The main protagonists were Cheney and Rumsfeld apparently, Bush wasn't really in on any of it and they kept him away from the main decisions on the day and following days thereafter. Bush Snr had real issues with how the two acted and set themselves up during the whole situation.
This is the most plausible of any CT theory I've come across. The idea that it was allowed to have happened. You don't need lots of people in the know, just a few very isolated folk in specific places asked to focus elsewhere etc and who won't be aware of the bigger picture forming. You've the...
That's a fair point you make, perhaps not fair of me to point to a podcast and simply say "it's over there". The main reason, which won't surprise people, is oil. Invading Afghanistan and then Iraq was crucial in this aspect (see here for a good article). This article unwraps the difficulty the...
I always find the "they believed the earth was flat in antiquity" line really tedious. In 240 BC Erasthones calculated the circumference of the earth (or got close to it). In short even back then they realised it wasn't flat!
The annoyance I have with the conspiracy theorists is that they are treated as one homogeneous party, so if you think 9/11 has questions which need clarifying then you are automatically placed into the basket with flat-earthers, lizard people and the type who are the essential conspiracy...