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Originally posted by PDXterra:

You forgot one though:

Pearl Harbor was intentional, we gave the Japanese our position, told them when to attack, where the ships were, etc. I always get a good laugh out of that one.
Yeah... There are a whole lot more of them. The ones I mentioned seem to be among the whackiest.

Assassinations are also ripe territory for the conspiracy theory prone mindset.

-Martin Luther King was killed by the government

-JFK - that one has many twists and variations

Can't forget the one about the Federal Reserve System. [Freak]

Every country seems to also have various conspiracy theories in their popular cultures, but for some reason Americans seem to be more prone to this type of stuff.