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If someone is taking a long weekend at work, I make sure to say "see you next Tuesday" before leaving the office.

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According to wikipedia he was in Hiroshima for a 3-month business trip and the bomb fell on the last day he was there. He was in the process of leaving when he realized he'd left his signature stamp back at the office and went back to get it. The bomb fell as he was leaving the office once again.
So not only did he get caught in the blast on the last day he was there, but possibly only because he went back to get his stamp.
After getting caught in the first bomb; having his eardrums ruptured, being temporarily blinded and suffering serious burns on the left side of his torso; he rested for a bit and then went out to find his friends. Finding them, he spent that night in an air-raid shelter and returned home the following day.
Back in Nagasaki he got treatment for his injuries and went to fucking work on Aug 9th, placing him less than 2 miles from ground zero for the second bomb which fell as he was describing the events at Hiroshima to his supervisor. He was uninjured in this attack.
This guy was a Hollywood action movie caliber badass.


Here's to you, Mr. Badass 20th Century Samurai Warrior.

Was there a 'fridge involved?>> ^xxovercastxx:

According to wikipedia he was in Hiroshima for a 3-month business trip and the bomb fell on the last day he was there. He was in the process of leaving when he realized he'd left his signature stamp back at the office and went back to get it. The bomb fell as he was leaving the office once again.
So not only did he get caught in the blast on the last day he was there, but possibly only because he went back to get his stamp.
After getting caught in the first bomb; having his eardrums ruptured, being temporarily blinded and suffering serious burns on the left side of his torso; he rested for a bit and then went out to find his friends. Finding them, he spent that night in an air-raid shelter and returned home the following day.
Back in Nagasaki he got treatment for his injuries and went to fucking work on Aug 9th, placing him less than 2 miles from ground zero for the second bomb which fell as he was describing the events at Hiroshima to his supervisor. He was uninjured in this attack.
This guy was a Hollywood action movie caliber badass.

According to wikipedia he was in Hiroshima for a 3-month business trip and the bomb fell on the last day he was there. He was in the process of leaving when he realized he'd left his signature stamp back at the office and went back to get it. The bomb fell as he was leaving the office once again.

So not only did he get caught in the blast on the last day he was there, but possibly only because he went back to get his stamp.

After getting caught in the first bomb; having his eardrums ruptured, being temporarily blinded and suffering serious burns on the left side of his torso; he rested for a bit and then went out to find his friends. Finding them, he spent that night in an air-raid shelter and returned home the following day.

Back in Nagasaki he got treatment for his injuries and went to fucking work on Aug 9th, placing him less than 2 miles from ground zero for the second bomb which fell as he was describing the events at Hiroshima to his supervisor. He was uninjured in this attack.

This guy was a Hollywood action movie caliber badass.

I'd feel a lot better about what he has to say, if Dorgan hadn't voted for this fucking nightmare of a war/occupation/invasion.

So technically he is as to blame as any of the rest of them for the pillaging of our treasury.

Dorgan should leave his office and stfu.

In the fall of 2003, Jack L. Goldsmith was widely considered one of the brightest stars in the conservative legal firmament. A 40-year-old law professor at the University of Chicago, Goldsmith had established himself, with his friend and fellow law professor John Yoo, as a leading proponent of the view that international standards of human rights should not apply in cases before U.S. courts. In recognition of their prominence, Goldsmith and Yoo had been anointed the “New Sovereigntists” by the journal Foreign Affairs. [ ... ]

Immediately, the job put him at the center of critical debates within the Bush administration about its continuing response to 9/11 — debates about coercive interrogation, secret surveillance and the detention and trial of enemy combatants. [ ... ]

Nine months later, in June 2004, Goldsmith resigned. Although he refused to discuss his resignation at the time, he had led a small group of administration lawyers in a behind-the-scenes revolt against what he considered the constitutional excesses of the legal policies embraced by his White House superiors in the war on terror. During his first weeks on the job, Goldsmith had discovered that the Office of Legal Counsel had written two legal opinions — both drafted by Goldsmith’s friend Yoo, who served as a deputy in the office — about the authority of the executive branch to conduct coercive interrogations. Goldsmith considered these opinions, now known as the “torture memos,” to be tendentious, overly broad and legally flawed, and he fought to change them. He also found himself challenging the White House on a variety of other issues, ranging from surveillance to the trial of suspected terrorists. His efforts succeeded in bringing the Bush administration somewhat closer to what Goldsmith considered the rule of law — although at considerable cost to Goldsmith himself. By the end of his tenure, he was worn out. “I was disgusted with the whole process and fed up and exhausted,” he told me recently. [ ... ]

After leaving the Office of Legal Counsel, Goldsmith was uncertain about what, if anything, he should say publicly about his resignation. His silence came to be widely misinterpreted. After leaving the Justice Department, he accepted a tenured professorship at Harvard Law School, where he currently teaches. During his first weeks in Cambridge, in the fall of 2004, some of his colleagues denounced him for what they mistakenly assumed was his role in drafting the torture memos. One colleague, Elizabeth Bartholet, complained to a Boston Globe reporter that the faculty was remiss in not investigating any role Goldsmith might have played in “justifying torture.” “It was a nightmare,” Goldsmith told me. “I didn’t say anything to defend myself, except that I didn’t do the things I was accused of.”

