes, but was also able to convince a LOT of "patriots" to kill thousands of Americans in order to pull this off (because coordinating this attack would have taken hundreds of people and they all need to keep their mouths shut).
Why then would they officially blame 15 Saudis, a couple of Emirates, an Egyptian, and a Lebanese guy for the hijacking?
If you wanted to use this as an excuse to take Iraq, you could have put a couple of Republican Guards on the plane, had direct evidence of financial support for the terrorists by Saddam Hussein, and created clear evidence that it was all an Iraqi/Al Qaeda plot. There would have been no need for the WMD nonsense that was used to beat the war drums. I'd further posit that a government that could pull off such a false flag attack would have been capable of planting sufficient WMD's for us to "find" in Iraq that would have completely justified our invasion. You could have staged an amazing special forces raid on an Iraqi facility and "recovered" former Soviet nuclear material and a near working bomb.
The only way that I can tie that to a false flag narrative is to argue that the government decided "tying Saddam directly to 9/11 would be just too damn obvious, so while we're going to use 9/11 as an excuse to start a war in Iraq, we're going to make up a flimsy argument about WMD's that a child could see through so that people will see how incompetent we are, and then they'll never believe we were sophisticated enough to pull off this attack".