That's really interesting that this even exists. I have read the 9/11 commission report, and definitely anything that makes it more accessible so that more people are inclined to read it is a useful approach. But then to take that and use the visual medium to make it into something that sounds like it borders on anti-Islam propaganda is... well. Interesting.
If I recall correctly (I read the report in mid-2007 during an "out sick" period, so my memory is not the best), it's spelled Usama throughout the report as well, and I think they explain their use of that spelling within the text. I could be wrong on that second point though. I really should read it again.
And if you'd shown me that last picture without telling me who it was supposed to be, I think I would've said FDR. Just... no. I see no resemblence to W. whatsoever.
I dunno, I might be just a liberal homo commie jizzporium-a-naut and reading too much into it. I just particularly loathe the "THE TERRORISTS ARE MUSLIMS! THAT'S WHAT ISLAM IS ABOUT!" sentiment fostered by fear-mongering Kool-aid drinkers and it's entirely possible I'm projecting. Have a read for yourself, and so forth and tell me whatcha think (since I'm sure you have all this free time floating around).
Ory? That would make sense, if be crippling disappointing in the report to go "And YOU PEOPLE are the ones telling us how it is?!" Particularly since the commission found out we didn't know what Al-Qaeda was until 1998.
The odd thing is, they DEPICT FDR in the book (when discussing the founding of the CIA after WWII) and he looks like FDR, but not as FDR as W up there. I thought they nailed Clinton, though, although he was obviously depicted considerably less.
On the "Usama" bit, apparently that's how the FBI, CIA, and other government agencies spell it. The American media spells it "Osama." In other countries, it is spelled "Usamah" or "Oussamah" or "Ussammah."
I had read that actually on Snopes-- I realize their reasoning for it, but it still seems off to put it in a book that's alleging to make the findings of the 9/11 Commission "accessible to all Americans".
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If I recall correctly (I read the report in mid-2007 during an "out sick" period, so my memory is not the best), it's spelled Usama throughout the report as well, and I think they explain their use of that spelling within the text. I could be wrong on that second point though. I really should read it again.
And if you'd shown me that last picture without telling me who it was supposed to be, I think I would've said FDR. Just... no. I see no resemblence to W. whatsoever.
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Ory? That would make sense, if be crippling disappointing in the report to go "And YOU PEOPLE are the ones telling us how it is?!" Particularly since the commission found out we didn't know what Al-Qaeda was until 1998.
The odd thing is, they DEPICT FDR in the book (when discussing the founding of the CIA after WWII) and he looks like FDR, but not as FDR as W up there. I thought they nailed Clinton, though, although he was obviously depicted considerably less.
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