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House passes resolution to ‘never forget’ 9/11

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By Kase Wickman
Friday, September 9th, 2011 -- 4:04 pm

The House of Representatives Thursday passed a resolution commemorating the decennial of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.

The five-page resolution was introduced by Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and in it the House vows to "never forget" the attacks.

"Whereas thousands of families have lost loved ones in the defense of freedom and liberty against the tyranny of terror; and Whereas the passage of ten years has not diminished the pain caused by the senseless loss of nearly 3,000 persons killed on September 11, 2001," the resolution reads in part.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) released a statement about the resolution.

“The resolution passed by the House also commends our military and intelligence officials who have performed so valiantly over the last 10 years, including those involved in the removal of Osama bin Laden," it reads in part. "The days ahead afford each of us an opportunity to reflect and renew our commitment to defend against all enemies this land we love and the firm principles on which it stands. We must continue to adapt and move forward, we must not yield, we must not grow complacent, and we must not rest until the terrorist threat is vanquished."

Members of Congress will be present at memorials in Shanksville, Penn., at the Pentagon and at the site of the Twin Towers in New York City. On Monday, members of Congress will hold a remembrance ceremony at the Capitol.

The resolution concludes with "When Congress adjourns today, it stands adjourned out of respect to the victims of the terrorist attacks."

"A Resolution to 'Never Forget' or a resolution to always use this event for Propaganda???"

"Funny how it would seem Eric Cantor, probably has better things to do, Umm lets see.... Like Helping the fallen heroes, that saved many lives and in doing so are now losing theirs??? Hmmm, I am very Curious!!!"
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  • savvy7
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      savvy7  

    • he five-page resolution was introduced by Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and in it the House vows to "never forget" the attacks."

      Before or after he moved to cut funding for First Responders by 40% (after already cutting 19%)? That man needs a very permanent reminder of 9-11, the same type First Responders are currently suffering.

    • 9 months ago
  • Ian_Judge_Lord
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  • Ian_Judge_Lord
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      Ian_Judge_Lord  
    • KB723:

      August 6 & 9 1945:
      >100,000 Innocent Civilians vaporized in Thermonuclear bombings.
      = "acceptable losses"; "necessary sacrifices"; "collateral casualties"
      September 11, 2001:
      ~3,000 business people and government employees killed in hijacked airplane crashes and building collapses.
      = "unforgettable disaster"; "unforgivable crime"; "national tragedy"
      W...T...F?!

    • 9 months ago
  • KB723
  • EdJoyProductions
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  • congoboy
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      congoboy  
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    • Ian_Judge_Lord:

      The last thing Osama bin Laden saw on this Earth...A U.S. Navy SEAL and the muzzle flash of his weapon.
      The last thing Bin Laden felt....
      His head exploding from a U.S. Navy bullet.
      How fitting!
      The next thing Bin Laden saw....
      His Allah, with his mask removed, with ultimate evil revealed in his face.
      The next thing Bin Laden heard...
      "Welcome, Osama, you fool. I've been waiting for you. Welcome to everlasting torment. Former Congressman Ike Skelton, D-Mo. issued the following statement after learning of the death of Osama bin Laden:
      “On 9/11, I went to the Pentagon while the fires were still burning and witnessed the destruction brought about by Osama bin Laden and his fellow international criminals. Now Osama bin Laden’s death should have a chilling effect on other al Qaeda members because they must know they are next. It makes me proud, humbled and awed to know the last thing Osama bin Laden saw on this Earth was a trained, armed, ready and willing member of the United States military. God bless America.” http://rturner229.blogspot.com/2011/05/skelton-issues-statement-on-osama-bin.htm....

    • 9 months ago
  • congoboy
  • congoboy
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    • Ian_Judge_Lord:

      Crimes

      The Japanese military during the 1930s and 1940s is often compared to the military of Nazi Germany during 1933–45 because of the sheer scale of suffering. Much of the controversy regarding Japan's role in World War II revolves around the death rates of prisoners of war and civilians under Japanese occupation. The historian Chalmers Johnson has written that:

