In the cacophony following the killing of Bin Laden this article by Kristen Breitweiser possesses a singular dignity. As Rudy Guiliani watched the towers fall, he turned to his gangland friendly Police Chief, and said, "Thank God George Bush is our President." When Guiliani told the world of his inadvertent response to watching around a thousand people parish in real time it was treated not a confession of mental illness but as common sense well within the boarders of the prevailing conventional wisdom.
Wild times, those post 9-11 days. Even Alex Cockburn (who has, by the by, gone full birther with "A Volcano Of Lies") praised Bush for his post 9-11 restraint, repeating the dubious progressive mantra that Al Gore would have gone insane and dropped the bomb or some such. The general perception of recent American Political History breaks down down into loosely connected pockets of mercifully self inflicted amnesia.
Breitiweiser and her partners fought a lonely battle to force Congress's hand in holding even a "fair and balanced" 9-11 Review. Hitchens, who now cites the 9-11 Report, was very much part of the gang that would have allowed the Bush White House to escape all accountability, just as he had been Ken Starr's tool during the previous Administration.
By the time Hitch's Impeachment pal Ann Coulter was writing that Breitwiser and the other widows who had forced the commission were glad there husbands were dead so they could bask in the publicity, he had backed away from Ann Not before, however, writing that Cindy Sheehan was "sinister" or celebrating the torture of John Walker Lindh. Htich tells us that he is listening to Leonard Cohen these days, but I would suggest Randy Newman: "God Bless the potholes, down on Memory Lane!"
“The enemies of intolerance cannot be tolerant." • "If it is an offense to justice to hold people who may have been victims of mistaken identity or of vendettas by other factions, then it is also an offense to justice to release psychopathic killers who believe that they have divine permission to throw acid in the faces of girls who want to attend school." • "Don't be such a lesbian!
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