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If what I just saw here in the mid west is the cut version, the uncut version must have been a real hum dinger! This makes the Clinton administration look weak, indecisive, ineffectual, and treasonous (in the case of Albright who tipped off the Pakistanis so that we would lose Bin Ladin.) Clinton gave the "go ahead" to kill Bin Ladin as long as he "didn't have to take the hit for it" according to the characters playing his underlings in the film.
Ithink it is an excellent portrayal, but I just hope they don't trash Bush tomorrow night in an effort to be fair and balanced. There has already been a hint of that. The film jumps back and forth between the historical background and the actual day of 9/11. They showed a clip of Bush working out in a gym when he was notified about the first plane and they made him look somewhat foolish. It was a very brief scene and I hope that it does not portend of even worse treatment of him in the 2nd half.
How did Richard Clarke and John O'Neill become the heroes of this film?
I found it interesting that here Clarke is supposed to be the Terrorist Czar for the Clinton White House and in the movie, he had to call John O'Neill to find out who Ramzi Yousef was. Makes you wonder what kind of a briefing he got from the CIA and the FBI when he came on board in '92, and just how much communication passed between those two agencies and Clarke on a daily basis. Couldn't have been much if he had to call O'Neill to get info on Yousef. Yousef was already well known to the FBI, so why was Clarke still in the dark when that phone call allegedly took place?
Oh, you know they will. I am watching it now on the west coast. What has struck me so far, Massoud is a great great loss to the war on terror God Rest his soul.
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