Reply #7: I enjoy conspiracy theories as I do mystery stories, but I don't [View All]

[JDPriestly]

usually subscribe to them. I just find them amusing, so I continue to reserve my thoughts about the MIHOP theory. Before seeing the Condor film, I thought it utterly impossible. The film made me think MIHOP is actually a possibility. I realize that it would have taken only a couple of people in the government to plan, fund and coordinate MIHOP, and the rest, possibly including Bush, etc. would have been kept blissfully ignorant about it. The 9/11 attack wasn't really that complicated to organize when you think about the kind of planning and organization that goes into a full-scale war or even a small but complex covert operation overseas such as rescuing hostages.

The movie also made me wonder whether, basically, the extraordinary military might of our nation has been bought by private or foreign interests. The movie does not state that is or was the case, not even hypothetically. The theory that our military might has been bought and is being used to serve foreign or private interests is one I entertained before seeing this movie. Actually, it is rather obvious that the American people are paying for the Iraq War, but haven't benefited from the considerable spoils of that war in the slightest. And by spoils, I am referring to the cost of supplying our troops as well as the higher price of oil worldwide. Please understand, I do not think that the American people want to wage wars in order to enjoy the spoils, but I just note that the Iraq war has been a bonanza for certain private interests including oil companies and the oil producing nations other than Iraq, some of which own large interests in key international and American corporations.