"Out, out damn spot!"
Philadelphia Daily News: It's already clear that the commission has found evidence to suggest that the terrorist attacks were not inevitable. Members of Congress who oppose extending the deadline need to explain why they don't want the whole story. Otherwise, you won't need Democrats to spin and spin the fact that the administration has something to hide, something big.
Repudiate the 9/11 Cover-Up & the Iraq War Lies, Show Up for Democracy in 2004: Defeat Bush (again!)
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/opinion/7822324.htm
Posted on Thu, Jan. 29, 2004
A 9/11 COVER UP? WHY WON'T BUSH COOPERATE WITH INVESTIGATORS?
THE WHITE House doesn't want to give the commission
investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks the 60
more days that it says it needs to finish its report.
Republicans are worried that a two-month extension
would inject - shudder - politics into the Sept. 11
tragedy. The report would be released in July, in the
middle of the presidential campaign.
As a shocked, but unidentified Republican
congressional aide told the New York Times, "The
Democrats will spin and spin."
Excuse us?
Where is the Republican convention scheduled?
Uh, New York?
And when?
Aug. 30-Sept. 2, later than most political
conventions, but as close as possible to the third
anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade
Center.
And wasn't that President Bush framing his entire
State of the Union address around the warning that "It
is tempting to believe that the danger [of a terrorist
attack on our soil] is behind us"?
Of course, the president's answer was an exhortation
to not "turn back" and to re-elect him to keep us
safe.
It apparently is not to find out once and for all what
mistakes were made that allowed Sept. 11 to happen in
the first place - and what changes in policies and
procedures should be made to prevent it from happening
again.
It was the Bush administration, remember, that
resisted mightily the creation of this commission and
then appointed the wildly inappropriate Henry
Kissinger to be its chair. When Kissinger was forced
to withdraw for a gazillion conflicts of interest, the
well-respected Tom Kean, former governor of New Jersey
and a Republican, took over.
Then the Bush White House proceeded to stonewall, not
turning over documents until subpoenaed.
But why? Do they know something about the runup to
Sept. 11 that we don't know?
It's already clear that the commission has found
evidence to suggest that the terrorist attacks were
not inevitable. Members of Congress who oppose
extending the deadline need to explain why they don't
want the whole story. Otherwise, you won't need
Democrats to spin and spin the fact that the
administration has something to hide, something big.