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[pirate off] Via Skippy, I found a liberal news site called The Raw Story, which reproed a transcript of a recent interview with Stanley Hilton, former chief of staff to Bob Dole, who is suing George W. Bush for personally ordering the events of 9/11. Sayeth Hilton,

We have some very incriminating documents as well as eye-witnesses, that Bush personally ordered this event to happen in order to gain political advantage, to pursue a bogus political agenda on behalf of the neocons and their deluded thinking in the Middle East. I also wanted to point out that, just quickly, I went to school with some of these neocons. At the University of Chicago, in the late 60s with Wolfowitz and Feith and several of the others and so I know these people personally. And we used to talk about this stuff all of the time. And I did my senior thesis on this very subject - how to turn the U.S. into a presidential dictatorship by manufacturing a bogus Pearl Harbor event. So, technically this has been in the planning at least 35 years...

The hijackers we retained and we had a witness who is married to one of them. The hijackers were U.S. undercover agents. They were double agents, paid by the FBI and the CIA to spy on Arab groups in this country. They were controlled. Their landlord was an FBI informant in San Diego and other places. And this was a direct, covert operation ordered, personally ordered by George W. Bush. Personally ordered. We have incriminating evidence, documents as well as witnesses, to this effect. It’s not just incompetence - in spite of the fact that he is incompetent. The fact is he personally ordered this, knew about it. He, at one point, there were rehearsals of this. The reason why he appeared to be uninterested and nonchalant on September 11th - when those videos showed that Andrew Card whispered in his ear the [garbled] words about this he listened to kids reading the pet goat story, is that he thought this was another rehearsal. These people had dress rehearsed this many times. He had seen simulated videos of this. In fact, he even made a Freudian slip a few months later ata California press conference when he said he had, quote, “seen on television the first plane attack the first tower.” And that could not be possible because there was no video. What it was was the simulated video that he had gone over. So this was a personally government ordered thing.

What intrigued me most about this interview, besides the fact that this isn't the first time Alex Jones has interviewed Hilton but I guess folks had other things on their minds in March of 2003, was the mention of a hijacker's wife. To my knowledge nobody's ever talked about any of these fundies being married. And damn, doesn't it explain a lot of stuff like how the powers that be knew the hijackers' names and stuff so quickly after the fact? (On the other hand, the first thing Robin noted was "if they were double agents, why would they go on a suicide mission? That's not an American sort of thing to do.")

But, I dunno. There's so much intrigue and secrecy going on with this administration that for all we know the whole story could be a plant to make liberals buy into nutbar conspiracy theories and thus seem less credible - a kind of verbal equivalent of the physical crap pulled by Phil Parlock, who seems to have a sideline hobby of attending Democratic rallies and pretending to be assaulted (when I think we're all pretty much aware of which side has actually been doing the assaulting and arresting at political rallies), the latest incidence involving him using his 3-year-old daughter as a shield. By the way, am I the only one having weird "fantasies" about introducing Parlock to fellow serial fake victim Patricia Vanlester? In any case, it all just seems like so much damned-if-we-do (believe folks like Stanley Hilton), damned-if-we-don't. This is the sort of paralysis that causes people to stay away from polls (which tends to result in Republican victories). Abel Ashes, the webmaster of deprogram.info, has put together a fairly comprehensive site on Hilton's lawsuit if anyone wants to look up the actual paperwork, other interviews and press releases, etc.