tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330328.post1991120746652707409..comments2024-02-05T05:15:27.374-05:00Comments on WTF Is It Now?!?: ‘We’re gonna take him out!’maruhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719882642550170084noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330328.post-58053215685963162612009-12-01T22:55:29.149-05:002009-12-01T22:55:29.149-05:00Shorter big em: Hinchey's claim comports both ...Shorter big em: Hinchey's claim comports both with the known facts and Occam's Razor.<br /><br />+1Lex Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05364989805025038306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330328.post-17623989248593520392009-12-01T22:33:01.850-05:002009-12-01T22:33:01.850-05:00I for one tend to believe Hinchey's statement ...I for one tend to believe Hinchey's statement - - it's just TOO incredible to think that the largest military in the world, led by a virtually conscienceless administration, with the world's highest military/spying technology, all focused (supposedly) on the capture of a 6'-5" guy traveling with a dialysis machine could NOT prevail when they had him virtually surrounded. I CAN (and do) believe that 9/11 WAS a case of malfeasance/ineptitude/indifference to governing/lack of attentiveness, but after that 'wakeup call', it's hard to believe that -- with their attention finally focused -- they couldn't capture bin Laden. And then Bush's later statement that "I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's <br />not that important. It's not our priority."* to me represents a virtual admission that their motivations were elsewhere. Also, with his administration full of signatories to the 'Project for the New American Century', all of them 'hard-nosed' political opportunists who had openly yearned for a 'new Pearl Harbor', it's far from idle speculation to say that this was on their wish-list.<br /> While I agree with CV's Carl Sagan quote, I would say that the apologists/believers in W's story have the burden of 'extraordinary proof for this extraordinary claim'.<br /><br />(* G.W. Bush, 3/13/02)big emnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330328.post-63286936542249725662009-12-01T16:29:12.176-05:002009-12-01T16:29:12.176-05:00Carl Sagan counseled that extraordinary claims req...Carl Sagan counseled that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.<br /><br />One of the things that strikes me most about the rep's statements is the "everybody knows" assurance in the tone of his comments. It's the tone of evangelicals, and I wonder if perhaps he is not in the wrong line of work.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.com