      It may be pointless to try to establish which World War Two Axis aggressor, Germany or Japan, was the more brutal to the peoples it victimised. The Germans killed six million Jews and 20 million Russians [i.e. Soviet citizens]; the Japanese slaughtered as many as 30 million Filipinos, Malays, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Indonesians and Burmese, at least 23 million of them ethnic Chinese. Both nations looted the countries they conquered on a monumental scale, though Japan plundered more, over a longer period, than the Nazis. Both conquerors enslaved millions and exploited them as forced labourers—and, in the case of the Japanese, as [forced] prostitutes for front-line troops. If you were a Nazi prisoner of war from Britain, America, Australia, New Zealand or Canada (but not Russia) you faced a 4% chance of not surviving the war; [by comparison] the death rate for Allied POWs held by the Japanese was nearly 30%.[29]

      According to the findings of the Tokyo Tribunal, the death rate among POWs from Asian countries, held by Japan was 27.1%.[30] The death rate of Chinese POWs was much higher because—under a directive ratified on August 5, 1937 by Emperor Hirohito—the constraints of international law on treatment of those prisoners was removed.[31] Only 56 Chinese POWs were released after the surrender of Japan.[32] After March 20, 1943, the Japanese Navy was under orders to execute all prisoners taken at sea.[33]
      [edit] Mass killings
      Japanese soldiers shooting blindfolded Sikh prisoners. The photograph was found among Japanese records when British troops entered Singapore.

      R. J. Rummel, a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, states that between 1937 and 1945, the Japanese military murdered from nearly 3,000,000 to over 10,000,000 people, most likely 6,000,000 Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, and Indochinese, among others, including Western prisoners of war. "This democide was due to a morally bankrupt political and military strategy, military expediency and custom, and national culture."[34] According to Rummel, in China alone, during 1937-45, approximately 3.9 million Chinese were killed, mostly civilians, as a direct result of the Japanese operations and 10.2 millions in the course of the war.[35] The most infamous incident during this period was the Nanking Massacre of 1937-38, when, according to the findings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the Japanese Army massacred as many as 300,000 civilians and prisoners of war, although the accepted figure[by whom?] is somewhere in the hundreds of thousands.[36] In Southeast Asia, the Manila massacre, resulted in the death of 100,000 civilians in the Philippines. It is estimated that at least one out of every 20 Filipinos died at the hand of the Japanese during the occupation.[37][38] In the Sook Ching massacre, Lee Kuan Yew, the ex-Prime Minister of Singapore, said during an interview with National Geographic that there were between 50,000 and 90,000 casualties[39] while according to Major General Kawamura Saburo, there were 5,000 casualties in total.[40] There were other massacres of civilians e.g. the Kalagong massacre.

      Historian Mitsuyoshi Himeta reports that a "Three Alls Policy" (Sankō Sakusen) was implemented in China from 1942 to 1945 and was in itself responsible for the deaths of "more than 2.7 million" Chinese civilians. This scorched earth strategy, sanctioned by Hirohito himself, directed Japanese forces to "Kill All, Burn All, and Loot All."

      Additionally, captured allied service personnel were massacred in various incidents, including:

      Laha massacre[41]
      Banka Island massacre[42]
      Parit Sulong
      Palawan massacre
      SS Tjisalak massacre perpetrated by Japanese submarine I-8
      Wake Island massacre - See Battle of Wake Island
      Bataan Death March
      Shinyo Maru Incident
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes

    • 9 months ago
  • congoboy
  • good_stuff
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    • Ian_Judge_Lord:

      Yes, and about 7,000 people die everyday in the US. I think it is like 200,000 worldwide that die everyday.

      Somehow I don't see why we're still talking about this 10 years later. 3,000 peeps really is insignificant, and something to be expected when you destroy other countries with policy and/or force on a frequent basis.

      I wonder how perception would be different if terrorist flew planes into the New York or Chicago Projects?

    • 9 months ago
  • EdJoyProductions
  • congoboy
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  • ThirdSection
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  • Argon18
  • ThirdSection
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  • KB723
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      KB723  

    • Hooray, our NegaMeister is Back!!! Downing all the comments on this page and Kennymotowns page... Hmmm I wonder who that could be???

    • 9 months ago
  • ThirdSection
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  • bailey78
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  • Nick19
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      Nick19  

    • I sure didn't forget 9/11...the day in which a coup overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile.

    • 9 months ago
  • sugarmountian
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      sugarmountian  

    • Eric Cantor is doing this for one thing, distraction from the heat that he and his cronies are under since the " Pass this Bill' speach. To do it for anything else would require a heart or a soul and we know that prick doesn't have either one.

