I have no idea if it was planned this way or not.<\/p>\n
But if you were planning it, you couldn’t have done better than to crash a plane into one of the WTC towers, wait 15-30 minutes, then, once all the media were assembled, news choppers winging past, TV crews down on street level, then, and only then, crash another frickin’ plane into the <\/i>other tower<\/i>, so that it can be broadcast and rebroadcast and rerebroadcast around the world.<\/p>\n
I don’t know if I want things to have been that <\/i>well planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have no idea if it was planned this way or not. 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