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Originally posted by Stroggy@Jul 1 2005, 07:31 AM
If that was their goal, wouldn't a regular hijacking have sufficed?
Terrorists hijack plane and demand money, government solves it, nobody dies, the hijackers get arrested, Bush is the hero of the day.
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Stroggy, an ordinary hijacking would not have created the public outrage/feelings of helplessness. For Bush to assume his role of savior, only an attack on the nation would have sufficed.
Pretty much like the destruction of the USS Maine in Havana port (leading to the American-Spanish War and Spain losing the Philippines and Cuba) and the attack on Pearl Harbor (resulting in the participation of America in WW II).
For any war, be it a War on Spain, War on the Axis, or War on Terror, you need an attack on the nation to get the public behind you. It also gives the government the ability to limit free speech and personal freedoms in general.
So it would not just be to divert attention away from fraudulent elections, as Prejudicesucks says, but something much bigger, such as the War on Terror.