[MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] 9/11: Press for Truth

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I watched the DVD "9/11: Press for Truth" the other night.  I don't even 
know how it got to the top of my rental queue, and I didn't even remember 
hearing about the movie.  So it came in the mail and I watched it.

It wasn't a wacky conspiracy-theory movie.  Instead it focuses on the 
failures of the Bush administration to stop the 9/11 attacks.  Much of it 
is based on the work of a guy called Paul Thompson (a pen name, I guess) 
who wrote a 9/11 timeline and posted it on the 'net...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terror_Timeline

The "Jersey Girls" (a few wives of men killed in the WTC) found his 
timeline and really liked it.  The movie is about them and about the 
timeline.  The Jersey Girls had mostly voted for Bush and they expected 
him to be helpful in getting their questions answered, or so they said. 
Anyway, it didn't go well for them and they became increasingly frustrated 
with all the secrecy surrounding the 9/11 events.  They were not impressed 
with the 9/11 Commission and its findings.

The most interesting thing in the movie for me was that Paul Thompson was 
able to find newspaper articles published before 9/11 that had predicted 
that planes were to be hijacked and crashed in a terrorist attack on the 
U.S.  He did a lot to trace the history of American involvement with bin 
Laden and he traced their attempts to get bin Laden in Pakistan.

Anyway, pretty interesting stuff and though it is unfavorable to 
Bush/Cheney et al., I don't think it had much dubious info.  Wikipedia 
doesn't suggest any flaws in the film:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11:_Press_for_Truth

It didn't get many reviews on RottenTomatoes:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/911_press_for_truth/

Anyway, there are quite a few interesting tidbits in the movie, so I will 
recommend it.

Mike

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