Ted Rall: The Truth About September 11th

Ted Rall ^ | Aug 10, 2002 | Ted Rall

[aculeus]

I'd love to see Ted visit Broad Channel, Queens, NYC, home of cops, firemen and assorted tough Irish-Americans.

[TomB]

Had the American people known more about the provocations of U.S. policy that produced the Japanese reaction, they might have insisted upon a "Japan first" war policy.

You lost me here. WE were responsible for Pearl Harbor?

Isn't that idea a little, uh, old?

[rdb3]

If I understand you right, we should not have an ivestigation because the Dems might hijack That is a reason not to investgate?

I hate to answer a question with a question, but, did I say that we shouldn't have an investigation? I don't think I did.

The American public is not stupid. Would you change your opinion after reading a slanted news article?

What opinion have I to change? Dang! There I go with the question-question scenario again.

I already told you that there's nothing inherently wrong with having an investigation into the causes of 9/11. I just pointed out the fact (as others here have done) that if you have an investigation, little would come of it.

[jammer]

Actually, there WERE investigations into Pearl Harbor. Not into Japanese motivations, but why we were caught by surprise. And I don't recall the article asking about motivations--only you. I thought the article presented some good questions that beg to be answered. Whether a Congressional Charlie Foxtrot is the forum is an issue where I side with you. I don't know that an appropriate--read effective--forum exists. But, I have the same questions this guy does. I didn't infer any real Bush-bashing from them.

[Madame de Winter]

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be or sound hostile. I'm just upset that we are getting very little info on what happened and what happened before it happened.

Please don't misconstrue my rant with a personal attack. that's not what I'm communicating....
Yet I disagree on the point that little will come of an investigation! I think that should open it up and the pot will boilover and who is scalded deserves it. There is enough blame to go around....

Once again, I believe that all of them are involved...

[Madame de Winter]

I think you are guilty of "Monday morning quarterbacking."

For the last 40 years we followed an immigration policy that didn't result in 3,000 American dead. What changed recently?

Please be logical and not emotional. Why didn't this happen in Reagan's watch? We like to assign blame but without information it becames an emotional experience.

[yoe]

Ummmmm...suicide pilots slamming into tall buildings?

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

For the last 40 years we followed an immigration policy that didn't result in 3,000 American dead. What changed recently?

The trend has been toward massive immigration but the Clinton administration threw all caution to the wind. If the killers aren't here, they can't kill us. Why can't America stop issuing student visas until we can track those who are already here?

[UbIwerks]

But at least he can type. The next time Ted Rall writes his next vituperative piece of billingsgate, just think of Ellsworth Toohey writing screeds against Howard Rourke. Be Seeing You, Chris

Touché.

[Madame de Winter]

Rememeber with me: didn't the visaes get issued 6 months after they all died?


Blame Bill and Hill all you want, but this did happen under W's watch. At the moment we really don't know what happened when. Let's get it all out and let the dice fall where they may!.

[Jim Noble]

>>Using the post-JFK assassination Warren Commission as a model is a start<<

What a terrific idea!

The WC certainly settled the JFK assassination questions! Let's do that again!

[grimalkin]

"The dispicable Ted Rall, the man who mocked Danny Pearl's widow.
I would never advocate that he be beaten with tire chains....nope, not me."

Nor would I encourage someone to remove his teeth with a pair of rusty pliers.

[Redleg Duke]

Who the heck is this tinfoil beret commando anyway? And when did he chew through his leash?

[willyboyishere]

On the basis of the "Terror Widows" cartoon alone, this guy
should be socially ostracized, and spit on every day of his life.

[The Great Satan]

[Texasforever]

The American public is not stupid.

Oh yes it is.

[ladyinred]

The Truth about Sept 11? What truth is in this article? None. Just questions.

1. Even if they had processed the messages about an impending attack the day before, how could they have stopped them, if they weren't specific as to how they would be carried out?

2.Why didn't US jets shoot down the airliners? If they had esp they might have known this was not the usual highjacking where the plane is forced to fly to some location while Hijackers make their demands. No other way to know as this hadn't happened before. I daresay that if they had, this reporter would be screaming the loudest against such an order.

3.Why were there only 12 jets to patrol the skies? Because Clinton/Gore had downsized the military so much that 12 jets were all they had, and they weren't even in the area because of the downsizing.

4.Did the US military shoot down flight 93? He asks if there is a voice recording to prove there was a fight between passengers and hijackers. According to the families, they have heard these recordings and confirm such a fight did indeed take place.

5. Were anymore potential 911 hijackers arrested? Yes, but this author is probably one of the ones who is complaining the loudest about their so called rights and Ashcroft's detaining of them.

6 What did Bush know and when did he know it? The typical liberal memo talking points is enough to tell me where this reporters' real agenda is.

Why not get behind the President and the military and at least pretend you are an American and help unite this nation as one against terrorism, instead of being a divider?

[185JHP]

One of the nastiest things about leftists is their penchant for dishonesty. Some of their caterwauling about "why didn't the government prevent this?" has to do with the fact that a lot of leftists would *like* a superpowerful and ultraintrusive fedgov. They're shameless enough to try to use 911 to advance their "your papers, please" agenda.

[Cindy]

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: ATTACK ON AMERICA! (click here)