I my opinion the biggest lie told by the Bush White House is this:

"I don't think anybody could have predicted...that they would try to use an airplane as missile," Rice said. "Had this president known of something more specific or known that a plane was going to be used as a missile, he would have acted on it."

Not only did they know before September 11, 2001, but they apparently knew at least as far back as 1995:

The report recounts well-known case studies of similar plots, including a 1995 plan by al Qaeda operatives to hijack and crash a dozen U.S. airliners in the South Pacific and pilot a light aircraft into Langley.

Another article tells of how they even planned to defend against such an attack at the G8 Summit earlier that year:

"In June of 2001, there was a threat against the Group of 8 Summit in Genoa, Italy," he recalled. "And the government took that so seriously that they stationed anti-aircraft batteries around the city to prevent European airliners from being hijacked and slammed into the building."

What does all this mean? Well, it means that they lied!! It becomes obvious that they knew Al Qaeda would use airplanes as missles. After reading this article, A Bad Call?, we learn Bush was briefed on how they would attack. When you take into account that the Attorney General stopped flying commercially in July, 2001, it makes it clear they knew.

More on the lack of WMD's, and Common Dreams reports about evidence of found WMD's.

Ari & I from yesterday. More on the story here. This is sick stuff if it's true.

A good article on the media consolidation debate.

I haven't spent much time on this, but if you have time sign this petition to stop the "Florida-tion" of our elections.

An article on the number of dead in Iraq.

The Neocon's next move.
- posted by Mom/Dad @ 2:10 PM