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Because I'm a kind, caring, compassionate soul, I have decided to try and help our lefty friends by coming up with other famous quotes they can place on their nearest convenient protest banner:

Mister, down this wall! - Ronald Reagan

4 score and seven years ago, we perish from this earth - Abraham Lincoln

Read my lips, no taxes - George H.W. Bush

We the order form establish justice - The Constitution

We hold that all men are endowed - The Declaration of Independence

Give or death! - Patrick Henry

A day that will live in the armed forces of Japan - Franklin Roosevelt

I did have sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky - Bill Clinton

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Yes first we have Cindy, remember Cindy? She reveals herself as a hater of all government including Bill Clinton. No wonder the left has dropped her like a hot rock. Bill is Evil, Bush is Evil the only person she has not accused of evil is the terrorist er us excuse me “freedom fighters” who actually killed Casey. Her strategy for defeating terrorist is; just lay there and take it. Well practice does make perfect Cindy. She thinks it’s all mcbillarybusherburtonwardaddy’s fault anyway.

Via Alarming News :And about Bill Clinton . . . . You know, I really think he should have been impeached, but not for a bl*w job. His policies are responsible for killing more Iraqis that George Bush.

Idiotarianism: Cindy Sheehan has authored a statement of her ideology, called Matriotism. If I tried to explain it, you would think I was unfairly satirizing her position. You have to read it to believe it

Pork Soup Becomes Political in France: Small groups linked to the extreme
right are ladling pork soup to France's homeless. Critics and some officials
denounce the charity as discriminatory: because it contains pork, the soup
is off-limits for Muslims. Critics view the stew — dubbed "identity soup" by
its cooks — as a cynical far-right ploy to penetrate the most vulnerable
level of society while masking their intentions as humanitarian.

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1 Pork soup? Could it be that the French are finally going to start fighting back against the horde of subhuman scum that has infested their land? Hell, if they manage to expel the muslims from France, again, I'll have to stop making fun of them!

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at January 25, 2006 05:34 PM (0yYS2)

2 Could Casey Sheehan have committed suicide to get away from his sick, stupid, idiotic mother?

Posted by: greyrooster at January 25, 2006 06:47 PM (YjVDY)

3 I tried to read her "Matriotism" screed. I got to the second paragraph. I think that's a record. The farthest I had ever read any of her screeds was about one sentence.

Posted by: Oyster at January 26, 2006 06:03 AM (YudAC)

4 Do you think CINDY SHEEHAN will have her picture in the war museum there in HO CHI MIN CITY there in vietnam? after all JOHN KERRYS and JANE FONDAS pictures are there

Posted by: sandpiper at January 26, 2006 09:19 AM (U+eLg)

