call me silly, but what do the truthers use as an excuse for why WTC 7 was blown up? It would make very little sense for an inside job to blow up a symbol of America to also include some small little insignificant building next door?
Cheney-
"yes yes, we shall blow up the twin towers and we shall have an excuse to attack the middle east!"
Bush-
"and that little building next door, I hate that stupid building"
Cheney- "sure, whatevr you say Georgie!"
It would be like setting explosives in the Sears Tower and then deciding to blow up the public library for good measure.... eh?
Truthers have one reason for focussing on WTC7. They focus on WTC7 because the collapse mechanism was hidden.
Remember that truthers "debate" tactics major on a couple of bits of false logic. Two of those which are relevant to WTC7 are:
1) Reverse burden of proof; AND
2) Demand proof of a negative.
Now the mechanisms of collapse of the twins are pretty much out in the open and easy to see. Certainly the progression stage or "global collapse" is so open than any use of explosives would be obvious. Remember "squibs" which the truthers tried to misrepresent as explosives. Much of the initiation, but not all, was also visible - the inward bowing of perimeter columns for one example. Sagging of floor trusses for another.
So, try as they might to claim CD the truthers were not able to sustain claims of CD of the Twin Towers because so much evidence was out in the open for all to see.
Along comes WTC7 and most of the detail is hidden. A godsend to truther tactics.
Simply stated the truther tactics for WTC7 are:
First claim that it looks like CD (It doesn't but that doesn't bother a truther.)
Then claim that since it looks like CD it must be CD.
Then pass the baton to the debunkers to rebut:
You debunkers have to prove it wasn't CD. << Note reversal of burden of proof AND demand to prove a negative. Both logical no-no's but too many debunkers go along with the logic and end up arguing on ground chosen by the truther/trolls. Poor military tactics.
So IMO that is the main and original reason for the truther focus on WTC7.
As trolling has continued over WTC7 we see discussion of red herring issues - first thermXte which is one order remote from the real question. i.e. There must have been CD because there was thermXte present. (Yes, I know, several quantum leaps of missing logic -- but we are dealing with truthers/trolls)
Then along comes a second order remote issue - iron rich microspheres and the claim: "Iron rich microspheres can only result from thermXte (false but...remember we are dealing with truthers or trolls) therefore because we have microspheres we must have thermXte which means we must have CD.
And both of those side line or red herring topics resulting in truther/troll delights. Thousands of posts discussing red herrings - no progress in the discussion AND truthers keeping the discussion going round in circles. What could better suit their objectives?
Clever folks some of these truther/trolls.
BTW I'm trying to predict where the next red herring will take us. I have suggested it could be arguing over the colour of the left side of an iron rich microsphere...but knowing truther/trolls can be opportunistic so they could go anywhere.
The only certainty is that it will be another irrelevancy. Remember the real question is "Was there CD?" and the answer to that is "No!" Truthers have no argument to address that reality so keep discussion going nowhere is their best ploy.
