Via Kevin Drum, we find this posting by a college professor:

I have now received three (3) student papers that discuss Iraq’s attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11. All three papers mention it as an aside to another point. I’ve had two papers on the virtue of forgiveness that argue that if we had just forgiven Iraq for the 9/11 attacks, we wouldn’t be at war right now. I just read a paper on the problem of evil which asked why God allowed “the Iraq’s” to attack us on 9/11.

The thing that upsets me most here is that the the students don’t just believe that that Iraq was behind 9/11. This is a big fact in their minds, that leaps out at them, whenever they think about the state of the world.

The biggest single defining event of our time and people don’t know who was behind this. These are college students. The Bush administration has, I guess, done their job by confusing the world.

Do you know anyone who believes Iraq was behind the 9/11 attacks? Please tell me this is a limited phenomenon…

It’s an almost complete archive. You can just browse by day. Farhad Manjoo posted up this extraordinary clip from Sept. 19, 2001’s episode, which was the first after 9/11. It’s hard to watch it, but it’s a reminder of what we thought about the world then. Of course, it just reminds us of what little George W. Bush was able to accomplish in that time, but hey, who’s quibbling.

Almost cried myself watching that… (this isn’t a featured video because, really, I don’t know if I could handle it being on the page every day for a week)

Remember, 9/11 changed everything:

Nacchio’s account, which places the NSA proposal at a meeting on Feb. 27, 2001, suggests that the Bush administration was seeking to enlist telecommunications firms in programs without court oversight before the terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon. The Sept. 11 attacks have been cited by the government as the main impetus for its warrantless surveillance efforts.

Liars.

Update: Someone over Atrios’s place points out that assuming other telecom companies went along with this program when Qwest turned it down, this program failed to prevent 9/11. There is a lot of conjecture here (program implemented by other telecoms, it was implemented a meaningful time before 9/11), but the fact that these companies are lobbying hard for amnesty for violating any laws seems to indicate that they’ve done something they’re worried about. This program seems to fit those parameters…