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	<title>Comments on: Washington Post Editorial Board, Richard Perle Collude To Spin Pre-War Iraq Record</title>
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		<title>By: Squeedle</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/washpost-richard-perle/comment-page-2/#comment-3800919</link>
		<dc:creator>Squeedle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 21:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What kind of yellow journalism is this?  &quot;collude to spin,&quot; and then one sentence later we see Washington Post just allowed this guy a rebuttal.  I&#039;d say that&#039;s balanced, and anyway, the effect is they gave the guy plenty of rope to hang himself with.   As Dirk said, it&#039;s in the editorial column, and good editorial column policy  &quot;does not reflect the opinion of the editors.&quot;  That you complain about spin is both ironic and ludicrous.  This is a clear case of the pot calling the enamel sink black.   Criticize the writer and the article, but the WaPO is above reproach in this case, sorry.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What kind of yellow journalism is this?  &#8220;collude to spin,&#8221; and then one sentence later we see Washington Post just allowed this guy a rebuttal.  I&#8217;d say that&#8217;s balanced, and anyway, the effect is they gave the guy plenty of rope to hang himself with.   As Dirk said, it&#8217;s in the editorial column, and good editorial column policy  &#8220;does not reflect the opinion of the editors.&#8221;  That you complain about spin is both ironic and ludicrous.  This is a clear case of the pot calling the enamel sink black.   Criticize the writer and the article, but the WaPO is above reproach in this case, sorry.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3800919', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Dirk Neptune</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/washpost-richard-perle/comment-page-2/#comment-3800493</link>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Neptune</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 12:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kiko.   The link you supplied gives explanations for why two of the terrorists were wrongly presumed to be alive.  Which is fine, I hope there are similar explanations for the others.   I&#039;m just looking for the truth here.  However, as I said it&#039;s really a non-issue, it matters little if identification mix-ups accorded.  Iâ€™m eager to get to the bottom why certain things are thought to be an issue - when they really aren&#039;t.

Obviously there&#039;s no home video of Cheney hiring the terrorists.  The neocons did it through the Pakistan ISI.  (Check out 9/11 Press for Truth)  The terrorists had no idea they were working for the U.S. government.

I&#039;ve read The New Pearl Harbor, 9/11 Commission Distortions and Omissions and watched numerous videos about 9/11.  I don&#039;t take everything in the videos as gospel - as we all know often people are overzealous when they are trying to hammer through their point of view, but the overall conclusion is inescapable:  9/11 was an inside job.  Read â€˜The New Pearl Harborâ€™ for yourself.  It might open your eyes. Then read 9/11 Commission Distortions and Omissions and you&#039;ll see for yourself what a sham the 9/11 Commission was (or perhaps youâ€™re already aware of that).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kiko.   The link you supplied gives explanations for why two of the terrorists were wrongly presumed to be alive.  Which is fine, I hope there are similar explanations for the others.   I&#8217;m just looking for the truth here.  However, as I said it&#8217;s really a non-issue, it matters little if identification mix-ups accorded.  Iâ€™m eager to get to the bottom why certain things are thought to be an issue &#8211; when they really aren&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Obviously there&#8217;s no home video of Cheney hiring the terrorists.  The neocons did it through the Pakistan ISI.  (Check out 9/11 Press for Truth)  The terrorists had no idea they were working for the U.S. government.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve read The New Pearl Harbor, 9/11 Commission Distortions and Omissions and watched numerous videos about 9/11.  I don&#8217;t take everything in the videos as gospel &#8211; as we all know often people are overzealous when they are trying to hammer through their point of view, but the overall conclusion is inescapable:  9/11 was an inside job.  Read â€˜The New Pearl Harborâ€™ for yourself.  It might open your eyes. Then read 9/11 Commission Distortions and Omissions and you&#8217;ll see for yourself what a sham the 9/11 Commission was (or perhaps youâ€™re already aware of that).<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3800493', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Lora</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/washpost-richard-perle/comment-page-2/#comment-3800448</link>
		<dc:creator>Lora</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 06:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Psssst Faiz and Progs - Psssstâ€¦. I haste to be the bearer of BAD news but it is perfectly ethical for the WAPo to invite whoever(SIC--should be &quot;whomever&quot;) they wish to opine away on their editorial pageâ€¦â€¦
Comment by vile venus 

