For those who may have missed them, recently removed posts here include troubling reports of close contact between Mohammed Atta and Rudy Dekkers in the days before 911, along with a Pakistani news report detailing the Resurrection of Sheikh Khalid Muhammad, reportedly shot dead in 2002, but now captured in 2003.

Dead men tell no tales. Or do they?

In the Brave Old World of the USSR, the Soviets often employed airbrushing to remove pictures of comrades who had fallen from favor.

Today, on the Habitable Zone, the moderator can simply delete any posts which threaten to expose the web of lies, or disrupt the cheerleading for war.

UN weapons inspectors have dismissed as obvious forgeries those documents that were presented by the US and UK to support allegations of an Iraqi nuke program, but that was just an aberration, you say, because, after all, our leaders would never lie to us, just like they didn't lie about all those Iraqi troops reportedly massed on the border with Saudi Arabia. Never mind that independent satellite imagery revealed these reports to be just another Big Lie used to convice Congress to authorize Desert Storm.

Reporting from the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, I remain

YoursTruly