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| Bush reads to children at Emma E. Booker Elementary |
As he was on hand for most everything else, Christopher Hitchens was also on hand to observe reactions around the world and in America to the 9/11 attacks:
Gore Vidal could hardly wait to go slumming2. He took the earliest opportunity of claiming that, while Osama bin Laden had not been proved to be the evil genius of the attacks, it was by no means too early to allege that the Bush administration had played a hidden hand in them. Or at least, if it had not actually instigated the assault, it had (as with Roosevelt at Pearl Harbor!) seen it coming and welcomed it as a pretext for engorging the defense budget and seizing the oilfields of the southern Caucasus. His articles featured half-baked citations from the most dismal, ignorant paranoids.[Hitch-22, p. 245]The irony for 9/11 Truthers who share Vidal's view is that
President Bush had evidently forewarned himself of the air piracy in order that he could seize the chance to look like a craven, whey-faced ignoramus on worldwide TV. [ibid]Or in order to be photographed reading a book upside down? Or were those photographs and reports fabricated by a conspiracy of untruthers skilled in the use of Photoshop? Or...?
We're in the tenth-anniversary month of the attacks. The calendar at 911truth.org of course "includes events in commemoration of 10th Anniversary."
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- Notwithstanding President Clinton's assessment: "Nine-eleven was NOT an inside job, it was an Osama Bin Laden job with 19 people from Saudi Arabia, they murdered 3,000 Americans and other foreigners including Muslims." ["Bill Clinton Undeterred by 9/11 Hecklers." ABC News. January 31, 2008. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
- The blurb from Gore Vidal on the back cover of Hitch-22 reads: "I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens."
The blurb has been cleverly X'd out in red and annotated by hand: "No, CH."
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