When Willie Nelson first surfaced as a long-haired, pot smoking, country music outlaw, it was hard not to like him. When people use the slogan "Keep Austin Weird," they are probably thinking about Willie or someone like him. However, recent comments suggest that he has crossed the boundary from likeably weird to just plain nuts.
In an interview on a national radio show on February 4th, Willie suggested that the collapse of the twin towers on 9/11 was too symetrical to have been caused by the hijacked airliners crashing into them. "How naive are we - what do they think we'll go for?" he asked.
Willie also showed a stunning lack of clarity when he questioned why we attacked Afghanistan instead of Saudi Arabia following 9/11. According to Willie's logic, we should have gone after Saudi Arabia because most of the hijackers came from there. Of course, this ignores the fact that the Taliban government of Afghanistan supported Osama bin Ladin and allowed him to operate with impunity within its borders, while Saudi Arabia expelled bin Ladin and was hostile to him.
It is time to add Willie to the list of celebrities who no longer deserve to be taken seriously.
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Hi, Steve, I, too, doubt that an airplane crash collasped both towers. I've read respected archetectural professional groups that say no way would the buildings fall without exposives planted in them. The conspiracy theory goes that there were fire drills several days before in the buildings and someone had ample time to plant exposives in the stair wells. It was unbelievable what happened and a sorry excuse for Bush and his henchmen to play war, risk the lives of 3,000 of our countrymen and women and have their cronies profit off the war, not to mention selfishing throwing our country into debt.
So, I, too believe in a conspiracy.
Now going into Iraq and Afghanistan to "punish" the attackers - bad move. I was out protestig this war before it happened.
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