OKC Conspiracy Theories
Atrios is right. This is the kind of f’n lunacy you can only find on Fox News :
On Tuesday’s show you heard FOX News’ Rita Cosby talking about the quite shocking claims made by a group of victims’ families that Iraq was at the bottom of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing in Oklahoma City.
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The whole thing stinks of Iraq. Ramzi Yousef, an Iraqi agent that was involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and his associates were allegedly talking to Terry Nichols (search) in 1994 about how to build a fertilizer bomb.So now the question: So if there is all this evidence, why has the U.S. government ignored it?
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The answer is Tim McVeigh (search) and the U.S. government were each doing their part to hide the real players. Government prosecutors said there was no “John Doe No. 2″ even though dozens of people saw him. McVeigh insisted all the way to the grave that he acted alone, when everybody including his lawyer knew he was lying.If McVeigh were just the grunt ? mixing the chemicals, driving the truck, setting the timer, and running off ? guilty though he might be, if the bombing was a plot by a foreign government, his lawyer would have had a chance at the sentencing hearing to argue that others were more responsible and McVeigh should not be executed.
The fear that the McVeigh execution might have been an error ? and a mistaken execution ? could put the federal death penalty itself in jeopardy. The fear of losing the federal death penalty could explain why the U.S. government does not appear to be anxious to act on evidence it has that Iraq may have been involved in the Oklahoma City bombing.
I still find it hard to believe that this X-files horseshit is being peddled by the #1 cable news network. To think that the media has sunk to this level, it’s a wonder that we can’t just solve our energy problems by hooking up a generator to the corpses of real newsmen who must be spinning in their graves.
To add to this, the “whole thing stinks of Iraq” theory is hilariously at odds with the more prominent conspiracy theory that John Doe #2 is reported Osama Bin Laden1 aide Jose Padilla :

If you ignore the fact that the two pictures above have differently-shaped eyes, noses, cheeks, lips, and chins, the resemblance in uncanny.
Maybe in right-wing loony land, the correlation between the two half-baked conspiracy theories makes sense. After all, if these are the same guys who can’t tell the difference between Iraq and Afghanistan, can we really expect them to notice through their blood-tinted glasses that all the innuendo and meaningless speculation in the world won’t take this stain off the reputation of the militant elements of the extreme right. The reason they’re willing to entertain the notion that our current foreign enemies are behind domestic terrorism is because the Oklahoma City bombing represents the violent nadir of anti-government conservatism and stands as a reminder that we should always be weary of extremists at home.
1 : Yes, that is the same Osama Bin Laden who referred to Saddam Hussein as a socialist infidel.
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Come on, these are the same people responsible for the Alien Autopsy, the same people who quickly shut up about the bad shit China does in order to get Media in there, etc.
No matter how often you think they’ve sunk as far as possible, Murdoch & the rest of the fuckers at NewsCorp pull something new out of their arse.
Comment by LamontCranston — April 20, 2005 @ 8:07 pm
The “conservatives” are behind big government, nation building, and now they want my tin foil hat as well.
Please make it stop! I’m so confused!
Comment by Stephen — April 21, 2005 @ 8:23 am