Richard Clark tried NUMEROUS times to warn them! It's common knowledge, and we've know that for years -- especially considering it was clearly laid out in his book, and was one of the main points Clark was asked about when he was interviewed about his book!

Now 9/11 was Richard Clark's fault! It just keeps getting more and more absurd.

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Quick! there is an imminent terrorist attack and your task is to prevent it at all cost. What do you do?

- waterboard everyone in sight for the next 24 hours
- read your memos.

Shirley the people down at the waterboarding house have more interesting things to say than what some office type guy who can't get laid runs out of his spellchecker? Well? I thought so.

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is anyone giving this guy airtime???? He's a pathological LIAR. At the very least he should be under house arrest in Wyoming until his future trial for treason and international crimes.

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Blaming anybody about leaving the nation vulnerable is a bit disingenuous.
This isn't about the nation not being ready for an attack.
It is about our own leadership planning, executing, and covering up 9/11.
I think John Stewart knows that. He just can't say it. Or won't.
And Alternet does the same.

Why can't they just admit it? The evidence is clear and blaring in our faces: 9/11 was an inside job.
The contradictions, the improbabilities, the impossibilities all tell us that the official story is ridiculous. And we have PROOF. And yet John won't mention it. And neither will Alternet.
And so what Cheney brought us continues: illegal wars and occupations, rendition, imprisonment of the innocent, and the Patriot Act.
If you don't like these things, then look into the cause of all of them: 9/11. And then study just how 9/11 came about.

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"All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

"The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed"

Joseph Goebbels

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Shirley or surely or is your spellchecker on the fritz?

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Dick Cheney is a good representative, a good specimen if you will, of a kind of personality that is both disturbingly common in our society but that also is generally not recognized as being quintessentially delusional and fundamentally irrational in their core cognitions. Jon Stewart gets it, but most of the media, and most of the public, do not.  The core question for us with respect to him should be "What is his relation to reality?"  We  see a very serious example of it here!  And  how huge an impact his delusional qualit5y of thought has had on our foreign policy! and on the lives and deaths of millions! 

What is more disturbing?  To have an insane person who wants to lead our country?  Or to have so many of our country men following a leader who is demonstrably irrational and, in a very fundamental (yet still "socially acceptable" way) insane? 

This example of Cheney solidly illustrates the level our media are functioning at, and that the Republican Party is functioning at. 

It is in our national interest to come to grips quite seriouisly with this issue.  Most of our country, most of our fellow citizens, most of the media, do not recognize the difference between someone whose thinking is based on reality versus someone whose thinking is based upon purely narcissistic (selfl-serving) delusion.  We need to collectively address this as a major issue in our national polity, and not just as a partisan issue between Democrats and Republicans.  Many Democrats are just as guilty as the media, and almost as guilty as many Republicans,  in not picking up on this core issue and core challenge of our time!

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"[P]unch a whole through the wall?" A whole what? Oh, that's not what you meant? Every day, it seems that I find a similar error in an AlterNet article, or even a headline.

I get $30 for copy-editing, if you're interested...

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All the bush apologists and all those who call unbelievers of the 911 commission report nuts and worse are WRONG, and 911 really was an inside job? Who would be the most likely candidate as the brains behind the crime of the century, bush? Don't make me laugh. Come on, you can do better than that. Who?

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who laughed at Bush's disgusting Where-Are-Those-WMD "comedy" routine a few years ago?

(You've got to admit, they're consistent - consistently despicable.)

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That's Cheney when asked about the many confirmed warnings that were thrown out by Mr. Clarke to him and others prior to the 911 debacle.

was he trying to be clever or funny? were there laughter in the Reichwing audience from that stupid remark?

It seems Rethugs behave serious and no-nonsense only when blowjobs are concerned. The nation be damned!

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Cheney needed the 9/11 attack to use it as an excuse to start a war that was planned long before, to make his friends in Halliburton, oil and other military-industrial companies richer, and to get rid of an important enemy of Israel, another reason for the war.

He and a few other knew what was going to happen, and let it happen, if they did not do it themselves in a well planned and almost perfectly executed under cover false flag operation.

How come the only 3 skyscrapers that have collapsed under fire in over 100 years of engineering and construction history decided to do it the same day, 9/11, and in the same place, NY?

How come a two engine jet plane makes a single whole in the Pentagon? Obviously an engine made the hole first and the other engine then followed. And the video that evidences this wonder of physics, kept secret by the CIA, has not been claimed by American scientists, who could learn of a lot of this new physics phenomenon.

And how come most Americans have accepted all this?

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"Punch a 'whole' in the wall"?

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The party of personal and govermental responsibility is, as usual, blaming someone else for the screwed up mess and killing spree for which it is so totally responsible, guilty of.

Death, hate and hypocrisy are all abound in the Rethug party.

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Cheney that was running the NORAD drills at the time when the planes/missles were allowed to slam into the Twin Towers, Pentagon on 9/11. Does no one remember that? Why was Dick running the drills that day? Why when he was ask during the drills, if the orders still stand did he confirm that they did. They did nothing to stop it. Nice windfall for the guy with the lease and insurance policy on only one tower but got paid 7 Billion dollars for both buildings. That has got to be the largest insurance fraud scam ever pulled off. So 1 guy is sitting on all that money and rakeing in the interest. Haven't bother to rebuild anything yet have they? Looks like "The Military Industrial Congressional Complex" has finally taken over America and we just handed it to them.

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Cheney reportedly has a man-sized safe and you're only 5'7".

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Bush creates Office of National Preparedness within FEMA, assigns Cheney to run it.

