If Cheney Co Had Planned the 9 11 Attacks

To speed your Friday along, here's a great excerpt from The Great Derangement, a new book by Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi. In this section he imagines the top secret White House meeting that would have had to take place in order for the 9/11 conspiracy nuts (IT WAS AN INSIDE JOB!!!) to be correct. It's long, but stick with it... The 9/11 Truth movement is really distinguished by a kind of defiant unfamiliarity with the actual character of America's ruling class. In 9/11 lore the people who... read more

Victor Davis Hanson The New York Times Surrenders A monument to defeatism on the editorial page 12 July 2007 On July 8, the New York Times ran an historic editorial entitled “The Road Home,” demanding an immediate American withdrawal from Iraq. It is rare that an editorial gets almost everything wrong, but “The Road Home” pulls it off. Consider, point by point, its confused—and immoral—defeatism. 1. “It is time for the United States to leave Iraq, without any more delay than the Pentagon needs...

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Source: U.S. Strike on Iran Nearing By: Jim Meyers 15/04/08 "Newsmax." -- -- Contrary to some claims that the Bush administration will allow diplomacy to handle Iran’s nuclear weapons program, a leading member of America’s Jewish community tells Newsmax that a military strike is not only on the table – but likely. Israel is preparing for heavy casualties,” the source said, suggesting that although Israel will not take part in the strike, it is expecting to be the target of Iranian retribution...

The timing of the HU/MIT nanotech article today? consider with this from nytimes.com: April 20, 2008 Message Machine Behind Military Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand By DAVID BARSTOW In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its closure...