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but we can be pretty sure the Air Force or Marines or somebody will be conducting "realistic" exercises that day, and later apologize for alarming the public.

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At least after 9/11/11, the nation will be united. Democrats and Republicans, right and left, Tea Party and socialists -- we will all stand with our President against the cowards. Just like last time.

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But what if they try to psych us out and wait till 9/20 next year? Or 8/19? Or what if 9/11/2001 was just a one-time event that they can't ever repeat but which we'll be terrified of for the rest of our lives and spend our countries' treasure and blood trying to avenge?

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But we would be able to say, "It's 9/11 all over again!"

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Ah but you forget that there is a Phys. Ed. component to the terrerrest training program. We've all seen the footage depicting jungle gyms and all of the swinging one must do. The bars are practically a foot apart. No, Mr. Thiessen simply cannot swing from the jungle gym and keep pace with such a rigorous and physically demanding program where one is required to maintain one's grip, support one's weight, and swing along a jungle gym. You needn't worry.

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That makes total sense. After all, the 2001 attack on the WTC came 8.54 years after the 1993 attack, which just so happens to be a decade on the Islamic calendar.

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Wouldn't the next biggie be 9/11/13?? I thought muslins invented numbers or math or whatever.

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Say, what if the American dude in al-Qaeda <i>is actually Marc Thiessen</i>? Maybe that is how he "knows" this. Maybe that is part of his love of torturing.

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