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9/11 on the blogosphere - Tom Brosz - 9/11/2006 5:11:35 PM

Focus on Iraq to the exclusion of getting Bin Laden - alcaray - 9/11/2006 4:00:44 PM
- Two months after Tora Bora everyone knew bin Laden was already in Pakistan. - Tom Brosz - 9/11/2006 5:01:57 PM
  - That was the best guess. How to ascertain? (n/t) - alcaray - 9/11/2006 5:06:18 PM

Bush on 9/11/01: maybe just a figment of the imagination - Donald - 9/11/2006 1:15:44 PM

Cheney - no WMDs, no nukes, no democracy. Just wanted war. - Bowser - 9/10/2006 8:04:10 PM

Republicans announce another dirty campaign, don't want to run on their record. - Bowser - 9/10/2006 4:42:56 AM
- GOP "plans to spend more than 90 percent of its $50 million-plus advertising budget on what officials described as negative ads" - Lindy - 9/10/2006 7:14:14 PM

Not learning, are we? "Cheney: U.S. to be in Afghanistan a long time" - Bowser - 9/10/2006 2:51:07 PM
- Of course! it's the heroin trade - Lindy - 9/10/2006 6:55:06 PM

New Intelligence Committee report released - Tom Brosz - 9/8/2006 6:08:55 PM
- Text-searchable versions available - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2006 6:00:30 PM
- re: New Intelligence Committee report released - Robert - 9/9/2006 5:27:54 PM
  - Looks like you read enough to get the point. - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2006 5:56:36 PM
    - "This commission" (with a Republican majority) "was a partisan hackfest" - Robert - 9/9/2006 7:39:51 PM
      - re: "This commission" (with a Republican majority) "was a partisan hackfest" - Tom Brosz - 9/10/2006 6:58:10 AM
    - Karma chameleons - ER - 9/9/2006 6:11:54 PM
      - One BIG difference... - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2006 6:40:17 PM
        
        Bill Clinton is not a politician. Not any more. - ER - 9/9/2006 7:36:39 PM
        
        Bovine exhaust. - Tom Brosz - 9/10/2006 6:37:23 AM
        
        Methane miasma - ER - 9/10/2006 12:36:22 PM
        
        I think Fahrenheit 911 is a better counterexample than the Reagan film. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/10/2006 5:52:08 PM
- re: New Intelligence Committee report released - ER - 9/9/2006 4:46:53 AM
  - re: New Intelligence Committee report released - Donald - 9/9/2006 3:53:13 PM
    - One of the major flaws in the mythology... - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2006 4:56:38 PM
  - re: New Intelligence Committee report released - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2006 5:36:55 AM
- Very nice. Well done. 3.9. - Bowser - 9/9/2006 1:28:40 AM
  - You will notice... - Donald - 9/9/2006 1:48:45 AM
    - Due diligence. Lack thereof. And just let down the guard. - Bowser - 9/9/2006 5:42:31 AM
      - Just so you know... - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2006 5:06:13 PM
        
        The either "let it happen", or are incredibly stupid and incompetent. - Bowser - 9/9/2006 9:38:25 PM
    - At least read SOME of the report, Donald. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2006 1:59:21 AM
  - re: Very nice. - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2006 1:46:26 AM
    - That was quick. An early shot across the bow from "The Weekly Standard." - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2006 2:08:32 AM

Update on the rearming of Hezbollah - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2006 6:10:49 PM
- And the US is reinforcing the IDF for state terrorism. - Bowser - 9/9/2006 8:13:41 PM

Baghdad violence not declining - Donald - 9/8/2006 1:18:58 PM
- The Iraq Ministry of Health tally is not that reliable. - Tom Brosz - 9/8/2006 3:29:13 PM
  - Baghdad morgue numbers, the rest of the story - Tom Brosz - 9/8/2006 8:35:56 PM
    - Anybody catch the significance of that? - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2006 3:05:11 AM
      - Cheesey excuses to ignore the obvious - Donald - 9/9/2006 4:09:55 PM
        
