If nobody can forget 9/11, that's because they keep reminding us of it.

I'm very grateful to Ms. Havrilesky for having suffered through viewing what must have been grueling hours of docu-dramatics. I was fairly well resolved to avoid the TV commemoratives, but I'm now utterly committed.

The real fun will have to wait until we finally get the Bush impeachment trial going. Now, THAT will be a drama that will have me glued to the set.

The one version that absolves the Bush administration of wrong-doing is the only one available on free network TV.

Even Japan remembers Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a restrained and dignified manner...and they were nuked.

People all over the world must be shaking their heads in absolute disbelief at our self absorbed, crass egotism. Tragedy happens everywhere. Get over it already.

The lesson that SHOULD be streed on this anniversary is that the whole mess should have been avoided. But no, it will be two weeks of mawkish sel-pity.

It's a sad state of democratic affairs when the megamedia eliminates the dissenting view. Three important documentaries never mentioned by corporate spinsters are 911:Press for Truth, 911 Revisited, Loose Change 2nd Edition (soon to be updated).

To add to what has been said about this particular peice of nastiness, it really is a partisan attempt to blame 9-11 on Clinton.

Truthout.org recently pointed this out. The Path to 9/11 is historically inaccurate, was put together by a conservative partisan, and ABC should be called out for airing it.

From the article Clinton, 9/11 and the FactsBy William Rivers Pitt:

(t r u t h o u t | Perspective)

" The passage of time will, in all likelihood, finally expose the truth behind exactly what happened on September 11, and why. Until the moment of final revelation comes, however, we are all best served by a systematic analysis of the facts surrounding that dark day. Efforts such as this ABC miniseries to use 9/11 as a partisan club should be shunned, and hard data should be highlighted instead.

Back in 2003, CBS was forced to pull its miniseries "The Reagans," after conservative groups lambasted the network for crossing the line into advocacy against the Reagan administration. A similar effort should perhaps be undertaken to compel ABC to pull "The Path to 9/11." At no time should a conservative producer with an anti-Clinton axe to grind be allowed to use public airwaves to broadcast a rank distortion of the truth, especially on the anniversary of the worst day in our history."

Just read the 9/11 articles about forthcoming TV shows...is America not over this yet? Yes it was a terrible event...a shocking modern crime, etc, etc, but going on about it doesn't solve anything. I am writing from England and we had our share...30 years of the IRA, the Blitz...and our own recent threats and attacks...all this has been mentioned before. And yes, I did lose an old schoolfreind...an ex-pat who had worked in NY for the past few years. But there comes a time when you throw out the dead wife's clothes, you take off your black armband, and step out into the sun...obviously having people trying to kill your new girlfreind doesn't help but you get the picture. Mick Hume wrote in his column in the Times (UK) this morning...

"At the risk of being told to mind my own Brit-ness, here is a friendly suggestion to speed things up. Forget about treating the site as “sacred ground”. On that basis half of London would have been left as a bombsite with a plaque after the Blitz. We always build the future on the remains of the past. And don’t allow anybody to veto progress by invoking the names of the dead. Despite what it says at Ground Zero, the 3,000 killed were not all “the heroes of 9/11”. Most were simply innocent victims who should be remembered, but not revered.

I was gobsmacked to hear this week of a crew in space suits working in a sealed bubble at the New York Historical Society. They are mounting an exhibition recreating a storefront from close to the twin towers, using the original jeans and T-shirts covered with dust from 9/11 — dust described not just as toxic, but “historic, and possibly sacred”.

Who wants to think of dead dust in a time capsule as a symbol of the city that never sleeps? Give me the American attitude preserved in an old New York tune:

Nothing’s impossible I have found,

For when my chin is on the ground,

I pick myself up,

Dust myself off,

Start all over again . . .”

With Respect.........danceboy

The very first letter compares 9/11 to Hiroshima and remarks on the dignified way the Japanese remember their losses.

That's true. However, no Japanese city is currently in danger of being atomized by the USA. The danger of Islamic violence against Americans and other Westerners is still highly acute. Much of the sentiment around 9/11 is derived from a fear that it will happen again (Allah knows the Muslims are trying!)

As for the Englishman - yes thanks for checking in - but the IRA didn't wage a genocidal war against you. In case you are tempted to lecture us on the stiff upper lip, I'll remind you of the posters all over London that said "I'm not scared." Do you remember what the graffiti on that was?

I'd love to see an organized boycott of ABC for the month of September (new series debuts) in protest of this sham presentation. Maybe they'd be more interested in presenting a balanced view of the events leading up to this tragedy if they knew people would not be tuning into Desparate Housewives for a month. I hate to miss the premiere of Lost, but I'm willing to do so if it drives home the point that I'm tired of the Neo-Con re-write of history.

Meanwhile, Condoleezza Rice gets that fated memo about planes flying into buildings

No, the memo Rice received said nothing about planes flying into buildings. It was "Osama bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S.," which was not news to anyone. It was akin to getting a memo that somewhere a murder was going to take place, so unspecific it was.

And, yes, Clinton was more interested in blow jobs than national security, since testimony shows that he acknowledged on the phone that he thought a foreign intelligence agency had tapped the White House phones--while getting a BJ from Monica, no less.