"Facing the Facts"

"Some people need to connect each and every dot. May I do it for you in pencil, or in blood?"

I forgot to refer you to this Common Sense commentary from Neil Cavuto, which I caught on FNC, Monday:

.... In July 2001, a commentary in the Iraqi publication Al-Nasiriya praising Usama bin Laden with these words:

"In this man's heart you'll find an insistence, a strange determination that he will reach one day the tunnels of the White House and will bomb it with everything that is in it."

It talks of attacks on the Pentagon, the White House, and offers this suggestion, again only two months before Sept. 11, that the U.S. will curse the memory of "Frank Sinatra every time he hears his songs." Is that a reference to Sinatra's "New York, New York?"

Funny what Iraq knew and condoned and when it knew and condoned it. In cover story after cover story, its state-sponsored press praised Bin Laden.

Now ask yourself this: Exactly how did it know so much about Bin Laden?

It's a government that talks of helping the Taliban rebuild in Afghanistan. It talks of emotional help, financial help and political help.

So help me here. What is the difference between "smoking" words and a "smoking" gun?

Some people need to connect each and every dot. May I do it for you in pencil, or in blood?

Which reminds me. Can we please stop the incessant use of the stupid phrase smoking gun?

Tell me, O you Lawyers of St. Blog's Parish, just how many murders by firearm are prosecuted because the gun was found smoking?

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Wed. 02/19/03 12:10:10 PM
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