With 911, my personal belief is that despite the theories that the structure was rigged, I don't believe so. That would have taken too much inside knowledge and planning, and I suspect that it would have been too difficult to keep quiet. They just readied the attack for as much force as they could muster, so whatever happened, happened. It's not like I think that they cared whether one person died or 100, or 1000.
If Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld and the Republicans that put them up to it DID do 911, I don't think that they knew exactly how much destruction that would happen, rather that they knew that it was destruction of some very gigantic magnitude. And who knows, maybe they hit the WTC, because they figured that it would withstand the hit, and just take out numerous upper floors, and then maybe got guilty at exactly how much damage that it ended up doing.
The attack on the Pentagon seems like "extra drama". It really does. It seems overly calculated, I mean, planes? These yahoos have access to various arms, and they think that a couple of planes will send a message? That's why I don't buy this whole thing. The attack on the Pentagon seems like extra drama, because it seems overwrought, like someone or something is going out of it's way to, you know, PROVE that they're real SERIOUS or something. If it were a terrorist faction, they'd find smarter and more effective ways of achieving a more larger scale attack (like say, being in the White House to keep your friends close, and your enemies closer). So I don't buy that a few terrorists took some pilot courses and then decided to hijack a few planes and then "send a message" to Western Civilization.
Bush and the Republicans cashed in on that fear. The fear about flying. The fear of that anyone Muslim could be a terrorist. The fear that Bin Laden and Hussein (Hussein in particular) were "radical tyrant dictators", were prime motivators.
It seems exactly like the modern day Pearl Harbour--that if the gov't didn't do it to their own citizens, that they knew it was going to happen and either looked the other way, or accelerated the process, like a crooked person who throws more gas on their own house fire to collect more insurance money. "Eh, it was all junk, anyways". With that theory, I speculate that Bush and the Repubs knew that the economy was going to shit because of outsourcing, inflation and rampant capitalist deregulated greed, so they decided to throw themselves a little welcoming party on the descent into hell, just like when a kid who can't build a sandcastle would rather knock his neighbours' sandcastle down.
That welcoming party was 911.
When the economy is in the tank, you have two options--try to save it, or run it into the ground and put the final nail in the coffin. With the economy, Bush and the Repubs damn well near put the final nail in the economy, if they didn't already do so. I don't think that they thought that the future of America was worth saving.....instead, they thought that soldiers dying was great for the future of America. And they neglected everyone else, aside from the big businesses that were supporting their campaigns that were helping to fudge elections and whatnot.
You can't buy control.... but you can certainly buy people off.