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I remember September tenth, and if you'd said that to me then, I'm not sure I would have called it a conspiracy theory (I might have), but I certainly would have thought you were wildly overconcerned.
For sure.
But you'd probably have said the same if I'd said that al-Qaeda terrorists were about to take over lots of planes and fly them into buildings, with thousands of lives lost. And yet that does in fact appear to have happened, and no one calls it a "conspiracy theory".
So the fact that saying the day before that terrorists asked to do it by a single rogue government official were about to take over planes and fly them into buildings would have sounded wildly overconcerned and conspiracy-theory-ish can't make believing now that that's what happened a conspiracy theory.
(For the avoidance of doubt: I do not in fact think that the people who flew planes into buildings on "9/11" were asked to do so by any official of any government, rogue or otherwise.)