Selected Product: | The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Indexed Hardcover, Authorized Edition) Hardcover Author: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Release Date: 2004-08-31 ISBN-10: 0393060411 ISBN-13: 9780393060416 List Price: $19.95 Average Customer Rating: | | The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) ISBN-10: 1400030846 ISBN-13: 9781400030842 List Price:$15.95 Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire ISBN-10: 0805075593 ISBN-13: 9780805075595 List Price:$16.00 The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions And Distortions ISBN-10: 1566565847 ISBN-13: 9781566565844 List Price:$18.00 The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward -- A New Approach ISBN-10: 1599862395 ISBN-13: 9781599862392 List Price:$4.99 Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror ISBN-10: 1597971596 ISBN-13: 9781597971591 List Price:$10.95 |
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Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and along the banks of the Potomoc, the United States suffered the single largest loss of life from an enemy attack on its soil.
In November 2002 the United States Congress and President George W. Bush established by law the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission. This independent, bipartisan panel was directed to examine the facts and circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks, identify lessons learned, and provide recommendations to safeguard against future acts of terrorism.
This hardcover volume is the authorized edition of the Commission's final report, and includes a full index. Do your own research.. | Customer Rating: | In order to fully understand the purpose of this "report" or carefully constructed farce, please research the driving force behind its contents - Philip Zelikow.
One of Zelidows thesis in college was about creating public myths or the public presumptions about contemporary history.
Zelikow noted in his own words, that "contemporary" history is "defined functionally by those critical people and events that go into forming the public's presumptions about its immediate past. The idea of 'public presumption'," he explained, "is akin to William McNeill's notion of 'public myth' but without the negative implication sometimes invoked by the word 'myth.' Such presumptions are beliefs (1) thought to be true (although not necessarily known to be true with certainty), and (2) shared in common within the relevant political community." I copied and pasted that from another site, here is a direct link - [...] Page 5 of that document.
Zelikow also co-wrote a book with his close friend Condoleezza Rice (former National Security Advisor under Bush) entitled "Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft".
Zelikow was also entrusted by Rice the task of rewriting America's national security strategy, which became "The National Security Strategy of the United States of America". Published in September of 2002, this document contains the basic elements of the Bush Doctrine - the policy that the United States had the right to aggressively secure itself from countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups, which was used to justify the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and later the policy of preemptive war with regimes that represented a potential or perceived threat to the security of the United States.
Please do your own research on Zelikow and all of the events of 9/11. | This is a joke | Customer Rating: | According to Wikipedia:
The commission was criticized for significant alleged conflicts of interest on the part of commissioners and staff. Further, the commission's report has been the subject of much criticism by both the commissioners themselves and by others.
The commission members were appointed by George W. Bush as well as Congress, which led to the criticism that it was not a commission truly independent from the U.S. government whose actions it was supposed to review. The commission stated in its report that "[their] aim has not been to assign individual blame," a judgment which some critics believed would obscure the facts of the matter in a nod to consensus politics.
In addition, commissioners believed that key agencies of the U.S. government, including The Pentagon, the FAA and NORAD were deliberately deceiving them, and that the CIA was deliberately impeding the work of the commission. On the whole, the chairmen of the commission believed the commission was set up to fail. | 9/11 Ommission Report | Customer Rating: | It's shocking to read the user reviews and realize that many of these individuals had not done a minute worth of research themselves. It's very easy to pick up a book, with no foreknowledge of any sort, and take all the "facts" for granted. An interesting thing occurs with this book and the reader, when you dissect the simplest of fragments of evidence, and put them in retrospect.
I'll admit, I may differ from an average reader of this book in the sense that I would not approach it casually, nor openly. At the very beginning, the book lists details of the "hijackers" check-ins into the airport. Very random details are given, indeed most of the information is superfluous. A fundamental point that the book fails to mention is that nearly half of the hijackers have been found in Saudi Arabia, or Pakistan, or Iran, and none have a spec of history in connection with any terrorist organization. But the most disgusting thing about the fact is, that if these hijackers were on those planes, and if the planes had collided and exploded upon impact with the towers, than, undeniably, they should all be deceased. How is it then, that these hijackers can be traced halfway across the world?
My last example for this review is the alleged stabbings of some passengers and attendants in the plane. An audio recording, released by the FBI to the families of the deceased, presents the voice of Betty Ong, explaining that she, and 2 other of fellow employees had been stabbed and could not enter the cockpit. What is my argument? A young women, and two of her friends had been stabbed. The situation in the plane is hostile, but she, is extremely, frighteningly, and observably casual, but stumbling with uncertainty. As tough as an individual may be, no one would sound as if he is reading off a script when making an emergency call about being stabbed, presumably bleeding to death. Search the recording for yourself.
We have a powerful search tool in our homes; the computer. Research is quick and simple. Even in the very beginning of the book, these and other important uncertainties surface. I suggest for any reader of this book to also buy "911 Commission Report: Omissions And Distortions." In this way, you will be able to judge between the truths and half truths. 2/5.
| A useless report full of omissions and lies | Customer Rating: | The report was censored & omits anything the government does not want you to know. Even the co-chair of the commission admits that it's full of lies.
If you want to read this fictional account of what happened on 9/11, why buy the book? You can download the entire report for free. | Do not purchase for Kindle | Customer Rating: | | The formatting is incorrect for the Kindle Edition. Paragraph spacing is off and there are missing spaces between sentences on every single page. |
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