Was There a Second Plane on the Grassy Knoll?

The degree of delusion and paranoia coming from the Left these days is truly amazing. If the Left fought terrorism and tyranny with the same zeal they fight reality, it would be a peaceful world in no time.

One of the ways the Left dispenses with the nasty obligation to oppose tyranny is to simply deny that it exists. They have no responsibility to respond to Islamic atrocities if the atrocities were all faked by their own government. For that reason, imagining a massive conspiracy by the Bush administration relieves them of a lot of psychic pain and feelings of obligation. Conspiracy theories afford Liberals the ultimate in denial of personal responsibility. How can we ask them to support the President, the military, the war on terror, since support for all of these is unnecessary? The whole thing was faked for political reasons, to fire up support for the Republicans, increase the military budget, and put millions of new dollars into the coffers of Bush McHalliburton while stomping on non-white third-worlders in a capitalistic orgy of militaristic, racist war-mongering. Or something like that.

With the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 atrocity looming, we can expect to hear these paranoid delusions dusted off and given new life; indeed, I would expect even the "mainstream" of Democratic Party leaders to lend some credence to them. (The quotes around mainstream denote my extreme skepticism that, with the demise of Joe Lieberman's candidacy, a Democrat mainstream even exists.)

Lefty Nutcase trolls have been pushing these conspiracy theories at some conservative blogs and websites, Chronwatch in particular. Recently they have been pushing the notion that an airplane did not slam into the Pentagon, that Flight 77 did not even exist. (That must be terribly comforting to the families of those passengers who simply disappeared on that day.)

The Chronwatch Forum provided the links below to prove that Flight 77 did indeed slam into the Pentagon, and rebuttals of some of the conspiracy theorists' key claims. You may find them entertaining as well as informative.

It was a plane that tore into the Pentagon on 9/11. This is from Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/rumors/pentagon.htm

Eye Witness Accounts verifying the plane that hit the Pentagon: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html http://www.geocities.com/someguyyoudontknow33/witnesses.htm