Comments on: ‘Path to 9/11′ Screenwriter Strikes Back

By: John

John — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:14:18 +0000

I've worked in the Office of Military Commissions for nearly 3 years now and have spent countless hours learning about 9/11 and Al Qaida. There is no way that Nowrasteh and ABC could have told the story factually in just 5 hours or so - maybe an entire season but not just 5 hours. They essentially bit off more than they could chew.

If nothing else Nowrasteh did show that bureaucratic bungling as much as anything else conspired with Al Qaida in carrying out 9/11.

By: Bandit

Bandit — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:32:31 +0000

The clintonista apologists wanted the true version where he personally captured OBL and he got lifemax and 9/11 never happened.

By: The Right Nation

The Right Nation — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:15:58 +0000

The Path to Hysteria...

Cyrus Nowrasteh, sceneggiatore di The Path to 9/11 (docu-fiction trasmesso dalla ABC che ha fatto gridare allo scandalo i democratici americani, soltanto perché descrive accuratamente l'approccio al terrorismo dell'amministrazione Clinton), si difen...

By: Zelsdorf Ragshaft III

Zelsdorf Ragshaft III — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:22:19 +0000

An question for all those who appologize for the Clinton administration. You know. The President who never got 50% of the vote. What is it Clinton did that was effective in stopping Bin Ladin. Some say he had 10 opportunities during his time in office to do something about Osama. Are all those people who make such claims liars and part of the vast right wing conspiracy. Which is Clintonese for its not my fault, they are lying about this red paint on my hands.

By: legion

legion — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:22:55 +0000

Nowrasteh was also only part of the problem. The continued insistence in the advertising by ABC corporate (and various righty bloggers) that the movies was factual & based wholly on the 911 commission report was pretty bloody awful too.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:10:59 +0000

None of this changes the rather obvious spin of the docudrama: it changed the facts to favor Bush's team and impugn Clinton's. The writer's handwaving doesn't affect the facts.

By: Kent G. Budge

Kent G. Budge — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:05:52 +0000

Ah, yes, the shah ... installed by the great Republican president Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of a plan to send Lend-Lease to Russia through Persia, as it was then called.

To paraphrase Churchill, another famous Republican in on the shah plot: madmatt has a firm and commanding attitude towards the facts. He stands no nonsense from them.

By: Sister Toldjah » P2911 screenplay writer Cyrus Nowrasteh: My sin was accurately portraying the Clinton record on terrorism

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:01:41 +0000

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By: madmatt

madmatt — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:43:21 +0000

Nowrasteh's family fled Iran because his parents were oppressing the people when they worked for the shah...a real thug in the vein of saddam, who wouldn't you know, was another dictator the US sponsored. So for a lifelong tool of republican politics to proclaim his "unbiased" opinion sounds a bit fake.

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:28:23 +0000

Imputing the motives of others; the inability to conceive of the possibility that one might be wrong; and the short-fuse to rage are making life rather unpleasant these days.