9/11 Commission Final Report (A Schizophrenic Multilingual Kaleidoscope)

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9/11 Commission Final Report
(A Schizophrenic Multilingual Kaleidoscope)

It was the inquiry that "damned the US government", it was the inquiry that said the government was "not to blame".

It was the inquiry that said the US "had 10 chances to avert the attacks", it was the inquiry that "didn't say the attacks could have been averted."

It was the inquiry that "sharply rebuked" Bush and Clinton, it was the inquiry that "let Bush and Clinton off the hook".

Links to the all the above quotes are below - via news.google.{com|es|fr|de}

Welcome to the world of the schizophrenic commercial media, polluting our minds for the last 50 years.

Instead of a factual report on "what happened", our headline writers once again see a Rorschach blot - and the populace is neatly polarized once again.

Why does it happen this way? (dollar/euro currency blocs, conservative vs. liberal national administrations, recent national memories of war or dictatorship, political leanings of owner of media organ, poor reading comprehension among headline writers...?)

ENGLISH
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9/11 inquiry damns US government
Reuters, UK
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=552098§ion=news
By Alan Elsner and Tabassum Zakaria. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The September 11 commission on Thursday criticised both the Bush and ...

9/11: Govt not to blame
News24, South Africa
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1561727,00.html
Washington - The September 11 commission concludes that a "failure of imagination", not governmental neglect, allowed 19 hijackers to carry out the deadliest ...

Government 'not to blame' over 9/11
ic SouthLondon.co.uk, UK
http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/nationalnews/tm_objectid=14450535&method=full&siteid=50100&headline=government--not-to-blame--over-9-11-name_page.html
A "failure of imagination", not government neglect, allowed 19 hijackers to carry out the deadliest terrorist attack in US history, according to the September ...

Government Failures 'Not to Blame' over September 11 - Report
Scotland on Sunday, UK
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3238109
A “failure of imagination”, not government neglect, allowed 19 hijackers to carry out the deadliest terrorist attack in US history, the September 11 ...

Sept. 11 panel says government failures not to blame for attacks
Newsday, NY
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--sept11commission0722jul21,0,4591209.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire
By HOPE YEN. WASHINGTON -- The Sept. 11 commission concludes that a "failure of imagination," not governmental neglect, allowed 19 ...

9/11 report blames intelligence failures
Toronto Star, Canada
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1090447473199&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154
WASHINGTON (CP) - A huge bipartisan report on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks provides some ammunition Thursday for critics ...

9/11 panel: Hijackers exploited 'deep institutional failings'
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-07-21-911-commission-final-report_x.htm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Sept. 11 commission's final report concludes the hijackers exploited "deep institutional failings within ...

OK, so the government was to blame, and the government wasn't to blame, and institutions were to blame. (This must be what Condi meant when she said: "we 'tasked' the FBI...")

SPANISH
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EE UU contó con 10 ocasiones para evitar el atentado terrorista ...
US had 10 chances to avert terrorist attack
La Opinión de Tenerife
http://www.la-opinion.com/secciones/noticia.jsp?pIdNoticia=16750&pIdSeccion=7
El informe de la comisión que ha investigado el 11-S será un auténtico varapalo para {"slams"} los servicios secretos de EE UU, a los que acusa, entre otras cosas, de ...

Comisión del 11 de septiembre no dirá que se pudo evitar ataques
El Universo
9/11 Commission doesn't say attacks could have been averted
http://www.eluniverso.com/core/14/eluniverso.asp?page=noticia&id=14&tab=1&contid=CFEFC5A5124A41538B70F514D22C863C
El informe final de la comisión del 11 de septiembre no va a declarar que se pudo haber evitado el ataque terrorista más grave de la historia de Estados ...

The Spanish media contradicts itself. Below, the Germans and the French contradict each other.

GERMAN
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US-Kommission rügt Regierungen George W. Bush und Clinton scharf
Tagesspiegel
US Commission sharply rebukes Bush and Clinton Administrations
http://host1.tagesspiegel.de/newsticker/ticker/detail.php?id=26983
Washington (dpa) - Die Regierung von George W. Bush und die seines Vorgängers Bill Clinton haben die Terrorbedrohung völlig unterschätzt und dem El Kaida ...