5 DO NOT TOUCH OUR PORK SOUP ! You may have heard about the Identity Soups. These traditional pork soups are distributed in several towns in France and Belgium by Identity associations that are wishing to help their compatriots living in poverty. These de Identity soups have been accused of racism because, since they contain pork, they would exclude Jews and Muslims. Still, pork meat is key to the traditional Gallic art of cooking (Read again the Asterix’ adventures !). It is also the cheapest meat and this is an important factor of choice for non-subsidised associations. And, last but not least, when Jewish or Muslim associations are helping their fellows from the same religion they choose to serve kosher or hallal soups and this does not shock us nor does it shock anybody else… Now, when Europeans are trying to help their fellow compatriots with pork, why should it then be considered as racism ? January 14th 2006, following a request from the Mayor of Strasbourg (North East of France), the Prefect (representing the French State) has prohibited the distribution of the Identity Soup with the support of the police and has arrested the head of the association organising the soup, named Solidarité Alsacienne (Alsatian Solidarity). IN FRANCE THE STATE PREVENTS FRENCH PEOPLE TO HELP FRENCH AND EUROPEAN PEOPLE ! All European nations are concerned by this measure : if we do not react today, tomorrow they might prohibit the croissant as the racist symbol of the European victory against the Turkish Muslim army that was at the door of Vienna in 1683. Or, like a director of a British school did, they may prohibit to tell stories such as “The three little pigs” under the excuse that it could heart the sensitivity of Muslim kids. It is now that we shall react ! OUR ARMS ARE THE PHONE AND THE EMAILS ! If you want to protect French and European culinary traditions and especially the freedom of Europeans to live on their own soil according to their ancestral customs, phone, send a email and ask your friends to do the same to : - the Prefect of Bas-Rhin, Jean-Paul FAUGERE : chantal.jaouen@bas-rhin.pref.gouv.fr - tel. (33) 03 88 21 67 6 , - the Mayor of Strasbourg, Fabienne KELLER : fkeller@cus-strasbourg.net - (tel. (33) 03.88.43.65.0 - the Mayor’s « Premier Adjoint » Robert GROSSMANN: rgrossmann@cus-strasbourg.net - (tel. (33) 03.88.43.65.03), - the local newspaper: redaction@dna.fr (tel. (33) 03.88.21.55.00), - please copy us using the following address (this will be used to count the emails sent) : contact@les-identitaires.com This call is sent in more than fifteen European countries as well as in North and South America, Canada and Quebec. Our objective: that the Prefect, the Mayor and the local newspaper receive each 100.000 emails asking for freedom for Identity Soups. No insult, no threat, no attachment, just these few words as a title : FREEDOM FOR OUR PORK SOUP ! LIBERTÉ POUR NOTRE SOUPE AU COCHON ! For any information on Identity Soups : http://solidarite-alsacienne.hautetfort.com http://www.association-sdf.com http://www.soulidarieta.org http://www.renaissancesociale.be

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The latest message from Osama Bin Laden may be an indication of weakness.

Slate : The conditions for this latest truce are of course impossible as well. All one needs, in order to earn Bin Laden's mercy, is to give up Afghanistan and Iraq. But this raises a more intriguing question. Why are formerly triumphalist jihadists using the language of "truce" at all? Not very long ago, God was claimed to be on their side and victory certain.

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Probing to see test our security or maybe nothing.

Seattlepi : WHITE HALL, Ark. -- The Army stepped up security at an arsenal where chemical weapons are stored after three people entered a restricted zone, officials said Wednesday.
The security measures were taken as a precaution at the Pine Bluff Arsenal after the intrusion at a forested federal preserve 30 miles south of Little Rock. Officials didn't know what the three people were doing there, spokeswoman Cheryl Avery said.

Worth watching.

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Jay at Stop the ACLU points us to an important post by Michelle Malkin exposing the radical Left's hijacking of Benjamin Franklin's famous, and always mangled, quote:

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

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Sunni insurgent groups join together to run Al-Qaeda out of Anbar Province in Iraq. Via The Australian News :

"There was a meeting right after the bombings," one Ramadi resident said, speaking anonymously for fear of reprisals.
"Tribal leaders and political figures gathered to form the Anbar Revolutionaries to fight al-Qa'ida in Anbar and force them to leave the province.
"Since then, there has been all-out war between them."

Last week, three local Islamist groups around Ramadi - the 1920 Brigades, the Mujaheddin Army and the Islamic Movement for Iraq's Mujaheddin - met to distance themselves from their fellow Islamists in al-Qa'ida.

The statement condemned "armed operations which target innocents" and affirmed "a halt to co-operation with al-Qa'ida".
In a further sign of the rifts emerging within Iraq's insurgency, Zarqawi has also stepped aside as the head of a new council of radical groups in favour of an Iraqi, according to a posting on a website used by al-Qa'ida.

Sing it with me! GTFO GTFO GTFO my province Beotch!

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If you suspect IranÂ’s moves are just to drive up oil prices to make more money, yes thatÂ’s true. But is that all? I think not.

MichNews : "’This guy is not a politician,’ the source quoted the official as saying. ‘He is certifiably insane.’" (In America, we would call a person like that a "religious nut.")