        IraqBodyCount numbers for August are about 672. - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2006 5:32:04 PM
        
        re: ignore the obvious - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2006 5:12:52 PM
      - Did you ever wonder why the Dod regards civilian deaths as irrelevant? - Bowser - 9/9/2006 1:42:58 PM
        
        Anyone catch the significance of THAT!!?? (n/t) - Bowser - 9/9/2006 7:40:19 PM
- Meanwhile... - Donald - 9/8/2006 1:20:49 PM

The 9/11 Report... - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2006 6:38:12 PM

Iraq sees record number of roadside bombs - Donald - 9/9/2006 1:28:57 PM

U.S. tally of Baghdad deaths omits car bombs, mortars - Donald - 9/9/2006 1:26:39 PM

Bush's speech today - Tom Brosz - 9/7/2006 1:17:36 AM
- Have fun with this - Tony - 9/7/2006 2:26:36 PM
  - Atlantic article - Tom Brosz - 9/7/2006 5:35:21 PM
    - re: Atlantic article - ER - 9/8/2006 5:29:26 PM
  - re: Have fun with this - Tom Brosz - 9/7/2006 5:23:14 PM
    - Bush is of course an unimpeachable source - Tony - 9/7/2006 7:56:22 PM
    - OK - Tony - 9/7/2006 6:45:09 PM
- If you read what he says, and see what he does, there's a disconnect. - Bowser - 9/7/2006 1:45:57 AM
  - The man is an international embarrasment - Donald - 9/7/2006 3:35:33 AM
    - Histrory? - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/7/2006 4:42:32 AM
  - Didn't read a word of it, did you? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/7/2006 3:09:20 AM
    - "This is already the White House's third effort in the past year to reshape the Iraq debate with new rhetoric." - Bowser - 9/7/2006 5:02:30 AM
    - What! Surely he read it! (feigning shock) - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/7/2006 3:24:25 AM
      - "gas prices are going down"....... - Lindy - 9/7/2006 5:38:11 PM
        
        gas prices always go down in the fall. - Tom Brosz - 9/8/2006 2:50:30 AM
        
        Oh come on! You know it is a conspiracy. - Adam Bomber - 9/8/2006 6:04:03 PM
        
        Capitalism Lessons for HZ Socialists - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/7/2006 10:32:02 PM
        
        Whirlwing boy is forgetting that the oil execs control the weather - Adam Bomber - 9/8/2006 5:59:28 PM
        
        re: They will be below $2.00 a gallon nationwide - Scott Evil - 9/7/2006 8:47:19 PM
        
        If gas DOESN'T drop soon............. - Lindy - 9/9/2006 4:05:03 AM

How's it going in Afghanistan, you ask. Taliban controls southern half, is advancing daily. - Bowser - 9/7/2006 10:11:13 PM
- its been 5 full years since we've suffered a 9/11 type attack. The american foriegn policy is working exceptionally well. - Scott Evil - 9/8/2006 2:20:39 PM
  - Have you noticed - they don't have to come to America to kill Americans. - Bowser - 9/8/2006 7:12:14 PM
    - Yes!!! And look at that Kill-Ratio!! - Scott Evil - 9/8/2006 9:34:11 PM
    - re: Have you noticed - Tom Brosz - 9/8/2006 8:07:32 PM
- "advancing daily." - Tom Brosz - 9/7/2006 10:53:32 PM
  - re: "advancing daily thru the fields upon fields of opium (n/t) - Eric - 9/8/2006 10:44:17 AM
  - "advancing daily." Backwards. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 9/8/2006 12:57:44 AM
  - Validation - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/7/2006 11:13:55 PM
    - You would have to help me understand. - Bowser - 9/8/2006 1:14:23 AM
      - You asked! - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/8/2006 2:37:17 AM
        
        "many have expressed their support for removing the Taliban and Saddam's regime." - Lindy - 9/9/2006 3:38:36 AM
        
