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“It reads like a mystery, a novel.”

The liberals are going to have a field day with that quote.

I don’t blame them. I wish Kerry said it instead.

[AHerald]

I don’t blame them. I wish Kerry said it instead.

I'm reading it right now. If you read it you would know what Bush is talking about.

[mattdono]

Well, I get your point. However, have you read the report.

It does read like a novel. The transitions are excatly like a novel. For example...

On the morning of 9/11,the existing protocol was unsuited in every respect for what was about to happen. (page 18)

"But the conflict did not begin on 9/11. It had been publicly declared years earlier,most notably in a declaration faxed early in 1998 to an Arabic-language newspaper in London. Few Americans had noticed it." (Page 46).

"He could attract, train, and use recruits for ever more ambitious attacks, rallying new adherents with each demonstration that his was the movement of the future.." (page 55) (Note: this paragraph leads into the next section called "The Rise of Bin Laden"

"If the instigation for jihad against the Jews and the Americans to liberate the holy places “is considered a crime,”he said,“let history be a witness that I am a criminal." (page 70, quoting Bin Laden)

At the end of each section or chapter, there is a "catchy" transitional sentence or paragraph.

The chapter titles are written like a novel: "We have some planes" (Chapter 1), "The Attack Looms" (Chapter 7), "Heroism and Horror" (Chapter 9), etc.. The section titles are written similarly.

It is not a government report, in any typical sense.

It does read like a novel. So the President is, again, factually correct. His assessement/impression, in the precise sense of prose, is accurate.

[CyberAnt]

Why do you think the liberals "are going to have a field day with that quote" ..??

[snooker]

The commission report does read like a mystery novel. In fact it appears to have been purposely written to tell the story of 9/11. I would bet if you ask the commissioners they would say their intent was to tell 'the story of 9/11'.

I don't see anything wrong with that, in fact it appears the report is quite effective because of the way the tale is told.

Clever if you ask me.

[carton253]

It does read like a mystery - a novel. The President isn't the first one to point that out. It was written in this form on purpose.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

[AFPhys]

I think it is a great quote.

It DOES read like a novel. It is very readable, and if even a few more people read it as a result of this endorsement by the President, it will be all to the good.

The only thing I've found different from a mystery or novel is all those yellow highlighter marks I've been making in it.
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