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From The Netherlands National Television: 9/11 Inside Job - Eric - 9/10/2006 5:18:22 PM
- This web site takes a RATIONAL look at 09/11/2001 - David F Mayer - 9/13/2006 3:08:34 PM
- Belonging with "documentaries" on UFOs, ghosts, ESP and the rest. - David F Mayer - 9/11/2006 2:18:40 PM
- A sad, tragic symptom. Don't even trust the US on this. - Bowser - 9/11/2006 12:13:17 AM
  - Is Elvis alive? And other conspiracies. (n/t) - REB - 9/11/2006 7:15:58 PM
- Yeah, right... - Fox - 9/10/2006 10:39:47 PM
- Larry Silverstein's Insurance Policy on the World Trade Center paid off Handsomely. - Lindy - 9/10/2006 7:40:38 PM
  - re: World Trade Center - Tom Brosz - 9/10/2006 8:09:32 PM
    - Tin foil hats versus True believers - Lindy - 9/10/2006 8:53:05 PM

Canadians kicking butt in Afghanistan - Tom Brosz - 9/10/2006 6:46:27 PM
- Holy merde, the FRENCH are kicking butt in Afghanistan? - Tom Brosz - 9/13/2006 4:43:16 AM
- Hang on a second.... - SDF - 9/11/2006 12:35:53 PM
  - re: Hang on a second.... - Tom Brosz - 9/11/2006 3:24:37 PM
    - Name calling - SDF - 9/12/2006 12:18:17 AM
      - re: Name calling - Tom Brosz - 9/12/2006 5:33:33 AM
        
        I agree, the US should pull back and let them die in their stinking heaps - SDF - 9/12/2006 12:49:13 PM
  - Methinks Tom ran out of his "butt monkeys"........... (n/t) - Publius - 9/11/2006 1:39:25 PM
    - No, "buttmonkey" is different. - Tom Brosz - 9/11/2006 3:27:19 PM
- 5 years and the insurgency is growing. Whose butts? - Bowser - 9/10/2006 7:44:30 PM

"Every foreign force that has entered Afghanistan has eventually been driven out with its tail between its legs - - Bowser - 9/12/2006 11:51:53 PM
- Little known fact re Soviets in Afghanistan. - Bowser - 9/13/2006 4:30:23 AM

Driver killed in flying car crash - nick hoffman - 9/13/2006 4:19:20 AM

Air Force Chief: Test Weapons on US civilians - Eric - 9/13/2006 3:00:53 AM

Not good - Donald - 9/13/2006 1:42:56 AM
- Meanwhile: Another travesty - Donald - 9/13/2006 2:02:00 AM
  - Do you guys ever read each other's posts? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/13/2006 2:21:41 AM
    - Its always useful... - Donald - 9/13/2006 2:25:42 AM

MSNBC Vote: Do you believe President Bush misled the nation in order to go to war with Iraq? - Eric - 8/28/2005 2:12:39 PM
- re: MSNBC Vote: Do you believe President Bush misled the nation in order to go to war with Iraq? - B.J. McGuire - 9/12/2006 11:09:09 PM
- re: MSNBC Vote: Do you believe President Bush misled the nation in order to go to war with Iraq? - marianne white - 9/6/2005 12:42:23 PM
  - Welcome Marianne - LindI - 9/7/2005 7:02:14 AM
- don't you mean Grieving mother? - Scott Evil - 8/29/2005 1:57:39 PM
- All online polls are crap. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/29/2005 3:35:12 AM
  - Any one find Tom's old posts praising a Bush poll? - Lindy - 8/29/2005 3:45:23 AM
    - no - tony - 8/29/2005 4:51:08 AM
- Thank You Eric - Lindy - 8/28/2005 3:36:53 PM
  - The accuracy of online polls; and a comparison with Nixon's poll numbers - Robert - 8/28/2005 7:51:19 PM
    - re: The in-accuracy of online polls - dtb - 8/28/2005 10:18:58 PM
      - Hmmm.... - Robert - 8/28/2005 11:59:03 PM
    - re: The accuracy of online polls; and a comparison with Nixon's poll numbers - Mac - 8/28/2005 10:03:12 PM
      - The more things change... - Robert - 8/28/2005 11:38:24 PM
        
