Oh, Swell

Seymour Hersh is claiming that Cheney considered a false-flag operation to provoke a war with Iran:

There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up. Might cost some lives.

And it was rejected because you can’t have Americans killing Americans. That’s the kind of — that’s the level of stuff we’re talking about. Provocation. But that was rejected.

The Troofers will be all over that but once again, this is an Operation Northwoods, where the plan was declined because Americans might die. Far from supporting their kooky ideas this specifically debunks them.

Note: I don't know if the underlying story is true; Hersh has a well-established reputation for making strong accusations in speeches and on TV and then much weaker charges in print.

They're Still Just Movies, Or Cartoons

Sheesh, these Deniers see something of 9-11 in everything on TV and in the theatres. Here's a guy who's a big fan of the Star Wars series:

Parallels have often been drawn before between this tale that George Lucas wrote into his film saga and true history and even current world events. Lucas has even admitted history’s influence on his scripts. But I would like to point to a little more specific parallel that is not so apparent to us, particularly from a Christian point of view. I would like for you to consider that maybe the Church today is in that scene fighting with a Count Dooku, saber blow for saber blow, just like Anakin was. And like the fictional account, we are headed towards the point when we will have our saber and the enemy’s in our hands with him knelt before us in defeat or possibly the opposite. And like Skywalker, we might have the opportunity to behead him out of revenge instead of justice. But wait a minute, don’t get ahead of me. What about the entire back story involved? Does it apply to our real life situation as well? I propose that not only is it possible that this is the case, but there is great historic precedent that it is.

I think his point is that false-flag terrorism exists. But check out the comments on that post as well:

My first exposure to the concept of the false flag came from The Princess Bride.

And the capper:

Please don't tell me you never watch Scooby Doo cartoons

Every episode involved FFT