Dems Nominate 9/11 Conspiracy Buff In Fla.

Well, he's no Michael Moore: he prefers blaming Cheney, as opposed to Bush.

The former head of the Star Wars missile defense program under Presidents Ford and Carter has gone public to say that the official version of 9/11 is a conspiracy theory and his main suspect for the architect of the attack is Vice President Dick Cheney.

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[THE AZTEC CORN GODDESS]

~~~ HEY DAN !!.. ~~~ .<---- Trying to get your attention..... :}

This stuff is so stupid, let's have a fun contest to lighten things up.

I CONVERTED TO ISLAM AND LIVED: My New Name Is: The Aztec Corn Allah

The Aztec Camel Queen Mohammed

AllahWorldViewYouCudWant Mohammed

The Carnivorous Camel's Riehl Views

Allah Views Dats Fit to Print

I'm not doing it right. I'm making titles. You fix it so we have to come up with our own converted names. Then I'll mess it up. ha ha ha...... I think I'm a bit retarded.....

[Phoenix]

Jesus Loves Me. No He Don't.

[Ralph Roisterdoister]

Kumbaya My Mohammed

[Dan Riehl]

Yes? LOL

[Bill Golding]

LORD OF THE MULLAHS. A harrowing tale of a pride of young would-be suicide bombers who run away and settle on an island. Thinking all was well and that blowing up people a thing of the past, the fruit-filled young men discover their inner-beast rising. They start throwing rocks until one of the saner members, who would probably have gone to Harvard if his parents hadn't strapped on the vest and made him run, said, "Stop now. I say. Let's find food." So the boys say to themselves - 'yeah, we are hungry.' Despite living in deserts all their lives and not knowing much about jungles and such, they call up their hippocampuses which signals them to sharpen long sticks and to follow narrow trails where they might find a fine accoutrement to their fruit. They find it. A pig's head on a stick! They all run away screaming 'never shall pork cross my lips!' whereupon the smart guy says, "Oh, stop it you bloody fools." They stone him to death and like the feeling of power and promptly split into two groups - the Republimullahs and the Demomullahs. It doesn't end like you think it will. They bore each other to death with talking points and buzzards come and eat the carcasses.

[Jamil Remarque]

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN DUNE. - In this true tale of warring factions, we get down with the action and futility of war. Young men are told by their mullahs to go fight the infidel because if they don’t, they will never learn what’s under the burqa. Boys being boys, they are curious enough to do battle for this knowledge. They pump up their endocrine systems in training camps run by special forces in beards and mean looks who tell them what’s under the burqa is worth dying for. So they get all libidinous and gnash their teeth for victory and head out to the desert to meet the enemy. Both factions are equally trained and they look just alike so it’s the dunes that separate the Sunnispots from the Shiatches. The ROE are to stay in your dune trench and throw gas bombs and shoot some bullets when the other side stops to reload. Headquarters sends a lackey out in a white towel to check on the war and he finds everyone dead and sunburnt bad. There are no trenches. He radios back to headquarters that all the Sunnispots and Shiatches are taking long-term sand naps, and says: “Sand does not make for good trenches, methinks.” Headquarters sends a drone out to kill him so no one will know of the failed strategy and declare victory over the radio where it gets on TV and everyone cheers and marches in the streets with signs and burning flags. The marchers don’t care who won, they just like a good rally.

[Steel Turman]

It was a dark and stormy night.

Somewhere between dawn and now, I saw it.

It was moving. It came to me. It was alive.

Then I remembered that I hadn't fed the damned goats.

[Slartibartfast]

Um...Bob Bowman was never the head of "the Star Wars missile defense program", or anything resembling it. Bob Bowman was director of Advanced Space Programs Development under Ford and Carter, so his resume says; good luck finding that organization mentioned by anyone other than LtCol Bowman. And in any case, strategic defense wasn't anywhere near its heyday until after Bowman retired. According to Bowman, he was in charge of a half billion dollars' worth of hardware, which is roughly five percent of the R&D budget (at that time) for all military. I'm not sure if I buy it.

The only websites/articles where I can see that Bob Bowman had anything to do with anything at all are...wait for it...instances where Bowman himself supplied the information.

The main thing is that although one doesn't need a Ph.D or two to become a crackpot, having those advanced degrees isn't an effective innoculation against crackpottery.

And, if you believe the PBS timeline (or MDA's timeline), there wasn't much of anything happening under the Ford and Carter administrations; not that you'd need a timeline to tell you that, but it does serve to verify.