LIHOP? I always knew there was something sinister to that restaurant chain.... and it had nothing to do with pancakes.
I don't believe this conspiracy theory either, though it is a lot more credible than any missles/explosives/military jets theory out there. I know too many people in the intelligence community to believe that this is a possible explanation of events. and look at the look on Bush's face when he's sitting in that class holding My Pet Goat. Does he really look like a man in control who knows exactly what's going on? He looks confused, afraid, bewildered.... like every single other person in the country at the same time. Maybe he was acting but I don't think he was that good of an actor. The oft-cited CIA briefing is also no evidence at all, as has been pointed out many times (and I agree with the administration on this one- though I am by no means a Rep. apologist) one warning amidst a sea of poorly organized intelligence information doesn't really draw that much attention to itself. Bin Laden has been determined to attack the USA for years before 9/11 and has been determined to attack again in the years following 9/11. We know this. He talks smack all the time whenever he makes a new tape. If another attack is executed by Al-Qaeda in 2007, are people going to come out and say that the government must have been complicit with the attack because in 2002 Dick Cheney said that Al-Qaeda was determined to attack within the United States again? That would be absolutely absurd.
That we didn't heed warnings from other allied governments shows incompetence or disorganization as much or more than it demonstrates evil intent.
re: Moroccan intelligence, again, Bin Laden is ALWAYS planning something. We know this right now and we knew it back in 2000. That doesn't mean we know WHAT he's planning.
The NSA not translating messages in time again shows ineptitude more than anything else. Even if they HAD translated the message, in a pre-9/11 world, if we had heard a day before the attacks "tomorrow is zero hour"...... that would have helped how exactly? The country was totally unprepared for this kind of attack. Frankly, we're still underprepared.
If the Bushes knew what was going on, why would they want to protect Florida from terrorist attacks? Absolutely nothing happened in Florida.
and the last two points you raise are, quite fairly, refuted by other points you also raise.
Is it possible the government was in on this? maybe. Is it highly HIGHLY unlikely? absolutely. Do any of the points raised by any of the conspiracy theorists out there actually prove ANYTHING? No.
With all the real things our government does that we should be concerned about it seems very silly to be wasting energy trying to prove things that they haven't done. There are plenty of reasons to hate Bush, to be against the war in Iraq, and to suspect that there may have been some ulterior motives or conspiracies involved in planning and executing that war that have nothing to do with Al-Qaeda or the attacks of September 11th.