Please remember your own words before giving more unsolicited advice to Faiz, Amanda, etc. on what topics they should post on TP, dearie.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Psssst Faiz and Progs &#8211; Psssstâ€¦. I haste to be the bearer of BAD news but it is perfectly ethical for the WAPo to invite whoever(SIC&#8211;should be &#8220;whomever&#8221;) they wish to opine away on their editorial pageâ€¦â€¦<br />
Comment by vile venus </p>
<p>Please remember your own words before giving more unsolicited advice to Faiz, Amanda, etc. on what topics they should post on TP, dearie.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3800448', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Kilo</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/washpost-richard-perle/comment-page-2/#comment-3800371</link>
		<dc:creator>Kilo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 04:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Psst, Richard Perle penned the segment of the PNAC treatise about the need for an event like a â€œnew Pearl Harborâ€ before the American people would accept wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Strangely, that was only months before 9/11 gave the Bushites that very event.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

12 months to be precise. And not Afghanistan. And he turned out to be completely correct.

&lt;blockquote&gt;The rats are deserting the ship and the corporate media are assisting them in their attempt to survive.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

This would be the sinking ship of WH involvement in 9/11 that precisely zero people out of thousands involved have suggested they were a part of in the 6 years since.
All boats are sinking in that same, completely bouyant way. All boat crews are fleeing in the same stationary, cohesive, unpaniced manner.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Psst, Richard Perle penned the segment of the PNAC treatise about the need for an event like a â€œnew Pearl Harborâ€ before the American people would accept wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Strangely, that was only months before 9/11 gave the Bushites that very event.</p></blockquote>
<p>12 months to be precise. And not Afghanistan. And he turned out to be completely correct.</p>
<blockquote><p>The rats are deserting the ship and the corporate media are assisting them in their attempt to survive.</p></blockquote>
<p>This would be the sinking ship of WH involvement in 9/11 that precisely zero people out of thousands involved have suggested they were a part of in the 6 years since.<br />
All boats are sinking in that same, completely bouyant way. All boat crews are fleeing in the same stationary, cohesive, unpaniced manner.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3800371', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Kilo</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/washpost-richard-perle/comment-page-2/#comment-3800362</link>
		<dc:creator>Kilo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 04:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Trying again: Zogby reported that 90% of US soldiers said they were in Iraq because of â€˜Saddamâ€™s role in 9-11â€² - Kilo care to comment on how they got that impression?
Comment by TerrytheTurtle â€” May 12, 2007 @ 11:53 pm&lt;/blockquote&gt;

What US soldiers in Iraq ?
Is it the same ones who got sent there to the lead the war on terror, who had it drilled into them that all Iraqis are terrorists, that they toss babies out of incubators, run rape rooms and poison their own people by the same institution who leads all world contenders in propoganda ?

Gee I dunno. Maybe in between propaganda sessions where they&#039;re hyped up so they focus their need to kill brown people after 9/11 onto killing Iraqis, they caught an episode of Meet The Press where Perle was on.

&quot;The military&quot; really is like &quot;the space program&quot; to you folks isn&#039;t it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Trying again: Zogby reported that 90% of US soldiers said they were in Iraq because of â€˜Saddamâ€™s role in 9-11â€² &#8211; Kilo care to comment on how they got that impression?<br />
Comment by TerrytheTurtle â€” May 12, 2007 @ 11:53 pm</p></blockquote>
<p>What US soldiers in Iraq ?<br />
Is it the same ones who got sent there to the lead the war on terror, who had it drilled into them that all Iraqis are terrorists, that they toss babies out of incubators, run rape rooms and poison their own people by the same institution who leads all world contenders in propoganda ?</p>
<p>Gee I dunno. Maybe in between propaganda sessions where they&#8217;re hyped up so they focus their need to kill brown people after 9/11 onto killing Iraqis, they caught an episode of Meet The Press where Perle was on.</p>
<p>&#8220;The military&#8221; really is like &#8220;the space program&#8221; to you folks isn&#8217;t it.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3800362', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: irony</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/washpost-richard-perle/comment-page-2/#comment-3800361</link>
		<dc:creator>irony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 04:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Majority of Iraq Lawmakers Seek Timetable for U.S. Exit
By KIRK SEMPLE --  &quot;New York Times&quot;

