Thursday, August 03, 2006

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Doubling Two Bad Bets?

By David S. Broder

If you think there is an echo in the air when officials discuss the twin crises in Iraq and Lebanon, you're not hearing things. In both cases the argument for carrying on the destructive current policy comes down to a claim that "we can't afford to let the other guy win."

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Fwd: 9/11 Blogger - Blogging 9/11 Related Alternative News - 15 new articles

" 9/11 Blogger - Blogging 9/11 Related Alternative News" - 15 new articles

  1. Tarpley to be on Malloy 8/3/2006
  2. 9/11: a 7-Man Job
  3. Official Site for 9/11: Press For Truth Launches
  4. Companion Article for Upcoming Stone Film World Trade Center
  5. 911 Eyewitness Hoboken Screening in Amsterdam Tomorrow Night
  6. Randi Rhodes Interviews Paul Thompson Over Recent NORAD News
  7. Guns and Butter Interviews Dr. Steven Jones
  8. Slipknot Vocalist Corey Taylor Questions 9/11
  9. Randi Rhodes to interview Paul Thompson today
  10. Scapegoating Norad
  11. Gott in Himmel!
  12. Vanity Fair's NORAD Story
  13. Katie goes prime-time for a 9/11 special
  14. Dr Bob Bowman's Speech at the DC Truth Convergence
  15. Washington Post: Government Lied about 9/11

Tarpley to be on Malloy 8/3/2006

If there is a more fearless jock on Air America than Randi Rhodes, it's Mike Malloy. Malloy just announced that Webster Tarpley will be a guest on his program on Thursday night. Malloy airs from 10pm - 1am EST

Air America main page.

9/11: a 7-Man Job

I've updated this essay, called 9/11: A 7-Man Job, to include the new revelations about the Norad cover-up and also the older revelations about the Able Danger cover-up.

Thanks to Micahyah for the inspiration.

Official Site for 9/11: Press For Truth Launches



While checking out Randi Rhodes's website today regarding Paul Thompson's interview I noticed a link to 911pressfortruth.com posted.

This film was previewed at the recent Chicago conference and received a very warm welcome. It features family members Lauri Van Auken, Mindy Kleinberg, Patty Casazza, Monica Gabrielle, Sally Regenhard, and Bob McIlvaine. The primary focus of the movie appeared to be Pakistani ISI ties to 9/11 based on Paul Thompson's Terror Timeline. This may be the movie to share with older friends and family.

There is a good bit of information on the site including the movie's trailer, and a couple movie showings as well:
SEPTEMBER 7 - TWO BOOTS PIONEER THEATER
E. 3rd St., between Ave. A & B, New York, NY
(212) 591-0434
(5 day run)

SEPTEMBER 8 - BOARDMAN'S ART THEATER
126 W. Church St., Champaign, IL
(800) BEST-PLACE
(4 day run)


Go check it out, and keep an eye on the site as more trailers appear to be on the way.

Companion Article for Upcoming Stone Film World Trade Center

The 9-11 Research companion to the film World Trade Center - wtc7.net

Unlike JFK, World Trade Center does not directly address the many challenges to the official story of the attack. However, like JFK, it may have a profound effect on the public's understanding of the film's subject by depicting events that have been ignored by the mainstream media, such as sounds of explosions as the Towers came down, molten metal in the rubble pile, and the precipitous collapse of WTC 7 at 5:20 in the afternoon.

World Trade Center follows McLoughlin (played by Nicholas Cage) and Jimeno (played by Michael Pena), and their families, on the day of the attack. The two men, who had never met eachother, are in other parts of the city as the attack begins. Neither see the plane crashes, and World Trade Center doesn't show them, keeping the movie focused on events that the men and their families witnessed.


Check out the link above for a detailed companion guide for the upcoming Oliver Stone film.

Thanks Vic!

