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I received a fair amount of email over my "Two Memorials" cartoon, most of it positive like the note below:

The message in your cartoon really hit home. Hardly anyone thinks about the rescue workers and the people living in the nearby neighborhoods, who were told the lies of clean air. I'm a respiratory therapist and I wondered about it. We have had forest fires here in Colorado that are 30 miles away and we get problems from the smoke!! More people need to realize there were a lot more victims... thank you for the 'toon that speaks a thousand words!!

Here are a couple, however, from the Department of Dumbass:

Subject: It's your fault too.

You are a simple minded political pawn.
911 isn't that simple.

Um... it was my fault that 9/11 happened, or that the EPA lied about the toxic air? I guess I'm just too simple-minded to understand!

This one could have been intended as Colbertish irony, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't:

Hell!!, Mr. Bush should have told the clods that the air was dangerous to breath, then they could have stopped breathing.

Right. Because respirators haven't been invented yet! And what's up with calling the rescue workers "clods"!?

It's hard for me to understand how anyone could defend a lie that will cause the suffering and death of the heroes of 9/11 and many innocent civilians, but I think these people don't know how to process the fact that their government did this. It just doesn't fit into their rosy reality at all. They become confused and angry, and lash out at the messenger.