Wednesday, April 20, 2005

how does this stuff get into print?!

Gotta hand it to them, these people have wild imaginations! I don't know where they come up with this stuff:
Was Iraq Behind the Oklahoma City Bombing?

On Tuesday's show you heard FOX News' Rita Cosby talking about the quite shocking claims made by a group of victims' families that Iraq was at the bottom of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing in Oklahoma City.
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If McVeigh were just the grunt — mixing the chemicals, driving the truck, setting the timer, and running off — guilty though he might be, if the bombing was a plot by a foreign government, his lawyer would have had a chance at the sentencing hearing to argue that others were more responsible and McVeigh should not be executed.

The fear that the McVeigh execution might have been an error — and a mistaken execution — could put the federal death penalty itself in jeopardy. The fear of losing the federal death penalty could explain why the U.S. government does not appear to be anxious to act on evidence it has that Iraq may have been involved in the Oklahoma City bombing.


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First seen at Atrios.
This is so wild on so many levels!! Trying to tie Iraq, of all countries, into the biggest act of domestic terrorism in the US, apparently as an attempt to justify our occupation of their country. Whew!
Then, this wacko says that the guy who murdered 168 people could be "just the grunt" and "should not have been executed"!!! Yikes! I guess if anyone else decides to go on a killing spree, their defense should just be "Iraq made me do it"!!
Put all of this baseless, insane conjecture together, and the federal death penalty might be in jeapordy?!?! Of all the cases against the death penalty and THIS would put an end to it?!?! Yeesh!!!!
This appeared on FoxNews, and, of course, their job is to be as bizarre and irrational as possible, but this is far out even for them!!