911 Eyewitness Hoboken Screening in Amsterdam Tomorrow Night



911 Eyewitness Rick Siegel in Amsterdam August 3rd at Milky Weg - ricksiegel.com
August 3rd at 7:30PM 911 Eyewitness Hoboken will be shown at the Milky Weg in downtown Amsterdam by Daan DeWitt and the local Dutch Community. You can see the site for this at Daan Speak Web Site. After the film and a Question and Answer session will follow. It is expected that Rick Siegel will also give and interview with the Dutch National TV during his visit there.

Further details from SD:
I just called the Melkweg, tickets can be bought at the door starting at 16:30. Reservations are not possible. Admission is 7,50 euro.

Here's a thread on the LC forum


Thanks SD for the heads up!

Randi Rhodes Interviews Paul Thompson Over Recent NORAD News

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Randi Rhodes interviewed Paul Thompson today in light of the recent Washington Post article.

Check it out and post some comments.

Thanks FrankV for the hookup!

Guns and Butter Interviews Dr. Steven Jones

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Guns & Butter interviewed Dr. Steven Jones today regarding his latest research. I am told this new interview is quite informative, so be sure to check it out.

While you are there check out their recent coverage of William Rodriguez and Webster Tarpley here.

Big thanks to SJ for the heads up!

Slipknot Vocalist Corey Taylor Questions 9/11



COREY TAYLOR: PRESIDENT BUSH Is 'A Talking Head With A Lot Of Smart, Devious People Behind Him' - roadrunnerrecords.com
Q: We're not dealing with the visible administration, we're dealing with the shadow government.

Corey: The shadow government, exactly. The special interest lobbyist. Dick Cheney — the fact that he is vice president should scare everyone to death. They pulled back the curtain. The fourth wall came down and nobody cared. I think it's because of 9/11. 9/11 scared a lot of people into obedience. Back when Bush was elected, there was a TV show on Comedy Central called "That's My Bush". And it was hilarious. Then 9/11 happened and everything got real serious. That show went away, and we put our faith in this guy who couldn't run a baseball team, let alone a goddamn oil company.

Q: You bring up 9/11 — there are books, there are films like "Loose Change" that suggest that the U.S. was even complicit in letting it happen…

Corey: Or had a hand in it. Everybody wants to talk about conspiracy theories. Look at the film! You show me a hundred yard trench that leads up to the Pentagon. You show me the wreckage. Show me and I'll be like, all right, I was wrong. You can't see it. If a plane that size had flown into the goddamn Pentagon, there would have been so much damage. There would have been hazmat people there protecting against jet fuel. You would have seen the wings for Christ's sake. You would have seen something. A plane that big does not vaporize.

There are too many questions and not enough answers. At the time, I understand why nobody asked questions, because we were all paralyzed. But if the government is lying to them about other shit, is it so out of the question that they're lying to you about this? Rumsfeld will lie to your fucking face and he'll make you smile about it.


Big thanks to Nick for the heads up!

Randi Rhodes to interview Paul Thompson today

Tune in to your Air America affiliate today (8/2/2006) for the Randi Rhodes show. (3pm - 7pm EST) Rhodes is set to feature author of "The Terror Timeline" and creator of Cooperative Research.org, Paul Thompson to parse the NORAD story.

Previous Rhodes 9/11 coverage.

Scapegoating Norad

Here's my take on the Washington Post and Vanity Fair articles on Norad .

Spread the word about the "other half of the story".

Gott in Himmel!


Yesterday, Berlin's 2nd largest daily newspaper issued a review for "Loose Change", the article was originally in the "Feuilleton" section but was moved to the "Politik" section. This has been a banner week so far for 9/11 coverage in Germany. The BZ article is the Fifth to appear in a German paper since July 29th. Details here.

Thanks, heiner.

Vanity Fair's NORAD Story

VF has made their NORAD/Pentagon story publicly available, complete with audio snippets ;

...For the NEADS crew, 9/11 was not a story of four hijacked airplanes, but one of a heated chase after more than a dozen potential hijackings—some real, some phantom—...

