Friday, September 08, 2006

Tom Paine Rolls In His Grave

This piece of cheese just plopped in my inbox. This guy has had too many malteds at the the Limited Hangout. Here's a juicy:

There’s a job to be done in getting the Bush administration to behave in a legal, responsible fashion. [A job on a par with getting Satan to attend Sunday School, perhaps?] All this effort devoted to finding the truth of 9/11 might contribute to that, except that the questions are too minute. Arguing the kinetic energy of a Boeing 767 hitting the Trade Center with a given fuel load, the structural integrity of the building itself, or the actual time of impact on Pennsylvania soil of United Airlines Flight 93 does not trace complicity into the Oval Office. [No, it might have been space aliens, at that.] Even finding that the Pentagon really was hit by a missile and not an airplane, or that Flight 93 was actually shot down, would not necessarily implicate the White House or prove the grand conspiracy theory. [True, it's not like any of these guys benefited from it or anything.] Many of the questions can only lead to more questions. [Like, "Are you a paid government shill?"] A whole new level of evidence [i.e., a Cheney deathbed confession] would be necessary to establish whether complicity exists.

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