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What Won't Rudy Do?

posted by Katrina vanden Heuvel on 05/22/2006 @ 2:47pm

Much ado was made of McCain's Light on the Road to Damascus moment regarding Jerry Falwell, formerly known as an agent of intolerance, last week. But the story of unlikely bedfellows that fell through the cracks was Rudy Giuliani's snuggle with Ralph Reed, the ex-leader of the Christian Coalition and current candidate for lieutenant governor of Georgia.

Leaving aside that Giuliani is a pro-gay rights, pro-choice, pro-gun control, Italian-Catholic Yankee and Ralph Reed is not, the question remains: what was a tough-on-crime fighter doing promoting the candidacy of a man who was in business with Jack Abramoff? It was the indicted lobbyist, after all, who allegedly paid Reed $4.2 million in illegal contributions to "mobilize Christian voters against casinos that would compete with Abramoff's clients."

In his past life, Prosecutor Rudy would have paraded someone like Reed in handcuffs before a scrum of media cameras. In his current incarnation, Politician Rudy praised him "as a really effective leader" during a fundraiser for Reed's embattled campaign.

Perhaps Giuliani was referring to Reed's peerless effectiveness in duping evangelicals into voting for Republicans who do not share their values. If that was the case, Giuliani will need all the help from Reed he can get.

Comments (34)

  1. As with McCain, the "Rudy" Factor seems to be rising, as Republican fortunes are falling in the November 06 midterms.

    If it turns out to be as bad as many think, the prospect of the Republicans turning to their two "Hero Politicians" (McCain and Guiliani) becomes more likely...and hence more necessary for them to be "taken out" (a la Ms vanden Heuval's article) as soon as possible.

    Both score high across the political spectrum, and a McCain/Guiliani ticket....IF it would be swallowed by the Religious Right faction, would wipe clear the Bush taint from the GOP and score Congress for Republicans for another 4-6 years.

    Posted by Mask at 05/22/2006 @ 2:53pm

  2. Until, of course, it becomes as plain to everyone else as it is to all too many people who lived through the Giuliani years that the man is yet another dose of megolomania and corruption from the so-called Republican party. And knowing Rudy, it won't take long.

    Posted by Sweetdaddy at 05/22/2006 @ 3:35pm

  3. Mask,

    I don't think it will be McCain/Gulli, but it will be McCain/ Allen maybe...someone to placate the conservatives....actually, what the Republicans party needs to save itself is to have Gore run...but Hillary should finish off Gore in the fight to the primaries...maybe they will joust in 06 to see whose campaign trail appearances supports and who hurts the candidates in the mid term..

    Sweet may be right about Gulli in NY, but in the rest of the country he is still seen as a hero. What NY leftys think does not matter West of the Hudson and East of the Bay in SF.

    Posted by john maasch at 05/22/2006 @ 3:54pm

  4. Because he is a 9/11 co-conspirator?

    "After the Pentagon attack, the video cameras and tapes at a nearby CITGO, the Sheraton Hotel along I-395 and Virginia DOT cameras were all confiscated by the FBI and they have yet to disclose any of the contents that were recorded by those cameras. Those cameras would have recorded what came in to hit the Pentagon and if viewed by the public, all the world would know that it was not a Boeing 757, American Airlines Flight 77, as we were told. All the world would know that Bush's assertion is in fact a huge lie. They cannot disclose those tapes without indicting themselves that it was the U.S. government and select "private sector outsourcing" that did the alleged terrorist attacks of 9-11. In short, our government would have to admit that it is al Qaeda and that this GWOT (Global War on Terror) is fabrication made up to provide excuses for a despicable U.S. energy and war policy."

    There is the "mystery part" and no, it is not part of a 757 jet engine and never has been. Oops!

    They are all jet engine components (past and present) on the A-3 Skywarrior twin-turbojet airplane and on older versions of the 737. The USAF only has a few of the A-3s left in operation and what was formerly Hughes Aircraft, now Raytheon, has a fleet of them at Van Nuys, Calif. This type of turbojet engine has never been used on a Boeing 757, so the debate on "type of plane" can end there. This is a jet engine component with fan, not an auxiliary power unit (APU) as some have speculated or dropped into the conversation as disinformation.

    What has been interesting is the level of "content blocking" that there is on the Internet where specific information regarding certain "jet engine components" such as those shown at the Pentagon have definitely been blocked. Our team had to take steps to go around the content blocks to get at the photos you are seeing regarding these rotor hub components.

    The above photo is a launch of an AIM-54 Phoenix Missile, air-to-air missile. Making this launch an air-to-surface missile would not be a great feat and Hughes/Raytheon manufactures several such missiles that would blow a 16-foot diameter hole in the Pentagon with ease.

    http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/02/309894.shtml

    Posted by plunger at 05/22/2006 @ 7:03pm

  5. Missing Trillions Rumsfeld Buries Admission of Missing 2+ Trillion Dollars in 9/10/01 Press Conference

    On September 10, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference to disclose that over $2,000,000,000,000 in Pentagon funds could not be accounted for. Rumsfeld stated: "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions."

    Such a disclosure normally would have sparked a huge scandal. However, the commencement of the attack on New York City and Washington in the morning would assure that the story remained buried. To the trillions already missing from the coffers, an obedient Congress terrorized by anthrax attacks would add billions more in appropriations to fight the "War on Terror."

    The Comptroller of the Pentagon at the time of the attack was Dov Zakheim, who was appointed in May of 2001. Before becoming the Pentagon's money-manager, he was an executive at System Planning Corporation, a defense contractor specializing in electronic warfare technologies including remote-controlled aircraft systems. Zakheim is a member of the Project for a New American Century and participated in the creation of its 2000 position paper Rebuilding America's Defenses which called for "a New Pearl Harbor."

    http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/trillions.html...

    Dov Zakheim stole $2 TRILLION from you.

    His company (Sysplan) made the technology (Flight Termination System) that was utilized on 9/11 to guide planes to their targets.

    Flight 77 was shadowed (within just a few feet) on 9/11 enroute to the Pentagon by a Raytheon A-3 Skywarrior powered by a Thiokol motor and equipped with bombs.

    When you see the new video of the Pentagon attack - the white smoke is from the Thiokol motor of the A-3. NO 757 hit the Pentagon. Period.

