What’s crazier, believing the U.S. orchestrated 9/11 or that Saddam did?

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“…there can no longer be any serious argument about whether Saddam Hussein’s Iraq worked with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda to plot against Americans.” —Stephen F. Hayes, The Weekly Standard, 2003

When discussing politics, if there’s one thing that sends people running for the hills, it’s conspiracy theories — or worse, conspiracy theorists.

As with those who are deemed “racist” or “isolationist,” conspiracy theorists are automatically dismissed by polite society, not necessarily because they are wrong, but because of the nature of their arguments. And because their ideas and opinions are outside of consensus politics or the mainstream media, conspiracy theorists lack credibility simply for being outside the realm of respectability.

Take, for example, what is commonly known as the 9/11 Truth Movement, a collection of conspiracy theories that claim the terrorist attacks in 2001 were orchestrated by the U.S. government.

Watching 9/11 Truth videos online like “Loose Change” or “Zeitgeist” raises many interesting questions, and might cause even the most reasonable of folks to at least question the conventional wisdom on the subject.

Yet, by and large, the 9/11 Truth conspiracy remains a fringe movement, taken seriously by few and laughed at by most.

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