Message to all Amerikkkans - 

which part of fcuk don&#039;t you understand?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Majority of Iraq Lawmakers Seek Timetable for U.S. Exit<br />
By KIRK SEMPLE &#8212;  &#8220;New York Times&#8221;</p>
<p>Message to all Amerikkkans &#8211; </p>
<p>which part of fcuk don&#8217;t you understand?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3800361', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Reg</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/washpost-richard-perle/comment-page-2/#comment-3800354</link>
		<dc:creator>Reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 04:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Psst,  Richard Perle penned the segment of the PNAC treatise about the need for an event like a &quot;new Pearl Harbor&quot; before the American people would accept wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Strangely, that was only months before 9/11 gave the Bushites that very event.

The rats are deserting the ship and the corporate media are assisting them in their attempt to survive.

Here&#039;s Perle&#039;s PNAC connection - 

&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvnewslies.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TvNewsLIES&lt;/a&gt; exposed this a long time ago.   But better late than never....

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/pnac_neo-con_artists.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CLICK HERE&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Psst,  Richard Perle penned the segment of the PNAC treatise about the need for an event like a &#8220;new Pearl Harbor&#8221; before the American people would accept wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Strangely, that was only months before 9/11 gave the Bushites that very event.</p>
<p>The rats are deserting the ship and the corporate media are assisting them in their attempt to survive.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s Perle&#8217;s PNAC connection &#8211; </p>
<p><a href="http://tvnewslies.org" rel="nofollow">TvNewsLIES</a> exposed this a long time ago.   But better late than never&#8230;.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/pnac_neo-con_artists.html" rel="nofollow">CLICK HERE</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3800354', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: TerrytheTurtle</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/washpost-richard-perle/comment-page-2/#comment-3800320</link>
		<dc:creator>TerrytheTurtle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 03:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Trying again: Zogby reported that 90% of US soldiers said they were in Iraq because of &#039;Saddam&#039;s role in 9-11&#039; - Kilo care to comment on how they got that impression?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Trying again: Zogby reported that 90% of US soldiers said they were in Iraq because of &#8216;Saddam&#8217;s role in 9-11&#8242; &#8211; Kilo care to comment on how they got that impression?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3800320', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Kilo</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/washpost-richard-perle/comment-page-2/#comment-3800286</link>
		<dc:creator>Kilo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 03:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Iâ€™ve yet to see a credidible official list that came directly from the airlines.&lt;/strong&gt;

That&#039;ll be a reason not to refer to knowing what is and isn&#039;t on it then.
So basically you &quot;having an open mind&quot; means you&#039;re happy to repeat what you know are lies. Awesome.

&lt;strong&gt;Thereâ€™s still many unanswered questions about those lists. Some of the â€˜hijackersâ€™ listed have turned up alive.&lt;/strong&gt;

No they haven&#039;t. This is possibly the lamest lie out there. It requires you to believe in the relevance of an article that was out of date within a couple of days back in 2001, and talk about it in 2007.

A few days after 9/11 the FBI released the names of the hijackers. As you would expect, when the US released it&#039;s list of the most evil men on earth, others with the same names said &quot;hey that&#039;s me but I didn&#039;t do it&quot;. The BBC reported on this. Less than a week later the FBI released the photos of the hijackers and exactly zero people said &quot;hey that&#039;s me and I&#039;m still alive&quot;. Nothin but crickets.

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,265160-2,00.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Der Spiegel&lt;/a&gt; did a followup story about this and the Arabs who were the sources for these stories are suprised at how gullible the Americans are to be still talking about it. The Arabs, who engage in conspiracy theories like it&#039;s a sport. They think you&#039;re hysterical. 

