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Friday, February 20, 2004

Daily Outrage: 'Omission Accomplished'. Coulter doggedly insists that losing three limbs in Vietnam was nothing special. [The Nation Weblogs] 5:59:12 PM  Permalink  comment []

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Drone On. It's a not-so-secret secret that many people currently in power hope the 9/11 Commission doesn't bring up again during the current election season. The fact is, President Bush had a very good shot at preventing the September 11 attack on the United States, building on anti-terrorism efforts that had been begun by the previous Clinton Administration. Before the World Trade Center towers came crashing down, a program was underway which would have used American unmanned aerial vehicles to kill Osama Bin Laden while he was still living a life in the open air of Afghanistan. Bickering in the Bush White House over the armed UAV assassination mission of Osama continued right up until the week before 9/11. A Sept. 4 Presidential meeting discussed whether the CIA or Pentagon should operate newly armed Predators and whether its new missiles were sufficiently lethal to kill bin Laden, a designated terrorist already blamed by that time for deadly attacks against two U.S. embassies in Africa, the USS Cole, and the subject of at least three secret orders by President Clinton to have him captured or killed. President Bush issued no such orders to defend America using unmanned aerial vehicles available during his first two years in office, and the rest, as they say, is history. [SciScoop] 5:33:50 PM  Permalink  comment []

The Top 10 Worst Album Covers Ever. [I'm Gina Smith] 9:34:40 AM  Permalink  comment []

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