    AA flight 77 crashed short of the Pentagon in Virginia and was quietly cleaned up. The A-3 continued the mission and THAT is what you see slamming into the Pentagon.

    Nearly EVERYONE in the Pentagon and the White House and the Congress know this to be true.

    They all know that 9/11 was an inside job.

    All of them.

    So does the media.

    THIS EXPLAINS IT.

    The type of aircraft and engines used to attack the Pentagon.

    This shows the Raytheon connection to 9/11.

    THE ANSWER:

    http://www.rense.com/general70/safe.htm...

    It was this collaborative approach that led Jon and I to conclude that no 757 hit the Pentagon so we looked for alternatives. The only plane that made sense was either a 737 or an A3 Skywarrior, both of which can use the same types of jet engines up to a point.

    The wing span of most 737 jets fall into the range of between 93.0 ft and 112.6 ft which is still 19 feet to 38 feet of wing that cannot be accounted for in impacting the face of the Pentagon before it mysteriously disappeared. When the absence of surface impacts and the size of a 737 including height of the tail are weighed, it is probable that a smaller plane was used to affect the attack on the Pentagon.

    I defy anyone to find an A3 Skywarrior in the hands of any Arab terrorist on 9-11 or any other day. There are only three sources of those jets: 1.) a few (3 to 6) remaining in USAF inventory; or 2.) Davis Monthan AFB where many jets are stored due to lack of humidity; or 3.) the fleet of 12-15 once owned by Hughes and now controlled by Raytheon after that corporation acquired Hughes.

    Jon Carlson and I are convinced that the plane used to attack the Pentagon is an old USAF / Navy plane designated as the A3 Skywarrior.

    The wingspan of an A3 is 74 feet and in the Navy version the wings were designed to fold up for storage on an aircraft carrier (visible on the drawing above). At a distance, painted like an American Airlines plane, this plane would easily be mistaken for a 737, 757, 767 type of aircraft because the two engines hang under the wing but are of far smaller dimensions than the 9 foot diameter jets on a 757 that not only hang under the wing but also hang lower than the bottom of the fuselage.

    That is an important point because there were no marks on the Pentagon lawn of those two jet engines dragging the ground and they would have based on how low the Pentagon was hit. Said another way, forget about the fuselage dragging on the ground. The engines of a 757 would have been plowing the Pentagon lawn but that did not happen.

    The wingspan of a 757 is 124 feet 10 inches. The width of the overall opening, even what is visible as possible wing marks slamming into the face of the building is closer to 74 feet than it is 124 feet 10 inches. In short, there is 50 feet missing to substantiate the Official Lie put out by Washington, DC as to what hit the Pentagon. Said another way, there is 25 feet on each side of the centerline of the strike point (that 14-16 foot hole left in the side of the Pentagon) that left no evidence of a wider wing span 757 hitting the building.

    They also cannot (or more appropriately will not) explain what happened to the two 9 foot diameter engines that mysteriously disappeared. Some official government sources claim that the fire was so hot it melted the engines to nothing, yet they claim they found DNA of the passengers. That math does not compute, or the science either.

    I remember the first conversation I had with Karen Kwiatkowski, a retired Lieutenant Colonel who was in the Pentagon that day. She is the lady that went public about the Office of Special Plans where they were falsifying the intelligence regarding Iraq. She vividly remembers being downstairs and around the corner in about 10 minutes to help get people out and the FBI agents were at the CITGO station confiscating the video tapes of what hit the Pentagon.

    Other eyewitnesses have stated that they smelled explosives such as cordite, not burning jet fuel. Those were military witnesses that know that exploded ordnance smells like.

    What little video evidence there is does show a white trail of smoke before the Pentagon explosion. Jet fuel burns dark at sea level and jets do not leave white contrails at sea level. What does leave a white trail of smoke at all elevations is the solid fuel of a rocket, Thiokol in most rockets being the type of solid fuel.

    According to the US Government's own website which is specifically designed to debunk conspiracy theories:

    http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2005/Jun/28-581634.html...

    With regard to the World Trade Center attacks, Mr. Meyssan ignores or dismisses the facts that:

    "THE GOVERNMENT DECLARES):

    "Boeing commercial aircraft can not be remotely controlled"

    This assertion is false.

    Dov Zakheim was the Pentagon's comptroller and CFO during 9/11. Over $3 trillion is unaccounted for during his tenure. He was (is?) Corporate VP at System Planning Corporation, a major player in the "Homeland Security" industry. One of the products that SysPlan sells is the Command Transmitter System, a remote control system for planes, boats, missiles and other vehicles2 . It's highly customable and configurable to interface with an almost limitless number of vehicle types.

    The CTS is a tunable UHF FM transmitter designed for ground use in controlling guided missiles, pilotless aircraft and pilotless boats.

    Many takeoff and lending tests were performed using this system on a commercial size Boeing aircraft under the supervision of Raytheon in the days prior to 9/11.

    If the pilot is not in direct control and another mechanism is controlling (not just receiving passive signals or sensing) the craft, especially from GPS, it is effectively 'remotely' controlled. The link between ground crews, GPS and aircraft have been established. It's not a cruise control and it's not a radio controlled toy car. We're talking FULL avionics AND navigation from take-off to touch down controlled and guided by a known and documented satellite link. "A fully integrated flight management computer system (FMCS) provides for automatic guidance and control of the 757-200 from immediately after takeoff to final approach and landing. Linking together digital processors controlling navigation, guidance and engine thrust, the flight management system assures that the aircraft flies the most efficient route and flight profile for reduced fuel consumption, flight time and crew workload. The precision of global positioning satellite (GPS) system navigation, automated air traffic control functions, and advanced guidance and communications features are now available as part of the new Future Air Navigation System (FANS) flight management computer." This technology could effectively PREVENT the hijack of aircraft. Any deviation from the course would trigger the system and someone would know about it. We're working to verify if American Airlines does have this technology installed in any of its fleet. Suppose they do have this technology installed... Why not key in a coordinate or code to have a hijacked aircraft automatically land at a predesignated, properly prepared airfield prepped for such eventualities. I can only assume that our "planners" do indeed think in terms of hostile contingencies and have this scenario worked out. This all begs the questions: why wasn't this critical technology used, or was it abused?

    http://www.humanunderground.com/11september/pent-feasible.html

    http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/raytheon-connection-to-9-11...

