Dowd: Sorry, Right Number (9/11 and Iraq Commissions - Good Column)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/opinion/29DOWD.html?hp

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The catchphrase du jour is Donald Trump's snappy, "You're fired." But no one has lost a job over the intelligence failures that led to 9/11 or the war that was trumped up and velcroed to 9/11. In fact, the only people the president and vice president are trying to put out of business are the members of the commission charged with figuring out how 9/11 happened and how to prevent another one.

The White House seems more worried about the public's finding out how much it knew and how little it did before 9/11 than it does about identifying and fixing security weaknesses.

After trying to kill the commission and then trying to put Dr. Strangelove-Kissinger in charge, President Bush and Dick Cheney have done their best to hamper the panel that's the best hope of the 9/11 widows, widowers and orphans to get justice.

"This is not no-fault government," said Lorie Van Auken, a 9/11 widow. "You don't just let people go on doing what they're doing wrong."

It is a triumph of chutzpah for Mr. Bush to thwart the investigation into 9/11 at the same time he seeks re-election by promoting his handling of 9/11 and scaring us with the specter of more terrorism. He's even using 9/11 memorials as the backdrop for his convention in New York.

[HawkerHurricane]

1. 10 points to Dowd

for being a honest journalist. (This time).

During the hieght of WW2, there were not one but THREE major investigations into what went wrong at Pearl Harbor... You can't tell me that we can't do the same or better now.

[kaitykaity]

2. MoDo not writing about somebody's clothes, hairdo,

or smile? Has the world ended? Am I in the twilight zone? This woman is still a waste of printers ink/html tags. :puke:

[jbfam4]

3. Dowd left out the fact that

Bush will only spend ONE hour with the two chairmen of the committee and doesn't want to meet with the entire committee. He spent more time with the nascar dad's!

[stilpist]

4. Didja catch the bit about Joe LIEberman?

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Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman, who helped create the commission, played hardball, threatening highway funds and federal jobs if the commission didn't get two extra months. Mr. Hastert caved.
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I'm no particular fan of Joe Lieberman and sure didn't think he'd be an effective candidate to redefeat Bush*, but I hope that those who bash him here as Bush-lite take note of his help in breaching the stonewall.

- stil

[reprehensor]

5. Duped ya.

sorry rm

[donhakman]

6. Bush did fire

his Treasury advisor.

[MasonJar]

7. Well done Mo. She has been calling like they are in Bushville.