QuackQuack's Journal: Anti-American; 9/11 conspiracy theories on the rise

There was news that some French group put out a deck of cards with US leaders. Fine, lots of people have created their own spoof of the Iraqi deck. However, the person behind this new deck..

is the author of a one-time French best seller, "9-11: The Big Lie," claiming that no plane ever crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, and that the attacks were plotted by a faction within the U.S. military.

It used to be that it was only the Arab world that would believe such theories, but now they are popping up everywhere.

Theories such as the US plans to invade 7 other nations after Iraq, the Bush team invented the Iraq WMD evidence. (When everyone, even the previous administration believed it). Sure there was some bad evidence mixed in with the good (the African "Yellowcake"). Nobody, apart from Scott Ritter, argued against the existance of WMDs, and Ritter was singing a different tune in '98 when he left Iraq as an inspector.

Let's examine the facts: 9/11 happened. Bin Laden admitted planning it on tape, it was not the CIA or Mousad. Iraq definately had WMDs and WMD programs at one time, they've never been entirely forthcoming with the inspectors, and they've been caught lying about the scope of their programs before by the inspectors. Iraq kicked the inspectors out. Clinton nearly went to War himself over this, and he did launch a bombing campaign on Baghdad.

Even without the spector of WMD, few would argue that Saddam's Iraq was one of the most brutal places in the world. Should we have continued to let the Iraqi people suffer under sanctions? Should we have lifted Sanctions and let Saddam rebuild his arsenal and do whatever? None of these options, including war were morally desirable.

But now none of that seems to matter anymore, America, and especially the Bush administration are being portrayed as more evil than Saddam ever was. Or as Dennis Miller put it, "Everyone [in the administration] is Hitler, except for the foreign guy with the mustache dropping human beings into the wood chipper".