Hell, if it ain’t going to get it done tonight, i don’t care. Just give me my beer. Let me watch trash television. Get the wisdom of the average me society? It is not the problems we have that are going to make us go away and leave the environment alone. The reason we are going to die is the apathetic and complacent people.

“According to a spate of recent surveys, the rise in gas prices is changing general consumer buying patterns—but not driving habits.”

…immediately followed by:

“A Nielson Co. survey found that 70 percent of U.S. consumers are combining around-town driving for errands and shopping, while 39 percent said they’re just staying home more often.”

IE 70% of consumers have changed their driving habits.

“Hal, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.”

This is true. What is also true, however, is that no such connection was ever asserted as part of the reason for the invasion.

“No connection has ever been established between Saddam and Al-Queda.”

This is absolutely NOT true. The 9/11 Commission did in fact report that there were connections between Saddam and Al-Quaeda. Since the release of the report, the focus of the deniers has been to try to minimize the importance of this connection. But it is no longer asserted by anyone with any credibility that there was no connection.

“Iraq is not making us safer, at least that is what our own intelligence services tell us.”

This also seems to be false. Terrorists from around the world who would otherwise be conducting operations against US interests elsewhere converged on Iraq after the invasion. Most have died there trying to destroy what we have built. This raises the important question if what we’ve done in Iraq was so insignificant or even harmful to US interests, why was it so important to these terror organizations to try to stop it?

Anyway, I know that this was off topic (as was the original comment), but I see an awful lot of people (more now than ever with the election coming) who fervently believe things that simply aren’t true.

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/Advice/WhatFourDollarGasWouldMeanToYou.aspx

I never said it didn’t happen. I’m not sure where you even got that from.

Any structural engineer who has any respect for himself/herself and knows anything about structures and how they fall will without a doubt confirm that.

It’s so obvious it’s painful.

I won’t bother typing up 10 pages to tell you…the information is all out there. Just do some research…and try and find legitimate sites and credible people. There are, admittedly, alot of crackpot explanations of what happened that day…but one explanation that is painfully obvious engineering and physics-wise is that those buildings were systematically brought down.

It’s not the first time a government has conducted a false flag operation and it won’t be the last.

Fact: Al-Queda wasn’t in Iraq until we went in there.
Fact: There was no conspiracy, these men were a group of extremist and no matter what you do, you will not be able to kill them all, because most of them aren’t even in Iraq.
Fact: The US was totally unprepared to go into Iraq in the first place and they are still unorganized.
Fact: The war is one of the reasons that gas is so D*MN high. Think about it, how do you think they power the vehicles? DUH…
Fact: Even with the war going on, the United States could still make better public transportation. The problem is that they keep wasting money in Iraq. They literally can’t account for 100′s of millions of dollars that is supposedly suppose to be spent in Iraq.

My point is, gas doesn’t have to be so high. Unfortunately for everyone, there are too many lobbyist in the white house right now that are profiting significantly off this war. Even the Vice-President use to own one of the contracting companies still in Iraq. Think about it people, know the facts…