    Americans (too many) do not know that Raytheon executives were killed on 9-11, or at least wound up permanently missing, which may be a more accurate way of saying it. It is who wound up missing that is most interesting.

    This is an excerpt of the email we received and is information that we knew as of the issuance of the flight manifests for all four of the planes allegedly involved in 9-11:

    Subject: Raytheon and 9/11

    OK, I'm not gonna say anything here, except to let you read the evidence and then you can tell me what you think. (These are people who supposedly died on 9/11.) Mike

    Raytheon and 9/11

    2001-09-11 Stanley Hall Raytheon Director of Electronic warfare program management. Raytheon did the retrofit of the A-3 that hit the Pentagon, where Bush claimed Flight 77 hit it. Disappeared on American airlines Flight 77, the one that supposedly hit the Pentagon but did not.

    2001-09-11 Peter Gay Raytheon VP of Electronic Systems on special assignment at the El Segundo, CA division office where the Global Hawk UAV remote control system is made. Raytheon did the retrofit of the A-3 that hit the Pentagon, where Bush claimed Flight 77 hit it. Disappeared on American airlines Flight 11, the one that supposedly hit the North World Trade Tower I.

    2001-09-11 Kenneth Waldie Raytheon Senior Quality Control for Electronic Systems. Raytheon did the retrofit of the A-3 that hit the Pentagon, where Bush claimed Flight 77 hit it. Disappeared on American airlines Flight 11, the one that supposedly hit the North World Trade Tower I.

    2001-09-11 David Kovalcin Raytheon Senior Mechanical Engineer for Electronic Systems. Raytheon did the retrofit of the A-3 that hit the Pentagon, where Bush claimed Flight 77 hit it. Disappeared on American airlines Flight 11, the one that supposedly hit the North World Trade Tower I.

    2001-09-11 Herbert Homer Raytheon Corporate Executive working with the Department of Defense. Raytheon did the retrofit of the A-3 that hit the Pentagon, where Bush claimed Flight 77 hit it. Disappeared on United airlines Flight 175, the one that supposedly hit the South World Trade Tower II.

    These are not only the type of people but they are the people that would be assigned to UAV type projects involving Mode 4 and Mode 5 upgrades. Why would they be in Boston and those planes coming from that direction and from north of Manhattan Island?

    That 16 foot tunnel through three rings of the Pentagon is only made by a directional blast weapon. Rumsfeld has even slipped up and mentioned the missile that hit the Pentagon.

    Some have seen the Pentagon parking lot camera video and the white trail of smoke. Jets do now leave white trails of smoke at sea level, but Thiokol powered AGMs do, at all attitudes.

    A Real 9-11 Commission should have certain Hughes and Raytheon parties summoned for questioning.

    Seated behind Mohammad Atta on 9/11 was an Israeli Mossad agent, Daniel Lewin.

    WHAT ARE THE ODDS?

    STOP.

    THINK.

    Posted by plunger at 05/22/2006 @ 7:05pm

  6. Atta was sitting in seat 8D. In front of him were the two brothers, Wael and Walid Al-Shihri. Behind him was his comrade in his final days, 'Abd Al-'Aziz Al-'Omari. To Al-'Omari's left was the Israeli Mossad agent, Daniel Lewin, and right behind him, the man who would kill him, Sattam Al-Suqami.

    In those exact moments, a group of Mossad agents were waiting in Manhattan for the first plane. They had surveillance and filming equipment with them. Meanwhile, F-15 planes were on high alert in Otis air base, 150 miles away, not knowing in which direction to fly.

    It is noteworthy that in those moments, the Mossad agents here, according to eye-witnesses, were dancing and cheering in front of the WTC. The Israelis were arrested in New York. Later, they were moved to Washington, and from there to Israel, and the report was quickly suppressed.

    5 EMPLOYEES OF RAYTHEON WITH EXPERTISE IN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE SYSTEMS DIED ON THREE SEPARATE FLIGHTS ON 9/11

    http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/raytheon-connection-to-9-11...

    WHAT ARE THE ODDS?

    STOP.

    THINK.

    Raytheon is missing at least one if not two A-3 Skywarriors from its inventory.

    Ask them where they went.

    http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1069...

    C-SPAN Interview April 2, 2006 Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski U.S. Air Force, 1983-2003

    KEY QUOTE:

    LAMB: You wrote one of the things that we don't often hear from inside, that Bill Luti referred to the Chief of Central Command, Anthony Zinni, as a traitor.

    KWIATKOSKI: Former Chief of Central Command Anthony Zinni, Tommy Frank's predecessor. Yes, he did, and right in front of the refrigerator that sat two feet from my desk.

    There was a huge contempt, and Bill Luti is not the only one. But, among the neo-conservatives in and out of the Pentagon and, of course, you can read their writings even at the time, a huge sense of collective derision, collective contempt for people that were like Anthony Zinni, people that were saying, "We need to sit down and think about what we're saying. We need to see how this fits in with America's national security interests. We need to be sure that what we're saying about Iraq's capability, Iraq's connection to terrorism, and anybody else's capability in connection to terrorism, we need to be sure that what we say is checked out."

    Why was former CIA Director Porter Goss and Sen. Graham having breakfast with the Pakistani ISI Spychief, the money man who wired Mohammed Atta $100,000 on the morning of 9/11????

    Figure that one out and you find out who really did 9/11, and not the patsies the government marches out for public consumption.

    By: rebelpatriot on May 05, 2006 at 11:46pm

    The largest conspiracy in the world can be brought to its knees by the largest supercomputer ever conceived, powered by unending, relentless human determination to get to the truth.

    That supercomputer is called the Internet, POWERED BY PATRIOTS, and the thousands of dots that make up the BIG LIE are all being connected.

    The truth WILL PREVAIL.

    What part will you play?

    Don't be caught criticizing the cybersluths when the crime is solved.

    Pick a dot, and connect it to another. Then pick another, and connect it to the first two.

    And so on, and so on, and so on.

    The power is in your hands.

    The only thing more outrageous the Conspiracy Theory to explain all that has unfolded since 9/11 is Coincidence Theory.

    What are the odds that all of this is coincidental given the plan that was laid out years earlier?

    Use your heads.

    The ONLY thing that can possibly explain the collapse of building 7 is high explosives. Period. End Of Story.

