9/11 was an 'inside' job, done by the government of the United States.

There is no hard core proof of either side, it is all speculation. Therefore by proposing this debate, you could have said I am only speculating on the conspiracy that Bush hates America and you would've won. That is simply an unfair debate. Having said that, Bush does secretly hate America or he would not have done the following things: 1.) Created the "Patriot Act" 2.) Went into Iraq when he knew there weren't WMD and then refuse to remove our troops, causing part of our downfall in the economy and our multi-trillion dollar debt 3.) Signed the Economic Stimulus Plan which basically borrowed money from China only to help Americans get $600 out of their own personal debt 4.) Cut the health care benefits of our own war veterans 5.) Created the no child left behind act which rewards teachers and their corresponding states for having their students do 'better' (aka cheat) on tests to receive funding from the Federal government, while honest teachers whose students may not do as well are 'punished' because e they didn't meet expectations and therefore receive NONE or little funding to actually help the students succeed 6.) Withdrew the USA from sections of the UN and breached the United Nations code of intervening without their consent. 7.) Created the most divided US since the Civil War era. Those are 7 things he has done in office along with many others that I don't feel I need to bring up. What is one more possibility that could have happened? 9-11. Bush WAS involved in 9-11. Ever remember hearing the story of what he was doing when the planes hit? He was reading a book to a bunch of elementary kids. Did you hear how long it took him to respond (leave the room)? Longer than 5 minutes (I believe the actual time was around 7 minutes). When he finally left the room, he still didn't do much. In fact, I don't know of ONE thing he actually did to help at ground zero. Fire halls, police stations, and volunteers all come together without the authority of someone else telling them how to help. They just help. Bush could have been behind the attacks on 9-11 because he does hate America (which I just provided multiple examples of). There is absolutely NO way to prove he was behind them or not, therefore this debate should end up in a default tie because neither side is able to prove the other wrong. However, I realize the voters are probably going to read my first post and vote con because I took the wrong side at the beginning. I urge you all to actually take into consideration my proposal to negate Round 1 of this debate in order to make it interesting. After looking at this opposite side of this debate, I have actually realized that Bush could have been partially responsible for 9-11 (he is for sure if you consider the breach in airport security, and lack of communication between the FBI and CIA, which the president is ultimately responsible for). Having said this, I actually have been serious about this debate from Round 1 on. You can call me 'crazy' or 'insane', but overall, I believe I effectively argued this side of the issue. My opponent should not win by a default mistake but rather who argued their case better. I dug a deep hole to begin with but i think I buried him in it with this last post. Thank you to all who have read this entire debate and voted for the person who debated their case best. sccrplyr40