Fahrenheit 911

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political aspects just like companies that have raffles or contest and they state that family is not eligible for them. With this election the news networks learned from the past experience and didn’t call a winner in those states that were close. This was the correct way to do it, however I feel that the whole election process is wrong and should not use the electoral process and should use the popular vote but that is whole other issue.
On the days following 9/11 all commercial and private airline traffic were grounded. Moore raised a controversial issue where the White House approved planes to pick up the Bin Ladens and numerous other Saudis. Fearing retaliation against the Saudi Nationals the government asked for help in getting some of its citizens out of the country. Moore stated “At least six private jets and nearly two dozen commercial planes carried the Saudis and Bin Ladens out of the United States after 9/13. In all 142 Saudis including 24 members of the Bin Laden family were allowed to leave the country.”
The controversial part of this was “Thirty of the 142 people on these flights were interviewed by the FBI, including 22 of the 26 people (23 passengers and 3 private security guards) on the Bin Laden flight. Many were asked detailed questions. None of the passengers stated that they had any recent contact with Osama Bin Laden or knew anything about terrorist activity"(NCTAUS). The disturbing part is what was reported by the St. Petersburg times "Two days after the Sept. 11 attacks, with most of the nation's air traffic still grounded, a small jet l...