Posted on 09/09/2006 4:25:29 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
NEW YORK - "The Path to 9/11" will break your heart. It will leave you unnerved, even more than before. And angrier than ever. A five-hour miniseries that dramatizes a decade's worth of events leading up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, this film is plenty gripping. It doesn't forgo artistry for polemics.
Even so, it drives home, step by step, a message any viewer can understand: The people in charge of keeping you safe failed the nation monumentally. Systemically. Shamefully. And continue to, five years after what should have been a terribly sufficient wake-up call.
Then "The Path to 9/11" leaves the viewer with a chilling coda: a recap of the "report card" issued last December by the 9/11 Commission, which accused the government of failing to protect the nation against another attack, and assigned failing grades in five areas, with a dozen Ds and just one A (actually, A-minus).
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Democratic response to this is due to their shock and consternation that liberal press/ networks are not playing their handmaidens here. It's not the Bush administration that is trying to exercise prior restraint over what will undoubtedly be less than laudatory treatment; we expect that. It reminds me of a scene from Clinton's early years that has long been forgotten. It was just after the Brock and L.A. Times articles had come out based on the Arkansas troopers accounts of the Toon's liasions,including Paula Jones'. I believe Toon was in Russia of all places, and Jim Iklikewski(I know I mangled the spelling) of NBC news asked him for a comment. Toon got up from the table, ripped his headphones off, threw them down and bleated "the supposedly liberal press..." If he had taken that as cautionary, he never would have gotten going with Lewinski 2 or 3 years later.
I'm watching "Fox and Friends" right now. Don't ask me why. The two women stated earlier that Kean walked on water and was probably the most perfect human being who ever lived. (They were attempting to give the 911 Commission some kind of credibility) I'm paraphrasing here but, in my opinion, Kean is a dork and an appeaser. One of those "Can't we all just get along" types. He acts and speaks like a hand-wringing girlman when he is interviewed on TV.
I think the 911 Commission should be renamed the Deep Six Commission.
Outstanding, thank you
youtube has a 10 minute discussion from Fox/ John Gibson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8C87KQyyHU
worth watching - not sure when it was run - maybe Friday.
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'The Man Who Predicted 9/11'
The History Channel
10 AM - 4 PM Pacific Time
September 11, 2006
I was wondering why my dog was barking so much this morning!
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Book Burning is good if it is for the DNC. We are witnessing how Hitler came to be.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
I just pray an unedited "Directors Cut" DVD will at least hit the market.
I think there was a thread about bootleg DVDs of the uncut product
already being sold...overseas.
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The Man Who Predicted 9/11:
9/11 Lifesaver RICK RESCORLA, ..R.I.P.
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361
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All I want is the scene when the FBI and CIA cannot share info due to the Gorelick (sp?) Wall. If we had to put one head on a platter to blame for 9/11, it would be Gorelicks.
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The Man Who Predicted 9/11:
9/11 Lifesaver RICK RESCORLA, ..R.I.P.
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361
(Where RICK RESCORLA walked in Vietnam, exactly, 40 years ago: See 1st Picture)
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
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I agree...if it hadn't been for the wall, things would have been different in spite of BJ.
Just got online and didn't see that you'd already brought this over. Glad you did.
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God bless Rick Rescorla.
I watched this last night.
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