Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Everything Else => Topic started by: House of Mustard on July 22, 2004, 04:03:28 PM
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I downloaded the full 9/11 comission report, which was just released today, and I've been glued to it all morning. You should all at least read the first chapter of it. I downloaded it from CNN, although you can probably get it from several other places.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/07/22/9.11.full.report/index.html
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My coworker was looking at it, and it's about 500 pages long, isn't it?
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The full version is 585 pages. Holy crap, though, this is painful to read. It is so detailed about everything that happened--everything that they've pieced together. Reading it is like living it all over again.
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Want to give us a summary of important points, HoM?
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Yeah, I don't have time to read nearly six hundred pages of report. I still have a little less than half of Mistborn to read (sorry Brandon, hitting a few snags with time management. If you see me on here I'm probably reading it...), plus five summer reading books. A summary would be very nice...
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So far, I haven't gotten to much of the conclusionary stuff, but that doesn't interest me much anyway. (I like to read facts and draw my own conclusions.) It's just the extremely detailed account of everything that happened on September 11 that I find so interesting. Read the first chapter -- it's only about 40 pages. It details everything -- stuff that you wouldn't think they would know. It has detailed accounts about the passengers fighting back on American 11. It has transcripts of the calls between control towers and the FAA and the military. It's really riveting stuff--like I said, it's like reliving the whole event. I actually got physically ill yesterday reading it -- just from the emotional impact.
You can download the thing chapter by chapter at the link I posted above. For a general summary, check any news site. The basic gist of the report is that the US was totally and completely unprepared for the attack, and the incompetency stretched back through at least three administrations. Yes, errors were made in following emergency procedure, but it's highly doubtful that the procedures would have worked anyway.
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The first 14 pages are simple narrative of the actual hijackings. That's what I've read so far (chapter one is 46 pages, to be exact). I've come close to tears. So I may stop, y'know, since I work with some rednecks here at work and would expect at elast a light hazing if they saw me crying, even about thousands dead.