9/11 Commission: U.S. Terror War has Stymied al Qaida

NewsMax ^ | 6-29-04 | NewsMax Staff

[lonevoice]

ping

[Lunatic Fringe]

Nope, absolutely NOTHING on CNN's main webpage.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Bump!

[SkyPilot]

Rush just talked about this---and mentioned that the media have buried this finding of the commission.

[Petronski]

The Sept. 11 Commission has found that the Bush administration's war on terror has severely impaired al Qaida's ability to organize another spectacular attack against the U.S. homeland by capturing or killing the deadly terror group's key leaders, drying up their financial resources and "severely limiting their ability to strategize, plan attacks, and dispatch operatives worldwide."

Someone tell that Soviet apologist and all-around dumbass Richard Cohen about this.

[freeperfromnj]

It was just awful. The two of them couldn't come up with one positive thing to say. They were grasping at anything negative they could think of. Made it sound like Iraq was a disaster and the early handover was a sign of failure. Talk about seeing the glass half empty...... I turned it off rather quickly myself - couldn't take the entire segment. They actually hate the President so much that they would begrudge the Iraqi people a chance at democracy. History in the making and they all failed to report it accurately with the exception of Fox News.

[Badeye]

Brokaw's leaving at the end of the year, so he doesn't feel the need to "hide" anymore what he actually is, a leftwingnut.

Thats why he showed up at the Farenheit 9/11 opening in New York. It was just an evening with his close friends, doncha know?

[Badeye]

Of course CNN isn't saying anything about this. Turner would fire the employee that did so.

[neutrality]

Newsmax is the only source for this story according to google news. I don't see anything on drudge either. Give them time.

[nuffsenuff]

I love it when the left's main sources for ammo against the President turns around and smacks them in the face.

How many times has this happened to them in the last 3.5 years? 100?

[treeclimber]

This news needs to be hushed up. It goes counter to the talking points...

{sarcasm}

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Yesterday BUSH turns Sovereignty over to a FREE Iraq.


Today BUSH tells Turkey that all the rest of the Middle East will soon be as FREE as Iraq because...


"TERROR is not a tool of the FREE"

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[Indie]

How come Dan Blather didn't tell me this?

It has to be false. Move along..

[NonValueAdded]

Our local radio station has a new "Rush" billboard up. It features a big picture of Rush and the statement "Exposing Reporting the News." I would subcaption it "no brag, just fact." The Newsmax story is a perfect example of that! With his reach, Rush is "exposing" us to stories that are buried by the mainstream media and would have remained buried without Rush. Kudos to NewsMax as well.

Here is my impression of mainstream media:

[BurbankKarl]

7-11 Committee Ping

[hawkaw]

How sad. As a Canadian, I find it so cool that after a war, Americans actually leave a country in the hands of the people that actually live in the country. It is just amazing when you think about it. Yet people - of the anti-war side - have to find the negative in it especially (even a year after the real war) at a time when democracy and the rebuilding of the country is just starting.

Thanks for the report and take care.

[nutmeg]

BTTT

[ravingnutter]

I believe it was Kean, although it was backed up by Hamilton...

Writing in today's Times on what he calls "The Zelikow Report," Safire takes aim at the newly issued staff report that dismissed out of hand any real connection between Iraq and al-Qaida, which led to a media broadside claiming it was a conclusion of the Commission itself, which it was not.

It was not the judgment of the commissioners, but merely an assertion of the "runaway" staff headed by ex-N.S.C. [National Security Council] aide Philip Zelikow. "After Vice President Dick Cheney's outraged objection, the staff's sweeping conclusion was soon disavowed by both commission chairman Tom Kean and vice chairman Lee Hamilton," Safire reported.

"Yesterday, Governor Kean passed along this stunner about 'no collaborative relationship' to ABC's George Stephanopoulos: 'Members do not get involved in staff reports.'"

Safire: 9/11 Commission's Runaway Staff

[StumpyPete]

MSNBC is getting progressively worse (if that's even possible).

The Rick Kaplan era is coming to fruition.

[randog]

LOL!! Sick but funny!