A review of the Sept. 2001 headlines: Is there a nugget here?

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9/29/2001
JW "Father Of President Should Pull Out Of International Consulting Firm"
HT "Hike In U.S. Defense Spending To Benefit Osama's Family"
CURTIS Who's Who In The Saudi Royal Family
WP ED While White House Has Spoken Out Against Religious Or Ethnic Minorities. Why Hasn't It Given Equal Justice To Political Minorities?
TALBOT Fighting For Freedom's Hard While War Fever Crowd Wants Everyone In Step
NYT Supreme's O'Connor Sees More Restrictions On Personal Freedom "Than Has Ever Been The Case."
HARTOG Our Constitutional Rights Could Just Go, Just Like That.
WP Army Considers Role In Homeland Defense
WP Congress Considering Powers Of Homeland Defense Office
MARTIN One Observer Paints Nightmare Scenario Of Jackbooted Homeland Office
RICH Administration's Efforts To Restrict Civil Liberties Have Brought Bob Barr and Maxine Waters Together
CORN Terrorism Wonks Call For Re-Examination Of Foreign Policy, Actions Abroad
DANAHER "God Help Us If We Are Unable To... Rectify Mistaken Policies Of The Past."
MOORE We Must Also Act Against The Conditions That Spawn Terrorism
LEE 13 Questions About BushAdmin's Fight Against Terrorism
NYT UN Security Council Unanimously Agrees To Crack Down On Terrorism, Including Use Of Force
NYT Bush And Dems Agree To Raid Social Security, Cover All Defense Requests, And Give Dems Half Of What They Asked For Education.
LAT How Will Bush's Privatized Security Guards Get Beyond $10/hour, Scant Training, And Limited Security?
LEWIS Thumbs Up For Powell, Rumsfeld, Thumbs Down for Ashcroft, O'Neil
WP Bush Says He Wants To Work With Dems On Financial Stimulus Package
NYT Rebels Ready With Info On Taliban, But Americans Have Not Asked
LAT Pakistanis Believe Attacks Were Caused By Jews, Hindus, Or Maybe Even Americans, Themselves
WP Saudi-Funded Charity Groups Under Scrutiny, Deny Ties To Terror
LAT Army Comes Clean, Destruction Of Chem Weapons U.S. Stockpiles Will Go Behond 2007.
OLIPHANT Lax Gun Laws Help Terrorists
NOAH Karl, Ari, Dick Team Up For This Week's Whopper.
NOAH Retract This, Please
IPPOLITO Casting About For Explanations, Some Blame The Internet.
LAT While '96 Study Showed Americans Interested In Foreign News, Corporations Have Continuted To Cut It For Increased Profits

9/28/2001
AP Bush's Father Says His Son's Version Of Dad's Speech Was One Of The "Truly Great" Speeches In American History
REUTERS Idaho Republican Congressman Uses Terror Attacks To Push For Drilling In Alaska
CONOVER "BushAdmin Wants Us To Wage War On "?," Give Up Our Civil Rights In The Process...Rally To < His> Illigitimate Administration," Or "Be Called Un-American "
NYT White House Removal Of Fleischer Quote Included In Story Listing Threats To Free Speech Rights
ABC Debate Sparked By Sontag, Maher Questioning Of Bush Use Of "Coward"
NYT Bush Law Enforcement Plan Troubles Both Left And Right
HENTOFF In Order To Protect Our Freedoms, The Government Must Take Our Freedoms Away
BF Bush Administration Should Drop "Thuggish Intimidation Methods Aimed At The Media And The American Public."
NYT The True Un-Patriotic Americans Are Scam Entrepreneurs Trying To Make A Buck Off Of Our Suffering
OJ Pacifica's Attempt To Censor NYC Sept. 11 Programs Met With Mixed Results
ABC Newspaper Columnist Fired After Writing Bush Showed "Cowardice"
WP Civil Rights Advocates Worry That Feds Overstepping Their Powers
CCOPS "Liberty Crew" Sees Homeland Defense Agency As Step Toward Police State
NYT Homeland Agency Will Work Like National Security Council
CP Cheney Reportedly Wanted To Step Down Prior To Sept. 11 With Ridge As New Veep
PAGE6 Hughes, Rove Reportedly Ticked At Cheney For Telling Russert He Ran Show 11 Sept.
MC KIPPEN If We Want Other Nations To Help Us, We've Got To Stop Being Selfish
NYT Bush Wants To Privatize Air Security, Mum On Specifics Such As Number of Sky Marshals And Increase In Wages
NYT ED Many In Congress Against Bush Plan To Turn Security Over To Private, Profit Conscious Companies
CSM Will Bush Air Safety Plan Restore Faith?
WP ED Airline Workers Should Get Unemployment Help, But So Should Non-Airline Workers
TIMESFAA Banned Rushdie From Flights One Week Prior To Sept 11
WP Saudis Will Allow U.S. To Use Military Bases On Their Soil
FRIEDMAN Putin Would Know Phone Numbers Of Thugs Who Would Fight Afghan Terrorism With Mafia Tactics
STEWART Finding Bin Laden Not Priority, But Finding Al Qaeda Is
WP In Afghanistan, You Can Only Draw A Line In A Maze
INDYK A Plan For Manipulating Our Interests In The Gulf
WP Taliban Still Trying To Negotiate, U.S. Says Just Turn Bin Laden Over. Period.
KRAUTHAMMER Bush Will Have To Win His War On Terrorism Where His Father Let It Slip Away
MERRY Visas Are Our First Line Of Defense, And Overworked State Dept. Needs Help
WP ED While The FBI Has "Failed Us Badly," We're Going To Have To Accept Limited Security
WP U.S. Ill-Eguipped To Deal With Bio-Terrorism
NYT Afghan Anthrax Vaccine Plant Has U.S. Worried
BLINDER What Economy Needs Is Temporary Sales Tax Cut
NYT Inside The Fallen Tower. One Story With A Happy Ending.
RRE Linked List Of Stories On Attacks, War, Etc. By Topics
SALON Here's A List Of Net Resources To Bring You Up To Speed On The War
ABC Book: U. S. Military Had Plans To Terrorize U.S. Cities To Provoke Fight With Cuba
AP White House Considering Politics Of Upcoming Social Security Fight
AP Most Of Dems' Promising Issues Are Now Off The Table

9/27/2001
TAPPER White House Whitewashers Fight To Rewrite History
WP Key Gvt. Computer Systems Still Vulnerable To Attack
WP Military Strike Not Imminent, Officials Say
TELEGRAPH If U.S. Does Not Strike Soon, It Will Get Buried In Terrible Afghan Winter
NYT ED While Bush Has Campaigned Against "Nation-Building," What's His Game Plan For Afghanistan?
GUARDIAN Secret Memo Reveals U.S. Plan To Overthrow Taliban Regime
GOSSMAN Bush Says He's Not Out To Replace Regimes, As He Sets Out To Replace Regime
CURTIS Who Is The King Of Afghanistan, Is He Really An Option?
GUARDIAN Blowback Book Says Bush Oil Links More Likely To Limit Info On U.S. Policy In Late 90's Afghanistan
SALETAN Our Allies, The Despots
TELEGRAPH "U.S. Allies Are Killers And Drug Dealers" (By Rahul Bedi in New Delhi )
TELEGRAPH India Officials Think Bush Will Look Other Way On "Pakistan Terrorism" In Kashmir
WP What Will Bush Do About The Animosity Between Pakistan And Rebels
WP ED Putin's Choice Will Have Great Significance For Future
GULLY As WTC Ashes Smoldered, Bush Rep Was In Russia Jawboning Missile Defense Politics
NYT Bush, GOP Senators Want Weaker Money Bill For Farmers During Crisis
NYT Puerto Ricans Better Get Used To Continued Navy Bombings, Now
NYT Terrorist Attacks Seen As Shifting Political Favor To GOP
NYT Advocacy Groups' Self-Censorship After Attacks Termed "Dangerous"
APPLE Bush War Plan Stalled As Powell And Rumsfeld's Wolfowitz Duke It Out
GEORGE WILL We Must Go To War With Either Syria Or Iraq, Unless They Recant
NYT Bush War On Terrorism Met With Some Skepticism By NATO
TOYNBEE Is Bush Really Undergoing "A Fundamental Recalibration Of Old Positions"?
WP The Attacks Have Shifted Bush Foreign Policy, But Not Always For The Better
TIME Why They Hate Us. What Bush Left Out Of His Speech
HITCHENS What They Hate About Us Is Our Liberal Values
COHEN One Reason They Hate Us Was Written About In '93 By Harvard Prof
MILLER We're All Learning That Ignorance Of History Can Have Dire Consequences
KLEIN Argues U.S. Military Is Incapable Of Launching An Effective War Against Terrorism
WP Bin Laden's Brain Trust
MSNBC Bin Laden Seems To Have Learned Quicker Than The CIA, FBI
WP ED One House Member Not Allowed To Vote, Even Though Her District Was Hit By Terrorists
GUARDIAN Recession In America "A Done Deal"
GUARDIAN IMF Warns Of Global Recession
NYT Both Parties Wary Of Corporate Lobbyists Looking For Bailouts
NYT Dems: Let's Help All Workers Like We Did Airline Workers. House Repugs: Screw That!
NYT Bush Plans To...Privatize... Airport Security
NYT Permission To Shoot Down Commercial Airliners Now In Hands Of Two Midlevel Generals, Not Bush
KURTZ Editorial Cartoonists Drawing A Fine Line These Days
TIME Special Issue On The Events Of September
RRE Links To Stories Relating To The Sept. 11 Attacks