        Wasted effort - FrankC - 9/8/2006 3:39:29 AM
        
        LOL! - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/8/2006 3:51:56 AM
        
        re: Wasted effort - Bowser - 9/8/2006 3:44:13 AM
        
        You are welcome to try your luck - FrankC (moderator) - 9/8/2006 4:36:24 AM
        
        OK. - Bowser - 9/8/2006 5:04:12 AM
        
        the End - FrankC - 9/8/2006 4:11:30 PM
        
        I didn't see "moderator" behind Franks name. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/8/2006 3:56:18 AM
        
        A non-answer. Spewing propaganda, ignoring reality. Not even a good try. - Bowser - 9/8/2006 2:50:23 AM
        
        Well... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/8/2006 3:32:02 AM
  - After Bush declared them free from the Taliban. Forced to point it out. - Bowser - 9/7/2006 11:07:58 PM

Senate: Saddam Saw al-Qaida As Threat - DOnald - 9/9/2006 12:45:24 AM
- Meanwhile.... - Donald - 9/9/2006 1:37:49 AM

Conspiracy hitting the mainstream. "- - - 49.3 percent believed the government "consciously failed to act." - Bowser - 9/8/2006 5:56:47 AM
- Senate report: No Saddam, al-Qaida link - Lindy - 9/9/2006 12:47:39 AM
- BYU Professor on Paid Leave for 9-11 Theory - The Truth is being put on hold! - Jack Herer - 9/8/2006 5:00:56 PM
  - so he is a physisist that believes in cold fusion and the theory that the WTC attack was a hoax. - Scott Evil - 9/8/2006 5:52:12 PM
    - Hey, it's not like he believes in ID or anything. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/8/2006 6:09:34 PM
- "Reality is a thin line between denial and paranoia." - Lindy - 9/8/2006 4:57:41 PM
  - Somebody has got to ask just what role did ABC News play in doctoring the 9/11 film footage! - Adam Bomber - 9/8/2006 5:56:21 PM

I'll bet the director of the FAA is a political appointee. - Bowser - 9/8/2006 9:32:21 PM

"Coburn-Obama Federal Spending Database Passes -- Unanimously!" - Tom Brosz - 9/8/2006 3:18:49 AM

The Slandergate era.......... - Randy - 9/6/2006 7:04:47 PM
- Just liberal lies - FrankC - 9/7/2006 12:21:32 AM
  - Considering content, and lack of it, may belong on Flame? - Bowser - 9/7/2006 12:38:29 AM
    - Frank must be hitting the scotch again - Lindy - 9/7/2006 3:18:57 AM
      - You'd hope so. - Bowser - 9/7/2006 5:08:45 AM
      - It would be vodka if it were anything - FrankC - 9/7/2006 4:07:10 AM
        
        I want to give you a break, FrankC - Bowser - 9/7/2006 4:49:00 AM
        
        I have zero interest in your opinion of me - FrankC - 9/7/2006 6:16:41 AM
        
        Offer - Bowser - 9/7/2006 1:05:08 PM
        
        It's not that big a deal....... - Lindy - 9/7/2006 3:03:02 PM
        
        "Throw 'em a goodie or two - - - " (n/t) - Bowser - 9/7/2006 3:35:48 PM
        
        You got it" - Lindy - 9/7/2006 5:15:28 PM
        
        Wonder if everyone can use CE for Flames, or just some people? (n/t) - Bowser - 9/8/2006 2:07:55 AM
        
        re: It would be vodka if it were anything - Lindy - 9/7/2006 4:17:08 AM
    - Like yours below Bowser? - FrankC - 9/7/2006 12:43:40 AM
      - Gee whiz. If I'm to be a mindreader, you've gotta give me something to work with. - Bowser - 9/7/2006 12:58:41 AM
- Conservatives admire lying. Now it's the CIA secret prisons. - Bowser - 9/6/2006 7:37:44 PM
  - Onward Christian Soldiers.......... - Publius - 9/6/2006 8:19:50 PM
    - If you can, get and read "Irag: The Policy Dilemma". Iran may have sprung the trap. - Bowser - 9/6/2006 9:37:48 PM
  - Wonder how those European officials who helped Bush lie feel now. - Bowser - 9/6/2006 8:13:12 PM

