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{Politics.523.3781}: Steve Lacey, not Deering {masked} Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:32:05 EST (29 lines)

Richard--I'll look again. I note that you refer not to a statement by
Ms. Rice, but by someone claiming to be quoting her. That's not what I
asked for.

See, the reason why this is important, even though it seems like just
nit-picking by me, is that it's representative of so many aspects of
the "truthers" versions of 9/11 events. Direct, uncompromising proof
of what they say actually happened, or of what they assert so-and-so
actually said, is so often lacking. Instead, we so frequently find
just assumptions, followed by a reversal of the ordinary onus of
proof: "such and such _could_ have happened that way, and there's
circumstantial evidence that it did happen that way, so it _must_ have
happened that way, and if you don't buy that, just prove me wrong. You
can't can you? Ha."

All right--for the sake of argument, maybe Bush and Rice did have
some form of pre-warning that a terrorist attack might be looming. All
right--maybe they ignored those warnings. These are possibilities, and
the evidence you cite suggests that they may well be true. (The
implications of those warnings and their ignoring them are a further
debating point.) But so far there's no proof that afterwards, they
pretended astonishment at the use of jets. And Richard, that was a
major point you made: their pretended astonishment was "self-serving
crap." In which I agree with you--if they said it.

Again I admit, yes, it's a small point in the grand scheme of things.
But again I say that so far it's just another of many instances where
something that _might_ have happened is taken, by opponents of the
"official" version of events, to be absolutely true.

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