US-Kommission rügt Regierungen George W. Bush und Clinton scharf
US Commission sharply rebukes Bush and Clinton Administrations
news.de
http://www.news.de/50/03egierungen_George_W_Bush_und_Clinton_scharf.php
Washington (dpa) - Die Regierung von George W. Bush und die seines Vorgängers Bill Clinton haben die T...

FRENCH
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11 septembre: la commission d'enquête américaine épargne Bush
Libération
Sept 11: American inquiry commission lets Bush off the hook
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=225502
eux ans de travail pour 600 pages: la commission d'enquête indépendante sur les attentats du 11 septembre 2001 remet son rapport ce jeudi à Washington. ...

Rapport sur le 11 septembre : George W. Bush est épargné
9/11 Report: Bush let off hook
SwissInfo
http://www.swissinfo.org/sfr/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5098983
WASHINGTON - La commission nationale américaine d'enquête sur les attentats du 11 septembre 2001 publie son rapport final qui devrait largement épargner le ...

11 septembre: le rapport de la commission d'enquête épargne Bush
9/11: Inquiry commission lets Bush of the hook
L'Express
http://www.lexpress.fr/info/infojour/infos.asp?id=040722150606.ixdl5ecv&rub=une&pid=040722113006&1506
WASHINGTON (AFP - 15:06) - La commission nationale américaine d'enquête sur les attentats du 11 septembre 2001 publie jeudi son rapport final qui devrait ...

Bush épargné par l'enquête sur le 11/9
Bush let off the hook by inquiry
Le Figaro
http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/20040722.FIG0317.html
La commission nationale américaine d'enquête sur les attentats du 11 septembre 2001 publie aujourd'hui son rapport final qui devrait largement épargner le ...

Bush et Clinton épargnés par le rapport sur les attentats du 11 ...
Bush and Clinton let off the hook by report on 9/11 attacks
XINHUA
http://www.french.xinhuanet.com/french/2004-07/22/content_11078.htm
WASHINGTON, 22 juillet (XINHUANET) -- Le président américain George W. Bush et son prédécesseur Bill Clinton sont largement exonérés de n'avoir pas pu ...

Anyone care to predict/research the Italian media? Under neocon Berlusconi, I would expect they'd say Bush exonerated, or both Bush and Clinton to blame.

[Malva Zebrina]

1. thank you for posting all that work

It is so nice to know that in this extremely wealthy country, who is spending billions upon billions of our dollars on invading and killing ten thousand or more, innocent people in small countries just to get what they have that we want, that we were absolutely so dumb so as to be excused for the laxity that allowed these terrorists to smack huge planes into the WTC and the Pentagon.

It is so nice to know that.

I am so relieved that this Bush appointed panel has absolutely vindicated anyone at all in this government from any responsibility at all. Truly, did anyone really expect anything else than this?

It is more of the staged events that the Republicans are famous for. They should have, really all dressed up in white wigs with curls , as their costume--and insisted that Bush and Cheney when they "testified" in secret holding each other's hand, wear that type of wig also, just for the propaganda effect.

(I am so relieved to find that---- it was no one's fault and everything is just fine and honkey dory==move along now--there is nothing here to see. Our fantastic war president was perfectly right to sit and do nothing for seven minutes and it was perfectely excusable that no one, absolutely no on, contrary to other incidents, sent one fighter plane out to try to intervene with the obvious.

How much will the American people tolerate of these whitewashes and lies? Apparently, they are willing to buy it. NO ONE challenges it.

I find that so incredibly frustrating.

[shockingelk]

2. Great post! n/t

[KoKo]

3. Send your post to Josh Marshall or Eric Alterman....they would love to

see this documentation. Particularly Eric, who has written so much about the "Media."

There are other sites which are trying to document Media Distortion, but I'm in a rush and can't think of them right now. One of this is actively requesting work like this.

Thanks!!!