Who thinks DU should ban the bizarre 9-11 conspiracy theory threads

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There's been a couple of recent threads with a 9-11 conspiracy theme.

The small number of people who seem to be banging this drum mostly spend their time asking pregnant questions.

Such as:
"1. How did falling debris on the OUTSIDE cause ignition of a fire INSIDE the WTC 7 that was so great to topple the building itself?
2. The WT7 building is in between two other buildings, why didnÕt they catch fire
and collapse as well?
3. The WT7 building burned (supposedly) and fell 7 hours after the collapse of both towers.
During these 7 hours, why didnÕt the firefighters notice it was burning?

These questions...any many others equally dumb ones
(like why didn't another steel building - the Peace Dome in Hiroshima - fall?)
are asked with the implication that 9-11 was a government conspiracy to drum up support for the war (and the patriot act/loss of our privacy/ect)

One of the conspiracy-minded posters - after much prodding by me - finally came out and admitted as much.

They believe the Bush government committed 9-11 as an excuse to take us to war.

I believe this kind of thing makes us at DU appear stupid.
It's obviously wasting a great deal of time. Most of the posts are between the conspiracy nuts and those who can't believe they're wasting time with it.

This, in my opinion, is highly DISRUPTIVE to the board. I don't know if that's the intent...but I'm sure the repukes are happy to see it going on.

I propose either a "conspiracy corner" area for such threads so they don't pollute general discussions or an outright ban on them.
We have to many things in the realm of REALITY (like an election just over a year away) that deserve our attention to be distracted by this garbage.

What do you think?