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While any commission created by politicians is going to be inherently political, I believe that investigations like the 9-11 Commission are a necessary and justified part of Democracy. I, personally, do not need to point a finger at someone and say "It's your fault!" I don't think there are enough fingers in all of the TFP for that - the blame is widespread and goes back many years.
What I do want to learn is what happened and what we can do to help prevent something like this from occuring again. I do not feel comfortable letting the minds of just one administration (the Bush administration in this case) review the facts and make the reccomendations for change. I want just what we have, a group of highly qualified, politically diverse and politically savvy people to look at what occured and make wise, legitimate and achievable reccomendations. I also think that we, the public, deserve to know what our elected officials, our appointed officials and our bureaucratic officials did or didn't do.
If we fail to study the past we are doomed to repeat it.
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
-Douglas Adams
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