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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Enough already Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 11:14 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	In meticulous detail, the 567-page report, including 116 pages of detailed footnotes in tiny, eye-straining type, rewrote the history of Sept. 11, 2001, correcting the historical record in ways large and small and shattering myths that might otherwise have been accepted as truth for generations. (New York Times)<p>***Why is is necessary to keep emphasizing that the report has 567 pages, including 116 pages of footnotes? It's not. ***
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jjmoney62	Post subject: Re: Enough already Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 11:20 pm
Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 3135 Location: Albuquerque, N.M. USA	Which page is this on? <p>WASHINGTON - The Sept. 11 commission's final report says there's no evidence suggesting President Bill Clinton ordered airstrikes on Osama bin Laden targets to distract attention from his affair with Monica Lewinsky. <p>But the report says the affair, coupled with other issues, likely affected later discussions about using force against the terrorist leader.
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ToddJBehme	Post subject: Re: Enough already Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 7:46 am
Joined: Sun Jan 05, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 113 Location: Suburban Chicago	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by blanp: In meticulous detail, the 567-page report, including 116 pages of detailed footnotes in tiny, eye-straining type, rewrote the history of Sept. 11, 2001, correcting the historical record in ways large and small and shattering myths that might otherwise have been accepted as truth for generations. (New York Times)<p>***Why is is necessary to keep emphasizing that the report has 567 pages, including 116 pages of footnotes? It's not. ***<hr></blockquote><p>And assuming some chapters or sections end with three or four lines at the top of a page, it's not really 567 pages. Maybe 547 or 557 or so.
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Bolder1	Post subject: Re: Enough already Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 2:51 pm
Joined: Tue Nov 19, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 71 Location: New York	That's to show you that the reporter read every page (or at least flipped through them)...bet he would rather have had the Bush "executive summary."
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Oeditpus Rex	Post subject: Re: Enough already Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 8:41 pm
Joined: Mon Nov 17, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 1324 Location: N 36° 57' 9", W 121° 24' 2"	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Todd J. Behme: Maybe 547 or 557 or so.<hr></blockquote>Oh, well -- in that case, I'll read it.
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