This is like if Russians told you that you&#039;re drinking too much vodka. This is how crazy you look. Other crazies are saying &quot;hey let&#039;s not get batshit crazy here&quot;.

&lt;blockquote&gt; 
One M.D. received the official autopsy list of flight 77 under the F.O.I.A. and no Arabs were listed. http://www.physics911.net/olmsted
Either way, Iâ€™m not disputing that there were hijackers on those planes. 

So there were no hijackers on the planes before or after but either way you&#039;re not saying there were no hijackers on the planes.
Way to waste space then. 

&lt;strong&gt;Iâ€™m questioning who hired them.
Comment by Dirk Neptune â€” May 12, 2007 @ 3:30 pm&lt;/strong&gt;

Why ? If a home video of them going over maps of the Pentagon before 9/11 with Dick Cheney would you see this as being relevant to the question of who hired them ?

Because the home videos of them doing this with OBL in al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan have been shown on TV, print and on the web.

Either they evidence of something for both or just fantastic irrelevant coincidences for both.&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Iâ€™ve yet to see a credidible official list that came directly from the airlines.</strong></p>
<p>That&#8217;ll be a reason not to refer to knowing what is and isn&#8217;t on it then.<br />
So basically you &#8220;having an open mind&#8221; means you&#8217;re happy to repeat what you know are lies. Awesome.</p>
<p><strong>Thereâ€™s still many unanswered questions about those lists. Some of the â€˜hijackersâ€™ listed have turned up alive.</strong></p>
<p>No they haven&#8217;t. This is possibly the lamest lie out there. It requires you to believe in the relevance of an article that was out of date within a couple of days back in 2001, and talk about it in 2007.</p>
<p>A few days after 9/11 the FBI released the names of the hijackers. As you would expect, when the US released it&#8217;s list of the most evil men on earth, others with the same names said &#8220;hey that&#8217;s me but I didn&#8217;t do it&#8221;. The BBC reported on this. Less than a week later the FBI released the photos of the hijackers and exactly zero people said &#8220;hey that&#8217;s me and I&#8217;m still alive&#8221;. Nothin but crickets.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,265160-2,00.html" rel="nofollow">Der Spiegel</a> did a followup story about this and the Arabs who were the sources for these stories are suprised at how gullible the Americans are to be still talking about it. The Arabs, who engage in conspiracy theories like it&#8217;s a sport. They think you&#8217;re hysterical. </p>
<p>This is like if Russians told you that you&#8217;re drinking too much vodka. This is how crazy you look. Other crazies are saying &#8220;hey let&#8217;s not get batshit crazy here&#8221;.</p>
<blockquote><p>
One M.D. received the official autopsy list of flight 77 under the F.O.I.A. and no Arabs were listed. <a href="http://www.physics911.net/olmsted" rel="nofollow">http://www.physics911.net/olmsted</a><br />
Either way, Iâ€™m not disputing that there were hijackers on those planes. </p>
<p>So there were no hijackers on the planes before or after but either way you&#8217;re not saying there were no hijackers on the planes.<br />
Way to waste space then. </p>
<p><strong>Iâ€™m questioning who hired them.<br />
Comment by Dirk Neptune â€” May 12, 2007 @ 3:30 pm</strong></p>
<p>Why ? If a home video of them going over maps of the Pentagon before 9/11 with Dick Cheney would you see this as being relevant to the question of who hired them ?</p>
<p>Because the home videos of them doing this with OBL in al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan have been shown on TV, print and on the web.</p>
<p>Either they evidence of something for both or just fantastic irrelevant coincidences for both.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: big papa</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/washpost-richard-perle/comment-page-2/#comment-3800198</link>
		<dc:creator>big papa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 00:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Richard Perle should be povertized...

...then dropped in the middle of Baghdad...