    That the building collapsed within one hour of Silverstein's voice command to demolish the building is evidence enough.

    Like a loose thread on a cheap suit, pull at the obvious lie, and soon the entire suit starts to unravel, as story after story falls apart.

    IT IS TRUE that Building 7 was brought down with explosives.

    IT IS TRUE that it takes a couple weeks to wire a building for a controlled demo.

    IT IS TRUE that this implies FOREKNOWLEDGE OF AN EVENT to justify the deed.

    If all of this is true, then how could you possibly conclude that the owner of Building 7 would not have wired his other buildings in a similar way?

    Logical, right?

    Keep pulling that thread...

    There is no Zarkawi

    There is no Bin Laden

    What are you, conspiracy theorists?

    Wake up.

    They're gaming you.

    19 hijackers flew suicide missions on 9/11.

    1/3 of them are still alive.

    What does it mean?

    Answer the question.

    Coincidence?

    Explain it.

    If this, then this...

    If this, then this...

    and so on...

    and so on...

    and so on...

    If the Mossad Agents were celebrating on 9/11, then what?

    and so on...

    and so on...

    and so on...

    Let's start out with a recap of some highly disturbing events in this country, as reported by a mainstream newspaper on the United States in August of 2005:

    http://www.timesherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15114089&BRD=1672&P...

    Now can you help me out with a plausible explanation for this:

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7545.htm...

    And this official DEA report:

    http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/deareportisraelispying.html...

    On 9/11:

    The five men -- Sivan and Paul Kurzberg, Oded Ellner, Omer Marmari and Yaron Shmuel -- were arrested eight hours after the attacks by the Bergen County, N.J., police while driving in an Urban Moving Systems van.

    The Forward, a respected Jewish newspaper in New York, reported the FBI concluded that two of the men were Israeli intelligence operatives.

    Vince Cannistraro, a former chief of operations for counterterrorism with the CIA who is now a consultant for ABCNEWS, said federal authorities' interest in the case was heightened when some of the men's names were found in a search of a national intelligence database.

    Israeli Intelligence Connection?

    According to Cannistraro, many people in the U.S. intelligence community believed that some of the men arrested were working for Israeli intelligence. Cannistraro said there was speculation as to whether Urban Moving had been "set up or exploited for the purpose of launching an intelligence operation against radical Islamists in the area, particularly in the New Jersey-New York area."

    According to ABC's 20/20, when the van belonging to the cheering Israelis was stopped by the police, the driver of the van, Sivan Kurzberg, told the officers:

    "We are Israelis. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are your problem."

    The FBI seized and developed their photos, one of which shows Sivan Kurzberg flicking a cigarette lighter in front of the smouldering ruins in an apparently celebratory gesture.

    The Jerusalem Post later reported that a white van with a bomb was stopped as it approached the George Washington Bridge, but the ethnicity of the suspects was not revealed. Here's what the Jerusalem Post reported on September 12, 2001:

    American security services overnight stopped a car bomb on the George Washington Bridge. The van, packed with explosives, was stopped on an approach ramp to the bridge. Authorities suspect the terrorists intended to blow up the main crossing between New Jersey and New York, Army Radio reported.

    TCM Breaking News reported that the van was laden down with tonnes of explosives (13).

    What's really intriguing is that ABC's 20/20, the New York Post, and the New Jersey Bergen Record all clearly and unambiguously reported that a white van with Israelis was intercepted on a ramp near Route 3, which leads directly to the Lincoln Tunnel.

    But the Jerusalem Post, Israeli National News (Arutz Sheva), and Yediot America, all reported, just as clearly and unambiguously, that a white van with Israelis was stopped on a ramp leading to the George Washington Bridge, which is several miles north of the Lincoln Tunnel.

    It appears as if there may actually have been two white vans involved, one stopped on each crossing.

    It was later confirmed that the five detained Israelis were in fact Mossad agents. They were held in custody for 71 days before being quietly released. Some of the movers had been kept in solitary confinement for 40 days.

    Several of the detainees discussed their experience in America on an Israeli talk show after their return home.

    Said one of the men, denying that they were laughing or happy on the morning of Sept. 11, "The fact of the matter is we are coming from a country that experiences terror daily. Our purpose was to document the event."

    How did they know there would be an event to document on 9/11?

    It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots of the dancing Israeli Mossad agents

    "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information."

    The men all underwent at least two polygraph tests each, the lawyer added. He said one of the Israelis took the test seven times, a very unusual total according to several polygraph experts interviewed by the Forward. All failed their tests.

    http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fiveisraelis.html...

    http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/Artstudents.htm...

    http://killtown.blogspot.com/2005/11/dancing-israelis-on-911.html

    Posted by plunger at 05/22/2006 @ 7:06pm

  7. Rumsfeld and Zakheim stole over $2 trillion from the Defense Department Budget in the days prior to 9/11.

    They can buy ANYONE to do ANYTHING.

    Israel has all US phones tapped to enable blackmail in the event bribery doesn't work.

    If both fail, there's always the "Wellstone Option" or the "Anthrax Option."

    GOT FACISM?

    Missing Trillions Rumsfeld Buries Admission of Missing 2+ Trillion Dollars in 9/10/01 Press Conference

    On September 10, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference to disclose that over $2,000,000,000,000 in Pentagon funds could not be accounted for. Rumsfeld stated: "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions."

    Such a disclosure normally would have sparked a huge scandal. However, the commencement of the attack on New York City and Washington in the morning would assure that the story remained buried. To the trillions already missing from the coffers, an obedient Congress terrorized by anthrax attacks would add billions more in appropriations to fight the "War on Terror."

    The Comptroller of the Pentagon at the time of the attack was Dov Zakheim, who was appointed in May of 2001. Before becoming the Pentagon's money-manager, he was an executive at System Planning Corporation, a defense contractor specializing in electronic warfare technologies including remote-controlled aircraft systems. Zakheim is a member of the Project for a New American Century and participated in the creation of its 2000 position paper Rebuilding America's Defenses which called for "a New Pearl Harbor."

    http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/trillions.html...

    why is it that General Tommy Franks is a rich man?

    How did he become rich?

    Why was it that his wife is flown on private jets every week to shopping sprees?

    Where did the money come from?

    What service was performed, and rewarded?

    Why are US taxpayers footing the bill?