"The real story is actually better than the one we told," a NORAD general admitted to 9/11-commission staffers when confronted with evidence from the tapes that contradicted his original testimony . And so it seems...

..."When they told me there was a hijack, my first reaction was 'Somebody started the exercise early,'" Nasypany later told me. The day's exercise was designed to run a range of scenarios, including a "traditional" simulated hijack in which politically motivated perpetrators commandeer an aircraft, land on a Cuba-like island, and seek asylum. "I actually said out loud, 'The hijack's not supposed to be for another hour,'" Nasypany recalled. (The fact that there was an exercise planned for the same day as the attack factors into several conspiracy theories, though the 9/11 commission dismisses this as coincidence. After plodding through dozens of hours of recordings, so do I.)...

...In the ID section, the women overhear the word "hijack" and react, innocently enough, as anyone might with news of something exciting going on at work:

8:37:56

WATSON: What?

DOOLEY: Whoa!WATSON: What was that?

ROUNTREE: Is that real-world?

DOOLEY: Real-world hijack.

WATSON: Cool!...

The article is by Michael Bronner, coincidence theorist.

Parse the HELL out of it, and give VF some feedback.

My initial take is; LIMITED HANGOUT 1.0 - "BLAME NORAD"

Katie goes prime-time for a 9/11 special

Sounds like Katie will be at Ground Zero on 9/11 doing her show, might be some opportunity there for the people wearing Investigate 9/11 shirts. There is a Comments section available on this page is you want to have your say:

http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/08/01/katie-goes-prime-time-for-a-9-11-special/

Titled Five Years Later - How Safe Are We? the special will tie in to the 5th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania. The special will focus on what the government is doing to prevent any future attacks as well talk with experts on how the anxiety of 9/11 still affects Americans.

But that's not all, folks. On September 11th Ms. Couric will be anchoring her evening news show direct from Ground Zero in Manhattan. It's just a part of the special coverage CBS News plans to have to mark the occasion.

Dr Bob Bowman's Speech at the DC Truth Convergence

In Washington, DC, July 2005. Check it out here:

http://www.911podcasts.com/display.php?vid=147

Thanks to Dem Bruce Lee Styles for sending this in.

Washington Post: Government Lied about 9/11

The Washington Post has a story today about how the Government lied about the military response to 9/11 (free subscription required). The story is also covered by Raw Story

Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate.

Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission, in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation, according to several commission sources.

***

"We to this day don't know why NORAD [the North American Aerospace Command] told us what they told us," said Thomas H. Kean, the former New Jersey Republican governor who led the commission. "It was just so far from the truth. . . . It's one of those loose ends that never got tied."

* * *

"I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described," John Farmer, a former New Jersey attorney general who led the staff inquiry into events on Sept. 11, said in a recent interview. "The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years. . . . This is not spin. This is not true."

* * *

John F. Lehman, a Republican commission member and former Navy secretary, said in a recent interview that he believed the panel may have been lied to but that he did not believe the evidence was sufficient to support a criminal referral.

"My view of that was that whether it was willful or just the fog of stupid bureaucracy, I don't know," Lehman said. "But in the order of magnitude of things, going after bureaucrats because they misled the commission didn't seem to make sense to me."

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Bloglines - Guest Calls Fox Propaganda Machine for Israel


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Guest Calls Fox Propaganda Machine for Israel

By Judy on Judy's Jottings

A critic of George Bush's policy toward Lebanon and Israel told off the co-hosts of "Dayside" on Wednesday (August 2, 2006), calling Fox News Channel a propaganda machine for Israel. "Dayside" co-host Mike Jerrick responded with hostility to the criticisms of Brian Becker, even as his own introduction to the segment underscored Becker's points.




