Just finished watching 9/11: Press for Truth. Saddened and disgusted.

[Roland99]

I am awestruck.

I ordered the DVD earlier today but didn't want to wait to see the film and I just finished watching it. It's hard to believe it's been 5yrs since this happened and how much my own recollection of that day and the events surrounding it have become cloudy in my mind.

I'm so glad this was made and am further sickened in what will be shown later this evening on ABC that's being touted as "the official true story" of 9/11. Official according to whom? Some right-wing asshole stuck on Clinton's penis? Who the hell made this guy the bearer of anything official? Wasn't anyone with any level of authority, that's for damn sure. And to think I just had what was probably the best vacation of my life in taking my daughter for a week of fun at Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL. How can a company that can do things so well in terms of entertainment and innocent dreams of pixie dust turn around and support such a travesty of a film that only serves to denigrate and further politicize the tragedy of 9/11?

So many questions remain unanswered, much less asked. There was no doubt that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor but there is immense doubt as to who was behind the 9/11 attacks. Omar Saeed Sheikh? bin Laden? Zawahiri? Atta? Pakistan's ISI? And just how much did the US gov't (going back to elements of the Clinton administration) know about what was planned and all of the interaction and financial transactions going on between Al Qaeda, ISI, Taliban, and the US?

The upcoming November elections are, imo, even more important than the 2004 election. For now we are facing threats of attacks against a more formidable "enemy", Iran. This country is in economic shambles regardless of what you see the stock market indices doing. Take away the hundreds of billions of dollars funneling into the defense industry and its massive complex, take away the hundreds of billions in gifts to the wealthy in the form of tax cuts, take away the trillions of dollars in gifts to the drug companies and energy companies and what's left? Massively spiraling debt, a stone-cold economy with the number of people living in poverty and lacking health care increasing by millions each year.

The neocons have sold this country to the devil himself in exchange for an attempt at US global hegemony. But the deal was one-sided and the neocons' dream is nothing but a nightmare that's made the world less safe and more prone to vicious attacks (both from terrorists and within from socially conservative fascists).

I am truly dumbfounded.

I've written countless emails to Reps. and Sens. I've written letters to the editor. I've signed petition after petition. I've donated money to worthwhile candidates. I've worked to educate right-wing friends and acquaintances against the perils of one-party gov't and control of the media.

I don't know what to do anymore.

I suppose civil unrest would be the next step but am I willing to go that far? I admit I'm not ready, at this point.

[eccles12]

1. Remember, remember, the 5th of November. nt

[Roland99]

2. In the (modified) words of Princess Leia:

Help us true Democrats, you're our only hope!

BTW, I watched V for Vendetta this weekend. Simply amazing and that's the way to "dramatize" American politics.

[gully]

3. *self delete*

Confused film with "The Path to bullshit."

[Roland99]

4. This was 9/11: Press for Truth. Not ABC's piece of crap.

This was the story of the Jersey Girls, widows of 9/11 victims, and their fight to get answers to questions.

[gully]

5. Im sorry - sheesh!

I'm on auto pilot today.

[Roland99]

7. No worries!

:hi:

[Ezlivin]

6. Now we turn this ship, now we avoid the rocks, now we set our course

For too many years we've had our government hijacked. Not by box-cutter-wielding Arabs, but by corporatists.

I hope that 9/11: Press for Truth spreads like wildfire. Truth needs to be championed nowadays. Sadly.

[tridim]

8. I just watched it today as well

It's too bad they didn't get the latest Pakistan news in there. It's very well done.

[Roland99]

9. I never knew the link between Omar Saeed and the ISI & how he was quickly

ignored as the gov't/media moved on to other "targets"

[AntiFascist]

10. K&R, the pieces of the puzzle are beginning to come together...

but too many DEMOCRATS want to look the other way!

It's now becoming painfully clear that the neocons who are behind this administration have done everything possible to set the stage for major conflicts in the Middle East, including the training and transporting of terrorists! I wonder how much of our tax dollars and oil revenues went into the Iraqi insurgency which is now killing more of our own men and women? Sure, Bushco can deny that the US is directly involved in this, and blame it all on "Islamo-fascism" but when you analyze the money-laundered cash flows, the intermediate agencies with CIA connections such as the ISI, and the broader "shadow government" agents such as the old Iran-Contra fraternity/BCCI and people like Viktor Bout then the picture begins to become clearer and a more complete understanding of what went into PNAC's New Pearl Harbor begins to take shape.

Republicans want to blame Clinton because they know it is really the neocons who prevented Clinton from making any progress against all of the above! Of course they don't want to answer any of the probing questions about 9-11 because they want the truth to be covered up.

[Roland99]

11. US monthly death toll in Iraq was the 3rd highest of the year last month

and this month is on the way to be even deadlier.


:(

http://icasualties.org/oif/

[Roland99]

12. Well, after seeing Pt9/11 for a few min., I feel a bit better

That thing is just a stinker. Poor photography, poor editing, poor acting, poor flow. It's just a piece of trash no matter what the subject is.