We don't need a \"commission\" to find out how 9-11 happened. The truth is in the timeline:
PRESIDENT CARTER, DEMOCRAT
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter allowed the Shah of Iran to be deposed by a mob of Islamic fanatics. A few months later, Muslims stormed the U.S. Embassy in Iran and took American Embassy staff hostage.
Carter retaliated by canceling Iranian visas. He eventually ordered a disastrous and humiliating rescue attempt, crashing helicopters in the desert.
PRESIDENT REAGAN, REPUBLICAN
The day of Reagan's inauguration, the hostages were released.
In 1982, the U.S. Embassy in Beirut was bombed by Muslim extremists.
President Reagan sent U.S. Marines to Beirut.
In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut were blown up by Muslim extremists.
Reagan said the U.S. would not surrender, but Democrats threw a hissy fit, introducing a resolution demanding that our troops be withdrawn. Reagan caved in to Democrat caterwauling in an election year and withdrew our troops -- bombing Syrian-controlled areas on the way out. Democrats complained about that, too.
In 1985 an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, was seized and a 69-year-old American was shot and thrown overboard by Muslim extremists.
Reagan ordered a heart-stopping mission to capture the hijackers after \"the allies\" promised them safe passage. In a daring operation, American fighter pilots captured the hijackers and turned them over to the Italians -- who then released them to safe harbor in Iraq (news - web sites).
On April 5, 1986, a West Berlin discotheque frequented by U.S. servicemen was bombed by Muslim extremists from the Libyan Embassy in East Berlin, killing an American.
Ten days later, Reagan bombed Libya, despite our dear ally France refusing the use of their airspace. Americans bombed Qaddafi's residence, killing his daughter, and dropped a bomb on the French Embassy \"by mistake.\"
Reagan also stoked a long, bloody war between heinous regimes in Iran and Iraq. All this was while winning a final victory over Soviet totalitarianism.
PRESIDENT BUSH I, MODERATE REPUBLICAN
In December 1988, a passenger jet, Pan Am Flight 103, was bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland, by Muslim extremists.
President-elect George Bush claimed he would continue Reagan's policy of retaliating against terrorism, but did not. Without Reagan to gin her up, even Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher went wobbly, saying there would be no revenge for the bombing.
In 1990, Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) invaded Kuwait.
In early 1991, Bush went to war with Iraq. A majority of Democrats opposed the war, and later complained that Bush didn't \"finish off the job\" with Saddam.
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, DEMOCRAT
In February 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed by Muslim fanatics, killing five people and injuring hundreds.
Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing.
In October 1993, 18 American troops were killed in a savage firefight in Somalia. The body of one American was dragged through the streets of Mogadishu as the Somalian hordes cheered.
Clinton responded by calling off the hunt for Mohammed Farrah Aidid and ordering our troops home. Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) later told ABC News: \"The youth ... realized more than before that the American soldier was a paper tiger and after a few blows ran in defeat.\"
In November 1995, five Americans were killed and 30 wounded by a car bomb in Saudi Arabia set by Muslim extremists.
Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing.
In June 1996, a U.S. Air Force housing complex in Saudi Arabia was bombed by Muslim extremists.
Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing.
Months later, Saddam attacked the Kurdish-controlled city of Erbil.
Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, lobbed some bombs into Iraq hundreds of miles from Saddam's forces.
In November 1997, Iraq refused to allow U.N. weapons inspections to do their jobs and threatened to shoot down a U.S. U-2 spy plane.
Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing.
In February 1998, Clinton threatened to bomb Iraq, but called it off when the United Nations (news - web sites) said no.
On Aug. 7, 1998, U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim extremists.
Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing.
On Aug. 20, Monica Lewinsky appeared for the second time to testify before the grand jury.
Clinton responded by bombing Afghanistan (news - web sites) and Sudan, severely damaging a camel and an aspirin factory.
On Dec. 16, the House of Representatives prepared to impeach Clinton the next day.
Clinton retaliated by ordering major air strikes against Iraq, described by The New York Times as \"by far the largest military action in Iraq since the end of the Gulf War (news - web sites) in 1991.\"
The only time Clinton decided to go to war with anyone in the vicinity of Muslim fanatics was in 1999 -- when Clinton attacked Serbians who were fighting Islamic fanatics.
In October 2000, our warship, the USS Cole (news - web sites), was attacked by Muslim extremists.
Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing.
PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH, REPUBLICAN
Bush came into office telling his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), he was \"tired of swatting flies\" -- he wanted to eliminate al-Qaida.
On Sept. 11, 2001, when Bush had been in office for barely seven months, 3,000 Americans were murdered in a savage terrorist attack on U.S. soil by Muslim extremists.