...with his entire living, soulless bloodline...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Richard Perle should be povertized&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;then dropped in the middle of Baghdad&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Merlin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Merlin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 00:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#80 Comment by valiant venus â€” May 12, 2007 @ 4:36 pm

Psssst Faiz and Progs - Psssstâ€¦. I haste to be the bearer of BAD news but it is perfectly ethical for the WAPo to invite whoever they wish to opine away on their editorial pageâ€¦â€¦.Theâ€editorialâ€ concept seems to escape youâ€¦.

Psssst...ooooh are we whispering so the rest won&#039;t hear us? How exciting! Glad no one else heard you. You are way out in left field with this post while the rest of your team is in the dugout. Don&#039;t worry, I won&#039;t tell anyone. It will be our little secret. This is so exciting!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#80 Comment by valiant venus â€” May 12, 2007 @ 4:36 pm</p>
<p>Psssst Faiz and Progs &#8211; Psssstâ€¦. I haste to be the bearer of BAD news but it is perfectly ethical for the WAPo to invite whoever they wish to opine away on their editorial pageâ€¦â€¦.Theâ€editorialâ€ concept seems to escape youâ€¦.</p>
<p>Psssst&#8230;ooooh are we whispering so the rest won&#8217;t hear us? How exciting! Glad no one else heard you. You are way out in left field with this post while the rest of your team is in the dugout. Don&#8217;t worry, I won&#8217;t tell anyone. It will be our little secret. This is so exciting!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3800188', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: valiant venus</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/washpost-richard-perle/comment-page-2/#comment-3800025</link>
		<dc:creator>valiant venus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 20:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Psssst Faiz and Progs - Psssst.... I haste to be the bearer of BAD news but it is perfectly ethical for the WAPo to invite whoever they wish to opine away on their editorial page.......The&quot;editorial&quot; concept seems to escape you....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Psssst Faiz and Progs &#8211; Psssst&#8230;. I haste to be the bearer of BAD news but it is perfectly ethical for the WAPo to invite whoever they wish to opine away on their editorial page&#8230;&#8230;.The&#8221;editorial&#8221; concept seems to escape you&#8230;.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3800025', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Dirk Neptune</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/washpost-richard-perle/comment-page-2/#comment-3799979</link>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Neptune</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 19:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You couldn&#039; turn a pillow inside out.

But, all in all, your answer was pretty good.  However I&#039;ve yet to see a credidible official list that came directly from the airlines. There&#039;s still many unanswered questions about those lists.  Some of the &#039;hijackers&#039; listed have turned up alive.  One M.D. received the official autopsy list of flight 77 under the F.O.I.A. and no Arabs were listed.  http://www.physics911.net/olmsted

Either way, I&#039;m not disputing that there were hijackers on those planes.  I&#039;m questioning who hired them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You couldn&#8217; turn a pillow inside out.</p>
<p>But, all in all, your answer was pretty good.  However I&#8217;ve yet to see a credidible official list that came directly from the airlines. There&#8217;s still many unanswered questions about those lists.  Some of the &#8216;hijackers&#8217; listed have turned up alive.  One M.D. received the official autopsy list of flight 77 under the F.O.I.A. and no Arabs were listed.  <a href="http://www.physics911.net/olmsted" rel="nofollow">http://www.physics911.net/olmsted</a></p>
<p>Either way, I&#8217;m not disputing that there were hijackers on those planes.  I&#8217;m questioning who hired them.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3799979', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Kilo</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/washpost-richard-perle/comment-page-2/#comment-3799906</link>
		<dc:creator>Kilo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 18:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The hijackers names were on the passenger lists of the airlines. You can read and see testimony from those who checked them onto the planes via the same systems every other passenger used.

But you&#039;re not talking about those &quot;official lists&quot;. You&#039;re talking about passenger lists released to the public following 9/11 which conspiracy theory websites refer to as &quot;official&quot; and &quot;complete&quot;.

There is a really obvious reason they weren&#039;t on the lists that were released to the public for use in all those rememberence roll calls and TV tribute specials after 9/11. Everyone knows this immediately.