        Resentment Blocs - Mac - 8/29/2005 1:22:05 AM
        
        Propaganda and intimidation - Robert - 8/29/2005 2:38:12 AM
        
        The Promise of Deliverance - Lindy - 8/29/2005 5:43:38 AM
        
        An aberration, but not unique - Robert - 8/29/2005 4:54:06 PM
        
        re: Propaganda and intimidation - Mac - 8/29/2005 4:15:45 AM
        
        All aboard! - Robert - 8/29/2005 4:39:25 PM
        
        What "if"? - Lindy - 8/29/2005 6:44:14 PM
        
        "It's difficult to base an ideology on a history of moral bankruptcy" - Lindy - 8/29/2005 2:00:59 AM
        
        re: The more things change... - Mac - 8/29/2005 12:32:41 AM
        
        "...and all I got was this lousy tombstone" (n/t) - Robert - 8/29/2005 1:51:55 AM

Another tragedy - alcaray - 9/12/2006 10:42:34 PM

Is Bin Laden dead? - Tom Brosz - 9/11/2006 4:07:59 PM
- re: It doesn't matter Tom. It's to Bush's advantage to have bin Laden be "alive". (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 9/12/2006 8:34:38 AM
- re: Incredible: it's 5 years later and that question is being asked - Raoul - 9/11/2006 8:34:03 PM
- If he's dead, they wouldn't tell us... - ER - 9/11/2006 7:21:12 PM
  - I think it might serve their purposes - McFly - 9/11/2006 8:51:09 PM
    - When it comes down to it... - Tom Brosz - 9/11/2006 9:13:55 PM
- Is Elvis alive? And other conspiracies. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/11/2006 6:24:20 PM
- I will believe that Osama Bin Laden is dead AFTER - David F Mayer - 9/11/2006 6:11:09 PM
  - re: I will believe that Osama Bin Laden is dead - Tom Brosz - 9/11/2006 6:25:37 PM
    - Sorry, he is another guy who has been blown up - David F Mayer - 9/11/2006 8:07:46 PM
      - I'm open for alternative explanations - Tom Brosz - 9/11/2006 8:28:44 PM
        
        Simple alternative explanation - David F Mayer - 9/12/2006 4:38:56 PM
        
        Another data point that conflicts with my theory - Tom Brosz - 9/12/2006 4:50:00 PM
        
        Wouldn't they need to be training to protect his successor? (n/t) - Tony - 9/12/2006 9:26:58 PM
        
        That works. - Tom Brosz - 9/12/2006 4:44:21 PM
- WEEKEND at BINNIE'S - carl - 9/11/2006 4:34:54 PM
- I think he is dead. And we know it but are willing to let him "live on". - Scott Evil - 9/11/2006 4:25:53 PM

Plenty of troops - alcaray - 9/12/2006 6:20:15 PM
- Almost too many. - Bowser - 9/12/2006 7:55:47 PM

To claim victory - "U.S. excluded car, suicide bombs from Iraq murder toll" - Bowser - 9/12/2006 1:34:29 AM
- re: To claim victory - "U.S. excluded car, suicide bombs from Iraq murder toll" - RobVG - 9/12/2006 4:21:06 AM
  - Providing security. The fraud is that the people weren't safer. - Bowser - 9/12/2006 7:48:07 PM
  - Providing security. The fraud is that the people weren't safer. - Bowser - 9/12/2006 7:48:05 PM
- Interesting comparison - SDF - 9/12/2006 2:05:07 AM
  - With 50 of them being down on Queen Street? - Lindy - 9/12/2006 2:28:13 AM
    - Actually I would suspect most of them were along Finch Avenue - SDF - 9/12/2006 12:38:00 PM
      - That brought back some memories - Lindy - 9/12/2006 3:33:05 PM

The children of 9/11 - Tom Brosz - 9/11/2006 8:59:46 PM
- Very SAD............. - carl - 9/12/2006 4:44:07 PM

Guerilla warfare - if you aren't winning, you're losing. US Special Forces doctrine. - Bowser - 9/9/2006 7:39:14 PM
- Guerilla warfare - according to Che - Publlius - 9/9/2006 8:45:28 PM
  - I note that Che did not even survive, let alone win. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 9/11/2006 6:25:06 PM
    - Note again David....... - Publius - 9/11/2006 10:04:39 PM
      - And when Communism is overthrown in Cuba, - David F Mayer - 9/12/2006 4:41:56 PM

The Great Delusion - Tom Brosz - 9/12/2006 6:41:10 AM
- Reminds me of Lenin's "Useful Idiots". (n/t) - David F Mayer - 9/12/2006 4:35:18 PM
- re: The Great Delusion - Laurie Street - 9/12/2006 4:13:02 PM
  - re: The Great Delusion - Tom Brosz - 9/12/2006 4:41:40 PM
- re: The Great Delusion of Tom - Buck Galaxy - 9/12/2006 7:24:36 AM
  - re: The Great Delusion - Tom Brosz - 9/12/2006 7:38:29 AM
    - re: The Great Delusion - Donald - 9/12/2006 1:11:12 PM
      - Well, you for one. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/12/2006 3:22:09 PM

