Why is the 9/11 commission always referred to as being so great?

[Qibing Zero]

I'm really not sure exactly what they discovered that helped ease anyone's doubts about the entire thing. Was the blanket statement 'Hey look, we have to do better, cause Al Qaeda are crafty bastages that will attack us again!' enough to warrant the praise by almost every person in congress? It seemed like a complete failure on all parts to me.

I keep hearing 'Oh, we need a commission like the 9/11 commission to investigate what went wrong with the hurricane disaster relief.', but it processes as 'Oh, we need a commission to sidestep the real issues and waste time and money on nothing.'

[JuniperLea]

1. I don't get it either

Our 9/11 Commission Report is sitting nicely in its appropriate space on the bookshelf, right next to The Warren Report.

[Atman]

2. You know, that's been bothering me, too

What the hell was so great about THAT whitewash? They never asked any hard questions, they allowed The President and Mr. Bush to testify off the record...it was a total sham. I have a copy of it. It was bullshit. And since the Katrina report will have to stand on the shoulders of all the bad shit since then, the coverup will be even more ridiculous.

No one is allowed into New Orleans. I'd like an inventory of those 25,000 body bags the government ordered. How many got returned? We're being fucked over again.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. image, not substance

they agreed not to disagree, thereby guaranteeing that really tough issues would not be addressed. which they weren't. The intel failures were grouped into one lump, and ignored the devastating impact of the Office of Special Projects and other Cheney specials.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. And this is pissing me off to no end. The 9/11 Commission was a whitewash.

The commissioners were hand selected by the shrub and many had conflicts of interests. Add to that there were giant omissions and Not One Person Was Held Accountable. I shook last week when Pelosi said she wanted the same people who sat on the 9/11 Commission to investigate what happened with Katrina! Please people! This is Not Acceptable! Demand not a commission but an independent federal prosecutor as crimes were committed.

[librechik]

5. yeah, we deserve better than the tiny fig leaf the Pukkkes let us have

we deserve a REAL investigation!

Why was there never a single homicide invetigation opened by the City of New York following 9/11?

We deserve better than NO investigation!

[rodeodance]

6. even a Dem strategist said that on Wolf show this afternoon.

[rodeodance]

7. we need a Fritgerald type investigation. People died!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

9. And yes, it was the biggest case of mass homicide in our country and

never investigated as one! The crime scene evidence at ground zero was never treated as such, and that evidence was quickly swept to the garbage dumps of Staten Island (including the ashes of the dead) and the steel sold overseas. Disgusting.

There is eyewitness evidence of bombings and yet that has never come to public light.

[Qibing Zero]

8. I just heard it again from some Dems in the house

The ones that are going to be trying to get a vote for the independant commission for the Katrina disaster, per request of moveon and democracynow. I didn't catch the name of the congresswoman from NY speaking, but clear-as-day she said the 9/11 commission was one of the best displays of congress ever.

Ugh.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. OK, a quick lesson. Our Senators and Representatives don't know squat.

Seriously. Most of them are as much in the dark as people who watch MSM.

I have a very good friend who is highly political and very attuned to the abuses of this administration. She has found herself time and again having to teach Representatives about the Downing Street Memos and also PNAC. They don't seem to have a clue, and obviously the people that work for them don't seem to have clues either. Their worlds are filled with fundraising and focusing on their community's needs and they just don't see the big picture. There are some that do know, but I bet not too many. We are the losers.

[Qibing Zero]

12. Curses, you're right.

I forget sometimes that the majority of our representatives are much less aware of country and world issues than I am. =/

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

13. I would definitely say that most DUers do know more than anyone who

represents them. Let's put it this way. I wasn't posting on DU at the time, but extensively on AOL message boards. With very little looking I was able to find out there weren't WMDs in Iraq before we invaded. If I found that out, and my friends did too, why didn't most of Congress?

[RepublicanElephant]

10. are you questioning dear leader?

:hide:

[HughBeaumont]

14. That sham is stacked with Poppy old boys and Cheney/Big oil pukes.

We whitewash . . . because we CAN!

[morgan2]

15. they all loved it

because it blamed no one. No blame everyone's happy.