[lbo-talk] skeptical

[JBrown72073 at cs.com]

><http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1531304,00.html>
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>>A Scripps-Howard poll of 1,010 adults last month found that 36% of 
>>Americans consider it "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that 
>>government officials either allowed the [9/11] attacks to be carried 
>>out or carried out the attacks themselves. Thirty-six percent adds 
>>up to a lot of people. This is not a fringe phenomenon. It is a 
>>mainstream political reality.

Isn't there rather a lot of difference between allowing the attacks and 
carrying them out? (And between thinking the gov't allowed them and thinking the 
gov't carried them out?) 

Jenny Brown