Bloglines - NORAD Tapes Only Intensify Implausibility Of 9/11 Official Story

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NORAD Tapes Only Intensify Implausibility Of 9/11 Official Story

By Paul Joseph Watson

NORAD Tapes Only Intensify Implausibility Of 9/11 Official Story "These guys are smart," statement completely inconsistent with flight instructors description




Bloglines - 9/11 tapes expose flaws in military chiefs' testimony


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9/11 tapes expose flaws in military chiefs' testimony

World: Top brass misled attack inquiry, transcripts show · Fighter jets wasted time in pursuit of 'ghost' plane




To put it mildly, the first draft isn’t encouraging.

Bloglines - Media barred from observing witness testimony in Mahmudiya hearings

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Media barred from observing witness testimony in Mahmudiya hearings

By Jaime Jansen

[JURIST] The US military has banned the media and public from observing witness testimony of Iraqis in upcoming Article 32 hearings [Navy JAG backgrounder] for five US Army soldiers charged [JURIST report] in connection with the rape of an Iraqi teenager




Bloglines - Scapegoating Norad

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Scapegoating Norad

By George Washington

When the 9/11 Commission was wrapped up, the Federal Aviatiation Agency (FAA) was blamed for failing to quickly relay information of the hijackings to the military.

Now, years later, the finger is being pointed at the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad). As revealed in an article in the Washington Post (free subscription required):

Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate.

Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission, in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation, according to several commission sources.

***

"We to this day don't know why NORAD [the North American Aerospace Command] told us what they told us," said Thomas H. Kean, the former New Jersey Republican governor who led the commission. "It was just so far from the truth. . . . It's one of those loose ends that never got tied."

* * *

"I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described," John Farmer, a former New Jersey attorney general who led the staff inquiry into events on Sept. 11, said in a recent interview. "The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years. . . . This is not spin. This is not true."

* * *

John F. Lehman, a Republican commission member and former Navy secretary, said in a recent interview that he believed the panel may have been lied to but that he did not believe the evidence was sufficient to support a criminal referral.

"My view of that was that whether it was willful or just the fog of stupid bureaucracy, I don't know," Lehman said. "But in the order of magnitude of things, going after bureaucrats because they misled the commission didn't seem to make sense to me."

These statements confirm Senator Mark Dayton's testimony to the 9/11 Commission that Norad intentionally deceived the Commission.

But what the Washington Post article, and Senator Dayton, fail to mention is that 5 or more war games were being conducted by several U.S. defense agencies, including:

• At least one "live fly" exercise using REAL planes

• At least one "plane into building" exercise

• Injection of false radar "blips" onto the screens of air traffic controllers

• Monitoring of the exercises and the 9/11 events by Vice President Dick Cheney
.

Indeed, Secretary of Transportation Norm Minetta testified to the 9/11 Commission that Cheney monitored flight 77 for many miles as it approached the Pentagon, and was in charge of the military's (non) response to flight 77.

So the Washington Post article completely misses the other half of the story: that the dedicated rank-and-file personnel at Norad were misled, intentionally, by the planners of 9/11. Specifically, the good and dedicated lower-level military people were confused by the events of 9/11 because 9/11 occurred at the same time as the multiple war games with their live fly exercises, plane into building scenarios, false radar inserts, and apparent interference by Cheney.

The prevailing spin from the Washington Post article and the related Vanity Fair article is that Norad lie to the Commission simply to cover up its incompetence on 9/11.

But stop and think about it for one minute. Is it more likely that a government agency would lie to an official government commission simply to cover up incompetence? Or to hide classified information regarding 5 military war games occuring that day, and the the interference which those war games caused with FAA and Norad's normal response to hijackings? Remember that this administration routinely lies, and in fact authorized governmental agencies to lie about 9/11.

