The French Housing Minister Christine Boutin has suggested that the US President George W Bush might have been behind the September 11 attacks.
A website dedicated to promoting September 11 conspiracy theories has posted a video- interview of Boutin questioning the theory that Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda group orchestrated the attacks. In an interview in November, before she became minister, when asked whether she thought Bush might be behind the attacks, Boutin says: “I think it is possible. I think it is possible.”Boutin backs her assertion by pointing to the large number of people who visit websites that challenge the official line over the September 11 strikes against US cities.
Boutin’s office sought to play down the remarks, saying that later in the same interview she says: “I’m not telling you that I adhere to that position.” But this comment does not appear on the video clip posted on the website.
Numerous other websites have also posted the clip in recent days and the story has started to seep into the mainstream media.
France has been among the skeptic conspiracy theories supporting groups. In 2002, a book that claimed that no aircraft hit the US Pentagon in the September 11 attacks topped the French bestseller lists.
According to a Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll carried out last July, more than one-third of Americans suspect US officials helped in the September 11 attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could later use it as an excuse for going to war. The US has rejected such accusations.
Watch the interview of Christine Boutin (French):
July 8, 2007 at 1:13 am |
“Boutin backs her assertion by pointing to the large number of people who visit websites that challenge the official line over the September 11 strikes against US cities.”
Good grief. That is one of the worst reasons I have ever heard. Facts are not elected.
July 8, 2007 at 9:05 pm |
Sergei — but what if that “large number of people” visiting websites include significant quantities of physicists, fire engineers, pilots, architects and the like? Who even set up 9/11 truth websites of their own…
Because only the most intellectually and scientifically challenged could possibly accept the official “no explosives” theory.
July 9, 2007 at 4:40 am |
Zanjabil,
I believe in independent investigation of truth. To believe something simply because somebody else believes it is antithetical to that precept.
I also take exception to your statement that “only the most intellectually and scientifically challenged could possibly accept the official ‘no explosives’ theory.” First, I am somewhat insulted by the insinuation that at least 60% of my countrymen occupy the lowest intellectual tier. Second, I do not like it when somebody tries to stifle debate by claiming that if you disagree with them you are somehow defective. Third, it is demonstrably false. To provide just one example, Noam Chomsky, the eighth most cited scholar of all time, creator and patron deity of modern linguistics, and internationally renowned anarchist, rejects the notion that the Bush administration was behind 9/11:
Part 1: http://tinyurl.com/2mvepk
Part 2: http://tinyurl.com/2thpb6
July 10, 2007 at 12:01 pm |
Well, I’m sorry to break the news to you, but it is a fact that the average IQ in Iraq is higher than the average IQ in the USA. Sorry about that. Anyone who rejects the laws of physics is intellectually challenged. Like it or not.
I’m glad you believe in “independent investigation of truth”. Because just a tiny bit of investigation will lead you to the 9/11 truth, as acknowledged by those pesky physicists, engineers, pilots, architects, mechanics, and other annoying experts.