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From the excellent fidicen, links to two first rate pieces by Renana Brooks on Bush, the character myth, cognitive dissonance, neo-con newspeak, and what to do about the emperors bloody clothes (see also Dec 5th.)...

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1212-09.htm

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030630&s=brooks

Also a piece on the 9/11 Independent Commission on the seemingly disastrous cluster fuck that broke out between the FAA, NORAD, the Air Force, and Dick Cheney after four passenger planes were reported hijacked on the morning of September 11th, 2001...

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/essayairdefense.html