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Evan Thomas / Newsweek:
How Bush Blew It — Bureaucratic timidity. Bad phone lines. And a failure of imagination. Why the government was so slow to respond to catastrophe. — Sept. 19, 2005 issue - It's a standing joke among the president's top aides: who gets to deliver the bad news?
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Terror war all but forgotten on home front — Sept. 11, 2005 — the fourth anniversary of the start of the war. That is, if you believe it's a ''war'' A lot of people didn't want to, even in those first days. — About a week after, one of my local radio stations held a fund-raiser and this is how their trailer for it opened.
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Power Line
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Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
Tape Released: American al Qaeda Member Warns of Attacks — Names Los Angeles and Melbourne as Next Targets — Sept. 11, 2005 — In an apparent Sept. 11 communiqué broadcast on ABC News, an al Qaeda operative threatens new attacks against cities in the US and Australia.
Lorie Byrd / PoliPundit.com:
WE WILL NOT FORGET — SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 — "The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and a quiet, unyielding anger. These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.
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The Political Teen, Gateway Pundit, Betsy's Page, Scared Monkeys and Patrick Ruffini '05
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Times of London:
Ditch Holocaust day, advisers urge Blair — ADVISERS appointed by Tony Blair after the London bombings are proposing to scrap the Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day because it is regarded as offensive to Muslims. — They want to replace it with a Genocide Day that would recognise the mass murder …
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Washington Post:
The Steady Buildup to a City's Chaos — Confusion Reigned At Every Level Of Government — Walter Maestri had dreaded this call for a decade, ever since he took over emergency management for Jefferson Parish, a marshy collection of suburbs around New Orleans.
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
THE SMART VS. THE STUPID — The smart, in this case, is David Riggs, a Ph.D. in applied economics with whom I became friends when he worked at the Center of the American Experiment, a Minnesota-based think tank on whose board of directors I served for some years, and of which Scott is currently a member.
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Michele / a small victory:
TODAY — I still think about it on days like this, when the sky is a deep blue, the clouds are perfectly formed bundles of white, the air is crisp and cool; chilly enough for long sleeves but warm enough to keep the windows in the car rolled down. It was a just like that day. It was a perfect day, for a while.
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Yourish.com
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Amy Westfeldt / Associated Press:
Nation Remembers Victims of 9/11 Attacks — NEW YORK - America grieved the victims of Sept. 11 on Sunday as the brothers and sisters of the dead recited their loved ones' names and tearful messages of remembrance to a weeping crowd gathered at the site where the World Trade Center once stood.
Ken / No, You Can't Have A Pony!:
Paranoia Of The Day — This amuses me to no end. — Take a look at this picture. It is what the proposed Flight 93 memorial will look like from the air (Flight 93, as you recall, was the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11). — The image-over-substance wingnuts are absolutely freaking out about it.
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Juan / Informed Comment:
9/11, 7/7 and 8/30 — On the fourth-year anniversary of the al-Qaeda attacks on the US, it is important that we take stock of where we stand. We do not stand in a good place. The US military is bogged down in an intractable guerrilla war in Iraq, which most Muslims view as an aggressive neo-imperialism.
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Chris Floyd
Dr. Steven Taylor / PoliBlog:
Remembering 911 — This is a repost of my post from last year on this date: Remembering September 11, 2001. I can think of no other way to reflect on the events of four years ago than to simply remember, so here are my memories of that day: — I was in my office at Troy (then State) University.
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Palm Beach Post:
Lack of plan hurt Katrina-hit states' response — TALLAHASSEE — One thing Florida knows is hurricanes. — Florida emergency planners criticized and even rebuked their counterparts — or what passes for emergency planners — in those states for their handling of Hurricane Katrina.
Washington Post:
Terrorism Could Hurl D.C. Area Into Turmoil — Despite Efforts Since 9/11, Response Plans Incomplete — The U.S. Capitol and the White House have been fortified, police forces strengthened, high-tech security equipment purchased, vulnerable streets closed and checkpoints and barriers erected.
Mike Allen / Time:
Living Too Much in the Bubble? — A bungled initial response to Katrina exposed the perils of a rigid, insular White House. Inside Bush's plan to show he isn't isolated — President bush was seated in the white house situation Room, watching military and disaster officials beaming …
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Jack Kelly: No shame — The federal response to Katrina was not as portrayed — It is settled wisdom among journalists that the federal response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina was unconscionably slow. — "Mr. Bush's performance last week will rank as one of the worst ever during …
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Captain's Quarters
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Katrina: Incompetence Distilled — The New York Times has a feature story in its Sunday edition that supposedly looks at the frustration of coordinating the local, state, and federal responses to Hurricane Katrina. However, the article by a crew of Times writers instead inadvertently encapsulates …