Most other blog outlets are busily consumed with a coordinated campaign to coerce ABC/Disney into revising or cancelling their $40 million dollar made-for-television docudrama about how Monica Lewinsky’s tonsils caused 9/11. You know what? I think the other bloggers are wrong.
Let ABC show their ridiculous and factually inaccurate docudrama. And then let us do a docudrama on 9/11 that brings in every critic, skeptic, nutter, and tin-foiler, and let us make mincemeat of both the pathetic 9/11 Commission Report (now serving as the Gospel According to Lee Hamilton) and the administration.
It sets a terrible precedent to insist that documentaties must adhere to the historical narrative laid out by government investigations. By this standard, ABC could not air Oliver Stone’s movie JFK, because it suggests that Lyndon Johnson had foreknowledge of a CIA plot to kill the President. We could never see a documentary about the efforts of William Casey and George H.W. Bush to prevent an October Surprise by Jimmy Carter in 1980 by securing a release of the Iranian hostages. Why not? Because a government investigation says it didn’t happen. Yeah, Lee Hamilton again. He’s a motherfucker. Check out his outstanding job on Iran-Contra. He’s a go-to guy.
So, let ABC know that you think their docudrama is crap if you want. Put Mickey Mouse ears on everyone and everything. I don’t give a crap. What’s important is not that ABC is airing speculative crap that contradicts a pathetic whitewash of a government report. What matters is that they would never do it to defend a Democrat or attack a Republican. And they won’t admit their $40 million docudrama is nothing but an advertisement for the 2006 GOP House of Representatives reelection.
You want a Path to 9/11? It’s called: Persian Gulf War I. Remember that one? Most Democrats opposed it. Correctly. But not fearless Al Gore. No sir. He was tough on Saddam, like a Presidential aspirant should be. He used that fact to bludgeon Bill Bradley in 2000 primaries.
But wouldn’t Saddam have a nuclear weapon by now if we hadn’t enticed him into invading Kuwait and destroyed his army? Yeah, maybe he would. Just like India and Pakistan and Israel. But he wouldn’t have a blood vengeance for the United States. If he wanted to nuke Israel, Israel would reciprocate many times over. Would Saddam have invaded Saudi Arabia? Just like with Kuwait, not if we told him not to.
It’s Saturday. I have insomnia. And I’m tired of the bullshit. 9/11 happened because there were enough people in the world that wanted it to happen. And they wanted it to happen because they were upset by or disappointed by the Persian Gulf War of 1991. Period.
Ms. Lewinsky’s tonsils had nothing to do with it.
