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Needless to say, Sharper Image was pissed and sued them. They lost big time. In fact, Sharper Image has to pay the Consumer Union $525,000 for their court costs.

Check out here and here.

As he should have an issue with them.

Large influential organizations not doing research and misleading vast numbers of the public is worse than the Diebold-PR-agency to initiates those reports.

It's just like the NYTimes selling the pubic a war on behalf of Iran's spy.

Why should I waste my time disputing what you say?

You shouldn't. You should do some investigation of you own. The facts are the facts.

You haven't proved any of it. Your facts are occasionally wrong and definitely imcomplete and your insinuations are unprovable.

Which of these facts are wrong? Incomplete? Of course, you make no effort to prove your assertion.
What did I insinuate?

Did Bush f things up before 9/11? Yes.

Agreed.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that he and his administration systematically dismantled our investigations into terrorism, and specifically the terrorists who attacked on 9/11.

This link discusses
Bush's ambassador to Yemen's refusal to allow the head of the investigation into the USS Cole bombing back in to Yemen. The source is just the first I found in a search, so if you don't like it feel free to find your own. It is a fact, and it has been widely reported. Buried mostly, but reported nonetheless.

This link
reports that the FBI was ordered to "Back off" the Bin ladens and the Saudi royal family.

I don't suppose you remember who Coleen Rowley is? Ashcroft refused to allow a search of the laptop of the 20th terrorist.

Did everyone else? Yes.

As demonstrated above, not everyone else fucked up. Some people were doing quite well before they had their knees taken out.

Further, as I said, We were warned of the specific attacks in advance by the intelligence services of multiple countries. Perhaps this is what you were talking about when you called my facts incomplete? I forgot to mention that Russia and several other Arab countries warned us as well.

You're a contentious fool.
An ad hominem attack is the most base logical fallacy.

You have to prove the spirit of your attacks is true, or I'm not even going to be bothered responding.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. The facts are what they are.

"The time he wasted could have prevented the second WTC plane from hitting." Of course it could have.

So you agree that he could have prevented the second plane from hitting the second tower by taking the simple action of responding to the threat by doing his job rather than joking that That's some bad pilot (aside: My father is a pilot, so I have some slight understanding of how horrified the poor man's wife must have felt to hear Bush ridicule her murdered husband and joke at the deaths of all the innocent passengers and crew of the plane and those immediately killed in the building.)

He then continued to react to the single worst terrorist attack on US soil by going into a classroom and reading a book to a bunch of second graders.

You're a partisan hack to imply that his inaction is somehow his intentional irresponsibility.

Another ad hominem, this time with a red herring thrown in.
You clearly learned your debating skills from some extremist right wing agitator. Refute facts and arguments with hatred. That lesson so many on the right have learned so well has poisoned public discourse in this country. Thanks for helping to propogate it.

What the reasons for his inaction are are irrelevant to the point which you already admitted which was that he could have stopped all of the attacks after the first had he done his job.

Where the partisanship comes in with expecting the President of the United States to do his job rathe

Well that's not very tolerant of you. But I don't claim to be either.

I find Gibson's thinly veiled agenda offensive (cite both Signs and his new movie The Passion). He shouldn't be using his vaulted position as a movie star/producer to preach his beliefs to the world. It's exactly the same argument behind the principal of separation of church and state.