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 [WHATREALLYHAPPENED.COM] Darwin nomination: He'd probably remember that in 1999 Edward Jay Epstein publicly recalled a dinner in the Royalton Hotel in New York where Epstein said Hitchens had doubted the Holocaust was quite what it's cracked up to be. In Epstein's memory Hitchens belittled the idea that six million Jews died, said the number was much less.

 [Thomas Paine's Corner] Bin Laden, Deconstructed: Although Osama bin Laden has become a legendary figure in the West, official pressures have ensured that, for the most part, his voice has been tacitly censored, as if to hear it clearly and without cuts or interruption would be too dangerous. This does not mean that bin Laden's messages have reached no audience.

[True Blue Liberal] “A Leaderless, Directionless Superpower”: It was the departure from international law and treaty with regard to what I perceive to be a policy that permeated the leadership from the Vice President through the Defense Department and out to the military forces in the field. In my view, it was not only damaging to the armed forces—and I was a member of the Army for 31 years—but also damaging ultimately to America’s image and credibility in the world and damaging to our capability to win this conflict against Osama Bin Laden and Abu Musab al Zarqawi and others like them.

 [Powerlineblog.com] Power Line: Yesterday, I did a post about World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz's speech to the National Press Club on the role of trade in reducing poverty in Africa and other underdeveloped regions. Today, Dana Milbank of the Washington Post has an account of the speech, or rather its atmospherics -- the substance of Wolfowitz's remarks about trade and poverty is of no interest to Milbank.

[Juancole.com] Informed Comment : 09/01/2004 - 09/30/2004: The early evening mortar attack on the homes of Christians in Baghdeda comes in the wake of a bloody forty days for this community, highlighted by the 1 August simultaneous bombing of five churches, one in Mosul and the others in Baghdad. While it has been impossible to determine the instigators of violence against Christians in Basra and Baghdad, and no doubt some of the Baghdad kidnapping for ransom is the work of criminal gangs possibly allied to the insurgency, the upsurge in attacks on Christians in the north, on the Nineveh Plains especially, is widely believed to be the work of KDP agents.

 [Dailywarnews.blogspot.com] Today in Iraq: Iraq, like Vietnam before it, has served to remind us that, like the war on communism, the war on terror is but a charade, a fear engendering escapade, designed to control populations and empower the elite, unleashing fear onto the citizenry while delivering enormous profit to the military-industrial complex. Using Arab men as bogeymen, hidden in the shadows, without faces, countries and, with the help of Hollywood and the corporate media, with a growing brutal reputation, dark skinned Muslims replaced white Soviet Reds as the new American enemy, the new cash cow granting the government and military industrial complex a new generation of destructive war from which to bleed the American taxpayer dry, providing misallocation of resources to the former and enormous profit to the latter.

 [Littlegreenfootballs.com] lgf: Bin Laden Revisionism at Duke: Everything you see in this weblog was developed and programmed by Charles Johnson, including but not limited to the slideshows, polls, user preferences, contact form, referrer list, daily/monthly statistics, site search, news search tools, link management system, random Zappa quote, and last but not least, the weblog system itself, which includes a full commenting system with a recent comments list, automatic archiving, RSS generation for syndication, an email-an-article feature, and a whole bunch of editing and administration features behind the scenes.

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