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Reason Staff | 4.23.2004 3:27 AM

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New at Reason: Cathy Young wants to take the politics out of the 9/11 commission.

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  1. 9/11   21 years ago

    Awwwww.... you're just taking the fun out of these hearings! I mean, what is the point of being on these little committees if you can't flaunt your partisian beliefs around and point fingers at the other party?

    Plus it gives us a GREAT chance to confuse and cover-up the issue... or did you really think that the old Warren Commission would REALLY tell you the truth about JFK's assasination?

  2. Jerry   21 years ago

    The best way to take the politics out of the 9/11 commission (not really possible) would have been to hold the hearings in 2005.

    PS The Warren Commission did tell us the truth about JFK's assassination.

  3. jim   21 years ago

    The Cole bombing was in 2000, not 1998. African embassies were bombed in '98

  4. Douglas Fletcher   21 years ago

    Apparently old politicians don't deny, they just keep looking for more opportunities to annoy the shit out of the rest of us.

  5. Douglas Fletcher   21 years ago

    read -- old politicians don't die

    That's it. Time for me to go home. See you next week.

  6. Paul Z   21 years ago

    Condi'll take 'em on, any time, anywhere!

  7. Terrorism   21 years ago

    This is a mirror of the same bad thinking which is frequently utilized for domestic criminal behavior.

    When some low-life robs and kills an old lady, it's societies fault or it's her fault for being in someone else's neighborhood or it's the police's fault for not protecting her or it's the governments fault for not funding the police well enough or it's the voters fault for not giving the government enormous overarching draconian powers to "fight crime."

    No.

    It's the fault of the low-life who robbed and kill the old lasy.

    Who's fault is 9/11? Who was driving the damned plane? Who planned and funded the criminal act?

    Blaming the victims is senseless and wrong.

  8. Phil   21 years ago

    Yes, and since all events, all throughout history, occur completely in a vacuum and without any relationship to any other events at all, it's completely without value to examine whether our intelligence and criminal justice systems did anything to make their activities easier. Thank heavens events occur in a vacuum.

  9. joe   21 years ago

    "Who's fault is 9/11? Who was driving the damned plane? Who planned and funded the criminal act?

    Blaming the victims is senseless and wrong."

    I see your point, but consider: if some drunk drives up the wrong exit ramp and hits me head on, my seatbelt damn well better work. If it doesn't, my wife should sue the hell out of the manufacturer of the car.

  10. joe   21 years ago

    ...none of which lets the drunk off the hook.

  11. Tim   21 years ago

    Thank you Mr. Cavanaugh for the delicious Full Metal Jacket reference.

  12. jdog   21 years ago

    Joe,

    You're not up speed on the current DUI laws.

    If you, stone-cold-sober, drive the wrong way up an exit ramp and slam into a driver who has been
    drinking, it's *his* fault.

    You have to sue him and his insurance company for your (example only) mistake.

    jk

  13. Walter Wallis   21 years ago

    Taking the politics out of the 9/11 commission is like taking the air out of a balloon. Very little is left.

  14. Rick Barton   21 years ago

    When in the Hell are they going to start looking into how and why the Israeli government had prior knowledge of the 9/11 attacks but didn't tell us?

    http://iraq-info.1accesshost.com/schrom.html

    http://antiwar.com/israeli-files.php

    A new development in New Zealand:

    http://www.antiwar.com/justin/

    We should each contact our senators and representative and tell them that we want this investigated!

  15. joe   21 years ago

    Great Engels, Walter's on to me!

  16. Walter Wallis   21 years ago

    And why not investigate reports that Lee Harvey Oswald was flying the plane that hit the Pentagon?
    Everyone knows that the proximate cause for the 9/11 plot going undetected was the crippling of domestic intelligence by democrats who did not want their symbiotic connection with the USSR explored. 9/11 was further facilitated by unarmed pilots.
    There, see? All they had to do was ask me, and they could have saved the cost of the hearings.

  17. Desiree   21 years ago

    Hi, I'm 13 but concerned about my country. Im still baffled about 9/11. We just started having strict security around the U.S. But why now? I mean why didn't we start to be more carefull right after Pearl Harbor or right after the Oklahoma City Bombing?

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