May 8, 2001: Cheney to Oversee National Effort for Responding to Domestic Attacks, But No Action Is Taken Before 9/11

President Bush entrusts Vice President Cheney to “oversee the development of a coordinated national effort,” to address the threat posed to the United States by chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. Bush states that he has also asked Joe Allbaugh, the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to create an Office of National Preparedness. This office is supposed to implement “the results of those parts of the national effort overseen by Vice President Cheney that deal with consequence management,” and it “will work closely with state and local governments to ensure their planning, training, and equipment needs are addressed.” Bush says he “will periodically chair a meeting of the National Security Council to review these efforts.” Cheney informs CNN, “[O]ne of our biggest threats as a nation” could be “domestic terrorism, but it may also be a terrorist organization overseas or even another state using weapons of mass destruction against the US.… [W]e need to look at this whole area, oftentimes referred to as homeland defense.” He makes no mention of either bin Laden or al-Qaeda. [CNN, 5/8/2001; White House, 5/8/2001; New York Times, 7/8/2002] Cheney is meant to head a group that will draft a national terrorism response plan by October 1. [Chicago Sun-Times, 5/5/2001; Insight on the News, 6/18/2001] But, as Barton Gellman later comments in the Washington Post, “Neither Cheney’s review nor Bush’s took place.” [Washington Post, 1/20/2002] Former Senator Gary Hart (D) later implies that the president assigned this specific role to Cheney in order to prevent Congress from enacting counterterrorism legislation proposed by a bipartisan commission he had co-chaired in January (see January 31, 2001). [Salon, 4/2/2004; Salon, 4/6/2004] In July, two senators will send draft counterterrorism legislation to Cheney’s office, but a day before 9/11, they are told it might be another six months before he gets to it (see September 10, 2001). [Newsweek, 5/27/2002] Cheney’s “National Preparedness Review” is just beginning to hire staff a few days before 9/11 (see September 10, 2001). [Congressional Quarterly, 4/15/2004]

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Mr. Cheney needs to testify under oath about the military and civilian exercises he was supervising on 9/11/01.

If you analyze the government's story closely, you will find that not one element of their conspiracy theory is credibly supported by the facts.

We need a new investigation into the events of 9/11/01.

Physics, facts and logic prove that the government's conspiracy theory of 9/11 cannot be true.

The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward.

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Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta on 23 May 2003 appeared in the public hearings of the Congressional 9/11 Commission. He was questioned regarding the events in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) underneath the East Wing of the White House. He recited hearing the following:

There was a young man who had come in and said to the vice president, “The plane is 50 miles out. The plane is 30 miles out.” And when it got down to, “The plane is 10 miles out, “the young man also said to the vice president, “Do the orders still stand?” And the vice president turned and whipped his neck around and said, “Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?

Watch it on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlM8Sui6-X0

Why did the 9/11 Commission leave out Norman Mineta's testimony and change the time line so that they claim that Mr. Cheney didn't enter the PEOC until almost 10am, when multiple witnesses place him there well before the Pentagon was "attacked"?

Mr. Cheney needs to testify about his actions/inactions on 9/11/01.

If you analyze the government's story closely, you will find that not one element of their conspiracy theory is credibly supported by the facts.

We need a new investigation into the events of 9/11/01.

Physics, facts and logic prove that the government's conspiracy theory of 9/11 cannot be true.

The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward.

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White House staff begins taking Cipro on 9/11/01

Evening, September 11, 2001: White House Staff, Including Cheney’s, Start Taking Anthrax Antibiotic Cipro

On the evening after the 9/11 attacks, some White House personnel, including Vice President Dick Cheney’s staff, are given the anti-anthrax drug Cipro, and told to take it regularly. [Associated Press, 10/24/2001] An unnamed “high government official” also advises some reporters to take Cipro shortly after 9/11 (see Shortly After September 11, 2001). Judicial Watch will later sue the Bush administration to release documents showing who knew what and when, and why presidential staff were protected while senators, congresspeople, and others were not. [Associated Press, 6/9/2002]

Shortly After September 11, 2001: High Government Official Advises Some Reporters to Take Anthrax Antibiotic Cipro

Washington Post journalist Richard Cohen will later write: “The [2001 anthrax] attacks were not entirely unexpected. I had been told soon after Sept. 11 to secure Cipro, the antidote to anthrax. The tip had come in a roundabout way from a high government official, and I immediately acted on it. I was carrying Cipro way before most people had ever heard of it.” [Slate, 3/18/2008] He will explain on a different occasion, “On a tip, I asked my doctor early on to prescribe Cipro for me, only to find out that, insider though I thought I was, nearly everyone had been asking him for the same thing.” [Washington Post, 7/22/2004] A number of White House officials begin taking Cipro the evening of September 11, 2001 (see Evening, September 11, 2001). Also, on September 26, well before any reports of real anthrax attacks, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd will write, “Americans are now confronted with the specter of terrorists in crop dusters and hazardous-waste trucks spreading really terrifying, deadly toxins like plague, smallpox, blister agents, nerve gas and botulism. Women I know in New York and Washington… share information on which pharmacies still have Cipro, Zithromax and Doxycycline, all antibiotics that can be used for anthrax, the way they once traded tips on designer shoe bargains.” [New York Times, 9/26/2001]

http://www.historycommons.org

If you analyze the government's story closely, you will find that not one element of their conspiracy theory is credibly supported by the facts.

We need a new investigation into the events of 9/11/01.

Physics, facts and logic prove that the government's conspiracy theory of 9/11 cannot be true.

The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward.

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