>> ^entr0py:

It took him a while, but he did claim responsibility for the Sept. 11 attacks. Not just that al-Qaeda did it, but that he personally recruited the hijackers.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2004/10/29/binladen_message041029.
html
<a rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" href="http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20080701092211/<a rel="nofollow" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1550477.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1550477.cms">http://classic-web.archive.org/web
/20080701092211/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1550477.cms
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/
08/27/AR2006082700687.html


i'd suggest that the audio confession tape is as curious as the likely fake videotape confession. could be wrong of course. but lets look at the rather impractical nature of both recruiting, training, and running an urban airport operation from the hills of afghanistan.
Note that the tape surfaces on the eve of an election.

2nd, rather trite reasons for the 9-11 attack are given. a fairly large red flag. as to why the operation was carried out in the first place, it was unlikely anything but an operation designed to create a predictable response. A terrorist operation cannot defeat the U.S. militarily. However, history is full of empire's that crumbled partly as a result of military over-extension, and the election of bush and his cabinet of warhawks presented an incredible opportunity to goad the U.S. into stretching itself thin. Which it did, and continues to do. Basic Sun Tzu: entice your enemy into an un-winnable battle.

or fuck me, maybe i'm just crazy. maybe i'm just overly suspicious because we never get the straight story from this government: i'm pretty sure we dropped nukes on japanin WWII because of the soviet threat, that Vietnam had nothing to do with democracy and everything to do with markets/labor/raw materials, that Oswald wasn't the only Kennedy shooter and he was killed to keep him quiet, that Iraq was about oil, and that we sure as hell haven't been in Afghanistan for 10 years because of one guy.

Fair enough.

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Oh, I thought it was boring or something.

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intense and usually openly displayed anger
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IRE?

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How'd this earn your ire?

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Straight-Story-Hardware-Store

Oh, I thought it was boring or something.

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intense and usually openly displayed anger
a.k.a. downvote

In reply to this comment by ant:
IRE?

In reply to this comment by MrFisk:
How'd this earn your ire?

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Straight-Story-Hardware-Store

intense and usually openly displayed anger
a.k.a. downvote

In reply to this comment by ant:
IRE?

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How'd this earn your ire?

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Straight-Story-Hardware-Store

IRE?

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How'd this earn your ire?

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Straight-Story-Hardware-Store

In mild defense of David Lynch...
* David Lynch is capable of making non-surreal movies and making them very well.... the Elephant Man, The Straight Story... I'm sure Empire Strikes Back would have been great if he did it.
* Lynch got the DGA to allow him to remove his name from the credits from at least one version of Dune. Parts of the movie weren't so great (Sting) but parts were awesome weren't they? Like the Guild Navigators?
* Dune was on the table to be made before Star Wars. I think it was on a commentary I heard people involved say that Tatooine (Skywalker's desert planet) was basically stolen from Dune because the pre-production illustrations of Dune were seen by the folks who did Star Wars... same company I guess. They showed the illustrations and it was kind of surprising.
* This video would have better if they dubbed over Darth Vader the voice of Dennis Hopper saying "mommy mommy, baby wants to fuck" as he huffs on the nitrous tank from Blue Velvet.

that's the straight story

This reminds me of the Straight Story but even slower. I loved it though!

That's like in the Straight Story (1999) by David Lynch
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166896/

ty for the votes. looking at the new member queue made me kinda nervous, seemed like they all had negative votes. anyway, this looks like a cool site, glad i made the cut.

btw, i hated the straight story :^)


edit: in the future should vids like this be labeled NSFW?

So David's done Sesame Street? Probably his only film that makes any kind of sense! (except The Straight Story)

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