Enough with the preposterous conspiracy theories already!
The British bombing diaries have brought the tin-foil element of DailyKos back strongly into the limelight, and I'll be damned if it isn't almost as scary as reading statements about Clinton by Freeperdom.
I'm very open to conspiracy theories: I believe that there were multiple assassins of JFK, that it was Lebanon, not Libya, that bombed PanAm; hell, I'm even open to the idea that aliens landed at Roswell, since the government won't let anyone near the area. And I believe firmly that this administration never even believed there were major stockpiles of WMD in Iraq, and they didn't really care. And yes, I do know that the history of our country (from the Spanish-American War to Pearl Harbor to Vietnam) is peppered with instances of either direct treason or failure to act when warned of a possible attack.
It's not Conspiracy--it's Gross Negligence and Incompetence, as I will show below the fold...
This "I am worried that Bush is in league with Al-Qaeda and planted the subway bombs" crap is WAY out of line. It looks ridiculous to me, a tin-foil hatter myself, much less to the trolls and irregulars who view it. This isn't Democratic Underground--we're better than this. We are the online face of real progressivism in the United States, and this kind of talk taints us badly.
Look people--the pirates in this administration are NOT evil geniuses. They are corrupt and utterly incompetent ideologues stuck in a cold war mentality.
They didn't know about and couldn't stop 9/11, because they IGNORED terrorism. Then they HAD to invade Afghanistan, though they didn't want to.
Because they didn't want to invade Afghanistan in the first place, they fucked up the invasion, spent as little as possible, and tried to make the best of it by putting a Unocal puppet in charge (soon to be a Chinese puppet, lol...)
Then they did what they had wanted to do for 15 years: go into Iraq to secure its oil pipelines and set up forward bases to attack Iran.
Problem is, they fucked THAT up, too--because they're completely incompetent on a military, political, and sociological level. So not only are they war criminals--they're STUPID war criminals.
And they made idiotic mistakes domestically with Social Security "reform", needless and unpopular provisions of the Patriot Act that they don't even use, betting on Terri Schiavo, appellate court activism, etc. Hell, Karl Rove was even stupid enough to get his hand caught in the Plame cookie jar.
They're NOT IN BED WITH TERRORISTS.
They're just stupid nutballs who have managed to win elections by the skin of their teeth (with a little help from Diebold and Katherine Harris) by appealing to the worst in a smallish, bigoted, but unfortunately politically active segment of our society.
Now their fuckups abroad have led to greater terrorism on Spanish and British shores, and the terror will come back our way soon.
Let's leave it at that, and hang them on their gross negligence and war crimes--not on preposterous allegations of collusion. It's damning enough.