9/26/2001
KRISTOL Powell Is Doing What He Can To Pull Bush Back From Larger War
LITHWICK What Sort Of War Did Congress Declare?
THOMAS Read My Lips, Pt. II. Did Bush REALLY Promise To Defeat All Terrorists With "Global Reach." Uh-Huh.
GUARDIAN Was Bush Planning "Consequences" For Cole Attack, But Bin Laden Pre-Empted?
GUARDIAN What Are The Pitfalls For Russian In Putin's Support Of Bush?
WP Professor Helps Move Bush Away From "Crusade" Mode
WP Pakistan Warns U.S. Alliance With Rebels Could Lead To "Disaster"
NYT Saudis Criticize The Taliban, Cut Ties
NYT ED It's Up To The Saudis To Show The World That This Is Not A Holy War
ATLANTIC The Roots Of Muslim Rage. A 1990 Warning.
TAPPER Some American Muslim Leaders Are Unable To Speak Out Against Terrorism
WP U.S. Hate Crimes Against Arabs, Muslims Still On The Rise
RIEFF Pacifists Miss The Point About Bin Laden, He Really Wants To Kill You.
THOMAS Bin Laden's Game Plan
NYT Afghan Landscape Dotted With Taliban
WP Taliban Combs Kabul For Young Men Cannon Fodder
PBP Jeb Has Had Florida Under State Of Emergency Since September 11
COLE Ashcroft Desire For Unconstitutional Snoop Power Going In Wrong Direction
WSWS Feinstein "Hatches" Bill That Threatens Internet Privacy
NYT Greenspan Warns Against Cap Gains Tax Cut
NYT Spending Weakens As Confidence Wanes
WP Analysts Forecast Global Recession
PAINTER Military Was Prepared, But Financial Market System Was Not
WP We Must Take Steps To Protect Our Fuel Supply
COHEN Anthrax Vaccine Exists, But You Can't Have It.
VINCENT Airline Safety: FAA Leaders Are Politicians, Not Experts In Field
NYT Homeland Office Should Not Be Just One More Level Of Bush Bureaucracy
USA ED What Ridge Needs To Do
WP Terrorist Interest In Hazardous Waste One More Threat
NYT Terrorists Ploted To Kill Bush, World Leaders In Genoa Last July
BRESLIN Bush Flashes Cop's Badge During Speech. So Did His Father Against Dukakis.
GUARDIAN Poppy Holds Junior's Hand, Says He's His Own Boy...Err...Man
LE MONDE Les anciennes relations d'affaires entre George Bush junior et les pétroliers du Golfe
NYT Supreme Court Agrees To Look At Vouchers
SCHEER Falwell Should Have Listened To The Feminists

9/25/2001
ABC Short Reports On Major Events Of The Day
REUTERS Leading Norwegian Leftists, Others, Say Bush Deserves Nobel Peace Prize If He Can Avoid A War
WSWS Socialist Web Site Points To Media News Blackout Of Their Decision Not To Release Study Of Bush-Gore Florida Vote
HUFFINGTON The Media Has Failed Us Again. It Focused On Condit's Zipper, Not The Hart-Rudman Report
HUFFINGTON Terrorists Begin To Win As "Shock Jock" Taliban Try To Get Bill Maher Off The Air
CT Weak Media Coverage Of War Caused By Poor Standards Of Journalism, Corporate Control Of Information
BW Read His Lips: Bush Can't Keep War Pledge, And He Doesn't Intend To Try
AP Rumsfeld Begins To Hedge Bets On Scope of "War" Against Terrorism
WOODWARD Critics Blast Bush Call For "Lengthy Campaign"
KIM Bush Is Still Saying He Wants To Work With Other Nations, But Only When It Suits Him
BLOOM Bush Seeks Global Freeze Of Bin Laden Assets, Reaction Mixed
BLOOM Islamic Charities, Bankers Hit By Bush Asset Freeze
AP Bin Laden War Message Indicates Bush Made A Really Big Mistake By Calling This War A "Crusade"
PARRY "Crusader" Bush Doesn't Appear To Understand What He Is Doing, Or History
CSM Bush Strategy Is To Use Afghanistan As A Model For Iraq, Syria, Libya, Iran, and Sudan To See
REUTERS Powell: Iran Must Halt Support For Terrorism
IT Saudi Arabia Cuts Off Diplomatic Ties With Afghanistan
KLARE How The War Against Terrorism Could Escalate
WEISBROT To Fight Terrorism, We Have To Change Our "Terrible History" Throughout World
GIBBS Are Our Present Actions Creating Future Terrorists?
BG Afghan War Vets Predict Peril For U.S. Troops
AP Nuclear Experts Worry About Pakistan
CSM How U.S. Strike Might Ripple Around The World
EPIC Forces In Congress Want To Change Electronic Surveillance Laws For Beyond Terrorism Defense
BLOOM Dems Find Some Ashcroft Surveillance Requests Go Far Beyond Any Need To Fight Terrorism
WP What Ashcroft Wants Has Been Tried Before By Him, Now He's Trying To Rush It Through Under Cover Of War Effort, Dems Imply
WP Privacy Advocates Really Bothered About What Ashcroft Is Trying To Do
LAW Last Week He Wrote An E-Mail, This Week He's An Expert. Tamim Ansary
CONASON Chomsky, Said, And Hitchens "Have Indulged In Ideiolgical Scapegoating" Against Israel
BERNSTEIN "Israel-Bashing"? Interview With Robert Fisk
NYT Investigators Not Finding Terrorist Network In U.S.
KELLER "Increased Intelligence Spending Will Not Prevent Future Terrorist Attacks"
BLOOM World Health Organization Warns Of Bio-Terrorism
NYT Battle Against Terrorism Has Agriculture Price
FRIEDMAN How To Survive: Play Terrorism Mind Games

