In an interview with Tao Ruspoli , Cockburn said , " No doubt about it , since I got here in the early 70s things have gone downhill . The Left is in terrible shape . What 's the leading obsession of the Left right now ? This whole , I think , mad idea that Bush and Cheney organised the attack on the World Trade Towers . I think it 's absolutely insane . I think Bush and Cheney are capable of monstrous evil , I just think the theories they have – of no plane hitting the Pentagon – is nutty . It 's like flying saucers . " He noted that his friend Chuck Spinney had a friend on the plane who was later identified by his dental records because his teeth were found inside the Pentagon . Cockburn writes in standard incisive wit " This does n't faze the conspiracists . They 're immune to any reality check . Spinney " worked for the government . " They switched the dental records . The Boeing 757 was flown to Nebraska for a rendezvous with President Bush , who shot the passengers , burned the bodies on the tarmac and gave Spinney 's friend 's teeth to Dick Cheney to drop through a hole in his trousers amid the debris in the Pentagon . " Earlier , Cockburn had been moved to present rebuttals to the JFK assassination conspiracy theories by the Oliver Stone film '' JFK '' when it came out in 1991 . He wrote in 1993 that " In all the assassinology I 've read or seen , Oswald is always unpersuasive . In '' JFK '' Oliver Stone had n't the slightest idea how to portray him , which pointed up the weakness of his artistic insight and the preposterous premises on which it was based . " He interpreted the assassination as an attempt by Lee Harvey Oswald , whom he deemed a leftist , to " take the pressure off Fidel Castro " , and to that end it was successful at the level of the propaganda of the deed , Cockburn claims , because President Johnson later " suspended the CIA assassination bids " against Castro . He reiterated this view at a conference in 2010
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