Why? Because he is such a religious fanatic of the lunatic sort that he is causing alarm even among his own Muslims. There are Muslims and then there are even the fringe, "insane"
Muslims who believe that the world will change for the better when it gets worse.

The Messiah can only reappear when there is global chaos. At present, there is not enough of that. Therefore, the Messiah awaits his disciple, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to see through the details. That is why the President will not heed UN Security Council sanctions, nor dialogue with mere mortals, when he is already hearing messages from the invisible one yet to return.

That is why Muslims in Iran state that the new President is not actually a politician. He is a religious zealot of a killing cult called "Islam." Actually, all Muslims are a part of that murdering cult; but the President is even more so.

Muslims believe that America is the Great Satan and should be conquered; however the more astute hold that such should not be broadcast globally. However, this new President says what he believes for the world media to pick up his every breath. That is because he seizes so strongly his fanatic message network with the invisible that he concludes the world should know of his privileged status with the one yet to return.

Note the cultic rituals overseen by the new Iranian President: "Meeting with his cabinet shortly after taking office last August, the new president reportedly had Cabinet members sign a loyalty oath to the 12th imam, which they dropped into a well near where the Shiite messiah is believed to be hiding.
"Reports in government media outlets in Tehran have quoted Ahmadinejad as having told regime officials that the 12th imam will reappear in two years. That was too much for Iranian legislator Akbar Alami, who publicly questioned Ahmadinejad's judgment, saying that even Islam's holiest figures have never made such claims."

Related Via Drudge :

TEHRAN - Iran's defence minister hit back Wednesday at veiled Israeli threats of an attack, saying Iran and its allies could put the Jewish state "in an eternal coma" like that of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Hat Tip: Cube Neighbor Dave in whom I've now succeeded in creating an addiction to Michelle Malkin's blog. Muahahahahaha!

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Cube neighbor M, just one row over and forward of my current location, is having company this weekend. Parts of her family are Jewish so they have a Kosher and Non-Kosher fridge. A set of dishes and pans as well one “no pork allowed” and another “has touched pig” set. I’m not really privy to all the details but one affects me greatly. When they come over M also finishes off all the pork. That way there ain't any pig in the house when said fine Jewish guests arrive. Well, by golly, prosperity has hit me in the ass again! They were unable to finish off all the ham they had so today I gets me some FREE HAM and all day long. Outstanding!!! Now if you will excuse me time fer breakfast.

Living high on the hog, baby, high on the hog.

Here are your White Trash Wednesday Bloggers

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Stretched by frequent troop rotations to Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has become a "thin green line" that could snap unless relief comes soon, according to a study for the Pentagon.

Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer who wrote the report under a Pentagon contract, concluded that the Army cannot sustain the pace of troop deployments to Iraq long enough to break the back of the insurgency. He also suggested that the Pentagon's decision, announced in December, to begin reducing the force in Iraq this year was driven in part by a realization that the Army was overextended.

Germany, Spain, UK, S. Korea, Kosovo, Croatia, Japan, do I really need to list all the places where no war is currently being waged where U.S. troops are deployed?

But only Iraq is hindering our abilities?

Will anyone admit to hiring "retired officer" Krepinevich?

Nice try, Associatedantiamerican Press, but it still won't work. You've been beating this drum for over 4 years now.

Now get back to the real news you're good at. We thirst for all that is Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

UPDATE: My apologies to Mr. Krepinivich, wherever you are. It's not your fault the AP is going to take the slightest hint of bad news and run with it.

Anyway, my point is, if the Army is stretched too thin, a large part of the problem is the fact that they're sitting in places where they're not needed to be.

Just what the hell are we still doing in Kosovo anyway? Weren't we supposed to be out of there like, 7 Christmases ago? What are we defending Germany from now? The war's only been over for 60 years.

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(San Francisco) When Google opened a research office in Beijing last year, the obvious purpose was to convince the communist government that the company could adequately deny Chinese citizens access to information. Well, guess what? Google succeeded.