Likewise, why conspiracy theory websites cite these lists as being &quot;the official passenger lists&quot; when they clearly aren&#039;t, anyone who looks at them can tell they aren&#039;t,  and they aren&#039;t presented as such by anyone except conspiracy theorists is an answer everyone knows too.

If that&#039;s that kind of unanswered question you&#039;ve got you need to realise that these questions are only &quot;unanswered&quot; on the websites you&#039;ve been reading because answering them ruins the story.

What other questions do you have about the hijackers ? I&#039;m happy to answer every one you&#039;ve got.

However if instead you&#039;d like to make references to me being closed minded and &quot;so smart&quot; in another post where you dodge the issue completely we can go that route and I&#039;ll turn you inside out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The hijackers names were on the passenger lists of the airlines. You can read and see testimony from those who checked them onto the planes via the same systems every other passenger used.</p>
<p>But you&#8217;re not talking about those &#8220;official lists&#8221;. You&#8217;re talking about passenger lists released to the public following 9/11 which conspiracy theory websites refer to as &#8220;official&#8221; and &#8220;complete&#8221;.</p>
<p>There is a really obvious reason they weren&#8217;t on the lists that were released to the public for use in all those rememberence roll calls and TV tribute specials after 9/11. Everyone knows this immediately.</p>
<p>Likewise, why conspiracy theory websites cite these lists as being &#8220;the official passenger lists&#8221; when they clearly aren&#8217;t, anyone who looks at them can tell they aren&#8217;t,  and they aren&#8217;t presented as such by anyone except conspiracy theorists is an answer everyone knows too.</p>
<p>If that&#8217;s that kind of unanswered question you&#8217;ve got you need to realise that these questions are only &#8220;unanswered&#8221; on the websites you&#8217;ve been reading because answering them ruins the story.</p>
<p>What other questions do you have about the hijackers ? I&#8217;m happy to answer every one you&#8217;ve got.</p>
<p>However if instead you&#8217;d like to make references to me being closed minded and &#8220;so smart&#8221; in another post where you dodge the issue completely we can go that route and I&#8217;ll turn you inside out.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3799906', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Dirk Neptune</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/washpost-richard-perle/comment-page-2/#comment-3799757</link>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Neptune</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 15:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Remember Kilo, I said someone with an open mind.  Obviously I wasn&#039;t describing you.  

Not sure what you mean when you say this:
&quot;They donâ€™t get a free pass. That doesnâ€™t change the fact though that you are to blame.&quot;

Now I&#039;m to blame because they linked Iraq to 9/11?  Do you ever think before you type stuff?  Or for that matter - edit?  You clearly have trouble expressing yourself - your proof is disjointed and your arguments are fuzzy.  My point is that they purposely avoided directly linking Saddam to Iraq.  They did it by implication and association.  Why do you think to this day a large percentage of Fox News viewers still think Saddam was behind 9/11?

&quot;Are you now going to tell me Cheney was the man you placed all your faith in and got burned ?&quot;

I never said I placed my faith in Cheney.  I just reported what he said and continues to say.  Hate him or dislike him, no one can deny he&#039;s an important mouthpiece of the Bush administration.

As for 9/11, I don&#039;t expect to change your mind.  There are many unanswered questions about that day that the Bush administration has made sure will never be officially answered.  But since you&#039;re so smart perhaps you can answer a question for me first...