    Tommy and Cathy Franks confirmed this week that they have settled on Harbour Island after zeroing in on South Tampa. They were due to close on a home Friday, Cathy Franks said.

    Cathy Franks said security on the island clinched the decision.

    And they are not alone. The Franks family joins a host of Tampa Bay sports and political celebrities.

    The roll call includes Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive back John Lynch, his teammate Kenyatta Walker, their bosses Bryan and Joel Glazer, former Buc Chidi Ahanotu and current Tampa Bay Lightning hockey player Vinny Lecavalier.

    Former Tampa Mayor Dick Greco feeds the ducks at a pond near his home on the island. City Attorney Fred Karl can be seen there, as can the daughter of one of Franks' predecessors, retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf.

    http://www.sptimes.com/2003/08/03/Tampabay/A_homeland_security_h.sh...

    Where did the money come from?

    Was it from the money stolen by Rumsfeld and Zakheim?

    Payments by Israel perhaps?

    What possible motive might Tommy Franks have to rush to Rumsfeld's defense? Can you say Quid Pro Quo?

    http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/05/franks.wife/...

    2/5/2003

    Sources have told CNN that Franks, the man who would lead U.S. forces in the event of a military strike on Iraq, faces several allegations -- including one that he allowed his wife, Cathy, to be present during discussions of highly classified material.

    The sources also said questions have been raised about whether Franks properly repaid the U.S. government for his wife's travel on military aircraft.

    Franks, the head of U.S. Central Command, has been under investigation for weeks by the Pentagon inspector general's office.

    "I am aware of the investigation and am cooperating with it," Franks said in a brief written statement. "It would not be appropriate to comment on the investigation until it is complete."

    U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld -- who would decide what, if any, disciplinary action Franks would face if any wrongdoing is found -- has taken the unusual step of expressing support for the general before the investigation was completed.

    Daschle: Congress Denied Bush War Powers in U.S.

    By Barton Gellman Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 23, 2005; Page A04

    The Bush administration requested, and Congress rejected, war-making authority "in the United States" in negotiations over the joint resolution passed days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to an opinion article by former Senate majority leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) in today's Washington Post.

    Daschle's disclosure challenges a central legal argument offered by the White House in defense of the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens and permanent residents. It suggests that Congress refused explicitly to grant authority that the Bush administration now asserts is implicit in the resolution.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/22/AR200512 2202119.html

    And then…a few weeks later…

    W A S H I N G T O N, Nov. 1 A group of military scientists is feverishly examining the microscopic spores of anthrax sent to Sen. Tom Daschle for clues to a mystery that could have profound implications for the United States and its ongoing war on terror: Who made it?

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92006&page=1

    Israeli Company Provides U.S. Wiretaps

    One company reported to be under investigation is Comverse Infosys, a subsidiary of an Israeli-run private telecommunications firm. Comverse provides almost all the wiretapping equipment and software for U.S. law enforcement.

    Custom computers and software made by Comverse are tied into the U.S. phone network in order to intercept, record and store wiretapped calls, and at the same time transmit them to investigators.

    The penetration of Comverse reportedly allowed criminals to wiretap law enforcement communications in reverse and foil authorized wiretaps with advance warning. One major drug bust operation planned by the Los Angeles police was foiled by what now appear to be reverse wiretaps placed on law enforcement phones by the criminal spy ring.

    http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/18/224826.shtml

    In a promotion for speaker John Fulton, a CIA officer assigned as chief of NRO's strategic gaming division, the announcement says, "On the morning of September 11th 2001, Mr. Fulton and his team … were running a pre-planned simulation to explore the emergency response issues that would be created if a plane were to strike a building. Little did they know that the scenario would come true in a dramatic way that day."

    GOT PROBABLE CAUSE?

    http://w3ar.com/a.php?k=1065

    Wiretaps?

    http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j121701.html

    INVESTIGATE THE ISRAELI CONNECTION

    At the end of his second report, Carl Cameron remarked to Brit Hume that the question of the Israeli connection to 9/11 "came up in the select intelligence committee on Capitol Hill today," and "they intend to look into what we reported last night." Naturally, all this is occurring in secret, with the likelihood of a cover-up all but certain. What is needed is a public investigation, and full disclosure of the Israeli role, if any, in 9/11.

    I was told specifically by someone in a position to know:

    "There is no Bin Laden…I mean there is a guy named Osama Bin Laden - but there is no Osama Bin Laden…he's a 6'6" Algerian for Chris-sakes…I mean get real!"

    If you can just get your head around that, and then look at everything else in that context, it changes EVERYTHING. Al Qaeda is a CIA invention. How it may have been manipulated or used following the prior war in Afghanistan using agents provacateur as enablers and directors is becoming more clear every day.

    Nearly 200 Mossad Agents were mirroring the movements of the purported hijackers on US soil in the months preceeding 9/11. They were arrested and deported. They claimed to have warned "FBI Authorities" of a pending attack in the days prior to 9/11. They said it was a "warning." Was it merely final planning? Did they "warn" a mole who simply buried the information?

    Why don't we have a right to know these answers?

    What are we to make of the 60 page DEA report detailing the movements of these Israeli spies?

    Why are the stories of the Israeli Art Student Spy Ring and the Dancing Israelis all spiked? Why is there a total US Media Blackout on these stories?

    These questions seem to answer themselves.

    IS ISRAEL BLACKMAILING AMERICA? FOX NEWS SPIKES FOUR PART STORY ON PHONE TAPPING SCANDAL

    There is one more aspect to this issue that needs to be looked at. If indeed Israel is blackmailing our officials and media icons, it is because those who are being blackmailed ARE blackmailable. If we elect a government of criminals, we elect a government subject to blackmail. Finally, given the fact that blackmail may be assumed to be as widespread as the collection system itself is, those who persist in trying to defend Israel may no longer be assumed to be operating from the purest of motives. After all, who will defend a blackmailer more staunchly than those who are the blackmailer's victims?

    http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/blackmail.html

    EVERYONE IN WASHINGTON AND THE PENTAGON KNOWS THAT 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB.

    EVEN JOHN CONYERS.

    EVERYONE.

    Posted by plunger at 05/22/2006 @ 7:07pm

  8. MORE AIPAC / ADL PSYOPS

    THIS is how desperate the ZIONISTS are to bomb Iran for the benefit of Israel. They TOTALLY FABRICATED THIS OUTRAGEOUS STORY, and the retraction will not be noticed.