From Reuters:

"In order to operate from China, we have removed some content from the search results available on Google.cn in response to local law, regulation or policy," Andrew McLaughlin, Google's senior policy counsel, said in a statement.

"While removing search results is inconsistent with Google's mission, providing no information (or a heavily degraded user experience that amounts to no information) is more inconsistent with our mission."

Google, known for its "Don't do evil" mantra, is developing its China approach as it seeks to strike a balance between the freedom of information it champions and the censorship demanded by Beijing, which controls access to China's 111 million Internet users.

One question that hasn't been answered thus far is whether Google will be providing information to the government about the users who search for censored information. Google has refused to comply with a similar request from the U.S. government.

Notably, Google will not offer email or blogging services until it can figure out how to strike a "balance between user interests and local conditions." Whatever that means.

Companion post at Interested-Participant.

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Radioblogger has posted a transcript and audio of Hugh Hewitt mercilessly (yet politely) bitchslapping Joel Stein over Stein's anti-troops column in the LA Times. Here is one of the many telling points in Hugh's interview:

HH: Do you honor the service that their son did?

JS: To honor the service their son...now this is a dumb question, but what do you mean by honor? That's a word you keep using. I'm not entirely...maybe that's my problem. But I'm not entirely sure what you're...

Also posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto and Vince Aut Morire.

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Cindy Sheehan is a p**sy.

Hugo Chavez is an as*hole.

George W. Bush is a di*k.

Update from Rusty: Thanks for joining the Jawa team, Gary. Here is a related story which I got via Professor Chaos. Notice who is paying for Cindy Sheehan's visit to Venezuela?

Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, mother of a US soldier killed in
Iraq, joined more than 10,000 anti-globalization activists in Caracas, where she hailed Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez....

She said Venezuela's foreign ministry sponsored her visit.

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Muslims fathers in the town of Linz, Austria are demanding that female teachers put on the hajib--or traditional Muslim headcover. What is so interesting about Linz? It is the town where Adolf Hitler went to school! Hitler also claimed Linz as his 'hometown', one which would be a 'model' for the Third Reich.

Interestingly enough, 3/4 of the students at this Linz elementary school are not native German speakers. Which is ironical, to say the least.

Of course, one wonders the extent to which Linz's status as Hitler's home drew so many immigrants. After all, Mein Keimpf is still a best seller in practically every Muslim nation.

First demand: headscarves for women.
Second demand: yellow stars for Jews.

Charles Johnson has a rough translation from an Austrian newspaper here.

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Put "Death Star" in your post. I'll probably link you.*

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I certainly had no idea British journalist Phil Sands was being held hostage in Iraq. I also didn't know he was freed by U.S. troops. Glad to hear he is safe and sound, sad to hear that no one noticed.

Phil Sands was taken by a group of Sunni terrorists, threatened with beheading, forced to make a video calling for the withdrawal of British troops--the whole hostage nine yards. Five days into his ordeal, American troops freed him. He was held for such a short period of time, his terrorist captors had not had time to upload the video to the internet or send it to al Jazeera. No one, not even the troops that freed him, knew he was missing.

Thanks to Tribeca for noticing this. BBC:

A British journalist who was kidnapped in Baghdad and held for five days has been rescued by US forces - despite never being posted as missing.

Phil Sands, a freelance reporter was taken hostage on Boxing Day and released on 31 December, it emerged.

Not even his family had reported Mr Sands, from Poole, Dorset, missing and his captors had not made any demands.

British authorities were completely unaware he was in the country until he was brought to the British embassy.

"We can confirm that Phil Sands was kidnapped on December 26 but we were not notified, nobody told us and the hostage-takers weren't in contact," said a spokesman from the Foreign Office.

"He was released during a routine US military operation on December 31 and he left the country after a medical check-up and having been in touch with his family."

Mr Sands, who freelances for The Scotsman newspaper, told the paper of his shock when men brandishing AK47 rifles forced him into a car.

