[Rhodes22-list] 9-11 political commentary - stirring the pot

[Brad Haslett]

Ed,

Thanks for the video. Here's a couple of interesting news stories:

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/12/ahmadinejad.itn/index.html

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3448829,00.html

And now for the best line to come from the good Professor's briefing to the
Congress:

Each member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had seven minutes to
question Petraeus and Crocker about the Iraq War. Obama used about six
minutes of his time to lecture Petraeus and Crocker....As Obama was wrapping
up, he said, "That, of course, now leaves me very little time to ask
questions, and that's unfortunate." ...

...Petraeus never got to answer Obama's 266-word question. Rushed at the
end, Obama asked about benchmarks not met. Crocker said, "Senator, I
described for Senator Sununu a little bit ago some of the things that I
think are going to be very important as we move ahead."

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) followed Obama. He told Petraeus and Crocker, "*As
you have found, our hearings are more about listening to ourselves than
listening to our witnesses*."


Brad



On 9/13/07, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>
>
> Folks,
>
> I received a power point presentation about 911.  The brother of the
> person
> who sent me this was in the lobby when the first plane hit.  His words
> were
> that he momentarily stepped outside and debris were falling, so he went
> back
> in and used a tunnel to go back to the Hudson Tubes (subways under the
> Hudson River) to return to his home in New Jersey.  It was after 9 P.M.
> that
> night that he arrived home.
>
> Attached is one photo from the presentation:
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p12653855/Picture41.jpg Picture41.jpg
>
> The whole presentation is 4MG in size.  If anybody wants it, I will send
> it.
>
> There is at least one person on this forum who believes that this was done
> by the U. S. Government, called the conspiracy theory.
>
> Evil is hard to define.  Unless you personally have dealt with someone who
> can look you in the eye and deny a crime when you know that that person
> really did it and is lying, it is hard to relate to what evil people can
> do.
>
> We have Americans who can kill in the name of religion.  Just look at the
> abortion clinic bomber.
>
> Then recognize that other religions can have their crazies too.  To better
> understand what I mean, look at these two video clips by TV Talk show host
> Glenn Beck:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtrRKn0prtU&NR=1
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Xf2P92fS8
>
> First, these people are still out there.  Second, after recent discussions
> of teaching and education on this forum ask how well our schools and
> school
> children are protected?  Do any of you have a child in school or a
> grandchild?
>
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
> Addendum:  (For Bob S) "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as
> when they do it from religious conviction."  --- Blaise Pascal
>
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