    • 9 months ago
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  • kvb1
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      kvb1  

    • 9/11 will become part of American folklore, just like "Remember the Maine", or "Remember the Alamo", or our involvement in the Philippines. The reasons behind these are always forgotten, but they are used as an excuse for American intervention. The Maine incident led to TR and his Rough Ridders, and the eventual annexation of Cuba from Spain, The Same thin happened in the Philippines which led to Mark Twain establishing the Anti-Imperialist League in 1898. The Alamo, and the "Republic of Texas" was just an excuse for the annexation of territory from Mexico, territory that was in American politicians sight since the days of Aaron Burr trying to forge a new country of Franklin west of the Appalachians, in what is now Kentucky.

      We are never taught the back story that led to these things happening, just the "blind siding" that happened and the resultant wars.

    • 9 months ago
  • squarethecircle
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  • remanns
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  • sweetprablrouzer
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  • PeteLeS33
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      PeteLeS33  

    • Of course we need to "never forget", we need to keep spinning the fear propraganda. "Look, over there, a dark skinned person with a towel on his head", "Run for your Lives!!!! AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

      How about "Never Forgetting the First Reaponders"

    • 9 months ago
  • KB723
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      KB723  
    • PeteLeS33:

      How about "Never Forgetting the First Reaponders"

      Exactly, but they seem to have forgotten all about them... They were Heroes and I remember youngsters wanting to be a fireman or a policeman, and now they were not even invited to the ten year anniversary event...

    • 9 months ago
  • PeteLeS33
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      PeteLeS33  
    • KB723:

      This is when you know that all this has been politicalized. Only when it makes the republican party look compassionate, so they can earn their "Good Guy Badge" , but yet reduce the benifiets of the first responders by 40% ,we should understand that this country is in real trouble. Use 9/11 as a scare tactic only yet deprive the hero's their just due is in my opinion, discraceful.

    • 9 months ago
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  • PeteLeS33
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    • KB723:

      I so enjoy the site but I do not have the time right now. but soon I shall be on a more steady schedual so I can contribute more to the discussion there.

      Yes the flamming pumping will return.

    • 9 months ago
  • Frosty46
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      Frosty46  

    • Watched the video of the towers falling exactly into their own footprint again yesterday--------------total proof of the towers being rigged with explosives to come down correctly-------------no other possible conclusion for anyone with an once of knowledge!
      What a stupid citizenry in the US------------

    • 9 months ago
  • congoboy
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    • Frosty46:

      dont be a frosty fool my conspiratorial misguided friend...The World Trade Center controlled demolition conspiracy theory is the conspiracy theory that the collapse of the World Trade Center was not caused by the plane crash damage that occurred as part of the September 11, 2001 attacks, nor by resulting fire damage, but by explosives installed in the buildings in advance.[1]

      Early on, advocates such as physicist Steven E. Jones, architect Richard Gage, software engineer Jim Hoffman, and theologian David Ray Griffin, argued that the aircraft impacts and resulting fires could not have weakened the buildings sufficiently to initiate a catastrophic collapse, and that the buildings would not have collapsed completely, nor at the speeds that they did, without additional energy involved to weaken their structures.

      The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the magazine Popular Mechanics examined and rejected these theories. Specialists in structural mechanics and structural engineering generally accept the model of a fire-induced, gravity-driven collapse of the World Trade Center buildings, an explanation that does not involve the use of explosives.[2][3][4] NIST did not test for explosive compound residue in steel samples, stating the potential for inconclusive results, and noting that similar compounds would have been present during construction of the towers.[5]

      In 2006, Jones suggested that thermite or super-thermite may have been used by government insiders with access to such materials and to the buildings themselves, to demolish the buildings.[6][7][8][9] Later, Niels H. Harrit et al. stated that they had found evidence of nano-thermite in samples of the dust that was produced during the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.

      In April 2009, Steven E. Jones, along with Niels Harrit and 7 other authors published a paper in The Open Chemical Physics Journal, titled, 'Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe'. [10] NIST then said that there was no "clear chain of custody" to prove that the four samples of dust came from the WTC site. Jones invited NIST to conduct its own studies using its own known "chain of custody" dust, but NIST did not investigate.[11]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_controlled_demolition_conspiracy...

