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I'm sure it was, I just found it strange there are no pictures of larger parts of the plane like the engines or wings or rest of the fuselage but we can identify which plane it was. Obviously others didn't like that comment.

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One of the reason airliners are so safe is that every single part is tracked for its entire lifetime. There are a metric shitload (technical term) of serial numbers on an airliner identifying all the various parts. Once you have the serial number of a part, it's trivial to link that back to the airplane it was in, since it's all tracked.

For comparison, consider that debris from MH370 was positively linked to the airliner despite the fact that the plane disappeared almost without a trace and only a couple of pieces have washed up on shore: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/world/asia/malaysia-airli...

Not strange at all if you know anything about how systems like this are designed, built, tested, QA'd, shipped, monitored, & supported in the field.

I suppose it could look strange to a naive viewer, but their rational response would be "Gee, I really don't know much about this, where can I learn?", not "Gee, I bet something shady is going on!".

There are pictures of the engines.

Oh no, I replied to a conspiracy theorist. I should go to bed.

Case closed, pictures of the engines exists. You should go to bed, please.

Exactly, they might as well just put the whole damn plane stuck right there clearly visible--it wouldn't change a thing. It all could have been a real terrorist attack--all that matters is our disproportionate response ("shock and awe") on an unrelated country to know America and the powers that be have done some horrible egregious things and don't represent the thinking of the people had they not been brainwashed by propaganda. Had the mainstream media been toting a forgive and forget peace party line rather than war mongering propaganda, nobody would want war.

There have always been too many questions about the whole thing. There have always been too many questions about every single one of these things:

- No weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? - We can't see Bin Laden's Body? - No evidence that Russia hacked the DNC and a report released by the DNI solely talking about motives displayed on social media? -A year after Bush Junior is in the presidency we are back in Iraq where his father left off?

To me it's obvious something is up. You can get stuck on various discrepancies in evidence or not. It very well could have been a terrorist attack--that the powers that be were waiting on to counter-punch exactly as they had planned. It doesn't matter. Who actually wants us in the middle east and if we all as citizens wanted to get out, how easy would that actually be, or would the military industrial complex make that something that takes forever to happen. Wasn't Obama meant to have gotten us outa there. It hardly seems so. It seems like we're just using new more focused technology like drones to do the same with less actual boots on the ground.

If you're telling me, you think we belong over there, then you watch too much news by the mainstream media instilling fear in you. How many journalists on CNN are actually wandering around over there compared to how many report it? Exactly, it's a game of telephone with someone triggering the overall direction of their message, based on their own "biases." Perhaps that at their yearly Bilderberg group meetup they agreed to manipulate the public in order to more easily execute their plans of making the Middle East willing client states.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions

lmao. This was a good read, "JAQing off" is now permanently added to my arsenal.

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