COMAIR Had outdated runway charts - carl - 9/12/2006 4:41:26 PM

Sen. Rockefeller, Intelligence committee - "Iraq Would Be Better With Saddam." - Bowser - 9/10/2006 1:24:08 AM
- And Germany would be better under Hitler (n/t) - David F Mayer - 9/11/2006 6:24:11 PM
  - I'd like to see someone follow up on that. - Tom Brosz - 9/11/2006 6:34:49 PM
    - Not the "Dhimmi Option," the "Dummy Option"! (n/t) - David F Mayer - 9/12/2006 4:40:42 PM
- "The Disingenuousness Of Jay Rockefeller" - Tom Brosz - 9/10/2006 5:48:16 PM
- Bush's "democracy" - "Tortured screams ring out as Iraqis take over Abu Ghraib " - Bowser - 9/10/2006 2:16:50 PM
- Well, sure he does. - Tom Brosz - 9/10/2006 3:12:05 AM
  - Black and white thinking again. Tell me how that flows. - Bowser - 9/10/2006 3:58:05 AM
    - re: thinking again - Tom Brosz - 9/10/2006 6:50:38 AM
      - Help with understanding "moral equivalence". - Bowser - 9/10/2006 2:23:44 PM
        
        re: Help with understanding - Tom Brosz - 9/10/2006 5:41:32 PM
        
        re: Help with understanding - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/11/2006 3:06:19 AM
        
        It's a simple question. It, and I, am amenable to a rational answer. - Bowser - 9/10/2006 6:39:58 PM
        
        See? Nobody home. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/10/2006 6:47:18 PM
        
        I'll try for you. And do a good job, just for you. - Bowser - 9/10/2006 7:51:05 PM
  - Whoops, sorry. - Tom Brosz - 9/10/2006 3:13:40 AM
    - What??!! - Bowser - 9/10/2006 4:13:10 AM
      - You guys talk PAST each other - Lindy - 9/10/2006 8:22:16 PM
        
        Not exactly. He doesn't want to admit what he means. - Bowser - 9/10/2006 11:28:50 PM

Bush's speech tonight - Tom Brosz - 9/12/2006 5:34:35 AM
- Heh, heh. Da Speech! "It's a moral imperative (is that a word?) to kill people I don't like. Or don't like me. Or my Dad." - Bowser - 9/12/2006 4:12:42 PM
- re: Yes, what a lying partisan hack he is! Thank the gods he can't run again! (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 9/12/2006 8:25:29 AM

Eric Alter's view - Laurie Street - 9/12/2006 3:29:32 PM
- Geez, ya think? Like the P.S. though. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/12/2006 3:33:19 PM

Blast from the Past - Tom Brosz - 9/12/2006 7:41:02 AM

Anybody got a projected breakdown of House and Senate seats? - E.P. - 9/12/2006 3:26:55 AM
- It's all over the map right now. - Tom Brosz - 9/12/2006 5:37:47 AM
  - If the democrats win back the house - Buck Galaxy - 9/12/2006 7:34:35 AM

US Army re al-Qaida - from no presence to the most significant political force in one Iraqi province. - Bowser - 9/12/2006 1:14:45 AM

Day after day after day after week - "Only I can save you from anarchy". - Bowser - 9/11/2006 11:41:57 PM

Only a few months ago, Democrats were claiming victory - David F Mayer - 9/11/2006 6:39:17 PM
- You just make things up, don't you. No end to it. - Bowser - 9/11/2006 11:17:50 PM
- Pray for some good policy coming out of Washington between now and then. - alcaray - 9/11/2006 9:51:00 PM

How much of the anti-Castro stuff quoted here came from these folks? - Bowser - 9/9/2006 11:44:55 PM
- I suppose that YOU think that Castro is a great man. Right? - David F Mayer - 9/11/2006 8:09:41 PM
- Ay, Caramba! - ER - 9/10/2006 1:45:23 AM
  - Merely a pebble in the pond....... - Publius - 9/11/2006 1:47:16 PM
  - Simple answer. - Bowser - 9/10/2006 3:05:51 AM
    - "And perverting the free press in a democracy by the government should be a capital offence" - Lindy - 9/10/2006 9:09:07 PM
    - re: Simple answer. - ER - 9/10/2006 3:30:23 AM
      - Writing. - Bowser - 9/10/2006 4:05:26 AM

CNN - Eric - 9/11/2006 5:44:11 PM

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