[mburbank]

I think there are only two real wys in which debunking is anything more than an odd sideshow attraction.

1.) As the fact that this article is from the Progressive points out, it's a pain in the ass for more mainstream lefties, and anything that even suggests the possability of tin foil hatism is used to degarde any possible point the mainstream left has. Like anyone listens to us anyway.

2.) Outside America, especially in the Arab world, 9/11 conspiracies are widely belived. But I don't think American debunking, even from the prgressive, adresses this.

I am far more concerned by what I think is a far more agruable and important crime. That before the day was out on 9/11 the Bsh adminsitration was already manipulating this tragedy to solidify their power and to acheive long held goals that had little to do with where the atttack had come from.

Even if a secret cabal of Cuban Homos and the mafia masterminded the attacks, you will never, never, never prove it. Thorough investigative journalism and historical research could easily make the cae that this adminsitration betrayed the country and the world by hijacking 9/11 and using it to consolidate unprecedented executive power and steer America away from constitutional democracy.

That's my Axe. And I bet the Progressive knows how to play it.