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Despite Attempts to the Contrary

Comment comment by PowerPointSamurai on 14 September 2006

By September 7th, ABC had agreed to edit some of the most contentious scenes and went ahead with the scheduled airing, which had the highest ratings for its Monday night timeslot.

This is despite predictions and "poll results" posted on CNN claiming most people were not going to watch it. Smells like an attempt at a self-fulfilling prophesy to me.

I have to say they were pretty fair to Clinton and Bush on the show. I heartilly recommend the book "Bush at War" by Bob Woodward. Oh, and in case you think his rendition of the 9/11 reaction by the Bush administration is propaganda, just remember he was one of the guys who blew the top off the Watergate Scandal. He is no friend to politicians, nor is he particularly favorably inclined to Republicans. This book and the events portrayed in it tie in nicely with the show and give the long version of what Woodward was able to find, not a shortened dramatization. Considering the brevity and need for "story telling" on TV, ABC did pretty well.

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RE: Despite Attempts to the Contrary by LordDilly :: NR8

I saw about five minutes of the second half, at the part where an unarmed Predator drone has in Laden in it's sights, and the CIA/FBI folks watching in Washington wished the damn thing was armed with a Hellfire missile (and Tenent saying "We need more tests"), and then Donnie Wahlberg's character meeting with the Northern Alliance General (forget his name- the one whom Al Qaeda assassinated with the camera bomb). I find it interesting that the General said "I fought the Soviets- bin Laden just got his picture taken by the tanks that I destroyed!" I wonder if that is true, in essence? I also wonder, if we had given this general the same support against the Taliban and Al Qaeda we gave him against the Soviets, how different would Afghanistan be now?

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