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Okay, I get the whole online dating thing. I get the whole advertising for a mate in the newspaper thing. But, if you advertise that you're a billionaire seeking a 'virgin', what do you think the chances are that the golddigger that responds will be, you know, a virgin? And, as the old line goes, "Darling, we've already established what you are. Now we're just discussing price."

Via Simon's World, an oddly candid story out of China's official English mouthpiece: more...

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Q: Where do Mexican Generals keep their armies?

A1: In their sleavies

A2: No, you dimwit, in our sleavies. In addition to constantly violating the border, it looks like they are helping smuggle drugs in too.

UPDATE BY SEE-DUBYA: Much more info in this Ontario (CA) Daily Bulletin article that made the rounds last week. There have been 216 documented incursions by the Mexican military since 1996.

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1 And what could possibly be wrong with that, Rusty?

Posted by: See-Dubya at January 24, 2006 03:12 PM (IDj0S)

2 But their our sleavies, that's what!

Posted by: Rusty at January 24, 2006 03:14 PM (JQjhA)

3 Competition for the gringo/cartel dollars is heating up, some units now seem willing "to go the extra mile" in servicing their favored clients.

Posted by: john Ryan at January 24, 2006 03:19 PM (TcoRJ)

4 Lets be honest - this is not the actions of the Mexican Govt - if they are military - then they're rogues and criminals within its ranks (which is not a shocker). This is not good for Mexico - it makes them look like a 3rd rate banana republic. These guys are criminal gangs - if they assist in smuggling here, imagine what other criminal activity they engage in Mexico! The biggest threat they pose is to Mexico itself.

Posted by: hondo at January 24, 2006 03:27 PM (3aakz)

5 This is not good for Mexico - it makes them look like a 3rd rate banana republic. Quack quack....

Posted by: Brian B at January 24, 2006 03:32 PM (rGfpg)

6 So when did they stop smuggling tequila?

Posted by: Howie at January 24, 2006 03:58 PM (D3+20)

7 Sorry hondo, but you're dead wrong. Not only is this old news to some of us, but it is well known that Mexican Generals and politicians directly control, and profit from, drug smuggling. The entire Mexican government is nothing but a criminal organization, and for some reason, our government is trying to pretend nothing is happening. It kinda makes me wonder who's getting a cut on this side of the border.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at January 24, 2006 04:02 PM (0yYS2)

8 Actually, these incursions have been going on for quite some time. Reports from So. Texas and Arizona tell of Mexicans in military uniforms providing protection and riding shotgun for drug smugglers and illegal immigrants. The Mexican government is bound to be aware of what is going on, but to tell you the truth, both the drug smuggling and illegal crossings of the border are beneficial to the Mexican government. Both of these illegal activities provide Mexico with dollars, and prop up a government that might otherwise fail. Why do you think the Mexican government so forcibly opposes border security on the part of the US?

Posted by: jesusland joe at January 24, 2006 04:03 PM (rUyw4)

9 Don't doubt higher ups have knowledge/involvement. Mexican Govt is in sad shape - a never ending cycle of going nowhere on the richest continent on the planet. I'm just sympathetic for the average Mexican - if this is bad for us - its a nightmare for them. Pity - there never was any real reason (other that their own failings) why Mexico never matched the achievements and status of the US and Canada.

Posted by: hondo at January 24, 2006 04:10 PM (3aakz)

10 Only poor government and stupid economic policies kept Mexicans from succeeding. I know many Mexicans who have come to the US and become very successful, and great citizens. I truly feel sorry for the average Mexican who is forced to live in the present circumstances in Mexico.

