I cannot read your graphs because the pictures don't work. I am guessing they said something along the lines that the recession started in March 2001 which is correct. The affects of the recession were felt more in 2002 and 2003 in this country as opposed to the EU which was more 200-2001. I do stand by my statement that the recession never would have occured if 9/11 would never have happened. That pushed the slowdown to a recession.
I find it ironic that the right classifies the 1991-1992 recession as simply the end of a business cycle that was inevitable. Where the 2001 recession is a result of Clinton running the economy into the ground even though it was at the end of the longest expansion on record at the NBER.
http://www.nber.org/cycles/november2001/