9/23/2001
SAFIRE It's Troubling That Powell Is Telling Us Bush Has Yet To "Work Out" Later Stages
WP ED Bush's Speech Describing Why We're Hated Doesn't Jibe With Reality
WRIGHT Bush Will Have To Adjust GOP Attitudes If He Wants To Keep Bio-Weapons Away From Terrorists
CARR Myths And Realities About The War On Terrorism
AGRE Is This World War III?
FISK Has Bin Laden Sprung The Trap On Bush?
GUARDIAN Saudi Arabia Says No U.S. Attack From Air Bases We Built In Its Country
NYT Reports Have Saudis Giving Taliban Millions For Bin Laden Handover
GUARDIAN Attack On Five Terrorist Camps Imminent, Sprcial Forces Ground Troops May Follow
THOMPSON 90% Afghans Are Starving Farmers, And U.S. Must Find A Way To Feed Them During Conflict
NYT U.S. Trying To Build Afghan Coalition Against Taliban
KOMISAR U.S. Banking Laws Fund Terrorists
GUARDIAN How Bin Laden Became The Financial Entrepreneur Of Terror
KRUGMAN Tax Cuts Will Not Stimulate The Economy, And Neither Will Unrealistic Rhetoric Calling For Consumption
WP ED Bush Wants To "Stimulate" The Economy By Stiffing The Poor, Again
NYT Pros Not Rushing To Buy Or Sell, But Administration Jawbones Average Joe To Play The Market
SMUCKER U.S. Must Win The Hearts And Minds Of The Afghan Authority
RAMAZINI U.S. And Iran Must Work Together Against The Taliban
HALLIDAY The Battle Of Two Worlds Appears To Be A Conflict Between Complacency And Irresponsibility
SARDAR My People Point To U.S. Double Standards, But Ignore Their Own
KAHN What Is Islamic Terrorism And What More Could Be Done To Combat It?
YEE Four Things We Can Do To Defeat Terrorism
TIMES ED We Need To Defeat Terrorism Without Encouraging Rise Of Radical Fundamentalism
EN UN Rep Says Poverty, Environmental Degradation, And Hatred Leads To Terrorism
BBC ED Why Is This Girl Asking Me To Save The Trees Now?
HINDU India Should Be Happy To See Iran Join Against Terrorism
LA FRANCHI Attacks Move Pakistan Up, India Down, ON U.S. Agenda
VYAS Now That Pakistan Is On The Hot Seat, What Are The Dangers For India?
CSM War On Terrorism Challenges Japanese Pacifism
THAPA Terrorism Should Be Stamped Out Everywhere, If American Wants To Be Safe
NYT US Certain Bin Laden Remains In Afghanistan
CHINNI Solid Link Between Bin Laden And Attacks Has Yet To Be Made Public
NYT US Will Provide Two Reports Of Evidence Against Bin Laden In "Days"
HANSEN US Retribution May Make It Easier For Terrorists To Recruit New Members.
NYT After Bin Laden What's Next? Egyptian Doctor?
HIATT This Time, Americans Can't Walk Away From What's Happening
ANDREW It's Patriotic For Both Dems And GOP To Fight For Policies During This War
WP FBI Agents Ill-Equipped To Predict Terrorist Acts
WP Voice Of America Staff "Stunned" By Armitage Pressure That Deleted Interview With Taliban Head
NYT Dems Say Government Should Take Over Airport Security
CSM Homeland Defense Won't be Easy Unless Americans Do A Lot More
BERKE Political Substance Is Back, But Is It Here To Stay?
BW Are The Benefits Of Living In Dense Cities Worth The Risk?
KING Key Leader Of American Taliban In Bed With "International Pariah" In Search Of Gold
NYT Defense "May Be Inadequate" For Germ Or Toxic Attacks TIMES Worst Case Scenario Is Taliban Takes Over Pakistan Nuclear Arsenal
GUARDIAN Within Ten Days, Targeted Bombing Of Terrorist Camps Will Be Followed By Ground Invasion
TIMES Special Forces Invasion Has Already Begun. Powell Says Care Will Be Taken Not To Harm Civilians
NYT U.S. Knows Too Strong A Blow Would Bring Out Vulture Instinct In Surrounding Nations
GUARDIAN Fighting Most Likely At Night With Special Forces
NYT Bush Consults With Putin Re Northern Entrance Into Afghanistan
TIMES First Armed Conflict Of War Has Already Taken Place In Northern Afghanistan
FP US Inches Toward Allience With The Rebels
FP Sources Say U.S. Plans To Help Afghan Rebels Take Kubal, Install Puppet Regime
KT Former Afghan King Considered As Pro-Democratic (next to last)
TIMES American Shock Troops Prepare To Go Into Action
TIMES Kubal Looted As Order Disintegrates
WP As Afghans Await War, It's Hope For Some
GUARDIAN Tribalism On The Afghan-Pakistan Border
NYT Bush Relied On Rice To Form A Battle Strategy
DOWD How Can Bush Draw A Line In A Maze?
GUARDIAN Two Worlds Prepare For Battle
APPLEYARD Once Again, Why Do They Hate America?
SANNEH Perhaps The Problem Is Fundamentalist Governments Don't Know How To Relate To Secularist Governments, And Vice Versa
STERN Pakistan's Jihad Culture
BAS Getting Into The Minds Of Radical Religious Leaders In Pakistan
GUARDIAN "Threat Of U.S. Strikes Passed To Taliban Weeks Before NY Attack"
NYT Hunt For Bin Laden Gears Up On Cold Trail
KTIran Radio Says Bin Laden In Central Afghanistan (last item)
NW Blair Says "We Know Where He Is"
WP Bin Laden Followers Reach Across Globe
GUARDIAN "CIA Gets Go-Ahead To Return To Murderous Cold War Tactics"
NYT ED Ridge's Stature And Authority Has Already Been Undercut And His Task Is Unclear
NYT Once Appalled By Racial Profiling, Many Americans Now Doing It

9/22/2001
MC GRORY WTC Terrorist Plot May Have Begun In 1990 With Murders Of Twelve Men Of Same Age In Kuwait Under Saddam
WOOLSEY The Story Behind The Above Story
NATION Opposition To Bush's War
BEINART "The Nation" Is Wrong In Supporting Peace Marches
RALL What "George W. Bush And His Tax-Cutting Maniacs" Have Forgotten
ANGEL It's The Oil, Stupid
REEVES "Just Roll To Your Rifle And Blow Out Your Brains"
NYT We Will Go Into Afghanistan Soon, The Rest Will Wait--White House
GUARDIAN Human Tide Threatens To Engulf Pakistan
REUTERS Three Killed In Pakistan As Anti-U.S. Demonstrations Rage
LEV Pakistan Doubts Swirl Under Gvt Support Of U.S.
NEWS Pakistan's Tribal Leaders Endorse Gvt Policies
TELEGRAPH One Nation, Two Faiths, A World Apart
BBC Pakistan Sticks By Taliban Ties
NYT Pakistan Will Be Rewarded. Nuke Economic Sanctions Will Be Lifted
EVANS There Will Be No "D-Day Invasion" Of Afghanistan
FELGENHAUER Initial Primary Target Might Very Well Be Iraq, Not Afghanistan
KAPLAN There Are Significant Differences Between Clinton And Bush Re Their Reading Of Terrorism
NYT Bush Says He Accepts The Responsibility Of "God's Plan"
FOX Islamic Scholars Find "Infinite Justice" Name For War Operation Insulting
ROSENBERG First Bush Was On A "Crusade," Now He Wants "Infinite Justice." What Gives?
FLOYD Russian Reporter Paints Doomsday Scenario For Civil Rights
NYT Airline Industry Helped With $15 Billion Congressional Bailout
NYT Tape Reveals Heroic Struggle On Flight 93
GALLAGHER The Hijackers' Plan For Flight 93 May Have Been To Get Shot Down By U.S. Fighter Plane
TIMES U.S. Will Bank On Brit Troops In Coming Conflict
NYT Some Arab-Americans Find Tolerance Amid The Turmoil
BBC Eyewitness Accounts Of The Attack On America
NYT Stars Gather on TV To Raise Money
STANLEY Will Real Life Change Our TV Culture For The Better?

