There is no way ABC will pull this series. They have promoted it to death as well as announced that no ads will be shown for the entire 6 hour show.

As for the “inaccuracies” according to what I read at E & P (who summarized both parts very nicely) the idea that they whitewash the Bush administration is a lie being used by the left to discredit the show.

What you guys are worried about is that Bush doesn’t come in for ALL the blame. Well too f**king bad. Grow up and stop acting like a bunch of juveniles. Accept the fact that Clinton had Osama in his sights 4 times during the 90’s and for various reasons failed to pull the trigger.

That is historical fact. The composite scene they use in the TV show to portray this failure of leadership and courage may be inaccurate historically but at the same time accurately reflects the Clinton’s indecision in the matter.

And while we’re at it, when are you on the left going to start blaming Osama for 9/11? He’s smiling knowing that you’re blaming Bush more than him.

With hinsight we can see that these policies led directly to 9-11. The point of whether Clinton could have killed him is irrelevant. Someone with the suppport of Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan would have replaced him quickly and another 9-11 event would have transpired. I can’t honestly say that I criticized the Clinton administration (which I did for a “weak” foreign policy in the middle east and Korea) and predicted an attack on the scale of 9-11. Very few(if any) made that prediction. Clinton was just asleep at the wheel while the vast majority of us were asleep in the back seat. He is definitley accountable for that and his recent attempts at censorship tell us quite a bit about the man and his respect for the rights of others.

Likewise, it is irrelevant that Repubs played politics with “anti” terroism policies in the 90’s. Short sighted? Absolutely. But this political gamesmanship had little to do with our missing this attack.

Recognizing that Islamofacism is a war against various nation states and acting on that realization is the one thing this administration has done right. The current decision of the left wing of the Democratic party and a radical element of our society to ignore that fact is what is dangerous. We can fight that battle come November.

Where Bush differs of course is that he looked at what had been done before and said that he wanted to stop swatting at flies and wanted a comprehensive approach to fighting terror. IIRC, he got his report, Sept 10, 2001.

While Bush can be faulted for not following through adequately, he deserves credit, at least for noticing what was wrong.

( I still can’t figure out why Clarke has been harder on Bush than on Clinton. My best guess is that he takes his failure to get a promotion on the president. That means is that he was a good man who became petty.)

Finally, when discussion the might have beens it’s important to consider Terrorism on Trial by Pipes and Emerson.
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/381

It might have been possible to prevent 9/11 even starting late. But no one thought to look at resources available to the government at the time.

The Guardian, 2-6-99: “The Western nightmare: Saddam and Bin Laden versus the world”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,798270,00.html

The Herald, 12-28-99: “Iraq tempts Bin Laden to Attack the West”

http://web.archive.org/web/20010714032946/http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/28-12-1999-23-33-25.html