Conspiracists abound, even in communist Cuba

Well, we finally know what happened on 9/11/2001. After all, Castro just told us. Apparently, it wasn't a plane that hit the Pentagon, but a missile or some other projectile. Citing "evidence" and "media statements", Castro has decided he knows more than those of us who live, work and grew up in this country. Now, just to be clear, Castro is and always has been very shrewd and clever and is by no means stupid, but he is also a charismatic leader who is a master of maintaining control. Statements such as this serve only that purpose and none other. He doesn't really think it was a missile, he knows, just like everybody else, that it was in fact American flight 77. Now, back to the conspiracy theorists out there. Go ahead and weave your theories all you want, but remember, the theory has to make sense. I love a good conspiracy tale and have read most of them. Occasionally they do make sense and make me wonder. However, I was in DC on 9/11 and I saw the destruction at the Pentagon first hand. Now, everyone knows there were four planes hijacked that day. Two out of Boston, 1 from New York and 1 from Dulles outside DC. At least everyone knows that four planes disappeared. We know from television that the towers were hit by planes and from flight recorders, etc. that it was in fact a plane that crashed near Shanksville, PA. Also, there was plane wreckage found at the Pentagon as well as a black box. In addition, there were thousands of commuters on the highway the goes past the Pentagon at that time of day. If it wasn't a plane, one of them would have said something. I've driven that stretch of highway, at that time of day, we are talking THOUSANDS of people. It was a plane. In addition, Castro cited the hole in the Pentagon being round, like a missile. OK, one, I saw the hole, and round is not what I'd call it, but, just for arguments sake, let's say it was round. Guess what, just like a missile, so is the fuselage of a PLANE!!!! Sorry, doesn't hold up. Now, there are some serious questions being asked about the flight data recorder for flight 77. We know we are missing 4 planes that day and that 4 planes hit something. The questions regarding flight 77s recorder are significant to some, but are really minor in the overall question. Did flight 77 hit the Pentagon? The answer is, unless you believe that Aliens abducted the flight and replaced it with another plane at the very last moment, or if you believe the US govt. somehow got wind of the attacks and allowed them to happen, but managed to save flight 77 somehow and replace it with another plane, then you have to believe it did. If you do believe one or more of these implausible theories, perhaps the plane and passengers are being kept at Area 51 along with little green men. Anyway, there is a legitimate question based on the flight data recorder as to whether or not the plane was on the trajectory claimed in the official account. Also, the recorder ends one second before impact. OK, got that, but who really cares. So they have a typo in the official report and it should read 45 seconds instead of 46. Get over that one people. Now, did the plane take out a few light poles, was it traveling at 100 feet, 300 feet, at the stated trajectory, etc.? Those are good and valid questions. Ones worth asking. Do they really change the fact that a plane hit the Pentagon? Also, since no other plane went missing, and since the people on that flight disappeared off the face of the Earth, that plane logically therefore had to be flight 77. An irratic flight path is not enough to prove it wasn't. The hijackers were not great pilots, and they hadn't been trained on commercial jets. They'd also never learned how to land. This suggests that an irratic flight path would have been expected. Eyewitnesses to the event (remember those thousands of people) stated that the plane actually hit the ground with a bounce just before impacting the building proper, yet that was largely ignored in the official account as well. Perhaps the conspiracy here is nothing more than shoddy work by officials, but the FACT remains that a plane did in fact hit the Pentagon and since all other planes are accounted for, it had to have been flight 77. Well, unless you really do believe in an alien or Area 51 scenario, in which case, get a life.