9/21/2001
VALPY First "Crusade," Now "Infinite Justice." Do Our Leaders See This As A Holy War?
NYT Bush Says He Will Attack Afghanistan Unless Taliban Hands Over Terrorists, Closes Every Camp
APPLE Bush Leans To The Hawks, Away From Powell, Which Could Erode World Support
WP Here Are Some Of The Specifics The Cheney War Room Is Discussing
BALZ Resolute Bush Launched New Version Of Cold War
NYT ED "Bush Accomplished Everything He Needed To Do Last Night"
BG ED Bush Stirring Speech Makes His Desire Clear, But Not His Goals
WP ED Bush Speech Was Clear And Confident, But His War On Terrorism Demands Strong Alliances
WP WP-ABC Poll Says 9 in 10 Americans Support Bush War, But Half Expect "Not Many" Casualties
WP New Peace Movement Urges Bush To Show Restraint
MITCHELL Joint Congress Turned Into Showcase Of Resolve
SHALES "Style" Pundit Attacks Peter Jennings For His Focus On Bush's Bigotry Comments
WP ED Is Rep. Cooksey's Blockhead Bigotry Acceptable To Those Voters Who Elected Him?
NYT Bush Chooses PA Guv Tom Ridge For Cabinet Level Terror Czar
NYT Transcript of Bush Speech To Senate
DIONNE While Circumstances Demand Bipartisanship And Dems Are In Agreement, Some Republican Leaders Are Trying To Take Political Advantage Under The Cover Of Terror Attacks
WALZER Intellectual Climate Throughout World Not Sufficiently Unfriendly To Terrorism
ANAN UN Uniquely Positioned To Fight Terrorism
SPECTOR U.S. Should Push For Continuation Of Weapons Inspections In Iraq
FRIEDMAN Arab States Have Yet To Confront Ideology Of Their Own Islamic Terrorists
HOAGLAND Terrorism Begins And Ends In Arab States
WEISMAN "Hard To Imagine Pakistan Won't End Up Feeling Betrayed Again"
RASHID Will We Walk Away From Afghanistan Again, Like We Did In 1989?
LEHIGH We Screwed Up Once In '89, So What Are Our Objectives This Time?
BRODER Now Will We Pay Attention?
WINES In Far-Reaching Decision, Russia Appears Ready To Throw In With U.S.
JACKSON "A Call For U.S. To Be Fair To The Palistinians"
WP Ashcroft Anti-Terrorism Steamroller Halted By Informal Coalition Of Left And Right Groups
NYT U.S. Identified Some Aspects Of Hijack Plot In Advance
BG Ashcroft Warns Boston May Be Targeted This Weekend
NYT FBI Warns Movie Studios They May Be Targeted
NYT WTC Evacuation Procedures Kept The Toll From Going Higher
NYT Looting Reported IN WTC's Tomblike Mall
VON HOFFMAN Our Heroes Are Fire Chiefs, Not Politicians
PHOTOSWhen Words Fail...

9/20/2001
JANE Israel's Aman Suspects Iraq As Sponsor State
FELGENHAUR Primary Target Of Large-Scale U.S. Operation Is Sadam's Iraq, Not Afghanistan
NYT Bush Advisers Split On Scope Of Retaliation
REUTERS Past U.S. Interventions Give Lessons For Future
VENNOCHI Can We Really, As Bush Says, "Smoke 'Em Out And Get 'Em"?
NYT Bush Deploying Jet Bombers Toward Afghanistan
TAUBMAN Afghanistan's Deceptive Strengths
FERGUSON Reluctant Europe Believes Bush Doesn't Know What He's Getting Us Into
REUTERS Bush Cautions Arafat To Keep Promise, Says Nothing Similar To Israel
WP Bush Tough Talk Could Lead To Unrealistic Expectations, Alienate Europe
NYT Under Human Rights Cloud, Bush's Negroponte Begins As U.S. Ambassador To U.N.
ZUNES U.S. Shouldn't Fight Violence With Violence
AVNERY The Solution To Terrorism Is Global And Political, Not Military (third item)
JACOBY We Fight Now Because We Didn't Fight Then
NYT Pakistan Leader Defends Joining U.S. Bin Laden Hunt To Country
MSNBC Influential Pro-Taliban Pakistani Says The Jews Did It
WP Ashcroft Presents Anti-Terrorism Plan To Congress
NYT Senate Dem Rejects Bush Antiterrorism Plan, Offers Alternative
ABC Can Politics Exist On Two Tracks, War And Running The Country?
IND Was The Killing Of Taliban Opposition Leader A Signal To Begin Airline Attacks?
NYT Roadblocks Cited In Effort To Chanse Bin Laden Money
REUTERS U.S. Releases Money Laundering Battle Blueprint
NYT Bush Considering Ways To Bolster Sagging Economy
WP Cap Gains Tax Cut Not Likkely, Would Destroy Bipartisanship
USA Greenspan Asks Congress To Hold Off On Tax Cutting
CSM ED Terrorism And The Internet
LAT The Terrorists Are Winning The Cyber-War
KURTZ Networks To Stop Playing Footage Of Planes Crashing
SONESHINESteady Decline Of International News Coverage Has Helped To Blind Us To What Is Going On
HERBERT Giuliana Was Great During Crisis, But He Must Follow The Law And Leave

9/19/2001
HAMILL The Misery Of The Inhabitants Of Afghanistan Is Already Appalling
NYT Afghans Rush To Flee, Pakistan Shuts Door
NYT Life As A Doorkeeper On The Pakistan Border
NYT Taliban Stalls For Time Amidst Growing Political Chaos In Pakistan
NYT Rumsfeld Pretty Much Admits That Bombing Afghanistan Wouldn't Do Much, But Doesn't Rule It Out.
REUTERS Rumsfeld Closes In On Saying State(s) Backed The Attacks
WP Donald And Dick Working On Plans To Stage Groups In Pakistan, Send Them Into Afghanistan
REUTERS U.S. Pursues Broad Anti-Terror Strategy
GERECHT Why Bin Laden Has Had Little To Fear From U.S. Intelligence
WEAVER Blowback: CIA Poured Billions Into Afghan Jihad Against Russians
LEWIS The Roots Of Muslim Rage
NYT NATO Nations Support Us Politically, But Have Limited Relevant Military Forces
NYT The Unconditional Support Of World Leaders Has Now Become Conditional
CSM Bush Talk Of A "Crusade" Has Given Russia And Some Of Europe Cold Feet
WP Powell Speaks With Sudan, White House Official Visits Cuba section, In Attempt To Gather Support
REUTERS Bush Plans To Use Pakistan Cooperation As The Reason To Lift Sanctions Re Nuke Tests
NYT Limits On Civil Liberties Moving Away From Courts Into Government's Hands
CSM For Now, Security Trumps Liberties
NYT Civil Liberties Groups Concerned About New Legislation Bush Wants Passed
NYT Bush Now Having Daily "Communication Meetings" Prior To Using His "Gunslinger Rhetoric"
WP Dem Reminds Bush "This Isn't A WWF Smackdown Match"
CSM Congress Rallies Round The Flag, But Division Lurks
REUTERS Attacks Cancel Expected Fall Budget Battle
REUTERS Bush Trade Rep Says Administration's Policy A "Counteroffensive" To Last Week's Attacks
WP Right Now, Political Decisions Are Flowing From War Footing
WP White House Drops Policy, Now Willing To Nudge Market
WP Defense Spending Will Take Social Security Surplus, No Debt Reduction Will Likely Up Mortgage Rates, And Bush Tax Cuts Will "Deteriorate" Fiscal Position In Years To Come
WP Both Parties Declare Moratorium On Campaign Fundraising
REUTERS U.S. Pacifists Speak Up As America Braces For War
ABC "Almost No Chance" Government Will Reinstate The Draft
NYT Slimmed Down Networks Move Off To Chart A War
ROTHSTEIN Teachers Have Task To Bring Kids Up To Speed About Rest Of World

