I'm not sure I want to go see Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center" movie, though I suppose I will. I don't quite see the point of getting all worked up over the blood-and-guts of an atrocity, when it's the politics of the thing that matters to me. (Years after the opening of Washington, D.C.'s Holocaust Museum, I haven't been, and I doubt I will go.) But, writing for TomDispatch, Ruth Rosen has penned what seems to a pretty good rendition of what the (missing) postscript to Stone's tear-jerker should have been:

"Government officials later confirmed that the organization which plotted the destruction of the World Trade Center was al-Qaeda, led by Osama Bin Laden, a Saudi Arabian, and Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian. Nineteen men executed the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Fifteen of them came from Saudi Arabia; the remaining four from Egypt, The United Arab Emirates, and Lebanon. None of them came from Iraq."

Maybe in the sequel? But somehow I doubt we're going to see Stone make a movie about heroic Iraqi firefighters and cops pulling bodies out of wreckage in Baghdad that we've caused. And unlike "World Trade Center," which touts a revenge-minded ex-Marine who re-upped to fight in Iraq, I doubt that the sequel will show an angry Iraqi pledging revenge against Dick Cheney. Safe to say?