Will you read the 9/11 Commission report?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

Be honest.

[LTR]

1. I was skimming through it a little bit

Downloaded it off C-SPAN:

http://www.c-span.org/pdf/911finalreport.pdf

[candy]

2. I can't imagine anything that would be duller.

I'll let others interpret it for me.

[Goldmund]

3. I will when the real report comes out

About 50 years from now. I'll probably need glasses.

[napi21]

4. I will read parts of it on c-span

I know I won't read 500+ pages, mostly because I watched all of the 9/11 Comm. hearings. I will for sure scan the book, and read the entire executive summary. If I question anything in it, I will go to the section of the book for clarification.

[teach1st]

5. I'm cheating. I'm reading the ending first.

I won't spoil the ending for people on DU, though.

Actually, near the end, the chapter "How to Do It?" which lists recommendations, is interesting.

On Edit: Added question mark

[Snellius]

6. Some interesting poop if you read between the lines. Like this:

The President was seated in a classroom when,at 9:05,Andrew Card whispered
to him: “A second plane hit the second tower.America is under attack.”The
President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see
an excited reaction at a moment of crisis.The press was standing behind the
children; he saw their phones and pagers start to ring. The President felt he
should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was
happening.203
The President remained in the classroom for another five to seven minutes, while the children continued reading.

pp. 38-39

NORAD officials have maintained consistently that had the passengers not
caused United 93 to crash, the military would have prevented it from reaching
Washington,D.C.That conclusion is based on a version of events that we
now know is incorrect.The Langley fighters were not scrambled in response
to United 93; NORAD did not have 47 minutes to intercept the flight;
NORAD did not even know the plane was hijacked until after it had crashed.
It is appropriate, therefore, to reconsider whether United 93 would have been
intercepted.

p. 44

[Feanorcurufinwe]

8. I hate to sound dense but

could you share with us what insight you gained by reading between those lines? Thank you.

[Snellius]

9. The matter-of-fact description of Bush's reaction is almost sarcastic

This pathetic scene of a terror-stricken president sitting in a children's reading class for 5 to 7 minutes while just being told "America is under attack" has always been a huge embarrassment for the president. For him to spin it, ex post facto, as his "instinct" to "project calm" is truly laughable. The report goes on to show how cluelessly out of touch and out of command Bush was in handling the crisis. From the moment it happened it was clear, even to Bush, that he was incapable of dealing with the situation and demurred to Big Time when the going got tough.

The NORAD quote is interesting in how completely every level of responsibility was trying to cover their ass.

[malatesta1137]

7. Why should I?

This is a complete whitewash more corrupt than the Warren Commission report, a horrendous slap on the faces of the 911 families. One lie after another, I feel sorry for anyone wasting their time reading it.

It treats the attacks as 'surprise' (yeah, right) and it doesn't blame anyone. Utterly corrupt.