I really honestly thought they'd fix it within two minutes, or something.
It's still there, right on the homepage.
*shakes head*
The temptation to even the score, to balance it out... its irresistible.
I was never a regular at AW, but I read some threads there, and they were invaluable, especially the Uncle Jim thread.
I don't know which possibility is more infuriating - that the hosting company is so blatantly incompetent as to lose or delete the databases without backup, or that they are so evil (and stupid) as to have the databases and withhold them from the site owners.
I understand from the above that some people are working on the reconstruction of Google-cached data. I'm a perl wizard, and will gladly help with that; if there's any need still - please contact me.
Best of luck to AW and its community.
Michael Falcon-Gates:
Y'know, I was thinking about knocking down your straw man, here, [...]
The Republican response to terror, now... [...] Calling for the deaths of anyone who utters so much as a peep of dissent? This is dangerous.
A thing of beauty, that is. Michael Roberts has it right.
Exactly, James. There're enough incriminating quotes from Rumsfeld before the war. There's no need to pretend that a relatively innocent (meh, I don't really want to say that - but, read in context, *and* considering it was said after the war started, it's not nearly as incriminating as those others) quote was said pre-war, just to score, presumably, a propaganda point.
Thanks for digging up those quotes again.
What, no-one fact-checks anymore?
Just one google search is enough to discover that
Rumsfeld said those words on March 30 2003, which was after the beginning of the war (11th day of the war), and so saying that he was "sharply questioned about his pre-war claims about WMD in Iraq" is a lie from "the good folks at Think Progress", and a very misleading lie at that. It makes the reader assume that the quote from Rumsfeld was pre-war, a part of the justification effort for the war, and that obviously makes a huge difference.
Why did you feel compelled to repeat that lie?
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