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Fightin' Irish.
 The
pipeline through Afghanistan? It was under construction
almost before our soldiers in Afghanistan had their
first MRE. Bush certainly didn't let his Big Oil
BFFs down.
That's also why our soldiers are still there.
They're guarding the pipeline. End of story.
The secondary tragedy of 9/11 was that in early 2002
it was already clear
to everyone that something fishy
was going on, and that when the Democrats took back
the House, possibly the Senate, in the 2002 mid-terms
there would be investigations into what went wrong
that fateful day.
That's why Bush and company immediately started demonizing
Saddam Hussein. Here was another dire threat to our
Amurcan way of life that only Republicans could protect
us from.
The corporate media propaganda machine echoed the Right's
assertion that anyone who resists the call to arms
is a traitor,
and the rest is history. Two trillion dollars worth.
If you'd like to know more about Mr. O'Neill please
watch the excellent PBS production "The
Man Who Knew". (Or read William
Rivers Pitt refresher course on Bush and his oil buddies.)
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Republican Job Creation Update
 2-3-2012: The
House proposed a bill that keeps welfare
recipients out of strip
clubs, casinos, and liquor stores. The actual purpose
of the bill was to have Democrats vote against it so
that their Republican opponents
can claim Democrats are FOR such nonsense. The bill
passed 395-27 but it will die in the Senate, so ha-ha-ha,
GOP.
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 Sean
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will go up 30% if Obama is re-elected. Say it with me now:
"Sean Hannity lies!". And why does he lie? Because
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Mike's Video Vault
A 1997 interview with FBI
Deputy Director John P. O'Neill
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Today's Google
Chow.
I am John O'Neill. I worked for the FBI for
thirty-one years, where I served as Deputy Director.
My specialty was counter terrorism and I was the expert
in my field when it came to Osama bin Laden or al Qaeda.
I led the investigations of the USS Cole attack,
the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and the attacks
on our African embassies in Nairobi and Dar-Es-Salaam.
I understood that al Qaeda was a threat to the U.S.,
too, but in early 2001 the Bush administration slowed
FBI investigations into bin Laden so it could negotiate
with the Taliban for an oil pipeline across Afghanistan.
Frustrated by continued resistance from within the
FBI I retired at the age of 50 to begin a new career
as Director of Security of the World Trade Center,
just two weeks before 9/11.
On 9/11 I died in a stairwell, going back into the
South Tower to save my friends.
I am John P. O'Neil.
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