Thursday, 11 September 2003 CDT
Keep them afraid to keep them in line
Tom Toles cuts right to it:
And Non Sequitur gives it an historical twist:
Once upon a time the world was with us
After 11 September 2001, the entire world felt our suffering. Unpatriotic, petty men running this country have since ruined all of the good will. America is a country out of step with civilization, lost in the wilderness of greed and power. We need to rediscover our noble selves and once again become an example for others to follow.
Read what the creator of this image collection had to say on TBogg's site.
Two years later, twenty questions unanswered
After President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on 24 November 1963, the Warren Commission was created by Executive Order on 29 November 1963. The Warren Commission issued their report on 24 September 1964. Five days to launch an investigation with an official finding of what occurred within ten months.
After the Japanese attacked our naval base in Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, investigations began on 9 December 1941 culminating in a final Congressional Report 20 July 1946.
What do we have to show after the terrorist attack on 11 September 2001? We have crucial questions unanswered and a Congress that has failed this country. Following is an enumeration of the questions, read the article for details:
What did National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice tell President Bush about al Qaeda threats against the United States in a still-secret briefing on Aug. 6, 2001?
Why did Attorney General John Ashcroft and some Pentagon officials cancel commercial-airline trips before Sept. 11?
Who made a small fortune “shorting” airline and insurance stocks before Sept. 11?
Are all 19 people identified by the government as participants in the Sept. 11 attacks really the hijackers?
Did any of the hijackers smuggle guns on board as reported in calls from both Flight 11 and Flight 93?
Why did the NORAD air defense network fail to intercept the four hijacked jets?
Why did President Bush continue reading a story to Florida grade-schoolers for nearly a half-hour during the worst attack on America in its history?
How did Flight 93 crash in western Pennsylvania?
Was Zacarias Moussaoui really “the 20th hijacker”?
Where are the planes' “black boxes”?
Why were Donald Rumsfeld and other U.S. officials so quick to link Saddam Hussein to the attacks?
Why did 7 World Trade Center collapse?
Why did the Bush administration lie about dangerously high levels of toxins and hazardous particles after the WTC collapse?
Where is Dick Cheney's undisclosed location?
What happened to the more than $1 billion that Americans donated after the attack?
What was the role of Pakistan's spy agency in the Sept. 11 attacks and the subsequent murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl?
Who killed five Americans with anthrax?
What happened to the probe into C-4 explosives found in a Philadelphia bus terminal in fall 2001?
What is in the 28 blacked-out pages of the congressional Sept. 11 report?
Where is Osama bin Laden?
Answers. We deserve answers.
(Thanks to Atrios' Eschaton)
