imortal wrote:
No, simply trying to bring you to understand how debate works. You can not jump up and say "You are lying, prove to me you aren't!" and be taken seriously. If you think I am in error, bring me something to show I am. Do not point to your friend and say it is because HE said so. Bring something objective and confirmable.
If it were one person speaking out, you'd have a point. There have been hundreds of independent films, studies of what's left to be studied... It's not like it's this 1 man underground team... You talk about objectivity and confirmability, how are your facts any better than my facts, because yours get spewed all over the corporate owned/government regulated mainstream media? Talk about objectivity.
imortal wrote:
Yes, I can present a series of facts, with nothing connecting you, that would suggest you are, in fact, a dingo. Have you ever heard the phrase "there are three kinds of lies: lies, danmed lies, and statiscics?" You can present facts all day long that are utterly correct, then show a picture and say something that is not factual but completely conjecture, and leave it to the mind of the audience to connect the dots ithout you ever having to lie.
Then what the hell are we supposed to do?! Invent a time machine and send you back inside the center column of a World Trade Centers on 9/11? Christ, all we can do is give you an alternative theory and support it with facts, with computer models.. Watch the freaking video please, he doesn't really leave that much for the watcher to assume. It's all pretty clear if you open your mind for a second.
imortal wrote:
I do not recall EVER giving credence to any single reporter. Ever. But one person is not a reliable source, especially after the event. And that is assuming he is not mistaken or simply making it up, or misremembering the event, its scope, or its purpose. A newspaper report before the event would have been perfect, because it would not have been 'tainted' by someone looking back in hindsight, or trying to attach implied meaning to it. If you had found it, it would have been a pretty good factoid to help your case. Find it yet, have you?
Again, it's not a one person crusade.. there are plenty of concerned American citizens who are questioning what they've been told by a government that may not be the most credible, to say the least. You'd think that if the world trade centers were in fact not partially closed on September 8th and 9th, that would be an easy point for the 'debunkers' to debunk. Haven't seen that yet either.
imortal wrote:
Granted. WW1 was entered based on a lie. Spanish American war on a misunderstanding. WW2 justified agaisnt the Japanese, but degbateable about Europe. Korea and Vietnam were Cold War proxies that most likely could have been handles differently. But all of that is easy to see in hindsight, when everything all the work is done for you and laid out in a textbook.
imortal wrote:
Oh, and what I said before, about not grouping you in with the others? I was wrong; you belong there.
I'd rather question then follow, sorry.
mek wrote:
Why did they kill JFK anyway
Kennedy was strongly opposed to the war in Vietnam. He was trying to de escalate the conflict and he made it known. Nobody at the time liked that.
Right after he died Johnson revamped the mission and te Vietnam war really started to escalate
EDIT: had to fix mah links
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