Posted by: jesusland joe at January 24, 2006 04:57 PM (rUyw4)

11 Mexico used to be ruled by France and Spain, two nations which never even managed well at home, much less abroad. In fact, the only post-colonial nations that ever truly succeeded are the ones that the British had. Any nation which was ever ruled or even partly ruled by France or Spain during its formative years is a de facto basket case today. The only hope for Mexico is that enough Mexicans will learn proper civics in El Norte, and return home to eventually straighten things out. This should happen right about the time Osama bin Laden converts to Judaism I should say.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at January 24, 2006 07:51 PM (0yYS2)

12 Gee, Maxi, you're confidence level is real high on a turnaround in Mexico. Lol!

Posted by: jesusland joe at January 24, 2006 07:54 PM (rUyw4)

13 Well, we pessimists are rarely disappointed, but often pleasantly surprised. We must not forget that Americans have a long relationship with the ideals that are at the very heart of Western civilization, whereas the people of the rest of our hemisphere still mostly live in some state of post-colonialism, in which societies are stratified, and there is no hope for liberty for the masses. To make things worse, almost every other nation in our hemisphere, including Canada, is infected with the disease of Marxism, and so given these two factors, it will take much longer than anyone can imagine to spread Enlightenment ideals to every corner of the globe.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at January 24, 2006 08:14 PM (0yYS2)

14 Why has the President let this go on for so long? Has he forgot that 19 of the 21 Fasists 911 attackers were illegal aliens? Most if no all snuck in via Mexico in 2001. What is he waiting for? Another attack?

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Iran is now threatening that if the EU imposes economic sanctions that they will use force to close down oil exports out of the Persian Gulf. This would be an overt act of war. Not only would the U.S. responds with military action, but the Europeans as well. Yes, even the French.

Via Jihad Watch this from Haaretz:

The news site, affiliated with the radical student movement in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was once a member, quoted Mohammed-Nabi Rudaki, deputy chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission.

According to the report, Rudaki said that "if Europe does not act wisely with the Iranian nuclear portfolio and it is referred to the UN Security Council and economic or air travel restrictions are imposed unjustly, we have the power to halt oil supply to the last drop from the shores of the Persian Gulf via the Straits of Hormuz."

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Will the lunacy coming out of the Left stop today? First we posted about a Daily Kos writer who plans to march at Ground Zero and place a citizen's arrest on Rudy Giuliani for 'his part in the 9/11 coverup'. If that wasn't enough, a Lefty in a major newspaper says he does not support the troops. Now this. I need some aspirin.

Via the Puppy Blender this from Marc Cooper--who is no right-winger--who gives us the low-down on the new Pacifica radio executive director, Greg Guma.

Most of the country is privileged enough to not have the pleasure of listening to Pacifica radio. Since I grew up in L.A., I was subjected to it from time to time. Pacifica is kind of like NPR, only, if you can imagine this, far to the Left and way more boring (apologies to Marc Cooper, former drive-time host).

Pacifica is the kind of radio network that broadcasts it's own station meetings. I recall listening to one a few years back where angry listeners were protesting the 'corporate' nature of the Pacifica board.

It's also the kind of radio network that seems to have endless supplies of interviews with Noam Chomsky. And no, no one was holding a gun to my head and forcing me to listen to Noam Chomsky drone on and on about East Timor. Call me a masochist.

It turns out that Pacifica's new director, Greg Guma, is a certified 9/11 conspiracy nutbag. Here is what he had to say about David Ray Griffin's book The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11:

Hammering home the point that most of what we think we know may be mistaken, Griffin also points out that even the identities of the hijackers remain in doubt. In the months following 9/11, the London Times, Associated Press, and Saudi embassy in Washington reported that at least five of the 19 men whose photos and names circulated worldwide were still alive.

So, was bin Laden really the mastermind? If he was a player, did he have some help? These are two of the many troubling questions that arise from Griffin's analysis. At this point, we simply don't know, and not much can be said with complete certainty, except that without 9/11, George Bush would not have been able to declare himself a "war president" and there would have been no convincing reason to expand the federal government's power through legislation like the USA PATRIOT Act.

Given the administration's now discredited claims about Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's connection to the attacks and weapons of mass destruction, it doesn't stretch credulity to conclude that, based on the considerable conflicting evidence (rather than more comforting assumptions), the public has yet to hear the whole story. For that to change, however, the media's self-imposed myopia will have to end, at last granting Griffin's research a thorough review, and perhaps even prompting a more credible and comprehensive official examination than has so far been conducted.

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