Reinforcing the argument that Norad lied to cover up the role of the war games and Vice President Cheney in the military stand down on 9/11 are two facts:

• False flag terror attacks almost always take place during governmental exercises, so that resources to carry out the attack can be put in place under cover of the exercise and so that -- if the perpetrators get caught -- they can say "oh, I was just part of the exercise, not the terror attack" (see this book)

and

• It is beyond the statistical probabilities of coincidence that the 9/11 hijackers got lucky by carrying out the attacks on the same day that 5 major war games (including live fly exercises, plane into building scenarios, false radar injects, and Cheney at the helm) were taking place. As Navy Historian Barbara Honegger has pointed out, either the hijackers had a mole inside the military, or the government itself orchestrated 9/11.

Indeed, Norad has already changed its story numerous times, apparently to address impossibilities with the official story pointed out by 9/11 skeptics.

Therefore, it is obvious that Norad lied for more important reasons that covering up incompetence. Norad lied in a desperate attempt to save the official story from that myth's glaring inconsistencies and, moreover, to cover up treason by certain people within the U.S. government and military.

It is vital that we talk about this half of the story with as many people as possible.

See also this message from 9/11 researcher Paul Thompson showing that Norad's current "confession" is also incomplete. And as to claims of incompetence in general regarding 9/11, see this.




Bloglines - The Qana Massacre And The Risks In Relying On Israeli Propaganda


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Bloglines - The Wargame Limited Hangout

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The 9/11 hijacking attacks were very likely facilitated by a rogue group within the US government that created an Islamic terrorist "Pearl Harbor" event as a catalyst for the military invasion of Middle Eastern countries. This weblog will explore the incredibly strange events of 9/11/01, and other issues of US government responsibility.

The Wargame Limited Hangout

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Getting major play in Vanity Fair.

Team8plus has some very interesting insights into this story and the WaPo story in the previous post.

Also, the Vanity Fair story casts doubt on whether flight 11 was what crashed into WTC1:
DOOLEY (to Boston): Master Sergeant Dooley here. We need to have—are you giving confirmation that American 11 was the one—BOSTON CENTER (Scoggins): No, we're not gonna confirm that at this time. We just know an aircraft crashed in and …DOOLEY: You—are you—can you say—is anyone up there tracking primary on this guy still?BOSTON CENTER (Scoggins): No. The last [radar sighting] we have was about 15 miles east of J.F.K., or eight miles east of J.F.K. was our last primary hit. He did slow down in speed. The primary that we had, it slowed down below—around to 300 knots.DOOLEY: And then you lost 'em?BOSTON CENTER (Scoggins): Yeah, and then we lost 'em.PLAY | STOP

The problem, Scoggins told me later, was that American Airlines refused to confirm for several hours that its plane had hit the tower.




Bloglines - Breaking: News Photographers Did Not Collude with Hezbollah to Stage Photos at Qana

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Breaking: News Photographers Did Not Collude with Hezbollah to Stage Photos at Qana

By Rachel Sklar

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This is one of those posts that you can't believe you're writing.

For those of you privileged enough not to have been subjected to some of the nonsense coming out of the conservative echo chamber in recent days, there's been a conspiracy theory floating around that news photographers helped Hezbollah stage pictures of the bodies and destruction left in the wake of Israel's strike on the Lebanese city Qana. Indeed, the bizarre allegations have been promoted by such high-profile conservatives and paragons of journalistic integrity as Rush Limbauh and Michelle Malkin .

One blogger, at EUReferendum (which we won't be linking to), wrote, "whoever said the camera cannot lie forgot that photographers can and do. Those lies have spread throughout the world by now and will be in this morning's newspapers, accepted as real by the millions who view them." He went on to call these photographers -- the ones reporting from a warzone, mind you, as he and Kathyrn Jean Lopez fight the battle of ideas at their blogs -- "loathsome creatures."