9/18/2001
AP Arafat Has Unilaterally Declared A Cease Fire, And Israel Has Followed Suit. afternoon www.bushwatch.com/headlines
LAT ED Israel Needs To Give Us More Help afternoon www.bushwatch.com/headlines
OLIPHANT American Officials "Properly Disappointed" With Sharon's Behavior
FISk Invading Afghanistan Could Become More Costly Than Viet Nam
GIBNEY How Far Can We Push Pakistan Before It Cracks?
HAQQANI How The U.S. Can Get India And Pakistan Working Together Against Terrorism
ZUNES Military Response Would Feel Good, But May Not Work
AMIS Where Do We Go From Here?
SCHEER Shadowboxing With The Devil
HOAGLAND Nations Respond To Terrorism In Character, And Patience Is Not Our Style
WP ED Bush Job Is To Form Allience Without Having It Water Down The Solution
TG ED America's Urgent Need Of Allies Suggests The Dangers Of Unilateralism
HALEY First The Towers Crumbled, Then Unilateralism
GERGES The Tragedy Of Arab-American Relations
FRIEDMAN We Need The Help Of Moderate Arab States To Fight This War
TRAVIS 66% Brits Support Military Strikes, 49% Support Prolonged Military War
GISCARD D'ESTANG Events Call For Solidarity Without Fail
APPLEBAUM Europe's More Divided About Us Than You Think
CIRINCIONE Nations Must Sacrifice Individual Agendas For Sake Of Unified Front Vs. Terrorism
LITHWICK How Do Terrorist Cells Work?
DIONNE Is Religion The Cause Or The Solution?
SUELLENTROP What's A National Emergency?
CSM ED "Terror Attack...Must Not Be An Excuse For Suspending Basic American Principles And Values"
SLATE Clear Channel Communications Says Its Stations Should Avoid Playing John Lenon's IMAGINE, Cat Steven's PEACE TRAIN, And....
NOAH Statements That Any Reasonable Person Would Regret Having Made
KAUFMAN Two Kinds Of Patriots: "God Bless America..." And "This Land Is Your Land..."
COHEN We Are All So Fragile, Now
NYT ED "Look, Teacher, The Birds Are On Fire!"
NYT Legal Experts Say Congressional Resolution Almost As Wide-Ranging As War Declaration
NYT Ashcroft Wants Congress To Vote On Counterterrorism Measure
CRABTREE Hatch Comments Lead To White House Crackdown Of Info To Congress
WP Anti-Terror Push Stirs Fears For Liberties
COCKBURN The Next Casualty: Bill Of Rights?
AP Dems Drop Effort To Block Missile Defense Funding On Basis Of Treaty Violation
REUTERS Harmony In Congress, But For How Long?
REUTERS Defense Work May Imperil Farm Funds--Analysts
WP Using "Harshest Language Yet," Bush Wants Bin Laden "Dead Or Alive."
REUTERS Bush "Sounded Like The Town Sheriff" As He Builds "Rhetoric For Retribution"
CSM U.S. Calculates War Risk Of Spawning Terrorism, Weakening MidEast Moderates
NYT Taliban Reject Call To Hand Over Bin Laden, But Clerics Will Meet For Final Decision
NYT Attacks, Harassment Continue On MidEastern Americans, Mosques
WP Bush Visits Mosque Condemns Violence, Hate Crimes
CSM Muslims Deal With Grief, And Prejudice
ABC Police Guard Lone Congressional Dissenter From Use Of Force
NYT Smaller Than Expected Loses Suggest Average Americans Are Buying
WP Fed Rate Cut Fails To Stem Dow 685 Drop
NYT Stocks Suffer Steep Loses, But Investors Resist Panic
BLOOM Money Laundering Targeted As A Way To Fight Terrorism
WP New Bush Signal For More Tax Cuts For Investors and Businesses "Pleased Corporate Lobbyists"
BLOOM New Tax Cuts May Jeopardize Unity
WP Airlines Cut Flights, Jobs, Seek Relief
AP U.S. Rushes To Put Marshals On Jets
BLOOM U.S. Airline Pilots May Seek To Be Armed, Sealed From Cabin
IHT Security Concerns Make Survival Of Reagan Airport Uncertain
NYT Blair And Chirac Heading To U.S. For Show Of Unity
WP U.S. Seeks Saudi Aid, With 14 or 19 Hijackers With Ties
AP Congress To Hold Hearings On Missed Signs Of Attack
NYT Stress Will Chase Some Into The Depths Of Their Minds
ANSARY Perhaps The Most Circulated E-Mail Message This Week

9/17/2001
MC CARTHY Violence Breeds More Violence
MALLABY While Alternatives To War Are Even Less Promising, "The Case For Hawkish Action Is Speculative"
LEVY How Bad Will It Get?
KIDDER "What Ethical Boundries Must U.S. Leaders Consider?"
BESCHLOSS How Well Will Bush Balance Jobs Of Crisis Manager And Head Of State?
MEAD Now It's Bush's Turn To Ride The Tiger
GERGEN It's Not Can We, It's Will We
DIEHL Counterterrorism Is A Much Better Foreign Policy Focus Than Missile Defense
BROWNSTEIN The Fight Against Terrorism Is The Beginning Of Another Cold War
WP ED This War Gives Us A Chance In The MidEast
WICKHAM If Bin Laden Is The Manager Of Terror Team, We Need To Get The Coach, Too
SCHEER CIA's Tracks Lead In Disastrous Circle
BORGER Anyone Who Tries Politics As Usual Does So At His Peril
ROTHENBERG How The War Will Effect Politics
BALZAR "Islamic And Christian Fundamentalists Are Cultural And Political Zealots"
LEO The War Is About Pan-Islamic "Fundamentalist Extremists Against The Modern World"
SAFIRE A Perversion Of One Of The World's Great Faiths Produces Suicide Bombers
MURPHY No Time For Hatred, Clergy Warn
HERBERT Bad Behavior In America Is Coming From Those Who Have Suffered Least
KASS Unfortunately, Hate And Stereotypes Are Skin Deep
SAMUELSON Crisis May Nudge Us Into Recession, But Recovery May Take Us Out Of It
ABC U.S. To Taliban Via Pakistan: Hand Over Bin Laden. Or Else.

9/16/2001
MSNBC Afghanistan A Nightmare Battlefield
NYT Edgy Afghans Pouring Towards Pakistan Border
WT Fearful Iran And Iraq Hunker Down
REUTERS Powell Sees Hope In Iran, Syria Response To Attack
WP Crisis-Inspired Unity Shows Signs Of Crumbling As DEMS Show Concern Over Bush Response
WP Crisis Forces Bush To Abandon Go-It-Alone Policy, Shift Welcomed In Foreign Countries
WP Cheney Has Emerged As Key Decision-Maker, Spokesman
NYT Cheney Describes His Nerve Center Role In First Hours
USA Cheney Recommended Hijacked Civilian Airlines Be Shot Down, Bush Decided Yes
MSNBC Cheney Predicts A "Long, Dirty War"
REUTERS Cheney Says Bin Laden "No Doubt" Involved In Attacks
BLOOM Cheney Sees More Covert Operations As Terrorism Goes Beyond Bin Laden
AP Rumsfeld Plans For Both Conventional And Unconventional War
ABC Rumsfeld Says The War Will Take Years And We Should Prepare For Casualties
REUTERS Rumsfeld Says Bin Laden Was Involved, "No Question"
REUTERS Poll Says 81% Americans Say U.S. Should Be "completely SureWho Is Specifically Responsible'' Prior To Retaliation"
NYT MidEast Store Workers Fatally Shot Throughout Nation
AP Clinton Signed Secret Bin Laden Directive In '88, Considered Strike In "Final Days"
AP Suicide Bombers' Motives Debated
AP Those Against Retaliation "Urge National Introspection Into Why The Country Was Targeted"
AP Both Patriotism And Protest Seen As Symbols Of America
NYT CNN Uses Gvt. Helicopter To Get "Exclusive" Footage, MSNBC Cries "Foul"
COMMENTARY
FODEN On The Murky Deals That Fueled International Terrorism
PARRY Looking At The Lost History Behind Today's Events
BIVENS "Those Same Terrorists Had Trained Beforehand...30 Miles From Three Mile Island"
IND Blair's "War Agains Terrorism" Is A Rhetorical Device
CARTER Thailand Is Wrong To Hesitate To Give America Aid, And India Should Be Respected
KESSLER Posttramautic Stress Disorder Needs Early Outreach, Greater In Countries At War
MAHAJAN A Call For Community Dialogues To Work Through The Pain
TFD Thoughts During Wartime
BELLER On The 81st Floor Of Two World Trade Center