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Read the full article at NYT Magazine.

The American goverment would like us to believe that 9/11 was a result of massive inter-agency intelligence failure regarding the threat of a terrorist attack on US soil. The American goverment would also like for you to believe that despite the given massive intelligence failure, the entire cause and nature of the attack was worked out in a mere 72 hours of investigation. Primarily because of one key piece of evidence that implicated everyone else in the plot.

"# FBI Director Robert Mueller insisted officials had no idea this kind of attack could happen when in fact the FBI had been investigating the possibility of EXACTLY this kind of attack for almost TEN YEARS. Numerous previous attempts at using planes as weapons, intimate knowledge of terror plans called Project Bojinka, and knowledge of suspicious characters attending flight schools who were being monitored by the FBI make his utterance a clear lie on its face.

In the weeks before 9/11, the U.S. received warnings from all over the world that an event just like this was about to happen, but FBI investigations into suspected terrorists were suppressed and those warnings were deliberately disregarded.

# The names of the alleged hijackers, all ostensibly Muslims, were released to the public only hours after the attacks, despite Mueller saying we had no knowledge this would happen. This is an impossible twist of logic. If he didn't know of a plan to strike buildings with planes, how would he know the names of the hijackers? Various artifacts were discovered in strategic places to try to confirm the government's story, but these have all been dismissed as suspicious planting of evidence. Since that time several names on that list have turned up alive and well, living in Arab countries. Yet no attempt has ever been made to update the list. And why were none of these names on the airlines' passenger lists?"

# The Patriot Act was presented in the days after the tragedy supposedly as a response to it, yet it was clear that this heinous act, drafted to nullify provisions for freedom in the U.S. Constitution, was put together long before 9/11. In addition, testimony by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) revealed that most members of Congress were compelled to vote for the bill without even reading it. This was a vote to eliminate the Constitutional Bill of Rights, which has defined American freedom for 200 years, and it was accomplished when legislators voted for the bill without even reading it.

# The invasion of Afghanistan was presented as an attempt to pursue the alleged perpetrators of 9/11, yet it had been discussed for years prior to the tragedy and actually planned in the months before the attacks on New York and Washington. Statements by Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Republican-written Project for a New American Century have stressed that America needed a formidable enemy to accomplish its aggressive geopolitical aims. The supposed enemy we attacked in Afghanistan was a diverse group of men from all over the world who were initially recruited, encouraged and supported by the American CIA.

http://www.serendipity.li/wot/911_a_hoax.htm

"In 1992 Rick Rescorla warned the Port Authority (owner of the World Trade Center) about the possibility of a truck bomb attack on the pillars in the basement parking garage, but was ignored. When Islamist terrorists used this method in the 1993 attack, Rescorla was instrumental in evacuating the building, and was literally the last man out. He and Dan Hill then prepared a report that warned of another attack, this time from a commercial aircraft crashing into the complex, but he was again ignored.

Rescorla recommended to his superiors at Morgan Stanley that the company leave Manhattan. Office space and labor costs were lower in New Jersey, and the firm's employees and equipment would be safer in a proposed four-story building. However, this recommendation was not followed as the company's lease at the World Trade Center did not terminate until 2006. At Rescorla’s insistence, all employees, including senior executives, then practiced emergency evacuations every three months."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla

* Who benefited from the suspiciously high numbers of put options purchased prior to September 11 for shares in companies whose stock prices subsequently plummeted, on the supposition that whoever was behind the hijacking was also behind most of the purchases of these put options? And what was the role of the new executive director of the CIA, Buzzy Krongard, who handled these transactions?

* Why was the debris from the collapsed Twin Towers removed from the site with no forensic examination? Why was almost all of it sold to scrap merchants and shipped abroad where it would not be available for scientific examination?

* Why does the government refuse to release any transcripts of communications or any records at all relating to signals of any form transmitted by those jets?

* Why do all the major U.S. media continue to act as if none of these questions is legitimate or relevant?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saleh_Ibn_Abdul_Rahman_Hussayen