If anybody has doubt about who perpetrated the 09/11/2001 attacks, this should settle it. - David F Mayer - 9/7/2006 9:48:58 PM
- Who let it happen? (Follow the money. Power.) - Bowser - 9/8/2006 1:23:24 AM
- So who exactly doubted this?? - Laurie Street - 9/8/2006 12:23:26 AM
  - THESE idiots - David F Mayer - 9/8/2006 1:07:54 AM
- it doesn't matter to the Kooks - Scott Evil - 9/7/2006 9:59:42 PM
  - Sleeping with the devil - Lindy - 9/7/2006 10:53:26 PM

Animated cartoon on Bush and memories - Laurie Street - 9/7/2006 7:47:29 PM
- from the archives... - Eric - 9/7/2006 10:57:03 PM
- Sez it. All. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/7/2006 7:58:32 PM

Mickey Mouse parade on road to 911 - Publius - 9/7/2006 5:18:26 PM
- P.S. Why didn't Clinton Arrest Bin Ladin when the Saudi's offered him? - Scott Evil - 9/7/2006 8:43:35 PM
- Man are you a cry baby. - Scott Evil - 9/7/2006 8:39:22 PM
- I'm sure it will be a three ring circus - Lindy - 9/7/2006 5:56:16 PM
  - Speaking of Washington and the voting circus........ - Lindy - 9/7/2006 6:11:53 PM
- I'm not going to be watching any of the "specials." - Tom Brosz - 9/7/2006 5:46:38 PM
  - As for me, I wouldn't think of missing it......... - Publius - 9/7/2006 9:41:50 PM

Bush now HAS to invade Pakistan. After all, OBL, plutonium, nukes, democracy - - - - Bowser - 9/6/2006 4:43:58 AM
- FBI says, "No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11" (n/t) - Jack Herer - 9/6/2006 1:36:06 PM
- More details on this - Tom Brosz - 9/6/2006 5:37:44 AM
  - Very Bad Situation. - David F Mayer - 9/6/2006 5:34:06 PM
  - More mud in the water... - Tom Brosz - 9/6/2006 3:20:00 PM
    - We HAVE to keep sending troops to Afganistan - Lindy - 9/6/2006 6:37:19 PM
  - Pandora's Box. Toothpaste and tubes. As predicted, there IS no way out. - Bowser - 9/6/2006 6:53:04 AM
    - Let me try it this way... - Tom Brosz - 9/6/2006 7:08:44 AM
      - Can we amend your premise to include: "...and if we followed a rational policy"? - alcaray - 9/6/2006 3:38:09 PM
        
        Read my reply to Donald. - Tom Brosz - 9/6/2006 3:55:56 PM
        
        Your reply to donald... - Donald - 9/7/2006 2:33:10 AM
        
        I meant rational policy (and I've said this so many times that you should not find it mysterious)... - alcaray - 9/6/2006 4:31:01 PM
        
        re: I meant rational policy (and I've said this so many times that you should not find it mysterious)... - Tom Brosz - 9/6/2006 5:32:09 PM
        
        mountain of straw - alcaray - 9/6/2006 5:56:19 PM
        
        Logistics - Tom Brosz - 9/6/2006 6:49:00 PM
        
        Now you just throw up silly stuff. - alcaray - 9/6/2006 8:50:46 PM
        
        silly stuff? - Tom Brosz - 9/6/2006 11:50:02 PM
        
        The terrorist group did in fact sit there and wait for it, so yes. - alcaray - 9/7/2006 5:21:56 PM
        
        Do you have any idea how many Special Forces we HAD in 2001? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/7/2006 5:27:23 PM
        