Since then, Bush has won two wars against countries that harbored Muslim fanatics, captured Saddam Hussein, immobilized Osama bin Laden, destroyed al-Qaida's base, and begun to create the only functioning democracy in the Middle East other than Israel. Democrats opposed it all -- except their phony support for war with Afghanistan, which they immediately complained about and said would be a Vietnam quagmire. And now they claim to be outraged that in the months before 9-11, Bush did not do everything Democrats opposed doing after 9-11.
What a surprise.
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Ann Coulter<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Here is a historical rundown documenting the runup to 9\/11 and explaining how it happened.","numcomment":23,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2004\/04\/106908.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":106913,"heading":"lying sack o shit Coulter","article":"Dear Ann C:\r\nWhy do you nose picking spooks continue to LIE? Bad habit perhaps?\r\nOr is it in your MOS?\r\n\r\nIn 1985 an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, was seized and a 69-year-old American was shot and thrown overboard by Muslim extremists.\r\n>Actually it was the Mossad. Right, 'Ann C'? Ask your supervisor.<\r\n\r\nIn December 1988, a passenger jet, Pan Am Flight 103, was bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland, by Muslim extremists.\r\nIf you want to call the CIA moslem extremists.\r\n***\r\nOn April 5, 1986, a West Berlin discotheque frequented by U.S. servicemen was bombed by Muslim extremists from the Libyan Embassy in East Berlin, killing an American..\r\n>mossad again ( lying assholes )<\r\n\r\nThe Mossad was almost certainly responsible for the bombing of the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin on April 5, 1986. However, claims were made that there was "irrefutable" evidence that the Libyans were responsible. A U.S. serviceman was killed. President Ronald Reagan responded with an attack on Libya.\r\nhttp:\/\/www.americanfreepress.net\/09_26_01\/U_S__Army_Officers_Say___Mossa\/u_s__army_officers_say___mossa.html","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-03 21:54:11","modified":"2004-04-03 21:54:11","fileurl":""},{"id":106914,"heading":"crystal ball liberals again","article":"Damn Sheep, with your intimate knowledge of who's behind all these attacks, you'd think you would've been able to WARN somebody in advance about MOSSAD, since you have better Intel than the President. ","author":"Walker, Texas Anger","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-03 21:57:16","modified":"2004-04-03 21:57:16","fileurl":""},{"id":106917,"heading":"You're right","article":"I did and I want my money.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-03 21:58:44","modified":"2004-04-03 21:58:44","fileurl":""},{"id":106919,"heading":"fresca","article":"Ol' Jew hatin' sheep with his illreserached (otherwise even he would know how inane he sounded) brand of delusions.\r\n\r\nWhy is it that you feel compelled to blame Jews for damn near everything?\r\n\r\nAre you simply some nazi cracker living on some white supremecist compound?\r\n\r\nYour delusions, lies and mental illness are getting to be a bit much...even for this ludicrous site.\r\n\r\nLet me ask you this directly? Are you aware of any instances of terrorism actually committed by Islamists?\r\n\r\nEven one?","author":"here we go.","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-03 22:22:56","modified":"2004-04-03 22:22:56","fileurl":""},{"id":106921,"heading":"sure","article":"some arab must have done you. ","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-03 22:25:49","modified":"2004-04-03 22:25:49","fileurl":""},{"id":106925,"heading":"Lies","article":""Since then, Bush has won two wars against countries that harbored Muslim fanatics..."\r\n\r\nIf the war in Iraq is won, I wonder what defeat would have looked like? Maybe it wouldn't have involved US troops getting wounded and killed on a daily basis.\r\n\r\nFYI\r\n\r\nThe war on Iraq is NOT won [yet?], as long as US service members are dying from hostile action.\r\n\r\nDoublespeak is everywhere, beware!\r\n\r\nWar is Peace\r\nIgnorance is Strength\r\nSlavery is Freedom","author":"Doublespeak","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-04-03 23:07:12","modified":"2005-08-15 02:53:28","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/04\/fallujah-2-4-2004.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/04\/fallujah-2-4-2004.jpg"}},{"id":106927,"heading":"FBI: Lost in translation?","article":"WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) -- Angry lawmakers are calling for hearings on the FBI's translation unit, which they say has still not addressed problems of mismanagement and lax internal security more than two years after they were revealed by a bureau whistleblower.\r\n\r\nIn letters to FBI Director Robert Mueller, Attorney General John Ashcroft and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the committee's ranking Democrat, says that questions he began raising in the spring of 2002 "remain unanswered."\r\n\r\nSibel Edmonds, the whistleblower whose revelations about the translation unit are already the subject of inquiries by the Senate Judiciary Committee and Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine, has also given evidence to the Sept. 11 commission.