Why create a "docudrama" about this subject at all? The responses of critics and supporters show that there is plenty of historical record to rely on. Why invent anything? There's an obvious answer, of course...but ABC isn't Fox News.

The "Liberul" Media consistently blows off criticism from the left, even from the barely-left that passes for an opposition in this country. Are there consequences for such things? You can look up a list of their sponsors and let them know that you intend to cease using their products as long as they advertise on ABC. Begin efforts to have ABC and its affiliates licenses pulled. It probably won't happen, but it will at the very least annoy them, and perhaps put the fear of God into them. File complaints with the FEC. Do SOMETHING!

ABC and its conservative Iranian author definitely have fun with the truth, bashing Ds and leaving the incompetent Bush free to read "The Pet Goat" in private. But we have bigger problems with disinformation in this country than this.

Consider that in a recent poll, 85% of the U.S. military enlisted troops believe that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 -- or a poll last year that showed that 69% of Americans believed the same.

These are bigger problems than whether America believes in some version of "Wag the Dog." The reality was that during the time the nation could have prevented an incident like 9/11 -- the time frame from 1997-2000, the Rs were attacking anything Clinton did as an attempt to distract America from the biggest concern that the Rs had on display-- whether Bubba had a little too much fun.

The Right Wing networks have been blaming Clinton for everything wrong in the world for the last 12 years, and elevating the status of its corrupt commentators for the same time period. One more TV show will hardly matter, one way or the other.

is to read this article by Joan Walsh (as well as the link to the piece by Joe Conason), and then bear in mind that for a short while, the entire world was with us.

"We Are All Americans" was among the many headlines from newspapers around the globe, including France. And for a time, most of us were under the mistaken impression that George Bush and his administration would actually seize upon that opportunity and fulfill his promise to be "A uniter rather than a divider."

We have since learned that it took Cheney and Rumsfeld and Rice and Bush less than a single day to turn the goodwill of the entire world into a cynical attempt to justify a war of choice in Iraq and the massive military buildup advocated by the neocon-artists at the Project for a New American Century.

"There are no good targets in Afghanistan," Rumsfeld told Richard Clarke. Maybe so, but there are still some really good targets in Washinton, D.C. They're the acolytes of Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Rice called the Republican-controlled United States Congress.

Remove them in November and then we can begin to fulfill the promise of the headline "We Are All Americans."

This is politically-charged soap opera. It is the last thing we need now. Many people at ABC have a pretty good idea of the truth. If they are so cynical that they will do this just for ratings, then they are worse than Fox, because Fox seems to do it out of stupidity and arrogance.

For a TV network to air a "Lieumentary", why are they not being sued? I take it as an insult that they can put such a pile of "Bull Feathers" on network tv and push it off as the truth. Do they really think that the American public is stupid? The right kept saying that Michael Moore's Farenhit 9-11 was false, then why did mobody try to get him to change it, because it was the truth! The Bush administrations keeps saying that we have to understand what is going on, how are we going to understand when we cannot get the whole story. Mr. President I have a brain and I use it, Do not tell me what I have to understand simply by listening to you and the Vice President.

If people insist on pounding on that moment in history again and again and again, they should at least get the name of the book right.

But you're right. How dare someone make Madeline Albright look bad? She was the best Sec of State this country has ever had. Who could forget her kissing the ass of that maniac Kim Jung Il, delightfully clapping while 100,000 kids under the age of 12 who hadn't eaten in 3 days did a 6-hour dance routine for her? It was a proud moment for this country.

But don't worry. Most Americans will be watching football tonight, not a fictionalized version of something that's still all too real. I wouldn't be surprised if the movie gets a 1 share.

It was The Pet Goat.

I will never doubt Salon again.

The ABC /Disney production on 9/11 was complicated and most of the time boring. There are too many players to make a compelling, watchable TV drama. I suppose that Harvey Keitel, playing John O'Neill, is meant to be the hero, since he is no longer around to challenge what actually happened. But many people never heard of John O'Neill. For that matter, a lot of people don't know about Richard Clarke, and for sure they can't keep the various cast of Arab/Afghan players straight.

In Sunday night's segment, one of the biggest distortions was that the CIA and Northern Alliance fighters had a clear shot at bin Laden in early 1998, but the Clinton Cabinet dithered.

A previous article in Salon gave the distorted impression that the mujahedin supported by America in the eighties later banded together behind bin Laden and became the Taliban.

I just want to point out that Massoud, the leader of the Northern Alliance murdered by Al Qaeda shortly before 9/11, was one of those wrongly accused by implication in that previous fudged article.

When it misses the al-Qaida leader by a few hours, it's clear he was warned by Pakistan

See, the problem is Pakistani politics figures in this story in a large way. You can't make sense of this whole saga unless you realize Pakistan always concerns itself with its own interests first and foremost.

The Pushtunistan problem has been smack in the middle of this affair going back to 1973.

But we Americans, in our infinite capacity for seeing ourselves as the hub around which the rest of the world turns, don't want to know about anything as complicated as that nasty old topic.

It's a nasty, complicated old topic, but here we are, wrapped up in its consequences, without even really knowing what it's about.