        Well if ever I had a number in my head, it is gone by now. Please dazzle me with your research skills. - alcaray - 9/7/2006 5:59:30 PM
      - re: Let me try it this way... - Donald - 9/6/2006 2:13:35 PM
        
        re: Let me try it this way... - Tom Brosz - 9/6/2006 3:54:24 PM
  - And don't forget Somalia. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/6/2006 5:40:21 AM

smart weapons , dumb pilots - Canadians killed by US air strike - Andrew - 9/5/2006 12:29:13 AM
- Not a bomb this time - Wart Hog cannons - Laurie Street - 9/5/2006 4:24:47 PM
  - re: Not a bomb this time - Wart Hog cannons - Andrew - 9/7/2006 5:59:21 PM
- Now if we could just put GWB on the stand for his attack on Iraq - Lindy - 9/5/2006 4:23:22 PM
- re: smart weapons , dumb pilots - Jack Herer - 9/5/2006 12:07:06 PM
  - Reporters Get Bombed - Jack Herer - 9/5/2006 12:10:48 PM
    - The Stupidity of War - Lindy - 9/5/2006 4:36:55 PM
      - re: The Stupidity of War - Jack Herer - 9/5/2006 5:23:50 PM
- Total casualties - SDF - 9/5/2006 1:47:53 AM
  - re: Total casualties - gbaikie - 9/6/2006 8:23:48 PM
  - re: Source for cost quoted - SDF - 9/5/2006 1:49:03 AM
    - Question for Bush - SDF - 9/5/2006 2:04:55 AM
      - Comparison with casualties from bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki - SDF - 9/6/2006 1:46:10 PM
        
        Sorry, that Iraqi number is crap. Try again. - Tom Brosz - 9/7/2006 1:24:31 AM
        
        Trying again. - SDF - 9/7/2006 7:03:37 AM
        
        Answers - SDF - 9/7/2006 7:22:42 AM

Fury as academics claim 9/11 was 'inside job' - Jack Herer - 9/6/2006 2:49:44 PM
- Man I hope these lunatics are giving talking points to the DNC. - Scott Evil - 9/7/2006 3:25:35 PM
- Reality Check - ER - 9/6/2006 8:52:02 PM
  - re: Reality Check - Jack Herer - 9/7/2006 12:47:30 PM
    - yeah, and Mohamed Atta et al, were really CIA-manufactured droids - Daniel - 9/7/2006 2:16:34 PM
  - Don't disrupt their hate orgasm - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/6/2006 9:24:53 PM
    - Would you seriously know what an "orgasm" was? - Lindy - 9/7/2006 3:36:31 AM
      - Wow. So MANY possible responses...so few acceptable on a public board. ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/7/2006 5:36:31 AM
    - There's a cool post you should read - alcaray - 9/6/2006 10:43:31 PM
      - Laugh it up. - Tom Brosz - 9/6/2006 11:41:35 PM
        
        Yes, and (the point of my post) Tech is one of them - alcaray - 9/7/2006 5:17:16 PM
        
        I've been wondering about it too... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/7/2006 12:40:29 AM
        
        You are reaping the whirlwind, Vortexdude. - ER - 9/7/2006 2:14:52 AM
        
        re: You are reaping the whirlwind, Vortexdude. - Lindy - 9/7/2006 3:27:41 AM
        
        JELB! JELB! (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/7/2006 3:11:29 AM
- Hard to dismiss completely. Would think folks would at least wonder. - Bowser - 9/6/2006 7:41:39 PM
- More proof that some college professors are insane. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 9/6/2006 5:24:01 PM
- Hmmm!? What is clear is that enough was known to prevent it. - Bowser - 9/6/2006 5:20:36 PM
  - re: Hmmm!? What is clear is that enough was known to prevent it. - azstrummer - 9/6/2006 10:33:52 PM
- It must be true. BYU is a conservative Christian school. (n/t) - ER - 9/6/2006 5:04:21 PM
- For SURE it was a cover-up - Lindy - 9/6/2006 3:26:49 PM
  - Yawn. More paranoia. Your sources are worthless. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 9/6/2006 5:24:47 PM
    - And you know more sitting at home? - Lindy - 9/6/2006 6:25:11 PM
      - Yes. Why? Because I am not a paranoid nutcase. (n/t) - DFM - 9/6/2006 8:49:41 PM
        
        So you think you know more sitting at home? - Lindy - 9/6/2006 9:05:32 PM

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