A recent post at AlterNet by novelist Jane Smiley reminded me of the often strange reasons on which people base their assessment of 9/11 and whether it was an inside job. Smiley writes about the psychology of George W. Bush, and includes this passing mention of 9/11:

"At the same time, Little George has a hard time with bad news, so he was never going be told the truth -- he can't take the truth, as Jack Nicholson might say -- this is evident in the famous 9/11 film of Bush reading about his pet goat when he gets news of the WTC. Talk about dumbstruck and unprepared and feckless and doltish! No, I don't think Little George planned the Trade Center attacks. If he had, he would have practiced a smarmy fake reaction, and he didn't."