You know, because we don’t really know for sure.

Tuesday, I wrote, “Meanwhile, darlings of the left like, well, to take a recent example, Cindy Sheehan, can say things like ’We might not even have been attacked by Osama Bin Laden’ and it goes totally unreported in the mainstream press.” I got an e-mail that said:

I wish you wouldn’t harp on this quote. You yourself pointed out in the linked post that she said “we might not have been attacked by OBL if,” followed by applause that cut her sentence short. It sounds like she was going to say something along the lines of “we wouldn’t have been attacked if we gave more foreign aid,” or “if we backed the Palestinians,” or whatever you want to fill in the blank with. But when you cut off the sentence at “bin Laden,” then it sounds like she’s implying someone else was behind 9/11, which I don’t think you can justify with the “if” included. There is plenty of slanted media coverage of Cindy Sheehan to write about; creating additional controversy only diminishes the rest of the message.

I replied:

I agree that the