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5.21.04 @ 12:01AM

SHARK BITES
Re: Paul Beston's The 9/11 Hearings Jump the Shark:

This article is truly profound. Bravo.
-- Kevin Seeley
Buffalo, New York

I was impressed by Paul Beston's article about the travesty that the 9/11 Commission hearings have become. He wrote clearly , concisely and truthfully about how shameful the behavior of some of the 9/11 victims families behaved. How awful this commission has become and how simple truths from Giuliani's mouth were made necessary.

What a shameful display this commission has become. We are at WAR. We will be hit again and again and again in ways we cannot now imagine and all the while this commission acts as a Democrat political vehicle accusing those who did everything they could and became true heroes, those who fight now to protect us and secure our freedoms, all the while protecting and hiding the incompetence, arrogance and downright ignorance of the Clinton administration , which for eight years, completely ignored every hint, every opportunity to do something. Jamie Gorelick, a member of the commission, a Clinton administration member and one who had a position that put her in control of the very measures that assisted in making an attack possible, now sits and accuses the likes of President Bush, Rudy Giuliani, Don Rumsfeld, and everyone who has actually had backbone and resolve and has DONE what needed to be done to protect us?

I appreciate everything that Paul said and glad he wrote this article about this shameful display the commission has exhibited. They sank to new lows in New York.

I am ashamed they share citizenhood. They do not deserve to be Americans!
-- Careen Longhurst
An ANGRY American!
Surrey, British Columbia

Funny how time erases all the good done by Giuliani and NY's firemen/policemen and all the others that provided assistance on that awful day!

When are people who want to blame U.S. for the terrorism going to wake up to the fact that without U.S., they'd have no hearings or even rights to attend and point fingers? What will it take?

Thank you,
-- Carole Davis

Hmm..... weren't the highjackings carried out by Islamic extremists who all died when they crashed the planes into, or not into, their targets? I don't understand why it's so hard to find the correct target for blame.

I may be wrong on the following, but I don't think so. Let's do a quick recap: Rudy: still alive and well, not an Islamic extremist.... nope, not his fault; New York Firefighters: mostly still alive and not Islamic extremists.... nope, not their fault; New York policemen: again mostly still alive and not Islamic extremists.... nope, not their fault

Ah, I think I have it. The firefighters and policemen who died trying to rescue their fellow citizens, that's it. They were part of the plot all along. They must have been all Islamic extremists involved from the beginning. On the other hand, maybe they were exactly what we all thought they were. Heroes who gave the ultimate sacrifice in service to their community. Nope, not their fault, either.

I can understand the grief of the people who lost loved ones on that terrible day, but really, the fault is not hard to find. It really was 19 Islamic extremists.
-- Bill Deady
Manchester, New Hampshire

Paul Beston is correct that the 9/11 Commission is nothing but a Monday morning quarterback session filled with ex-politico blowhards trying to revive their names from obscurity. Seriously, who even knows half these bozos? I never heard of most of them.

But to try and blame Rudy Giuliani for what the terrorists did is downright disgusting and the panel members should be ashamed of themselves. They also should be drawn and quartered for letting those agitators in so they can turn the entire commission into a circus.

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