    • 9 months ago
  • Frosty46
  • congoboy
  • Almibry
  • EdJoyProductions
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  • ThirdSection
  • EdJoyProductions
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    • KB723:

      I can not begin to tell you how furious this phony bullshit makes me. If I had the power to inflict upon every member of the house for one day the afflictions that many of the first responders are living with (the ones that are still alive) I would do it gleefully and revel in their suffering. Then the next day I want to see them say, "well the science is not there to justify payments for cancer". FUCK THEM!

    • 9 months ago
  • KB723
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    • EdJoyProductions:

      I agree EdJoy, did you happen to catch Sanjay Gupta's show called Terror in the Dust this evening... For the First time that I know of, the Culprit is as i have always said "Asbestos" It will probably be re-aired this evening and it is a must see... I think I will post an article tomorrow at MSJ about the two forms of asbestos and the harmful nature of each... Along with many videos... Now lets keep in mind that after the collapse of these towers, there was mention of asbestos, but it was said it was not harmful by the air counts they had done...

      BS, if you were at what they call "The Pile" you were breathing that Crap all day and everyday you were there... They were not allowed Respirators til 6 weeks after the Fall.... And as far as OSHA is concerned, to have any employee anywhere, wear a respirator, you must take a PFT... That's a Pulmonary Function Test, this test tells the lung capacity and some folks could have failed that test, meaning they could not wear a respirator, hence they could not help with finding survivors or even the clean up...

      What surprises me most is that, most firefighters, know very well about asbestos and it's Hazards... In fact I would bet that they probably had to take a PFT just to be able to wear a PAPR Personal Air Purification Respirator, you know, the ones that look like scuba gear, and cover the entire face... When them towers went down, the first thing they should have done is use the firetrucks to wet down the dust, hence grounding it and making it much less easy to breath the airborne fibers... I really had to sit back and watch and wonder why no safety precautions were taken... Perhaps our gov't wanted to kill the Help as well???

    • 9 months ago
  • EdJoyProductions
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      EdJoyProductions  
    • KB723:

      The people that went in to do rescue work did not have the time to think about that stuff nor would most have them taken the time when minutes of hesitation would mean life or death to some survivors. Firefighters were killed that day. They were not thinking about their own safety.

      I work downtown. Everyone that was down there when this happened has respiratory problems and these are not the clean up workers. This is just the people that live and work in the area. The rescue and clean up workers were knee deep in that toxic mess for sometimes 12 hours a day.

      At the time, I listened in horror as Christie Whitman said it was safe to be in the area and to work there without the proper protective equipment. Another Bush appointee that did not know her ass from her ear. This was handled so badly that I wanted to scream. I knew it was not safe and i am not a fucking scientist!

      This was another situation that could be chocked up to incompetence or willful negligence on the part of the fucking Bush administration.

      My head's exploding. The proliferation of phony 9/11 bull shit is trying my patience. I have to get off this subject or I am going to have a stroke.

    • 9 months ago
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  • squarethecircle
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      squarethecircle  
    • KB723:

      The towers were considered a white elephant due to the asbestos and the need to remove it. The insurance for a terror attack was increased right before 9/11 by the brand new lessee who invested a few million in the contract for a multi billion dollar payout when they were destroyed. There is no coincidence and too many people died and are still dying for their gain. We should be livid, but most want to believe what they are told rather than the facts.

    • 9 months ago
  • Littlewolf
  • KB723
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      KB723  
    • squarethecircle:

      That very well could be, it would have taken years to remove all the asbestos in both of those buildings... What I am getting at, is that they knew the whole time how hazardous the dust could be and did very little to provide safety for the folks that were helping out...

    • 9 months ago
  • BrushwithDeathToothpaste
  • EdJoyProductions
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      EdJoyProductions  
    • BrushwithDeathToothpaste:

      It seems to me they are trying to hide their lack of support for the first responders by providing endless circuses surrounding an event that should not be celebrated for a variety of reasons.

      1. People were killed - we did not honor them by becoming a police state.

      2. The President (Bush, with very questionable agendas) and his administration handled the crisis with unbelievable incompetence, willful negligence and/or had a hand in its culmination of the event. As with every other major event, there is so much of a smoke screen, it is difficult to sort out fact from fiction. However a very expensive war, with a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 ensued. To this day, no one has taken steps to prosecute anyone for this war crime.