Why were none of the hijacker&#039;s names on the official passenger lists?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember Kilo, I said someone with an open mind.  Obviously I wasn&#8217;t describing you.  </p>
<p>Not sure what you mean when you say this:<br />
&#8220;They donâ€™t get a free pass. That doesnâ€™t change the fact though that you are to blame.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now I&#8217;m to blame because they linked Iraq to 9/11?  Do you ever think before you type stuff?  Or for that matter &#8211; edit?  You clearly have trouble expressing yourself &#8211; your proof is disjointed and your arguments are fuzzy.  My point is that they purposely avoided directly linking Saddam to Iraq.  They did it by implication and association.  Why do you think to this day a large percentage of Fox News viewers still think Saddam was behind 9/11?</p>
<p>&#8220;Are you now going to tell me Cheney was the man you placed all your faith in and got burned ?&#8221;</p>
<p>I never said I placed my faith in Cheney.  I just reported what he said and continues to say.  Hate him or dislike him, no one can deny he&#8217;s an important mouthpiece of the Bush administration.</p>
<p>As for 9/11, I don&#8217;t expect to change your mind.  There are many unanswered questions about that day that the Bush administration has made sure will never be officially answered.  But since you&#8217;re so smart perhaps you can answer a question for me first&#8230;</p>
<p>Why were none of the hijacker&#8217;s names on the official passenger lists?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3799757', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Kilo</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/washpost-richard-perle/comment-page-2/#comment-3799718</link>
		<dc:creator>Kilo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 15:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Kilo to say the Bush administration never tied Iraq to 9/11 is ludicrous or as you say â€˜made that claimâ€™.&lt;/strong&gt; 

You&#039;ve said something else is ludicrous in the same post you&#039;ve told us 9/11 was an inside job.

&lt;strong&gt;They might not have always said outright that there was a link, but they associated and implied it continually. So because they manipulated the public with their well-planned wordplay strategy, they get a free pass?&lt;/strong&gt;

They don&#039;t get a free pass. That doesn&#039;t change the fact though that you are to blame.

These were the same Republicans who will tell you without blinking that you are better off without medicare or that Alaskan reserves are better off with 700 oil wells drilled in them.
But when they not once told you Iraq was behind 9/11


The Iraq invasion was 18 months after 9/11. That&#039;s 18 months of being told that OBL was behind 9/11, having that case unfolded over that time. 18 months of being given guarantees that Saddam had more WMDs than cold war Russia, but not once being told he was behind 9/11 even when the invasion was a lock.

What did you think the reason for that was ?
That they were scared of being sued for slander by Saddam on that one claim ?

&lt;strong&gt;Having said that, Cheney ( I believe to this day) says there was a link between Iraq and 9/11. He doesnâ€™t mince words. http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/093003C.shtml
&lt;/strong&gt;

He also doesn&#039;t mince reality with anything.
Are you now going to tell me Cheney was the man you placed all your faith in and got burned ?
Get the fk outta here.

&lt;strong&gt;Having said all that, it doesnâ€™t take a genius to figure out that the neocons orchestrated 9/11. It just takes an open mind and an ability to think of yourself.
Comment by Dirk Neptune â€” May 12, 2007 @ 9:45 am&lt;/strong&gt;

No, it takes a complete lack of ability to think for yourself.
Look where you are. You&#039;re here in a thread talking about 1 of the 100% of necons who gained control of the WH, the pinnacle of power, who needed to completely and thoroughly discredit themselves in order to invade Iraq. That level of personal self immolation was required for them to turn their own plan into something that met their objectives. That&#039;s the conspiracy theory.

Well if they orchestrated 9/11, the most obvious question would be why Saudis ?

Apart from the fact that they chose a country that was tied to the President, protected by the WH from scrutiny, and even though they provided OBL, the funding and the religious fundamentalism, received no punishment you&#039;ve then got the problem of the hijackers.
  
If you are going to orchestrate 19 Sunnis crash planes into the WTC in order to provide a pretext for invading Iraq, which at least 2 necons do immediately after, you choose Saudi Sunnis instead of Iraqi Sunni Baathists why ? 

