9/11 is not really blowback (blowback = revenge attack for the US' years of covert wars in the Middle East); it was an inside job, meaning planned by a criminal network in the US that incorporates multinational corporations and foreign and domestic intelligence agencies. But this is a good thing to remember for when it is advantageous to use a more watered down version of 9/11 truth. -- KM


You won't find the above headline anywhere else. Believe me, I've tried. Still, it's true. In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 10, 2008, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made the following jaw-dropping statement: "We were attacked from Afghanistan in 2001, and we are at war in Afghanistan today, in no small measure because of mistakes this government made--mistakes I among others made in the end game of the anti-Soviet war there some 20 years ago." That's an astonishing confession, even if mine was the only jaw that dropped. Gates is the first high official in the Bush administration to acknowledge what war critics have been lambasted for even suggesting...


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