for my first 28 years, I laughed at CTers. I was just naive, and I believed everything the news told me. I believed the US did the right thing 100% of the time, morally.
Then, I realized there were some real holes in the 911 story (which even the 911 commission authors admit), and I swung too far to the other end. I believed every CT.
Today, I realize some are true, and some are not. Yes, there were very detailed warnings about 911 which were given to people like Mayor Brown and pentagon brass, and not the folks on those planes. This is fact, not CT. From Brown's own mouth.
The world isn't run by a bunch of evil men at a giant boardroom desk plotting microchipped enslavement. But at the same time, it's also not the plain vanilla version you read in your 6th grade social studies book. yes, we sold WMD to saddam in the 80s and gave him permission to invade kuwait. yes, we ignored some real intel on 911. Yes, we invaded iraq even after the UN proved there were no WMD. There's lots of shit that happens because yeah, our govt wants to make gains. It's fact. We do some cold hearted shit. Deal with it.
But "the sky is falling" isn't true either. in 40 years, we'll have a continually weakening economy, we'll be in another war caused by an attack which might have been shady (gulf tonken, lucitania, you name it), and CTers will still be saying it's the end of the world. And in 40 years, the squeaky clean version of history some of you numbskulls subscribe to (cause ignorance is bliss) still won't have come true.