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Originally posted by mml
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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Elloquent answer. Those families who lost loved ones have demanded an investigation if for no other reason than to prevent a similar occurrence. Now that doesn't mean our govn't can, but if it exposes some missteps and relieves some of the pain for survivors, then it is the right thing. I don't think there was any "big cover-up" and I believe Condy Rice is telling as much of the truth as she is able, but I do think that government agencies were not communicating fully and by retracing "what went wrong" perhaps those issues can be remedied. Partisan politics aside...