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Cordite is just a term for explosive powders - As is duly noted


Whether anyone still maufactures the stuff is not the issue..... the issue is that cordite is a low yield, slow-burning explosive that was commonly used as a propellant. The reason that it was chosen for that job is because it doesn't burn fast enough - or hot enough - to damage gun barrels. The only use for the stuff in your scenario would be as a fuse or igniter for higher yield explosives placed inside the Pentagon - which if true would have caused the blast to blow the Pentagon wall outward..... which didn't happen even in the "Truthers" version of events.

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Why can't we see the tapes Frank?

'Because' is not a legitimate nor intelligent answer.


Failure to understand the rationale already presented isn't very intelligent, either...... why feed the morbidly curious and copycats something that serves no purpose? Do you also want to see JFK's brains spattered all over the limo?

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So what brought down WTC 7?


Who knows? Maybe one of those phantom sleight of hand missile thingys that nobody saw. Did they smell cordite there, too? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I'm more interested in the question posed by Michael (Grasscat):

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He's not alone, after reading some of the post on the above site you posted, he has a few in his camp, but not many. I wonder why?


Now that question could have 2 meanings:

1) He wonders why you don't have many in your camp.....

-or-

2) He wonders why folks dream up this stuff.

I think he meant the former, but I was intrigued with the latter, so I've tried to find out an answer. It's not easy to understand some folks, but the best explanation seems to be found in the area of "Alternate Reality" - here's an example:

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There's a guy named Lindsey Williams on YouTube, claiming that there is 200 years' worth of oil in Alaska's north shore, and that the IMF and World Bank, along with President Bush and Dick Cheney, are withholding that information from the public. How much of this is true, and if we drilled those fields, what would be the overall impact on the U.S. economy?
ù Gail D.

Not true.

No one knows how much oil is underground, but geologists have made pretty extensive surveys of Alaskan oil. Even the most optimistic estimates suggest there might be enough to cover a decadeÆs worth of current U.S. consumption.

But plenty of people are convinced that there are 200 years' worth of oil up there and that the reason we don't know about this is the cover-up. (Which, of course, would also have to include all the people it took to survey those oilfields along with the people who analyze the data.) You'll find plenty of people willing to explain how this is just a piece of a much bigger conspiracy to manipulate oil prices.

In fact, thereÆs a whole alternate reality available to viewers of YouTube documentaries, which help fill the Answer Desk inbox with a steady stream of endlessly amusing and increasingly absurd conspiracy theories. Apparently, to make one of these, all you have to do is "connect the dots." That must be why there are so many of them.

More and more readers, it seems, are happy to live in this alternate reality these days. Given the current state of the current real reality, we canÆt really blame them.

Of course, many of these conspiracy ôdocumentariesö also hint ù or claim outright ù that "mainstream" journalists like me are part of the cover-up.

So I guess youÆll never really know.


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But then there's the Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich connection:

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About 90 percent of the hate mail IÆve received supporting Ron Paul comes from Truther nuts. Why is that? Just watch the video of that meeting between Paul and the Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth:



Transcript of the Truther-pandering exchange:

Student: àweÆve heard that you have questioned the governmentÆs official account.

Paul: Well, I never automatically trust anything the government does when they do an investigation because too often I think thereÆs an area that the government covered up, whether itÆs the Kennedy assassination or whatever.

ôWhether itÆs the Kennedy assassination or whatever?ö

Yes, friends, we are in grassy knoll territory. And the Truthers certainly think they know what Paul is signaling when he said ôor whatever.ö

The student follows up after Paul gives a speech:

Student: So I just wanted to say, you know, weÆve talked to Dennis Kucinich and he says that heÆs willing to, you know, investigate it. He would advocate for a new investigation.

Paul: Into 9/11?

Student: Yeah, into 9/11. I mean, if it was Dennis Kucinich and you, thereÆd be congressional support. You know what I mean? So you wouldnÆt be the only one.

Paul: ItÆd be bipartisan, too. And IÆve worked with Dennis a lot on a lot of these issues.

Student: So I mean, would you advocate for a new investigation into 9/11?

Paul: Yes, I think we have to look at the details of it.


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Actually, I think the Alternate Reality and Ron Paul/Dennis Kucinich ideas both work together to form a sort of parallel universe or multiverse doctrine of anti-government with a smattering of intrigue for the gullible and easily brainwashed who never see the problem in their story with not finding answers to:

1) Where's the plane?

2) Where are the people?

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