\r\n\r\nHer three-and-a-half-hour classified briefing suggests that the commission is weighing an inquiry into the 200-strong unit at the FBI's Washington field office.","author":"Shaun Waterman","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-03 23:44:52","modified":"2004-04-03 23:44:52","fileurl":""},{"id":106939,"heading":"fresca","article":""some arab must have done you. "\r\n\r\nSO that's it then huh? You actually DON'T believe that Islamic terrorism exists do you?\r\n\r\nAmazing.\r\n\r\nYou actually believe it's been several decades of Israel attacking us, at the risk of losing ALL their aid and us attacking ourselves...all to make the completely innocent and, I would think, utterly bewildered Islamic world look bad.\r\n\r\nAnd, to top it all off, only you and a select handful of other internet researchers know about it all.\r\n\r\nYour mental illness is truly fascinating.","author":"so that's it","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-04 05:18:22","modified":"2004-04-04 05:18:22","fileurl":""},{"id":106940,"heading":"This is funny","article":"You who can only parrot the same fetish about exterminating a certain group of people are call ME mental.\r\nYou bust my onions.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-04 05:45:25","modified":"2004-04-04 05:45:25","fileurl":""},{"id":106941,"heading":"the latest on the fallujah fuckwits","article":"The cowardly attack makes more sense once you realize that fallujuh consists of families of Saddam's thugs, terrorists and pre-liberation police. No WONDER they're mad. \r\n\r\nthis same shithole area has also received little or no welfare (er, aid) during Reconstruction. \r\n\r\nthe subhuman rabs will pay for their savagery.","author":"Arab Extermination Service","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-04 05:52:39","modified":"2004-04-04 05:52:39","fileurl":""},{"id":106944,"heading":"problem solved","article":"fresca can play with Arab Extermination Service supposing they are different people. If not maybe some self love to warm those lonely endless pointless bitter days...\r\n","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-04 06:28:50","modified":"2004-04-04 06:28:50","fileurl":""},{"id":106946,"heading":"pssst.... Captain America","article":"..... your ass ripped your tights when you posted your last piece of shit.\r\n\r\nUse Depends if your laughable conservative pride keeps you from dropping your pants. You may want to get used to it a bit in advance, November is approaching fast... ","author":"Bush Eradication Program","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-04 06:38:31","modified":"2004-04-04 06:38:31","fileurl":""},{"id":106949,"heading":"Serving punkass saddamcrats walking papers since '94","article":"..... your ass ripped your tights when you posted your last piece of shit. \r\n\r\n>>> It seems to have struck a nerve with YOU, smelly hippie. :D\r\n\r\n"Use Depends if your laughable conservative pride keeps you from dropping your pants. You may want to get used to it a bit in advance, November is approaching fast... "\r\n\r\n>>> Not that it's necessary because Kerry is a fuckin' elitist tard who won't carry 10 states, but I'm going to send Nader a big box of chocolates for fucking you democrap bitches till you love him.\r\n\r\n>>> Later, dickweed.\r\n","author":"Walker, Texas Plumber","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-04 10:00:00","modified":"2004-04-04 10:00:00","fileurl":""},{"id":106955,"heading":"tell me it isn't true","article":"I mean that Wanker, texas drooler is Bush Admirer's aged shemale \r\nsoulmate. Send my best wishes.","author":"Yorgel the Bastard","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-04 13:41:26","modified":"2004-04-04 13:41:26","fileurl":""},{"id":106959,"heading":"fresca","article":""You who can only parrot the same fetish about exterminating a certain group of people are call ME mental. \r\n"\r\n\r\nYou don't think it's a bit of a red flag that you categorically deny the existence of something that the ENTIRE world (with the exception of a few other cyber-haldol rangers) accepts as obvious and true?\r\n\r\nHmmm...\r\n\r\n\r\nCrazier than I think.\r\n\r\nSo I guess what follows is that the rest of the globe, which DOES believe that Islamic terrorism exists is crazy and you're the sane one huh?\r\n\r\nVery interesting.","author":"And your not?","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-04 15:38:47","modified":"2004-04-04 15:38:47","fileurl":""},{"id":106960,"heading":"When have I denied anything?","article":"Provide proof.\r\nBe specific.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-04 15:43:16","modified":"2004-04-04 15:43:16","fileurl":""},{"id":106961,"heading":"Adendum","article":"Sure there are terrorists of all sorts, including your friends in the Mossad. I never said they were the only assholes.\r\nI, however enjoy the truth instead of the spew from a disinfo spook.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-04 15:49:09","modified":"2004-04-04 15:49:09","fileurl":""},{"id":106962,"heading":"That's why we're here","article":""Your mental illness is truly fascinating."\r\n\r\nIt surely is. That's why we're here. It's like watching the crazy guy on the street mumbling to himself about how only he knows what's really going on in the world. But without the stench. ","author":"Pam","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-04 16:40:39","modified":"2004-04-04 16:40:39","fileurl":""},{"id":106975,"heading":"keep it coming, shitbirds","article":"I mean that Wanker, texas drooler is Bush Admirer's aged shemale \r\nsoulmate. Send my best wishes.
