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During the President’s speech yesterday, he made this startling boast. I learned a lot of lessons on 9/11, and one lesson is this: In order to protect this country, we will keep steady pressure, unrelenting pressure on al Qaeda and its associates. We will deny them safe haven; we will find them and we will bring them to justice. Steady, … Read More

Being the five-year anniversary of 9/11, we’re going to be hearing and seeing a lot of restropectives. But here’s a little factoid which you may not hear: as of today, the number of deaths of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan has surpassed the number killed on 9/11/01.  CNN reported this earlier in the week: As the fifth anniversary of … Read More

From Think Progress: On September 10 and 11, ABC will air a “docudrama” called “The Path to 9/11.” It was written by Cyrus Nowrasteh, who describes himself as “more of a libertarian than a strict conservative,” and is giving interviews to hard-right sites like FrontPageMag to promote the film. What will it say about President Clinton? Here’s Rush Limbaugh with … Read More

News of the weird: OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) – A West Virginia man claiming to be Osama Bin Laden led Ocean City Police on a high speed chase that ended in a crash. He then threatened officers with a blender.

This is the kind of thing that drives me batshit crazy: TOLEDO, Ohio — Presidential adviser Karl Rove criticized a federal judge’s order for an immediate end to the government’s warrantless surveillance program, saying Wednesday such a program might have prevented the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Rove said the government should be free to listen if al-Qaida is calling someone … Read More

Sorry, it’s not a "comic book" — it’s a "graphic adaptation". Bits of it are being excerpted on Slate, but I can tell you now that if it didn’t cover such a monsterous event in history, it would be unintentionally funny.  Take, for example, this panel showing Bush on 9/11 going to speak to grade school kids in Florida: As … Read More

Not that I’m brilliant, but this seems painfully obvious — the "war on terror" will not be solved primarily through military solutions, as the warhawks in the White House seem to think.  No, sir.  John Kerry was right.  Glenn Greenwald reflects: In his new column today, George Will makes a critical (if not obvious) point about all of that: namely, … Read More

World O’Crap introduces us to Mark Noonan, who writes: President Bush is, indeed, a rebel – and his cause is peace. His critics don’t understand it, but President Bush figured out that the only sure path to peace in the world is to make the largest number of free people possible. The elite believes that peace is made by negotiations … Read More

Waltisfrozen: Overheard this morning during the few seconds between when my wife’s alarm went off and when she hit the snooze button : "Mr Secretary, do you think this may be related to al Qaeda." Well, shit. There’s no falling back asleep after hearing that. Tell me about it. When I hear stories about us (or the U.K., or Canada) … Read More

Believe it or not, 30% of Americans don’t know. WASHINGTON (AFP) – Some 30 percent of Americans cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington took place, according to a poll published in the Washington Post newspaper. While the country is preparing to commemorate the fifth … Read More

Unbelieveable: The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners, according to U.S. officials and a copy of the amendments. Officials say the amendments would alter a U.S. law passed in the mid-1990s that criminalized violations … Read More