it's something everyone knows, but sometimes the reminders are a bit annoying: history (and the present, sometimes) is written by the winners

oh, and, might makes right, and all that

as long as we're the good guys, as long as we're going to win, then everything we do is ok. iran can't try to get nuclear weapons (cause they signed the nonproliferation treaty, don't ya know?) but we can make new ones (even though we signed that same treaty)

in colorado, where professor ward churchill (who likened the workers at the world trade center to eichmann) quit his position as chairman of the university of colorado's ethnic studies department, david horowitz, "a champion of conservative causes who has long accused American universities of overstocking their faculties with leftists," said firing churchill would violate his rights and set a bad precedent but, let's just go ahead and investigate the university's hiring procedures to see how churchill managed, in today's political climate, to attain that chair in the first place. cause, surely, we wouldn't have someone so blatantly against our present political agenda in a position where he might influence young minds. we're in charge. we can't have those hippy liberal freaks teaching our kids that supporting the imperial machinery of america is wrong. the holy american empire must live on and conquer. these disruptive voices must be quashed, those who speak them ground into the dirt of the earth they so love

sure, eichmann supported the machinery of hitler's germany even while not subscribing to the nazi ideology, but those people in the world trade center were nothing like that. they didn't set up america to crush the weaker peoples of the world. they didn't make big business into what it is today. they just played their parts, completely innocent from what might come from american products, agendas and ideals being spread across the globe. they were no more legitimate targets for the "terrorists" than if we were to, say, blow up a mosque or a hospital or... oh, who am i kidding. all of their buildings are legitimate targets, because they are their buildings. if our god didn't want them to be destroyed, he'd let us know. and, if their god was powerful enough to stop us, wouldn't he have done it by now?

all hail emperor bush, the lord god and the american empire. down with our enemies and whatnot... kill them all and let allah sort them out