Today they're running various re-tellings of the September 11, 2001 story. I can start to feel a touch of the original anger and sadness, though I think it would take another such event to get all the way there.
I wondered why I'd almost forgotten. Not the event of course, but the feelings.
Because for about seven years, it's been Iraq. We started a still-unexplained war and of course we forgot about murder artist Osama bin Laden.
I won't get into the wilful incompetence of those who were supposed to protect us from this happening in the first place. Instead, I'll take the occasion to recommend reading the 9/11 Commission Report. It's available online, but at 585 pdf pages it's worth a few bucks to buy a copy.
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It would take someone with a heart of stone -or too young to remember-to not feel sad on the anniversary of those horrific terrorist attacks. Just as we remember when Pearl Harbor was bombed, we will remember 9/11. Although, it must be pointed at that for the Bush administration's faults, it did manage to avoid a repeat terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
Why is the media not a least bit curious as to what Sandy Burger stole from the archives so the commission would not see it?
(Moderator's note: For those who don't remember who Sandy Berger is, he was a national security advisor under Clinton. In 2003, he took several documents written by Richard Clarke from the National Archives. In 2005 he pleaded guilty and was fined. The prosecution closed the case, but the media, mainstream and otherwise, were still unsatisfied as to what the heck he was doing and how many documents he actually took.)
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