    INVESTIGATE WHO PLANTED THIS OUTRAGEOUS LIE TO COMPEL A NUCLEAR WAR!!!

    Canada's National Post retracts report that Iranian Jews will be forced to wear yellow patches By Yossi Melman

    For a few hours on Friday, many around the world were ready to believe a report in the media that Iran had decided that Jews living there would be forced to wear a yellow strip of material on their clothing to denote their religion.

    Leaders of international Jewish organizations were quick to respond, and likened the decision to the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany.

    The affair was sparked by a report Friday in Canada's National Post daily. According to the report, exiled Iranians had said that Jews in Iran (some 25,000 individuals) would be required to wear a yellow strip of material or yellow star on their clothing.

    Members of other faiths, the report said, would also require color identification - red badges for Christians and blue strips of cloth for Zoroastrians.

    As expected, the report was met with rage among human rights groups, and Jewish organizations in particular.

    Canadian Jewish Congress chairman Bernie Farber saying he was "stunned" by the report on the Iranian law.

    "We thought this had gone the way of the dodo bird, but clearly in Iran everything old and bad is new again," Farber said. "It's state-sponsored religious discrimination."

    Rabbi Marvin Hier, the executive president of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, was also quick to respond, and called on the UN secretary general to exert pressure to get the law abolished.

    Published: Saturday, May 20, 2006

    Several experts are casting doubt on reports that Iran had passed a law requiring the country's Jews and other religious minorities to wear coloured badges identifying them as non-Muslims.

    The Iranian embassy in Otttawa also denied the Iranian government had passed such a law.

    A news story and column by Iranian-born analyst Amir Taheri in yesterday's National Post reported that the Iranian parliament had passed a sweeping new law this week outlining proper dress for Iran's majority Muslims, including an order for Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians to wear special strips of cloth.

    According to the reports, Jews were to wear yellow cloth strips, called zonnar, while Christians were to wear red and Zoroastrians blue. The Simon Wiesenthal Center and Iranian expatriates living in Canada had confirmed the order had been passed, although it still had to be approved by Iran's "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenehi before being put into effect.

    Hormoz Ghahremani, a spokesman for the Iranian embassy in Ottawa, said in an e-mail to the Post yesterday, "We wish to categorically reject the news item.

    "These kinds of slanderous accusations are part of a smear campaign against Iran by vested interests, which needs to be denounced at every step."

    Sam Kermanian, of the U.S.-based Iranian-American Jewish Federation, said in an interview from Los Angeles that he had contacted members of the Jewish community in Iran -- including the lone Jewish member of the Iranian parliament.

    They denied any such measure was in place.

    http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=5c7bf231-1026-4448 -a122-d8c046057913&k=39818

    Posted by plunger at 05/22/2006 @ 7:10pm

  9. The A-3 Skywarrior that hit the Pentagon was owned by Raytheon.

    It was guided by Sysplan's (FTS) technology.

    It intercepted AA 77 and shadowed it so closely so as to appear to be a single aircraft on radar.

    AA 77 crashed in a field in Virginia and was dealt with quietly.

    The A-3 continued the mission, as evidenced by Mr. Mineta when he arrived at Cheney's Command Bunker in time to hear him barking orders to his subordinate about the approaching "plane." "The orders still stand!"

    The silver A-3 was painted with the American Airlines logo - a piece of which is part of the debris that was photographed outside the Pentagon on the lawn.

    The outer half of the wings sheered off on impact, because these wings were designed with hinges to fold up for storage on the deck of an aircraft carrier.

    Pieces of the wings were visible outside the Pentagon, and were quickly hidden from view.

    This was a building full of defense specialist who instantly recognized the aroma of explosives on the scene in the aftermath.

    No cell phone calls were made from any flights on 9/11. That was and remains a physical impossibility.

    The explosion you see in the video is NOT fuel from the aircraft.

    This A-3 was converted into a missile itself.

    The "plane" is a "missle."

    Against all protocol (and the law), the lawn of the Pentagon became a hive of activity as Government employees scurried to taint a crime scene (and the site of what would typically result in an FAA investigation), removing all essential evidence.

    9/11 was an operation of the US Government in concert with Israel and The Crown - with the complicity of those at the highest levels of NORAD, NSA, CIA, FBI and other agencies.

    For a list of the criminals, follow the money, the "Indictments," the "Retirements," the "Promotions," and the Medal Of Freedom Award Winners.

    Hundreds were in on it...thousands know the truth.

    Now you do.

    CNN Correspondent Jamie McIntyre claimed on live TV last week that he photographed some of the debris, including the "cockpit" found outside of the building in the immediate aftermath. He said this in as part of the Government/Media Orchestrated PsyOps event which accompanied the release of the "smoking missile" video - all in a carefully-scripted effort to tell the viewer that they were seeing a 757 on the video that WAS NOT THERE.

    Let's see those crime scene photos on CNN, Jamie. Let's see that A-3 cockpit photo you took.

    Posted by plunger at 05/22/2006 @ 7:11pm

  10. Missing Trillions Rumsfeld Buries Admission of Missing 2+ Trillion Dollars in 9/10/01 Press Conference

    On September 10, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference to disclose that over $2,000,000,000,000 in Pentagon funds could not be accounted for. Rumsfeld stated: "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions."

    Such a disclosure normally would have sparked a huge scandal. However, the commencement of the attack on New York City and Washington in the morning would assure that the story remained buried. To the trillions already missing from the coffers, an obedient Congress terrorized by anthrax attacks would add billions more in appropriations to fight the "War on Terror."

    The Comptroller of the Pentagon at the time of the attack was Dov Zakheim, who was appointed in May of 2001. Before becoming the Pentagon's money-manager, he was an executive at System Planning Corporation, a defense contractor specializing in electronic warfare technologies including remote-controlled aircraft systems. Zakheim is a member of the Project for a New American Century and participated in the creation of its 2000 position paper Rebuilding America's Defenses which called for "a New Pearl Harbor."

    http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/trillions.html

    Posted by plunger at 05/22/2006 @ 7:12pm

  11. "Every conversation monitored under Bush's warrantless domestic surveillance program is a missed opportunity to get someone who is talking with terrorists off the streets and behind bars.

