Isn't it true that conspiracies do not exist?

Question

Here is a controversial point of view:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/17/september11

"The most important conspiracy theory about 9/11 rarely gets mentioned by writers like Brooker and Phillips. In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq the White House made every effort to link Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida. Far from being a production of what commentators like to call the tinfoil hat brigade, this particular paranoid fantasy emerged from the work of a highly focused and skilled group of people."

Answer 1

I enjoyed your link.  From that article, the best part was this:

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What happened on 9/11 is, in the end, a matter of fact – whatever our worldview might incline us to consider plausible or possible. The true authorship of the attacks is as difficult to establish as anything else about the world of international terrorism and espionage.

For myself, I have no idea what happened, because I have no more idea of how the business-intelligence-political nexus works than I have about what chess grandmasters are up to when they are staring at the board, looking all thoughtful.

The attacks on the US on September 11 2001 were part of a web of events that interconnect with oil, drugs, money, organised crime, imperialism, existing institutions and us. And religion, and a lot more money.

It might feel wise and sensible to declare that any explanation that differs from the official account requires hundreds of impossibly tight-lipped bureaucratic killers. But that presupposes that we know how the world works, and we don't.

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This type of talk, in my opinion, is the only reasonable position of people such as us who have no direct knowledge of the events.  By the way, unlike the prior answerer, I very much like your use of the double negative.  Whether or not you intended it, it works quite well in the context in which you posed it.

Answer 2

Conspiracies are only presumptions.

Answer 3

To be honest, I still haven't seen any proof linking Saddam to al-Quaida, and nobody found Iraq's mass destruction weapons.

So the whole invasion of Iraq was a big conspiracy, to get their oil.

Answer 4

Oh they exist alright they just get laughed at.

Answer 5

It's been proved a million times, but that doesn't mean they are all true

Answer 6

I haven't seen any legit proof linking Al- Qaida to Saddam yet.  Although many conspiracies have been proved to be absurd and false there are others which seems to hold a bit of truth to them.

Answer 7

You are using a double negative.  Your question does not make any sense.

Answer 8

If the whole thing is about oil, then why did Bush just lift the ban on drilling here? The 'oil angle' is laughable. I'd be more apt to believe it was an unsettled grudge from Bush Sr.

Answer 9

I suspect so!