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August 1, 2008 - 3:35 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-08-02 00:07:18

The conspiracy theorists say that 3,000 dead Americans, a smoking hole where the WTC used to be, videos of people leaping to their deaths, and a big smoking hole in the side of the Pentagon and Shanks Field, PA, were not “enough” to make the US attack Saddam to insure “never again!”

Wow. Meanwhile this ruthless group is so inept that they can’t suppress the conspiracy theorists. Wow.

We know what pure ruthlessness looks like. Polonium 210 tea. Delivered by a Sovereign State. Or Pablo Escobar. Or Zawahari. Or Bin Laden. We already know it.

The small scale of the attacks, the lack of any organized agenda (“do this or die!”) and the stopping of the attacks … mirror the Beltway Sniper. A nut and his lone accomplice. Sleeping in a car. No white vans. Just a beat to hell Chevy Caprice, with a hole in the trunk for shooting a rifle. No lone white guy, just two nutty Black guys.

It’s probably something along those lines. Which is scary as all hell, as noted above. A 5GW attack. By a person or several persons unknown. Perhaps for no real reason at all.