    Why? Because evidence obtained by Bush's warrantless domestic spying program is probably not admissible in court. Convictions obtained with evidence from this program may be overturned."

    STOP RIGHT THERE! THINK.

    Clearly the Bush Administration knew that to be true. So what EVIDENCE do you have that Bush actually wants potential terrorists prosecuted? How many terrorists have been CONVICTED AND SENTENCED since 9/11?

    Do the math folks. Think like a criminal. The clearest explanation is often right under your nose. False flag terrorism is a TACTIC of the Mossad and the CIA. The terrorists are merely doing the bidding of this administration and their surrogates. Any actual TRIAL with TV CAMERAS and EVIDENCE would blow their entire operation.

    If they really want to arrest AND CONVICT terrorists, they would absolutely follow the letter of the law. They CHOSE not to. Coincidence? NOT!

    What more do you need to know?

    http://www.countercurrents.org/usa-hassan050405.htm

    Let's start out with a recap of some highly disturbing events in this country, as reported by a mainstream newspaper on the United States in August of 2005:

    http://www.timesherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15114089&BRD=1672&PAG=46 1&dept_id=33380&rfi=6

    Now can you help me out with a plausible explanation for this:

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7545.htm

    And this official DEA report:

    http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/deareportisraelispying.html

    Posted by plunger at 05/22/2006 @ 7:14pm

  12. What hit the Pentagon?

    NOT a Boeing 757.

    It was a Navy Jet owned by Raytheon (formerly Hughes), painted in the colors of American Airlines and loaded with high explosives (Defense experts on the scene smelled high explosives).

    It was launched from Hunter AFB in South Carolina under the direction of the CIA & DEA.

    It intercepted and "shadowed" American flight 77 in order to create the appearance of a single radar signature.

    Flight 77 crashed in a field in Virginia (and was quietly cleaned up), and the A-3 Skywarrior - fitted with a Thiokol rocket motor (which explains the white smoke at sea level in the recently released "video") - navigated remotely by Sysplan's Flight Termination Systems (FTS) technology completed the mission to the empty section of the Pentagon.

    Virtually everyone at the Pentagon, most in CIA, and most Congressman and Senators know for a fact that 9/11 was a FALSE FLAG OPERATION - as does the Main Stream Media.

    http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:DeFipmaQQOIJ:www.karlschwarz.c...

    Now what?

    Katrina?

    Now What?

    Posted by plunger at 05/22/2006 @ 7:23pm

  13. maybe if the dems would show some of the pub ability to work together despite ideological differences....

    i gues its already been decided, eh? mccain/somebody vs hillaryrotten/somebody?

    ugh...

    i may either throw my vote away green or swallow hard and vote mccain... if some idiot like allen is the pub runing mate its green for me.

    nonetheless i dream on...

    wesclark [securingamerica.com]

    Posted by ibbleblibble at 05/22/2006 @ 7:42pm

  14. Ibble,

    "ugh... "

    Actually, I am with you, except I will vote libertarian.

    Posted by john maasch at 05/23/2006 @ 01:30am

  15. Clicked here before logging on, I see PLUNGER has plunged into full-out RESE wackiness now. I can remember when he was still fairly sane, but conspiratorial. Now, he's exactly like RESE, poor guy.

    As for Guiliani, no top spot for him, but again, if the Repubs are in real trouble in 2008, a Veep spot might not be out of the question, especially for desperate Religious Righters who don't want to see Her Majesty appointing "baby-killing" judges.

    Posted by Mask at 05/23/2006 @ 09:00am

  16. Hey, don't be unmasked caped crusader Plunger, nee Rese. Please just throw me a bone about the AA 77's "quietly" covered-up crash site in past and future State of Presidents, the Commonwealth of Virginia and I'll continue to adhere to your writing's credibility.

    Posted by lewwelge at 05/23/2006 @ 09:23am

  17. Mask,

    Hillary is the democratic candidate, many will bitch and the nation will scowl, but endorse her enthusiasticly as better than any GOPer and the posters here will line up at the polls, vote twice if they could,....even over McCain, who is the Republican nominee, if he wants it, which is somewhat an open question at this point. It is his if he wants it...we all know what Hillary wants and it has nothing to do with the senate for 6 more years..

    Posted by john maasch at 05/23/2006 @ 09:32am

  18. Tom Petty, Gainesville bred poet in the rock-'n-roll pantheon, stated the "waiting is the hardest part (of life)." I concur. What say ye masked and unmasked crusaders?

    Posted by lewwelge at 05/23/2006 @ 10:14am

  19. PLUNGER, like LEW, curious about THIS line?

    "AA 77 crashed in a field in Virginia and was dealt with quietly. Posted by PLUNGER 05/22/2006 @ 7:11pm | ignore this person"

    Willing to remove the Ignore, if you would give me (within 50 miles) the SITE of that "field in Virginia"? Pretty familiar with VA, even driven past "Mt. Weather"...and so, would LOVE to know where American #77 "really" crashed...was NOT seen by dozens, even hundreds of Virginians, and how the site (which would cover many acres of land, given the impact of an airliner) was re-seeded with grass and trees.

    Is there ANY chance you'd have that information?...any?

    Posted by Mask at 05/23/2006 @ 10:16am

  20. And is the self-avowed "democrat" candidate for the North Carolina Supreme Court, Rachel ?, truly worth of Dean Smith's endorsement, or is she a like the corrupt Jefferson, from whom Pelosi and Dean are too slow in disassociating?

    Posted by lewwelge at 05/23/2006 @ 10:18am

  21. I hope the democrats get control of the House this November. Two years of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and chairpersons such as Charlie Rangel and 2008 will be a breeze for the Republicans.

    Posted by Len Mosse at 05/23/2006 @ 10:22am

  22. Correction: WorthY! As in James Worthy, past Tar Heel National Champion for Dean Smith, like this year's Brewer, Green, Horford, Lee, Moss, Noah, and Richards for Billy D. at UF.

    Posted by lewwelge at 05/23/2006 @ 10:22am

  23. Posted by JOHN MAASCH 05/23/2006 @ 09:32am | ignore this person

    Despite their protestations, push-to-shove, "The Nation" (in a hypothetical McCain-Hillary matchup) will "reluctantly" endorse She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed and say "she may not be ideal, but the alternative is worse" (and Mr Berman, a noted McCain critic, will be conspiciously absent from the blog that day!).