BG ED Global Effort Required In Response To Attack Against Humanity
APPLEBAUM We Need To Strengthen Ties With Moderate Muslins all Over The World
LEWIS Without Support From MidEastern Neighbors, There Is The Certainty Of Failure
MOYNIHAN "We Are A Singularly Successful Milti-Ethnic Society"
IGNATIUS Civilized Muslims Will Hep U.S. Put Terrorists Out Of Business
DOWD Can Bush "Cheney, Rummy, And Condi Move Out Of The Cold War Attitude And Star Wars Obsession That Has Alienated A Number Of Countries"?
WP ED Nation Will Need Human Casulties And Prolonged Commitment In Order To Win
STITH There's Been A War For Some Time, But We've Been The Only Ones Not Fighting
WP Does American Posess "The Moral Superiority, The Spirit Of Enterprise, And The Propensity To Hazard" That Will Be Needed To Win?
BG ED Our Fiscal Security Provides Assurances Of Eventual Victory
WALKER Would A Patriotic Stock Rally Tomorrow Be A Good Thing?
NYT ED "We Are Fighting Not For A Flag, But For A System Of Beliefs"
KENNEDY We Must Retaliate And We Must Reconfigure, But We Also Must Preserve Our Traditions
OLIPHANT Americans " Deserve To Know The Dimensions And Potential Costs Of This New Struggle."
PARRISH Platitudes And Patriotism
KRUGMAN Attacks On "Big Government" And Reliance On Private Sector To Do Government's Job Helped To Add Up To Disaster
FUERTH International Poverty And Pollution Is A Security Threat, Too
SWEENEY How Do We Explain The Inexplicable To Our Children?
GOODMAN Go To The Helpers For True Stories That Will Help Children
GREENBERG A Short History Of Terrorism
Note. News Stories Follow. Commentary Will Be Posted This Afternoon
NYT Four Days That Transformed The Nation
NYT At 8:48 Two Normal Guys Are Transformed
OB Angry WTC Survivors Told To Stay In Blazing Towers
REUTERS Bush Vows Sustained War Against Global Terrorism
NYT Bush Continues To Stress We're At War With Terrorists
LAT Bush Plots War With Senior Advisers At Camp David
WP Worldwide Sympathy Mixed With Caution
SOS Blair Urges Caution As Bush Line Hardens
OB Peace Protesters Take To N.Y. Streets
WP Images Of Past Wars May Not Fit Present Foes
LAT New U.S. Strategy To Fight Terror Emerging
NYT Pentagon Calls For Billions In War Without Soldiers Arrayed On Battlefields
NYT Poll Finds Majority Back Use Of Military
NOVAK Both Dem And GOP Senior Congressmen Complain Bush Is Giving Them Political Speeches, Not Briefings
REUTERS N. Y. Dems Thank Bush For Terror Relief
OB Bush N.Y. Visit Friday Did Little To Mollify Critics
NYT Berkeley Vote To U.S. House The Lone "No"
HC Houston Pastor Joins American Taliban
WP The Afghan Taliban And Its Neighbors
RAWA Afghan Women Suffered Under Soviets, Now Under Taliban
REUTERS Top Taliban Opposition Leader Dies From Wounds
NYT Saudis' Mixed Feelings About Bin Laden Hinder Relationship With U.S.
WP Bin Laden Network Combines Old Theology, New Technology
BURNS There Clearly Are Limits To Pakistani Support
OB Sealed Cockpits, Armed Guards On Every Flight, Passenger Screenings Being Considered
CNN Digital Privacy Feared As Next Casualty
NYT Lawmakers See Need To Losen Rules On CIA
WP Dem Congressman Expects to See Partisanship Again In A Week Or So
NYT Two Suspected Hijakers Were Sought By FBI At Time Of Attack
WP You Never Imagine A Hijacker Next Door
WP Pentagon Unprepared For Attack
BARR D.C. Serves Nation In Time Of Crisis
AP Legal Industry Suffers Major Blow From WTC Destruction
HARPAZ Traders Join Soldiers In WTC Cleanup
WP The State Of The Markets Since Tuesday
NYT Huge Obstacles As Market Tries To Open
NYT In A Time Of Global Turmoil, Greenspan's Experience Reassures
AP $230 Million In Precious Metals Buried Under WTC Rubble
NYT Envisioning The Future In Fortress New York

9/15/2001
MARSH The View From The 93rd Floor
NYT ED This War Will Demand International Cooperation And Skillful Diplomacy
LEWIS "Inexperienced" Bush May Be Tempted To Act Quickly, But Calm Deliberation Should Be The Order Of The Day
CARROLL We Need The Rule Of Law, Not The Rule Of War
RICH Leadership By Bush Demands Change In Style AND Content
CSM Bush Should Shift Foreign Policy Promises And Embrace All Humanity
COHEN This "War" Didn't Begin Tuesday And It Will Not End Soon
WP ED Afghanistan Is Site Of One Of World's Greatest Humanitarian Crises
ANSARY "You Can't Bomb Us Back To The Stone Age, We're Already There"
RASPBERRY Why Do So Many Hate Us? Can We Do Anything About It?
KLEIN Did U.S. Foreign Policy "Create The Conditions In Which Such Twisted Logic Could Flourish"?
STERN Being Feared Is Not Enough To Keep Us Safe
LEONE One Task Is To Increase Security Without Compromising Our Civil Liberties
CONASON Improving Our Security Shouldn't Mean Undermining Our Freeom
CAVE "Terrible Crimes Don't Justify Shredding The Constitution"
HEYMAN Now Come The Trade-Offs. Responsibility Demanded.
LAT ED Sacrifice Much, But Never Retreat From Individual Freedom
NAWA I Am Hiding From Backlash
NOBEL We Must Have An International Police Force To Defeat International Terrorism
CIA "Miscomprehension" Has Cost Us Dearly
NUMBERG What Do We Say When Words Fail Us?

WP Congress Approves Use Of Military Force As World Mourns
NYT Grief-Stricken World's People Mourn, Turn To Prayer
IM Iran Activists Pay Homage To U.S. Victims
WP Agressive FBI Probe Risks Running Roughshod Over Civil Liberties
NYT Civil Liberty Advocates Watch Political Pressure Building With Quiet Concern
KREPEL Conservative Internet Web Sites Linking Any Criticism Of Bush To Treason
FWST Poli Sci Prof Discusses Poppy's Role, Texas Newspaper Says He "Criticized" By Doing So
REUTERS Congress Moves To Change Way Of Life
WP God Gave U.S. "What We Deserve," Falwell Says
NYT Ken Lisauis (?) Says Bush "Believes" Falwell's Remarks Were "Inappropriate."
THOMASSON Gay Airline Passanger Believed To Be Hero Behind PA Crash To Save Lives
GOMES Ann Coulter Joins American Taliban In "Hatefull" Call To Arms
WALSH While Country's Religious Faith Is An Asset, There Is No Place For An American Taliban
WEAVER The Real Bin Laden
CT Bin Laden Boston Relatives Businessmen, Philantropists
NYT State Dept. Gives Arab Nations Coalition Conditions, But Israel Doesn't Want Syria Or Palestinians To Join
GUARDIAN Cracks Appear In Coalition, U.S. Hints At Possible Iraq Stikes
TELEGRAPH Hints Of Afghanistan Reprisal Soon As Military Gears Up For War
WP Pakistan Agrees To Provide Air Access Into Afghanistan, Taliban Refuses To Give Up Bin Laden
NYT Kubal Prepares For Attack, Taliban Leader Talks Tough
FINEMAN Bush Appears To Be Getting Big Picture War Strategy From His Father During Phone Calls
WP Parallels Between Bush And Father In Time Of Crisis
WP Bush Veteran Team Realizes Afghanistan Was Russia's Viet Nam
WP German Newspaper Reports Washingon Knew Talk Of Commercial Airline Hijack Into Symbolic Building Months Ago
NT U.S. Lawmakers Claim U.S. Intelligence Had No Advance Warning
WP Military Alerted Minutes Before The Attacks, Not Enough Time
NYT Pentagon Tracked Deadly Jet, But Found No Way To Stop It
TIMES Airlines Tougher In Europe, U.S. Airlines Rejected Gore Commission Security Recommendations
AP Voice Vote Senate Quickly Approves Negroponte For U.N. Ambassador, Even Though He Is Still Under Large Human Rights Cloud
NYT Profiteers Engage In Charity Fraud And Gas Price Gouging {Even American Flag Price Gouging]


