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Finding Obama guilty of insufficient devotion to Israel

Has there ever been another country besides Israel to which American politicians are required to vow absolute allegiance?

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  • Wednesday, May 14, 2008 08:23 PM

    For some reason I didn't realise tinyurl was absolutely free

    I shall definitely use it in future if I want to refer back to previous comments here, because when I tried to refer back to two of them yesterday I produced urls so long that it is a matter of chance whether they appear in full on the page or get truncated by an advertisement or something in the right hand column.

    By the way, something that is interesting in itself, irrespective of whether or not you believe that there are aspects of the 9-11 events that are suspicious, is the fact that over the last couple of years, the online world of 9-11 speculative writing has been drastically pruned as a result of a campaign run by a whole phalanx of Electro Robot type assaults, on the one hand, and a vast virtual slum full of people who really do use 9-11 as an anti-Semitic hobby-horse, on the other. The legitimate 9-11 campaigners have become much more focused on hardware issues and much less prepared to even tolerate questions of who, or why. The Jerry Mazza article I mentioned stands out as a rare piece of ad hominem, and here I shall try the tinyurl:

    http://tinyurl.com/5pwadj

    In New York itself, pickets at 'Ground Zero' have become facing off occasions for small factions of hard nosed campaigners from We Are Change versus provocateurs like Nico Haupt, who are sponsored by the Screw Loose Change group of right wing pro war campaigners:

    http://tinyurl.com/6quc6o

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