The AP, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse are now "strongly denying that the images were staged." And to the charge that timestamps on the photos proved the shots were staged, the AP said "that the time stamps could be misleading for several reasons, including that web sites can use such stamps to show when pictures are posted, not taken"; that "[t]he AP had three different photographers there who weren't always aware of what the others were doing, and filed their images to editors separately"; and that "the AP does not distribute pictures sequentially" but rather moves them "based on news value and how quickly they are available for an editor to transmit." Shocking, shocking revelations -- every last one of 'em.

Appropriately baffled, the AP's executive editor, Kathleen Carroll, said, "It's hard to imagine how someone sitting in an air-conditioned office or broadcast studio many thousands of miles from the scene can decide what occurred on the ground with any degree of accuracy." Meanwhile, The Washington Post's Jefferson Morley writes, "At a time when American and Israeli public opinion of the war diverge radically from the world opinion elsewhere, the emergence of a right-wing equivalent of the Sept. 11 conspiracy theories is worth noting."

True to the modus operandi of any bona fide conspiracy theorist, Malkin apparently believes the nonsense she's helped to traffic can't be disproven. A post on her site quoting news of the agencies' denials is titled simply, "How dare they be questioned!" At this point, when normal, conscientious people are busted for thinking stupid things, they retract their idiotic statements and, say, apologize to the hard-working people they've defamed. But since we're talking about Rush and Michelle here, well, we won't be holding our breaths.

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Bloglines - Iran frees bin Laden son -German newspaper

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Iran frees bin Laden son -German newspaper

BERLIN (Reuters) - Iran has freed a son of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden from house arrest, a German newspaper reported on Wednesday. Die Welt said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard released Saad bin Laden on July 28 with the aim of sending him to the Syria-Lebanon border. It linked the reported move to the outbreak of war between Israel and Lebanese-based Hizbollah.




Bloglines - Pre-Planning For Sept 11

9-11 Controlled Demolition
"…the loose community that some call the 9/11 Truth Movement has moved from the shadowy basements of the Internet out into the open. Across the board, the movement operates on the conviction that the U.S. government is keeping the whole truth under wraps. And that it either planned or allowed 9/11 to happen as a pretext for invading Afghanistan and Iraq and rolling back civil liberties at home". Maxim Magazine 2/17/06

Pre-Planning For Sept 11

By Wendell

excerpts from: Newletter Vol. IV, No. 7 October 15, 2001 source: www.fromthewilderness.com Operation Infinite War "The plans put before the President during the past few days involve expanding the war beyond Afghanistan to include similar incursions by special ops forces - followed by air strikes by the bombers they would guide - into Iraq, Syria and the Beqaa Valley area of Lebanon, where the




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Bloglines - Malkin on Qana: “If it’s not Qana, it’s something else. … It’s Gitmo, Abu Ghraib. It’s beauty pageants.”


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Malkin on Qana: “If it’s not Qana, it’s something else. … It’s Gitmo, Abu Ghraib. It’s beauty pageants.”

By John Amato on Middle East

tof_malkin.jpg O’Reilly brought on Malkin a few days ago to add some very insightful commentary on the tragedy at Qana

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Her sensitivity to the situation is touching.

O’REILLY: Then why — why doesn’t the rest of the world accept your analysis?

MALKIN: Because they are intoxicated. They are clouded by this moral equivalence that has set in over the world for the past several decades. And I think it behooves us to fight against that, to claw against that.

Because the manufactured outrage that Qana is not really about the deaths at Qana; it is something about much larger. It is about the jihad du jour that these — that members of the religion of perpetual outrage are always ginning up. I mean, if it’s not Qana, it’s something else.

O’REILLY: No, I got it. I got it. I got it.

MALKIN: It’s Gitmo, Abu Ghraib. It’s beauty pageants.

TP for the transcript

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Bloglines - US troops 'smiled before killing'


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US troops 'smiled before killing'

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US soldiers smiled before killing Iraqi detainees and threatened to kill a witness if he talked, a US court hears in Iraq.