9/14/2001
KRUGMAN "Push Already On To Sell Cap Gains Tax Cuts As Response To Terrorism"
CHOMSKY Terrorist Attacks Are A Gift To Our "Hard Jingoist Right"
RIDGEWAY Sierra Club Caves In Response To Crisis, But American "Taliban" Does Not
FRIEDMAN Creating A War Between Muslim And Christian Extremeists Will Lead To Mutual Destruction
OZ Struggling Against Fanaticism
SALETAN To Prevent Emotional Or Physical Terrorism By Religious Fanatics, You Have To Think Like Them
PLOTZ Bin Laden Is A Religious Fanatic Who Wants To Kill You In The Name Of God.
WOODROW Washington Times Columnist Suggests Nuclear Option For Muslim Extremists In Afghanistan
NYT ED Getting Your Facts Right: Afghanistan, The Taliban, Bin Laden
KLARE How To Defeat Bin Laden
SEAQUIST We Need To Examine Terrorists And Masters More Closely
DIONNE Terrorists Will Win If We Give Up Our Liberties
HOAGLAND Americans Really Need To Understand The Nature Of The War In The MidEast
KISSINGER Moderation No Virtue Against Terrorism
CLARK We Must Use "Decisive Force" To Defeat Terrorism
MILNE Americans Can't Ignore What Their Government Does Abroad
BENJAMIN We Need To Engage More With The World, Not Less
SCHORR Bush's "Well-Scripted Invocations To Character And Values Will Not Suffice.
BALZAR Are We Rallying Behind The President Or Behind Our Hopes For Him?
CT Withhold Judgement Of Bush While He Ponders Next More
WP ED Bush Need To Realign His Foreign Policy Priorities
STEEL Our Faith In Invulnerablity Of Advanced Technology Proves Misplaced
CT ED The Casuality List Is Global
NYT EDHow Giuliani Became The Leader Of The Moment
WP ED Adding Shame To Grief
WESBURY The Best Economic--Victory
NEUHARTH Media Mesmerize With Attack Coverage
Note. News Now, Commentary And Editorials This Afternoon. AP Senate Committee Approves Negroponte Nomination To U.N.
NYT Fawell Says ACLU, Gays, Pro-Abortionists, Anti-School Prayers "Exposed" Nation To Attack
NYT White House Balks About Strings On Use Of Aide Package, Congress Reluctant To Given Bush Blank Check On Military Action
BBC Countries Throughout World Unite In Mourning American Deaths
GUARDIAN Silence Observed Across Europe
TEL France Calls For American Reason
WP Tearful Bush Says His Focus Will Be To "Lead The World To Victory"
BLOOM Bush Seeks World Support
NYT Shaken Nation Remains On Edge
NYT For Many, Sorrow Turns To Anger, Talk Of Vengeance
ABC Declaration Of War Unlikely
CSM Retribution Complex, Could Lead To Wider War
BLOOM Powell Seeks Pakistan Help To Send Taliban A Message
NYT Vow To Erase Networks, Bin Laden Singled Out
NYT Bin Laden, Child Of Privilege, Champions Holy War
GORDON Response To Terrorism Will Be More Hands-On, Pre-emptive
NYT Questions Follow Rove Explanation Of Bush's D.C. Absence
WP 91% Approve Of Bush Leadership After Attacks, But "Growing Proportion" Think More Could Have Been Done To Prevent Them
BLOOM FBI Probing F-16 Shoot-Down Scenario In PA
REUTERS FBI Reportedly Ignored French Warning
NYT German Officials Link Three Arab Men To The Attacks
AP Intelligence Had Hints, No Red Flags
NYT Ashcroft Says We Have Identities Of 18 Hijackers
NYT Ten Held At Kennedy, LaGuardia, Closing Both
NYT Arabs Speculate On Reprisals Throughout World
NYT Attacks And Harassment Of MidEast Americans Rising
NYT Airlines Ask Congress To Limit Liability To People On Plane
NORRIS Some Encouraging Signs While Waiting For Trading To Resume
CSM The Attack's Economic Impact
Note. What follows is today's Bush Watch links to commentary upon the terrorist attacks
9/13/2001
DALAI LAMA "Letter To The President"
CORN Do Not Allow This Attack To Distort The Nation's Political Discourse
BREMER Let Us Wage Total War On Our Foes
CHAPMAN Why Has America Become A Target?
CT ED Why They Hate Us
FREEDMAN We're All On The Front Lines, Now
MALLABY Be Too Unflappable To Retaliate Hastily
ESTRICH The Thin, Thin Line Between Safe And Free
FRIEDMAN We Must Fight Terrorist Without Becoming Terrorists
COCKBURN The Next Casualty: Bill Of Rights?
COBBAN Don't Let Our Values Be A Casualty, Too
TURLEY Cries Of "War" Stumble Over The Law
CANNISTRARO Should We Adopt The Israeli Counterterrorist Method?
TAPPER Defense Dept. Commission Warned Bush This Could Happen
HUFFINGTON Obsessed With Condit's Zipper, Media, Like White House, "Missed Early Warnings"
KURTZ Commentators Are Quick To Beat Their Pens Into Swords
BRODER A New Reality For Bush
NYT ED Bush "Expressing Determination... Is Important But Not Nearly Enough."
HUNT Retaliation Is Essential. So Is Leadership.
KAUS Giulian's "Crisis Performance...Made Bush Look Bad." What Should He Do?
WP ED New Bush Foreign Policy Needed, With Redirected Priorities And Resources
USA ED We Have Underfunded Our Defenses Against Terrorism
WRIGHT How Missile Defense Would Help Terrorists
FALLOWS Step One: A Marshall Outside Every Cockpit Door
RIDGEWAY WTC Security Heightened Three Weeks Ago After Bin Laden Speech
SAFIRE Terrorists May Have A Mole In The White House
MYROIE Did Bin Laden Act Alone? Not Likely
MC FARLANE Get Them Where They Live
YAQUB I'm Not The Enemy
NOAH Why America's Economy Will Survive
Note: News now, Editorials and Commentaries later today
NYT Thousands Presumed Dead
NYT Barest Count By Three Companies In WTC Has 1,500 Missing
NYT Heroic Resistance On Doomed PA Flight
WP Slow, Grim Work At The Pentagon
WP Nation Reels As Toll Mounts
ABC Americans Fear More Attacks
NYT Aides Say Bush Was Target Of Hijacked Jet
ABC Bush Facing Defining Moment
CSM For Washington, A Demand For Leadership
WP Foreign Policy Consequences Huge
NYT Powell States Clearly. No Middle Ground On Terrorism
CSM U.S. Policy In MidEast Under Scrutiny
NYT Bush Calls Attacks "Acts Of War"
NYT FBI Tracks Hijackers, Bin Laden Tie Cited
WP Bin Laden: "Master Impresario"
WP Afghanistan Girds For Possible U.S. Attack
NYT Administration Considers Broader Deeper Military Options
TGM Pentagon Officials Quizzed In Moscow About Missile Shield Relevance
WP America Lines Up Support For Retaliation
NYT NATO Indicates Military Support
CSM What's The Right Military Response?
BLOOM U.S. Lawmakers Weigh Military Response To Attacks
WP Congress Unites To Declare Outrage, Resolve
REUTERS Budget To Swell After Terrorist Attacks
WP Bush Economic Team Changes Focus
WP Hill Allocates $20 Billion For Aid, Security
AP Three Reportedly Turned Away From United Flight
NYT Airport Security Will Be Strengthened
NYT Symbol Destroyed, Not Financial System
WP Wall Street Firms Struggle To Cope With Staff Loses
CSM U.S. Papers Rush To Document Attack
Note. What follows is today's Bush Watch links to commentary upon the terrorist attacks