    They got burned in 2000 with their Nader endorsement and did the Big Turn-around in 2004 and called Ralph Spoilsport for what he was. From now on, they won't dare "go Green"...Bush put the fear of God into them on that!

    Posted by Mask at 05/23/2006 @ 10:24am

  24. Ah, Mr. Mosse aligns himself with the dead Dixiecrat, George Wallace, in averring "there's not a dime's worth of difference between Demo's and Pube's." PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong!

    Posted by lewwelge at 05/23/2006 @ 10:25am

  25. And "awe (better translation of the Aramaic than "fear") of God, is the beginning of wisdom" according to Good Book, kimosabe.

    Posted by lewwelge at 05/23/2006 @ 10:28am

  26. LEN/MASK/MAASCH - the large and vocal contingent of rabid rightwing elitists won't allow a McCain/Guiliani ticket on the GOP, sorry to burst your bubble.

    I'm not sure if either one (guiliani or mccain) paired with the Pope could be "conservative enough".

    Just as well, the DEMS will struggle even against an average GOP ticket, let alone a pair of GOP super stars.

    Posted by BECAUSEISAYSO at 05/23/2006 @ 3:54pm

  27. Posted by BECAUSEISAYSO 05/23/2006 @ 3:54pm | ignore this person

    BECAUSE, I'm still waiting on you to explain how you, a "fair and compassionate" liberal are NOT morally superior to an "unfair and apathetic" conservative?

    Posted by Mask at 05/23/2006 @ 4:25pm

  28. Plunger,

    I read your posts. An item I have difficulty with, however: If EVERYONE in Washington and the Pentagon knows 9/11 was an inside job, how come no insiders have leaked the truth? Week after week, something is leaked from the government (be it on NSA spying, illegal prisons, torture, phony WMD claims to justify Iraq, or the CIA leak investigation), yet NO high ranking insider has leaked anything related to 9/11 which support the alternative story? What are the chances that so many people can keep such a terrible secret?

    Posted by Hman23 at 05/23/2006 @ 5:56pm

  29. I'm beginning to lean away, perhaps like HMAN23 (Michael Jordan!?), from your excitingly troubling veltenschuuang, Plunger.

    O.K. you don't want to address Mask and I's question about your quietly squashed Virginia crash site for American Airlines #77. You keep mentioning wing span and missing engines. What about the famous "black box" all airliners have? On this last, read "The Pilot's Wife," a good bestselling Oprah recommended tale from some years back now.

    Also, back to MJ, one of the first things we all should have learned in school is to avoid using "always," "never," "everyone" and, these days "nobody." The exceptions (most generally) prove the rule, so what would John Conyers as a notable example, possibly find disinhibiting about shouting the "truth" from the rooftops since it's the truth which shall set us free?

    I want to believe you guys, Plunger and RESE. Pick me up!

    Posted by lewwelge at 05/23/2006 @ 6:38pm

  30. HMAN and LEW, what you have to understand is....PLUNGER CAN'T answer us.

    The "AA-77 didn't hit the Pentagon" conspiracy theory is THE one with the most holes in it. They (the conspiracy theorists) will endlessly discuss "hole in the Pentagon size", "no video of crash itself", even "drone aircraft"....but NEVER "what exactly happened to AA-77 then?"

    They can't figure out how to "explain" that part of the theory? "Shot down out at sea"?---then they have to explain how it flew past D.C., over MILES of Maryland and Delaware and nobody saw it or picked it up on radar. "Crashed into a Virginia field and covered up"? (PLUNGER's)--then they have to explain WHERE in Virginia you can crash an airliner, and dozens, if not hundreds of people see it and how they are "quieted".

    The C.T.s jumped into this one, because there was no video of the Pentagon/AA-77 crash and like ANY situation where there isn't "definitive proof"....it spawns a conspiracy theory.

    Posted by Mask at 05/24/2006 @ 08:55am

  31. It was Giuliani who put forth the name Bernard Kerik, for Homeland Security - a nomination so embarrassing they had to yank it in the middle of the night. Then they put up Mikhail Chertoff, and they changed his name real quick to Michael so George Bushs apparent KGB connections wouldnt just stand out.

    Giuliani has the Bush taint, all who have helped George Bush cause harm to America are tainted. That includes Democrats and Republicans. McCain, Hillary, - and McCain the loser who let George Bush walk all over him, Lieberman, every Republican to the last who still helps George Bush cause harm.

    Giuliani is against defendents, he is of the guilty automatically wing of the Republican party - just decide every case based on how much money you have. Giuliani - also a laissez faire privatization ripoff supporter, would get rid of the courts, and turn them into justice markets.

    You stand up there after 911 with a bullhorn, bullhorning for George Bush - the disgrace.

    Ralph Reed was the #1 red flag that George Bush would be precisely this bad. Throw in Jack Abramoff, you see, they just make these things up - Giuliani isnt against criminals - Giuliani isnt against raving fascist lunatics - Giuliani isnt against whited sepulchres (tombs) white on the outside like Ralph Reed - pretending to be religious - while supporting war and corruption through lies with help from Rudolph Giuliani.

    Posted by conshame at 05/24/2006 @ 10:14am

  32. MASK,

    Fair and compassionate are the words used by others to describe the actions of those who give without harming others, and often at great cost to the giver.

    Moral and superior are words used by conservatives as they stand in judgement of others around them.

    Posted by BECAUSEISAYSO at 05/24/2006 @ 11:12am

  33. Posted by BECAUSEISAYSO 05/24/2006 @ 11:12am | ignore this person

    Just because you're not saying THOSE words, BECAUSE....doesn't mean you are not "standing in judgement of others around them."

    Your constant posts on the moral failings (from "not caring" to warmongering) by "conservatives" proves it. You don't LIKE to think of yourself as judgemental and even sanctimonious, but you are.

    You've transposed your politics for THE superior morality, and any opposition to YOUR politics (i.e. conservatives and conservatism) is immoral!

    Posted by Mask at 05/24/2006 @ 12:28pm

  34. Thanks caped crusader, I guess you've been given the final word here and I can't go back to Kans...er Virginia, Plunger y RESE.

    I will be viewing "Loose Change" soon though.

    Au revoir,

    Loo

    Posted by lewwelge at 05/25/2006 @ 09:56am

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