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Mumbai, the NYT's revisionism, and lessons not learned

The Times' Editorial Page blames the Bush administration for "blessing" the military coup against Hugo Chavez without mentioning that it did the same. Why does that matter?

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  • Friday, November 28, 2008 10:27 AM

    @Reality Kid

    Hey RK - I wasn't implying that US had ownership on 9-11, but, there are 9-11's that predate the Chile 9/11/73 experience.

    According to James Carroll in "House of War", the ceremonial groundbreaking for the Pentagon occurred on 9/11/41. That book had several other 9-11 dates of coincidental significance that I forget (or did I read that in Robert Fisk's "The Great War for Civilization")?

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