Looks like Skull and Bones hasn't needed much help from such machinations to get their people into positions of power in the past:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Skull_and_Bones_members
Just stroll through that list for a moment. You'll find Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, Governors, and (obviously) Presidents of the country.
Care to provide a link backing this up?
This is the problem with the conspiracy theory crowd. For them, it's about forming an opinion and then looking for evidence to back it up; for the more scientific crowd, it's about examining the evidence and coming to a conclusion.
And anyway, you want my "from the gut" feeling on 9/11? I think it's a helluva lot more likely that America became complacent in all the wrong ways leading up to 9/11, much in the way major empires like Rome and Britain did in their twilight years, than it is likely that a President that has consistently demonstrated a disregard for history (gee, let's send an army primarily consisting of white English-speaking Christian Westerners to a place that's still bitter over the Crusades and Britain's treacherous violation of the Hussein-McMahon agreement in World War I) was actually able to protect us from the historical shortsightedness of a slightly aged, complacent empire while perpetrating his own major fraud on a scale heretofore unseen in world history. After all, if it was indeed George Bush who was behind 9/11 (and there were no hijackers and all that trite), then it was not a group of militant Islamic terrorists, and America was at the time relatively safe from outside forces.
These hijackers had the single greatest ally there is: simplicity. The more complex the plan, the more chances it has to fail; therefore, a simple plan is easier to carry out. And they had a simple plan, that just happened to exploit a number of well-thought-out weaknesses in our security, including:
1. Lax airport security checks
2. Lax security on planes themselves
3. A lack of active defense of buildings in the capital against civilian aircraft being used as suicide dive-bombers without prior warning of hijacking threats
Without those three weaknesses, 9/11 would not have been possible. While the first two have been addressed since 9/11, I doubt the last has been; after all, it would have been mere seconds between when the plane showed up on Washington's monitoring stations and when they realized there was a problem with it, and mere seconds again between realizing it wasn't where it was supposed to be and realizing it was a threat. By then it would have been too late to do anything about it.
How did Islamic terrorists attack our capital undefended? They figured out how, that's all. They didn't muscle in; they were clever and they were lucky.
That's just "from the gut."
I major in creative writing. One of the first things they taught us was that fiction must be believable; reality knows no such bounds.
