# Who are the V911t people and What is their point?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 20, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-v911t-people-and-what-is-their-point/361458 "2006-06-20T17:55:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-v911t-people-and-what-is-their-point/361458/1 "2006-06-20T17:55:17Z")

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My daughter sent me a long video which I haven’t watched all the way through, but seems to be intimating that through such evidence as the World Trade Towers in a set of crosshairs on a fema publication and some crazy plan to create a war with Cuba in the 60’s that the 9/11 planes were a US Government Plant to start a war in the Middle East. I’m not blindly trusting the government, but so far this seems like a load of you know what – even more silly than the JFK and UFO stuff.

So, what’s the straight dope on it?

If this isn’t the place, please feel free to move it. I don’t want to get into a shouting match about this with fanatics, I just want to know the origins and background of the organizations that believe this.

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**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-v911t-people-and-what-is-their-point/361458/2 "2006-06-20T21:01:51Z")

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It looks like you’re talking about Veterans for 9/11 Truth. Here’s the link on their own site:

[http://www.v911t.org/v911tStory.php](http://www.v911t.org/v911tStory.php)

Seems like they’re veterans who had a shared interest in the 9/11 story, and, specifically, had trouble believing the official story.

As to whether or not their ideas (or any other alternate 9/11 theories) are kooky or are reasonable, that’s pretty much a Great Debate.

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-v911t-people-and-what-is-their-point/361458/3 "2006-06-20T21:13:02Z")

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[QUOTE=toadspittle]

As to whether or not their ideas (or any other alternate 9/11 theories) are kooky or are reasonable, that’s pretty much a Great Debate.  
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No, it isn’t. Any theory positing that the WTC was deliberately detonated, that the planes, if they existed, were remotely controlled, or that a plane did not in fact crash into the Pentagon, are demonstrably and factually incorrect.

Now, there’s certainly room for dispute in the minor details and conclusions of the 9/11 Commission Report, but not about the fundamental events of the day.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-v911t-people-and-what-is-their-point/361458/4 "2006-06-21T01:32:54Z")

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[thread=364515]We already did it.[/thread]

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**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-v911t-people-and-what-is-their-point/361458/5 "2006-06-21T02:03:39Z")

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[QUOTE=Larry Borgia]  
[thread=364515]We already did it.[/thread]  
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Precisely.