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Richard Miniter reveals:

"Three common myths about the Bush Administration that have been spread widely by Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11

The 9/11 hijackers used box-cutters to take control of the four planes they hijacked, right? Wrong -- and how this popular myth got started

Did the U.S. fund the Taliban in the 1980s? It would have been tough, since the Taliban wasn't even formed until 1995

How the only source for the widespread idea that Osama bin Laden is on dialysis and is slowly dying of kidney failure has backed away from his story

Striking evidence that Osama bin Laden is not a reclusive multi-millionaire who can finance his terror campaign out of his own pocket -- and that Al-Qaeda is in fact perennially short of cash

What Osama bin Laden himself has said about the Left's pet charge that he was trained by American officials in Afghanistan -- plus six sources that show that he never had any relationship with the CIA or any other U.S. agency

The deadly lesson that the Iranian revolution taught to bin Laden and his comrades-in-arms

How bin Laden declared war on America five separate times and pursued his jihad war against the United States throughout the 1990s -- contrary to liberal media claims that no one had heard of him before 9/11

Bush knew? No -- as is clear from this close examination of the CIA memo that supposedly warned him about possible hijackings before 9/11

Were 4,000 Jews really absent from their jobs at the World Trade Center on 9/11? The truth about this hateful anti-Semitic canard

Since the September 11 attacks, the world is more dangerous for Americans than ever before, right? Wrong

Are U.S. troops in Iraq to make the world safe for Halliburton? No -- in fact, Halliburton has not made a fortune in Iraq, and is even trying to sell its division that runs Iraqi operations

Why there is absolutely no viable parallel between America's presence in Iraq and the Vietnam War

How the number of civilians killed by American troops in Iraq has been wildly inflated by the rabid leftists among the mainstream media and academic establishment

A war for oil? Why the U.S. is not fighting one in Iraq or anywhere else

No WMDs in Iraq? How the strength of the prewar intelligence on weapons of mass destruction was exaggerated -- but so is the postwar case against that same intelligence

Clear, uncontested, proven links between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Al Qaeda

Saddam Hussein: a secular strongman with no connection to radical Islamic terror organizations? Not quite. His extensive record of cooperation with Islamic terrorist organizations

Why everyone from George W. Bush to Al Gore agrees that poverty is a major cause, if not the cause, of terrorism -- everyone, that is, except the scholars who actually study terrorists

Suitcase nukes? Relax: most of the information causing the fear over this has come from one Russian general who has changed his story many times

Colonel Oliver North: did he really warn America about the threat of Osama bin Laden back in the 1980s?

Did President Bush really say that Iraq was an "imminent threat" to America? What he really said -- and why it matters so much

Four overwhelming reasons why racial profiling would fail to make us any safer against terrorists

Borders out of control? How, as unlikely as it sounds, there are actually no known cases of Al Qaeda terrorists sneaking across the Mexican border

Why so many people are so eager to believe these War on Terror myths, no matter how outlandish they are

Five groups that are most likely to fall for these myths -- including liberals and antiwar crusaders"

1 posted on 11/01/2005 5:28:58 PM PST by kellynla
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To: kellynla

A much needed book for all Americans to read it seems. Too bad not enough of them will. I ordered it immediately, thanks!


2 posted on 11/01/2005 5:34:30 PM PST by ladyinred ("Progressive" = code word for Communist/Nazi)
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To: kellynla
Colonel Oliver North: did he really warn America about the threat of Osama bin Laden back in the 1980s?

Could have. We were supporting the Muja-hadhin in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union occupation. In particular, we were giving $$ to OBL and his group. It turned out to be one of those "blow-back" situations. I'm sure not a few people in the military and intelligence agencies had serious misgivings even back then.

3 posted on 11/01/2005 5:35:44 PM PST by podkane
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To: kellynla

Pushing the poop back into the pony never works out.

People adore their media induced delusions and consider those who would shatter them lunatics.


4 posted on 11/01/2005 5:38:30 PM PST by mmercier
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To: kellynla

1. Remind the left that every single Democrat of note said in 1998 that Iraq's WMD posed a danger to the United States.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/972389/posts

2. Remind the left that Clinton's Justice Department obtained a federal indictment of Osama bin Laden which stated that AQ had a deal with Iraq. They agreed not to attack Iraq in exchange for weapons development.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/985906/posts

3. 9/11 Commission reaffirms Bush administration view of Iraq/AQ ties.
June 21, 2004. RNC.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1157478/posts

4. Long List of Clinton Administration Officials who Believed There was an AQ/Iraq connection.
July 12, 2004. NewsMax.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1169397/posts

5. List of CIA and various Reports regarding Iraq's support for terrorists, terrorism and AQ.
September 16, 2004. The Weekly Standard.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/631slkle.asp

6. Osama bin Laden was considered an Iraqi Intelligence asset.
October 14, 2004. National Review.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1246505/posts

Funny how in the 90's the world was concerned about the growing relationship between OBL and Saddam and now the left is revising history.

Saddam reaching out to OBL
January 1, 1999. Newsweek
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1158277/posts

ABC news reports on the Osama/Saddam connections
January 14, 1999. ABC News
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1229608/posts?page=1

Osama and Saddam Work Together
January 27, 1999. Laurie Mylroie interview. She is a former Clinton terrorism czar.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1158482/posts

A Much Shunned Terrorist Takes Refuge In Iraq (Abu Nidal)
New York Times. January 1999.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1433610/posts

Western Nightmare: Saddam and OBL versus the World. Iraq recruited OBL.
February 6, 1999. The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,798270,00.html

Saddam's Link to OBL
February 6, 1999. The Guardian
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/866105/posts

Saddam offered asylum to bin Laden
February 13, 1999. AP
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1158274/posts

Son of Saddam coordinates with OBL.
Iraqi Special Ops coordinates with Bin Laden's terrorist activities.
August 6, 1999. Yossef Bodansky, National Press Club
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/951911/posts

That and more here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327993/posts?q=1&&page=151



6 posted on 11/01/2005 5:43:40 PM PST by Peach (The Dems enabled Able Danger. 3,000 Americans died.)
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To: kellynla; Southack; mhking; Petronski; jwalsh07; All
I listened to Medved interviewing Richard Miniter. It was good and I plan on getting this book.

But allow me to highlight something.

Five groups that are most likely to fall for these myths -- including liberals and antiwar crusaders

For those of you who have been here for a while, just who do you think fits the above description, although they never claimed to be liberals? They were and are still anti-war types, but they should immediately spring to your mind. Oh, BTW, they were LOUD.

Do you remember who they were? (I'm not talking about Justine Raimundo, either.)


If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.

11 posted on 11/01/2005 5:52:18 PM PST by rdb3 (Does this wheelchair make me look fat?)
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To: kellynla

I went to college with Rich Miniter at Vassar, back in the late 1980s. Good guy. I heard him on the radio and look forward to getting his new book! KUDOS!


13 posted on 11/01/2005 5:54:53 PM PST by HitmanLV (Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

23 posted on 11/01/2005 9:54:32 PM PST by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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To: kellynla

How did the hijackers take control of 4 jetliners?


28 posted on 11/02/2005 5:30:19 AM PST by wordsofearnest (Bring Back Torre)
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To: kellynla

I'm putting this book on my wish list & requesting it through our library on-line system. The more requests they get, the more likely they are to buy it.


29 posted on 11/02/2005 6:01:40 AM PST by AmericaUnite
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To: kellynla

33 posted on 11/02/2005 7:42:34 AM PST by Grampa Dave (MSM pseudo reporters use "could, may, and might" when they are lying and spinning.)
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