So I get into work today and turn on the TV, finding CNN with constantly rehashed reporting of a series of bombings in London earlier that morning. Thirty or more dead, hundreds wounded. Shortly after that, the G8 leaders got together with the expected message that our war against terrorism must go on, we will win, etc.
After a few minutes of people yelling ‘Al Qaeda’ and ‘muslim terrorists’, I started thinking about all the things I’ve been reading lately. How there was this thing called the Downing Street Memo. How public opinion in England and the US were at miserable levels for those in charge. How people in general were sick of being in Iraq for no particular reason with an undefinable goal. How England was on the growing list of countries bailing on the ‘grand coalition’.
I also thought about the article ‘WTC: Stranger than Fiction’ that I read over a few hours at work the other day, not so sure whether I should believe it or not. I do believe the attack on the USS Liberty was a false-flag operation by Israel to frame Egypt for killing American soldiers, including a relative of mine. But I was hesitant to believe that there is some sort of century-long fanaticism to cause war at the expense of pretty much everybody, and the relative benefit of a strangely motivated subset of the Israeli government.
And then I read this article. It claims today’s attacks were pretty much false-flag booga-booga to keep the west in the war on terror.
It is interesting how Netanyahu changed his plans due to a warning of the attacks. Except the story changed to how he wasn’t warned - he just didn’t show up for his speech. Except that doesn’t make total sense because why would the embassy order that no one move if there was just a transformer fire?
So for the record, I’m not completely insane yet. But I’m getting there.