You say it doesn&#039;t take a genius to explain this so let&#039;s start with you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Kilo to say the Bush administration never tied Iraq to 9/11 is ludicrous or as you say â€˜made that claimâ€™.</strong> </p>
<p>You&#8217;ve said something else is ludicrous in the same post you&#8217;ve told us 9/11 was an inside job.</p>
<p><strong>They might not have always said outright that there was a link, but they associated and implied it continually. So because they manipulated the public with their well-planned wordplay strategy, they get a free pass?</strong></p>
<p>They don&#8217;t get a free pass. That doesn&#8217;t change the fact though that you are to blame.</p>
<p>These were the same Republicans who will tell you without blinking that you are better off without medicare or that Alaskan reserves are better off with 700 oil wells drilled in them.<br />
But when they not once told you Iraq was behind 9/11</p>
<p>The Iraq invasion was 18 months after 9/11. That&#8217;s 18 months of being told that OBL was behind 9/11, having that case unfolded over that time. 18 months of being given guarantees that Saddam had more WMDs than cold war Russia, but not once being told he was behind 9/11 even when the invasion was a lock.</p>
<p>What did you think the reason for that was ?<br />
That they were scared of being sued for slander by Saddam on that one claim ?</p>
<p><strong>Having said that, Cheney ( I believe to this day) says there was a link between Iraq and 9/11. He doesnâ€™t mince words. <a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/093003C.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/093003C.shtml</a><br />
</strong></p>
<p>He also doesn&#8217;t mince reality with anything.<br />
Are you now going to tell me Cheney was the man you placed all your faith in and got burned ?<br />
Get the fk outta here.</p>
<p><strong>Having said all that, it doesnâ€™t take a genius to figure out that the neocons orchestrated 9/11. It just takes an open mind and an ability to think of yourself.<br />
Comment by Dirk Neptune â€” May 12, 2007 @ 9:45 am</strong></p>
<p>No, it takes a complete lack of ability to think for yourself.<br />
Look where you are. You&#8217;re here in a thread talking about 1 of the 100% of necons who gained control of the WH, the pinnacle of power, who needed to completely and thoroughly discredit themselves in order to invade Iraq. That level of personal self immolation was required for them to turn their own plan into something that met their objectives. That&#8217;s the conspiracy theory.</p>
<p>Well if they orchestrated 9/11, the most obvious question would be why Saudis ?</p>
<p>Apart from the fact that they chose a country that was tied to the President, protected by the WH from scrutiny, and even though they provided OBL, the funding and the religious fundamentalism, received no punishment you&#8217;ve then got the problem of the hijackers.</p>
<p>If you are going to orchestrate 19 Sunnis crash planes into the WTC in order to provide a pretext for invading Iraq, which at least 2 necons do immediately after, you choose Saudi Sunnis instead of Iraqi Sunni Baathists why ? </p>
<p>You say it doesn&#8217;t take a genius to explain this so let&#8217;s start with you.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3799718', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ForTruth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 14:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>He&#039;s a mafia don. Look at him.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He&#8217;s a mafia don. Look at him.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3799647', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Dirk Neptune</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dirk Neptune</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 13:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kilo to say the Bush administration never tied Iraq to 9/11 is ludicrous or as you say &#039;made that claim&#039;.  They might not have always said outright that there was a link, but they associated and implied it continually.  So because they manipulated the public with their well-planned wordplay strategy, they get a free pass?

Having said that, Cheney ( I believe to this day) says there was a link between Iraq and 9/11.  He doesn&#039;t mince words.   http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/093003C.shtml

Having said all that, it doesn&#039;t take a genius to figure out that the neocons orchestrated 9/11.  It just takes an open mind and an ability to think of yourself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kilo to say the Bush administration never tied Iraq to 9/11 is ludicrous or as you say &#8216;made that claim&#8217;.  They might not have always said outright that there was a link, but they associated and implied it continually.  So because they manipulated the public with their well-planned wordplay strategy, they get a free pass?</p>
<p>Having said that, Cheney ( I believe to this day) says there was a link between Iraq and 9/11.  He doesn&#8217;t mince words.   <a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/093003C.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/093003C.shtml</a></p>
<p>Having said all that, it doesn&#8217;t take a genius to figure out that the neocons orchestrated 9/11.  It just takes an open mind and an ability to think of yourself.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3799610', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<dc:creator>Tobey Tall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 13:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>wonder if the troops can handle 2.5 minutes waterboarding like the CIA did to the Pakistani</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>wonder if the troops can handle 2.5 minutes waterboarding like the CIA did to the Pakistani<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3799600', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<dc:creator>Tobey Tall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 13:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;b&gt;three more reported missing near the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. 


These troops should be waterboarded they could save poor Iraqi lives&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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