9/12/2001
COHEN We Need International Cooperation To Insure Our Safety
BOYD We Must Not Let The Attacks Abandon Our Principles
ALTERMAN Terrorists Wanted Nation To Pay Price For Its Foreign Policy
KELLY Tribe Or Ideology, It's All Murder
RIEFF Defeat For U.S. An Intelligence Failure Of Colossol Proportions
NYT ED An Unfathomable Attack
NYT ED Best Defense Vs. Terrorism Is Good Intelligence
DOWD Grave Silence
SAFIRE A Day Of Infamy
LEWIS A Different World
KELLER U.S. Emergency Line 9/11
SALON Mixed Political Bag Reacts To Terrorist Attacks
KRAUTHAMMER "The Enemy Is Radical Islam"
WALD A Time For Peace, Not Retaliation
RIDGEWAY Enemy Could Lie Without, Or Within
RIDGEWAY Team Bush Swamped By Crisis
STUART No Missile Defense Shield Could Have Prevented Tragedy
FUERTH Is A Questionable Future Missile Defense Against North Korea A Proper Use Of Our Resources?
FISK Did A "Doomed People" Strike Back With "Wickedness And Cruelty"?
HIGHTOWER We Need To Ask Why Innocent People Have Been Killed
PARRISH A Media Day In Infamy
HUTCHINSON Hunt, Not Witchhunt, For Terrorists
WOOLSEY To Stop Terror, We Must Find Its Nerve Center
PRENEUF Rejoiing In The Streets Of Jenin
BOEHLERT "Our Fight Is For Jerusalem, Not New York"
CALANDRA Attacks To "Accentuate" Bear Market
WP World Trade Center Leveled, Pentagon Hit
NYT Hijaked Jets Destroy Twin Towers, Hit Pentagon
WP Inferno Engulfs NYC Skyline
NYT Buildings Burn And Fall As Onlookers Search For Elusive Safety
WP A Loud Boom At Pentagon, Then Flames
WP Bodies Pulled From Pentagon
WP NY Predicts "Horrendous Death Toll
NYT Firefighters Dash Into Towers, Many Do Not Return
NYT Survivors Are Found In World Trade Center Rubble
WP Frantic Calls From Plane
NYT Talk Show Figure And TV Producer Among Lost Passangers
WP Barbara Olson, Wife Of Solicitor General And Fox Commentator, Dead In Pentagon Crash
AAS Confusion Abounds In Manhattan
AAS Terror Leave U.S. Capital Crippled
WP Nation Shuts Down On Darkest Day
WP 80% In Poll Willing To Go To War
KAGAN "Congress Should Immediately Declare A Declaration Of War"
KISSINGER Retaliation Is Supported, Then Destroy The Network
WP Americans Know Their Innocence Is Lost
FISHER U.S. Is Coddled No More
JACKSON For America, A Dose Of Reality
WP Military On Highest Alert
NYT Somber Bush Says Terrorism Cannot Prevail
AAS Text Of Bush's Oval Office Address
WP ED Bush Must Continue To "Move Aggressively" To Defend The Country
WP Bush Urged To "Target Governments" That Supported "Acts Of War"
MSNBC "No Options Taken Off Table" --Senior U.S. Official
BALZ Bush Low Profile During The Day Was "Jarring"
AAS Bush's Day Was Top-Security Hopscotch
FOURNIER Bush Faces Historic Test
NYT Nation Plunges Into Fight With Enemy Hard To Identify
WP Plotters Found Flaw In U.S. Defense
WP Experts Long Warned Of Lax Airport Security
BG Concern About Boston's Logan Security Long-Standing
NYT Terrolrism Carfully Planned And Synchronized
WP Bin Laden Link Probed
NYT Intelligence Officials Suspect Group Headed By Bin Laden
SHEPARD Journalist Says Bin Laden, Denying Involvement, Congratulated Terrorist Killers After Attacks
CNN Taliban Denies Involvement
MSNBC Massive Probe Follows Attack
AAS Suspect's Car Seized At Boston Airport
MSNBC World Leaders Respond With Horror
WP Terrorism Fears Could Send Nation Into A Recession
MSNBC Asian Markets Reel, European Markets Stabilize
WP An Icon Of Capitalism Is Suddenly Gone

9/11/2001
WP Majority Of Americans Say Rescind Bush Tax Cuts, Deal With Budget Problem Bush Has Caused
OLIPHANT Bush Beginning To Fess Up To Poor Stewardship Of The Economy
WP GOP Using Budget Crisis To Demand More Tax Cuts For Wealthy, More Cuts In Social Programs For Poor
HUNT Dems Hope To Make Bush Pay High Price For His Financial Irresponsibility
NYT ED Bush In Panic, Considering Cutting Cap Gains Tax, Health, Education, Kids' Nutrition
LAT Bush Puts Freeze On Utility Bill Aid To Poor
HOOK It's The Economy, Stupid
NYT Dems Hold Line Against Use Of SS, As Bush Tries To Avoid Rescinding Some Tax Cuts
WP ED Health Care Cost Up 11% Under Bush, Who Is "Ducking The Issue"
NYT Bush Plans To Stonewall On Arsenic Until Next Year, NSA Report Says That's "Dangerous"
BF Events Suggest Bush Has Corporate Media In His Pocket
WSWS Ashcroft's Justice Dept. Helps Bush Chip Away At Press Freedoms
NYT NAS Negative Report On Bush Stem Cell Plan Precedes Congressional Testimony To That Effect
ABRAMOWITZ Tongue-Tied Bush Has Said Nothing Comprehensive On Foreign Policy
REUTERS French PM Says Bush Not Doing His Part Around World
ROTHSCHILD Bush Nuke Footsie With China "Bordering On Lunacy"
WP Biden Attacks Bush Missile Plan As Costly, Risky
ND Brazil Smells Something Fishy With Proposed U.S. Space Deal
LT Brit MPs Warned Not To Back Bush On Star Wars
TYLER Russian Aide Emphasizes Opposition To Bush ABM Plan
NYT Nuke Smugglers Shifting From Europe To Asia
NYT Bush Deals With Possible Paramilitary Ties To Colombia Military On Eve Of Colin Visit
BG ED Taliban Sense Of Justice Not The Same As Ours.
ND Scalia Talks Ethics, But Not Florida Nor Protesters Outside
NYT Dole Will Announce Run For Helms' Seat Today

9/10/2001
FINEMAN Ghosts Of 2000 Return To Haunt Bush
KAPLAN How The Supremes Selected Bush 5-4.
WP Kaplan Questions Supremes' Postmortem That Everything's Cool
WP ED Bush Has Harmed Us Long-Term, Telling Us Lies To Get His Tax Cut Passed
MALLABY Dems Will Gain Long-Term Benefits With Clinton Economic Triangulation
NYT While Dems Say Any Tax Cut Stimulus Should Go To People Through Checks, Bush Favors Cap Gains Cuts For Wealthy
BABINGTON Bush Tax Cut Plan Smoke And Mirrors That Congress Will Have To Rescind
COCCO Budget Crisis Takes Energy Out Of Bush's Oil Plan
PRESSLER Overseas Markets Depress Wall Street Today
WP Bush-Backing AOL Conglomerate Wants To Suck Up ATT Cable
AP Strangelove Tells Press He Wants His Missile Shield
RUBIN Why Is Bush Following Policy That Will Gi