Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S.
ABC is about to show a "documdrama" about the 9/11 attacks this Sunday and Monday called "The Path to 9/11." I think they should have called it "Bin Laden Determined to Attack in the U.S." after the memo Bush received less than a month before the attacks while he and his war pigs hawks were drawing up their plans for a three-day war in Iraq. The problem with ABC's docudrama is that it may be mostly drama with very little "docu," due in large part that this movie was written and produced by conservative Cyrus Nowrasteh and directed by conservative David Cunningham.
The movie depicts a scene in whichNew Kid on the Block actor Donnie Wahlberg, playing a CIA agent, has Bin Laden in his sights and is begging for orders from the Clinton Administration to take him out. In the movie, these orders are not given, and the rest is well, you know. Problem is, this scene is a complete fabrication, and according to the 9/11 commission, never happened. Sure makes it seem like Clinton was responsible for 9/11 though. Good job boys!
The movie apparently depicts some failures of the Bush Administration as well, but just the inclusion of this completely invented scene, makes this whole thing smell pretty bad.
From Salon.com: More disturbing, though, is the way the filmmakers seem determined to link the Clinton administration's missteps to the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Instead of offering us some indication of President Clinton's earnest efforts to stop Osama bin Laden, we're repeatedly treated to his most uneasy moments in the hot seat over Lewinsky, painting the president as a buffoon more interested in blow jobs than terrorists. Meanwhile, Condoleezza Rice gets that fated memo about planes flying into buildings, and makes it very clear to anyone who'll listen just how concerned President Bush is about these terrorist threats -- despite the fact that we're given little concrete evidence of the president's concern or interest in taking action. Maybe my memory fails me, but the only person I remember talking about Osama bin Laden back in 1998 was President Clinton, while the current anti-terrorist stalwarts worked the country into a frenzy over what? Blow jobs. In the end, "The Path to 9/11" feels like an excruciatingly long, winding and deceptive path, indeed.
From ThinkProgress.com:
Last night on MSNBCs Scarborough Country, Roger Cressey a top counterterrorism official to Bush II and Clinton blasted ABCs docudrama The Path to 9/11. Cressy said its amazinghow much theyve gotten wrong. They got the small stuff wrong and then they got the big stuff wrong. He added that a scene where the Clinton administration passes on a surefire opportunity to take out bin Laden is something straight out of Disney and fantasyland. Its factually wrong. And thats shameful.
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The movie apparently depicts some failures of the Bush Administration as well, but just the inclusion of this completely invented scene, makes this whole thing smell pretty bad.
From Salon.com: More disturbing, though, is the way the filmmakers seem determined to link the Clinton administration's missteps to the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Instead of offering us some indication of President Clinton's earnest efforts to stop Osama bin Laden, we're repeatedly treated to his most uneasy moments in the hot seat over Lewinsky, painting the president as a buffoon more interested in blow jobs than terrorists. Meanwhile, Condoleezza Rice gets that fated memo about planes flying into buildings, and makes it very clear to anyone who'll listen just how concerned President Bush is about these terrorist threats -- despite the fact that we're given little concrete evidence of the president's concern or interest in taking action. Maybe my memory fails me, but the only person I remember talking about Osama bin Laden back in 1998 was President Clinton, while the current anti-terrorist stalwarts worked the country into a frenzy over what? Blow jobs. In the end, "The Path to 9/11" feels like an excruciatingly long, winding and deceptive path, indeed.
From ThinkProgress.com:
Last night on MSNBCs Scarborough Country, Roger Cressey a top counterterrorism official to Bush II and Clinton blasted ABCs docudrama The Path to 9/11. Cressy said its amazinghow much theyve gotten wrong. They got the small stuff wrong and then they got the big stuff wrong. He added that a scene where the Clinton administration passes on a surefire opportunity to take out bin Laden is something straight out of Disney and fantasyland. Its factually wrong. And thats shameful.
