b_sinning said:
NSA, FBI, CIA, DEA, and any of the law enforcement agencies have benefited and some of the executive branch.
Why do you think of them as some sort of independent entities with their own goals? The vast majority of the 'government' is made up of 9-5 office jobs who dont get paid anything that could be called 'competitive'.
What does even getting power give them? They cant change how they get paid, and money is about the only reason to go for power in the US. For example, the NSA has a SUPER scary name, and no one REALLY knows they do exactly, but it doesnt take much digging to figure out they are mostly marginally paid PHDs who couldnt or didnt want to do university research or teach.
All organizations are made up of people. People are good, bad and ugly, and they all work with you. Every group of people I've ever seen, worked with, or read about, acts exactly like they did in HS. People, are people are people. You are the government.
Fact is all these people who benefitted from the war wouldve benefitted from something else if there wasnt one. The only thing that 9/11 did was destroy some very valuable real estate and shake the economy pretty bad.
It hasnt played well for anyone and stereotyping everyone who doesnt agree with you as teh evil profiteering warmongers is just childish. Advancing conspiracy for the sake of novelty is played out and boring. Especially when the so called evidence is so weak and the theories so far fetched.