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To: Don Hurst who wrote (78458)	9/10/2006 12:38:10 AM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 362338

Plane debris were found at the Pentagon. The missile nonsense has been completely debunked. It is like the zombie right wing nuttery - you can't kill it. "We found Saddam's WMD! The WTC was taken down by explosives. Saddam was working with al-Qaeda. A missile hit the Pentagon." All have been proven false - but can't be killed - zombie falsehoods live forever.

To: Don Hurst who wrote (78458)	9/10/2006 12:42:19 AM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362338

Bin Laden Trail 'Stone Cold' U.S. Steps Up Efforts, But Good Intelligence On Ground is Lacking washingtonpost.com An excellent article. Rumsfeld is a complete idiot - see the fifth page updates on his recent egomaniacal activities. And this on the Bushies failing to go after Bin Laden in Afghanistan: Excerpt: On the videotape obtained by the CIA, bin Laden is seen confidently instructing his party how to dig holes in the ground to lie in undetected at night. A bomb dropped by a U.S. aircraft can be seen exploding in the distance. "We were there last night," bin Laden says without much concern in his voice. He was in or headed toward Pakistan, counterterrorism officials think. That was December 2001. Only two months later, Bush decided to pull out most of the special operations troops and their CIA counterparts in the paramilitary division that were leading the hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan to prepare for war in Iraq, said Flynt L. Leverett, then an expert on the Middle East at the National Security Council. "I was appalled when I learned about it," said Leverett, who has become an outspoken critic of the administration's counterterrorism policy. "I don't know of anyone who thought it was a good idea. It's very likely that bin Laden would be dead or in American custody if we hadn't done that." Several officers confirmed that the number of special operations troops was reduced in March 2001.