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To: Darlin'
Bright, shiny objects? What may they be?

To be honest, I am amazed at the reaction my one, fairly innocuous post has engendered.

Nothing like free speech, huh?

47 posted on 05/16/2002 7:03:03 PM PDT by independentmind
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To: independentmind
"Was there a failure of intelligence? Did the right officials not act on the intelligence in the proper way?"

These aren't legitimate questions as you tell us. These are answers in the form of questions, and considering the source, they are transparent insinuations. That is the reason for the objections you are hearing this evening.

But otherwise, it's obvious that there was a failure of intelligence. Well, duh, if there handn't been, these acts would not have occurred, would they? But to pin this failure on Dubya is to reveal total ignorance (or pretend it in this case) of how this mammoth government operates.

This is what's troubling to me: there was this Phoenix FBI memo, there was the knowledge that the Saudis, the governmen and the local yuppies there, support bin Laden, there was the knowledge that he did have his eye on the World Trade Center after one failed attempt at bringing it down, and there was the knowledge of thousands (hundreds?) of Saudis at US flight training schools. Somehow the dots were not connected. Could they have been connected? I dunno, we'll never know!

51 posted on 05/16/2002 7:15:51 PM PDT by Revolting cat!
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To: independentmind
Nothing like free speech, huh?

Are you insinuating that the mere act of disagreeing with you somehow constitutes an infringment on your right to free speech? Your post wasn't removed, it wasn't singled out for ridicule by any moderator. It was disputed, by people with every right to free speech that you have.

If you don't like being outnumbered, you can always try DU, where opposing viewpoints are rarely tolerated.

60 posted on 05/16/2002 8:37:26 PM PDT by cgk
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