Posted on 10/16/2006 4:22:48 AM PDT by 7thson
When the ABC movie Path To 9/11 was shown, I recorded it for later viewing. Finally saw it this week and it was a extremely good presentation. My thoughts -
The actors and actresses they got to play different people for the most part was right on. The only real exception was the actor for Dick Cheney. Dick Cheney in this movie looked elderly and befuddled. He never comes across that way in interviews.
The movie portrayed the Clinton administration as aware of what was happening but playing the political expediant card - very cynical. The Bush administration is shown as befuddled, confused, unware of what is happening, taken by surprise. You did not hear so much about that as the Clinton people made such a stink on how they were portrayed.
The Ambassador to Yemen in 2000 - Barbara Bodine - was a real b***h! I looked her up on the internet while the movie was playing and see that she objected to her portrayal via the L.A. Times. Also, again the Bush administration used a Clinton holdover when they appointed her to Iraq in 2003.
My opinion of these Muslims has not changed - they are insane dogs. They hate our system so much yet are not adverse to using it against us to suit their purposes. They showed one scene right after the WTC were hit, President Bush in Florida - before he gets back on AF1, gives his short speech and then says let's have a moment of silence. It hit me when I saw that. Why couldn't he say let's pray. To me, when he did that he readily gave ground to the Muslims. His actions indicated our faith is not strong enough to mention out loud.
The Looming Tower - I am 100+ pages into it and - like I stated before - it is strange to read about insane people and how we in the west treat them as rational people.
I saw it, and I also thought it was a good presentation.
My wife wanted to see it, too, but by the time she finally had some free time to see it, it was gone. It is no longer on the ABC website.
If anybody knows where I could get a copy on DVD(s), I would sure appreciate it.
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The only thing I didn't like about the movie was the part where Rice was demoting Clark. As we know that never happened.
Other than that, I really enjoyed the movie.
There is something funny about Clark in the movie and now in real life. In the movie, he comes across as someone who truly cares about the country and then it kind of jumps the shark when the planes are hitting the WTC and Pentagon, he is shown as taking charge at the White House. Rice and Cheney are shown as befuddled and confused. In real life - Clark came out against the Bush administration, made his apology at the Commission Report hearings, and now has sort of disappeared. Where is he today? Has he realized he was used by the Dems? I also find it too convenient that of all the real people involved, basically the only one not alive to give his side of accounts is John O'Neil.
I think that the strongest points that "The Path to 911: and "The Looming tower" both make, is that if there were no Jihad in Iraq, there would be jihad all over the globe. At least the jihadis have insisted on throwing themselves against the American Army, and not against the shopping malls where your Grandmother shops and your teenage daughter and her friends go to hang out.
When the President said "If we Leave Iraq before the job is done, the terrorists will follow us here", That is what he meant.
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There was a scene in Path to 9/11 that I loved. In Florida, one of the terrorists is trying to get in and is stopped by INS. He is so arrogant to the female INS cop that she pulls him aside. He is in a room talking - via an interpretor - with an officer, an immigrant himself. This officer gets pulled aside by some white officer and says, this guy is a Saudi and we are suppose to be nice to them. If you deny him entry, it will be trouble for you. It looks like the guy will buckle under pressure and let him in. However, he goes back and denies this guy entry into the U.S. The white guy calls him a hard ass. He tells the white guy basically, listen, I'm an immigrant. I wake up every day and thank God I am here. I love this country. That Saudi back there. He hates this country. He's not coming in on my watch and I'll take the heat.
It was great! It showed too many times - especially on 9/11 - where people buckled under political correctness and let these guys slide. Most of these 9/11 terrorists were tagged at the airlines but because they did not to appear to be targeting dark skin people, they let them slide.
Today, I am watching all the time!
* Richard Clarke :
Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism official promoting a book critical of the Bush administration, insists Saddam Hussein had no connection to al-Qaida, but in 1999 he defended President Clinton's attack on a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant by revealing the U.S. was "sure" it manufactured chemical warfare materials produced by Iraqi experts in cooperation with Osama bin Laden. -- " In '99, Clarke saw Iraq-al-Qaida link; But Bush critic told '60 Minutes' Sunday there was 'absolutely' no evidence 'ever' ." WorldNetDaily.com , Posted: March 23, 2004
All of this wrangling is sure to provide fodder for the presidential campaign. Clarke is perhaps not the most neutral source. Last year Clarke’s best friend, Rand Beers, quit as the White House’s counterterrorism chief after complaining—over glasses of wine on Clarke’s front porch—about the wrong-headedness of Bush’s plan to invade Iraq. Beers is now a principal foreign-policy adviser to Kerry.
I liked that scene a lot too. Like many in that movie it infuriated me.
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