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[Thomas Eckhardt]

Am 18.11.2013 15:22, schrieb rich:

> I also just have to laugh about talk of knives and cowards. sure it
> takes courage to do alot of things but maybe you will think twice when
> someone cuts a loved one's throat in your presence and then ask yourself
> wow that was courageous. is that how we are defining courage, now? guess
> that means William Calley and Paul Blobel had lots of courage, too.

Not very good comparisons, I'm afraid, for a variety of reasons. It is 
significant that Atta et al. were portrayed as cowards in the media.

> where the important questioning of narrative is Iraq not 9/11. you
> should focus your moral outrage there.

Iraq was made possible by 9/11, cue the infamous PNAC statement about a 
"new Pearl Harbour" which may mean nothing or everything. Otherwise I 
agree. I have been amazed ever since 2002 that the US public didn't see 
that it was being lied to with regard to Iraq, and that, once it was 
established that the government lied (Leonard Cohen: "Everybody knows 
that the captain lied"), no one of those responsible suffered any 
lasting consequences. They used to hang people for this kind of thing...

Thomas
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