Today I happened across The Church Militant and noticed, aside from the interesting mix of “News Babes” pictures and transcripts from Catholic mass, he had an interesting sidebar stating the number of days since Sept 11, 2001.
First, it struck me that it had been a very long time and we still hadn’t found the guy who started the whole thing. No, not him. Not him either. The guy that orchestrated the 9/11 attacks, according to the 9/11 commission. Then it struck me that I couldn’t remember his name, the guy Bush pointed attention away from to steer it toward Saddam. We we’re all like, that’s silly, you can’t just make it true by saying it. It wasn’t Saddam, it was… Hmm, it worked.
So, if the lesson is that you can make things true by just saying them enough, you’d think it would be much easier to do when the truth corresponded with actual reality. So maybe we’re just not saying it enough? (Just so it gets said, America was not attacked by Iraq or Saddam Hussein.)
In the end I had to get some help from Google cause I couldn’t remember. Do you remember? Well, it doesn’t matter anyway, I don’t even think they’re looking for him anymore. Interestingly, his FBI Most Wanted listing doesn’t even mention 9/11.