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To: NorthernRight
A check of the Lexis-Nexis newspaper database in the two days before and two after 9-11 shows that this guy is a jerk and/or liar.

Rumsfeld did not call for an attack on Iraq after the WTC attack, he had made a public statement two days before the WTC attack on the necessity for US pressure on Iraq.

Bush was not fully briefed on the attack before he entered the school building. At about the time he arrived at the school the first plane had hit the first tower - at the time it was thought to have been an accident like the 1945 plane collision in the Empire State Bldg - and he was told of that first collision just before he entered the building, when it was still thought of as an accident. At 9:03 when the second plane struck, he was already reading to the children in a classroom - something very well documented - and within two minutes of that second crash he was told of it and immediately left the building with his entourage.

The FBI did not have "the exact identities" of the hijackers within 24 hours; in fact that FBI had worked up a list of 25 probably hijackers, which included most of the 15 actually involved plus at least ten who turned out not to be participants. It wasn't terribly difficult to come up with some names right away by perusing the passenger manifests and ticket purchases for those planes.

The list of this guy's misrepresentations could go on and on.

15 posted on 05/14/2003 12:26:53 PM PDT by DonQ
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To: DonQ
Indeed. As the National Post editorial (which followed Landsberg's screed) explained, most of her contentions and accusations were dealt with in the legitimate press after 9/11. Her contentions mostly stem from the left's sheer unwillingness to read anything or examine anything outside their narrow focus. If it isn't published in the "progressive" press, it just doesn't get read. Even so, why let facts get in the way of myths and superstitions? The "one true faith" of the left shall not be shaken by the herecies and blasphemies of non-believers (i.e.: anyone who isn't a fellow-traveller).

Michele Landsberg is a famous Candian feminist, and is the wife of Stephen Lewis, Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa (appointed by United Nation's Secretary-General Kofi Annan).

The Lewis' are part of Canada's leftwing aristocracy, and are considered Canada's "first family of the left". Stephen Lewis' father David Lewis was head of the NDP, Canada's socialist party for many years. Michele's son, Avi, is a well known leftwing writer and TV producer, and is married to feminist writer/polemiscist Naomi Klein (No Logo).

17 posted on 05/14/2003 12:54:11 PM PDT by NorthernRight (Regime change in Canada - Now!)
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