\r\n\r\n>>> A ha ha, YorGay the Ass Tard. Who knows if you're really a bastard...for that you'd have to know who your parents were.
\r\n\r\n>>> All we know for sure about you is that your skull would make a fine ashtray.
\r\n\r\n>>> Any other punks want to take it to the schoolyard level--go right ahead. Just wear your black bandannas so no one will know it was your<\/I> weak arguments that got smashed to shit. Be sure to thank the 3rd graders who helped you type.
\r\n\r\n"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."<\/I> --NIgga V\r\n\r\n","author":"Walker, Texas Plumber","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/html","created":"2004-04-04 20:05:12","modified":"2004-04-04 20:05:12","fileurl":""},{"id":106986,"heading":"fresca","article":""Sure there are terrorists of all sorts, including your friends in the Mossad. I never said they were the only assholes. \r\nI, however enjoy the truth instead of the spew from a disinfo spook."\r\n\r\n\r\nOf course there are... the rest of us know that.\r\nThe fact remains, and you can look back over all of your posts for whatever amount of proof you require, that in every instance of the posting of an attack by Islamic terrorists your response has been to categorically deny the involvement of these islamists and insist that the true culprits are the US and\/or the Mossad.\r\n\r\nThis is your obsession. You blame EVERYTHING on on or both of these groups.\r\n\r\nSo there you go. The proof is in your many own denials of arab savagry.\r\n\r\nSo yes, you have in essence said that they were the only assholes (terrorists).","author":"absolutely","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-04 21:47:14","modified":"2004-04-04 21:47:14","fileurl":""},{"id":106994,"heading":"From the Koran","article":"Sura 4 An-Nisi \r\n73\r\nFor those who will exchange this world for the next world, let them fight in the Way of Allah. If someone fights in the Way of Allah, whether they die or achieve victory, we have great reward in store for them.\r\n\r\n88\r\nThey [unbelievers] want you to be unbelievers like them, so that you will all be the same. Do not take as a friend any of them until they make pilgrimage in the Way of Allah; if they run away from you, seize them and kill them wherever you may find them... ...if they keep out of your way, if they do not fight against you and if they SUBMIT to you, Allah gives you no power to harm them.\r\n\r\n94.\r\nThe believers who remain at home - save those who are forced by circumstance - they are not the same as those who fight in the Way of Allah, sacrificing their wealth and their health. Allah puts those who make war with their wealth and themselves in a higher rank than those who reman at home.","author":"Baney","parent_id":106908,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-04 23:27:42","modified":"2004-04-04 23:27:42","fileurl":""},{"id":107244,"heading":"From the Bible","article":"Dt.25:11-12 "When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her." \r\n\r\nLev.26:14 "I also will do this unto you... You shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it." \r\n\r\nLev.26:29 "And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat." \r\n\r\nDt.28:53 "And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters." \r\n\r\nDt.28:57 "And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them." \r\n\r\n2 Kg.6:28-29 "This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him." \r\n\r\nIs.9:19-20 "Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother. And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm." \r\n\r\nIs.49:26 "And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine." \r\n\r\nJer.19:9 " And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend." \r\n\r\nEzek.5:10 "Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers." \r\n\r\nMic.3:2-3 "Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron." \r\n\r\nZech.11:9 "I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another." \r\n\r\nEx.21:2 "If thou buy an Hebrew servant...." \r\n\r\nEx.21:7 "If a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant...." \r\n\r\nEx.21:20-21 "And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money." \r\n\r\nEx.22:3 "If he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft." \r\n\r\nLev.22:11 "If the priest buy any soul with his money...." \r\n\r\nLev.25:39 "And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee...." \r\n\r\nLev.25:44-46 "Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever." \r\n\r\nEph.6:5 "Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ." \r\n\r\nCol.3:22 "Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God." \r\n\r\n1 Tim.6:1 "Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed." \r\n\r\nTit.2:9-10 "Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things." \r\n\r\n1 Pet.2:18 "Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward." 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