      3. The supposed mastermind of this tragedy was killed in secret, disposed of at sea and there are no pictures. The boogie man is supposedly gone and our government wouldn't even provide a photoshopped picture? Sounds as fishy as Bin Laden's alleged final resting place.

      4. Our government took 10 fucking years to come up with a way to compensate the people that in most cases, wound up giving their lives and health to rescue and clean up the mess. It took only a year in a half to come up with all kinds of funding to go to war with the wrong fucking country.

      5. Ground zero should have been cleaned up and replaced years ago but for bickering billionaire owners and incompetence all around.

      This phony patriotism is something that makes me physically ill.

    • 9 months ago
  • Littlewolf
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      Littlewolf  

    • Goes well with the other story -
      "Eric Cantor Offsets Disaster Relief With a 40% Cut To First Responders"
      I just hope Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert go after him -

    • 9 months ago
  • KB723
  • SandyBerman
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  • ACSUS
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    • SandyBerman:

      Just a bunch of opportunistic assholes bleating a bunch of bitter blather belching their usual battery of bile while remaining the preaching procrastinating pessimists puking putrescent puddles of porcine putzdribble.

      Yes, unlike people on this site who are all so rational, intelligent and thoughtful. With kindness and humanity oozing from every keystroke. You know, like redjujube.

    • 9 months ago
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  • Joeydee44
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    • ACSUS:

      My, aren't we sarcastic? But I do consider myself rational, intelligent, and thoughtful. At least a little bit, anyway. Please, feel the gentle ooze from my keystrokes...

    • 9 months ago
  • ACSUS
  • 2hellnwait
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  • ZiggyStrange
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      ZiggyStrange  

    • Screw Cantor and his traitor cronies. It's an outrage to pass this Bill. I don't need a Republican resolution to remember something that is with me every day for the rest of my life. ARGHHH!!

    • 9 months ago
  • ACSUS
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  • Anonmaly
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    • Anonmaly:

      Of course they do... We had no problem letting the gov't invade a country that had nothing to do with this, and are led to believe that Osama Bin Rotten was buried at Sea... Go Figure!!!

    • 9 months ago
  • Littlewolf
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  • Joeydee44
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      KB723  
    • Joeydee44:

      You mean like the lies of 9/11??? Like the lies about WMD's??? Maybe the lies that the oil in Iraq would pay for our service there??? How about the lies of Liberation and Mission Accomplished??? Must I go on???

    • 9 months ago
  • ACSUS
  • Littlewolf
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    • KB723:

      Ahh - now that makes sense! Kenny Boy "died" at such an opportunistic time - made me think back on Martha Mitchell - when she was overpowered by "men in black" & they tried to inject her scalp veins with toxic drugs. She only survived bc she was able to break away & run to the hotel's terrace screaming. The newspapers at the time said her story was confirmed. They wanted to keep her quiet bc she was revealing things going on behind the scenes in the Nixon administration - But Dubai sounds more logical with this crowd!

    • 9 months ago
  • KB723
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      KB723  
    • Littlewolf:

      Right On Littlewolf, I am glad my thoughts made some sense, it's been a whirlwind for the last 12 years to keep on top of all this... I was not alive during the Nixon administration so I will have to look into this, Thanks... =)

    • 9 months ago
  • congoboy
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  • nikonwilly
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      nikonwilly  

    • And those that are the real culprits are laughing all the way to the bank...again and again and again and again....What freaking hypocrisy ....they were shamed into passing health care for the responders and now this tripe.
      How much more bullshit do we need to take from these sick bastards?
      Science proves what didn't happened and 90 % what did happen...why are so many still in denial about this?

    • 9 months ago
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  • OlBlue
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    • ThirdSection:

      Ha! Bong water is too good for these turkeys. It would do Cantor good to get stoned once in a while though, if he could handle it, however, he would probably curl up in a fetal position and whimper like the paranoid little bitch he is. It would probably just make Boner want another drink.

    • 9 months ago
  • wolfess
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      wolfess  

    • Wow! The really amazing thing about this story is that this bill was unanimously passed -- when was the last time the dems, reptards, and the tea reptards agreed on ANYthing?
      Pwr 2 the REAL 9/11 heroes! Dismember the fucking reptards!

    • 9 months ago
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