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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 05:40 PM
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Bush* to Visit Sept. 11 Memorial Next Week
President Bush, facing criticism from victims' relatives for using images of the destroyed World Trade Center in campaign ads, will visit a Sept. 11 memorial in New York next week.

Bush plans to tour the memorial Thursday in Long Island's Nassau County, one of the city's suburbs, prior to attending a re-election fund-raiser that night in East Meadow, N.Y.

The visit comes as Bush's campaign ads with images of the skeletal remains of the Trade Center and fire fighters carrying a flag-draped stretcher angered several relatives, who asked that the ads be pulled from the airwaves.

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In New York, Bush will tour a business and deliver remarks on the economy. He starts the day with an address via satellite to evangelical Christians at their convention.

The events are part of a week of travel and appearances in a full-throttle campaign as Bush faces presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry. On Monday, Bush has two fund-raisers, one in Dallas and one in Houston. While in Houston, he'll also visit a livestock show and rodeo.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/03/05/politics1701EST0684.DTL
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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 05:41 PM
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1. protests???????
...
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 05:50 PM
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I'm doubtful
It's pretty far from the city. I'd be surprised if there was much of a protest out there. Which is why they chose it.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 06:02 PM
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9. A lot of people who worked in the WTC
and many of the firefighters who died on 9-11 come from that part of LI. I think you'll be surprised at how many people will turn out, now that they know he's coming.


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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 06:11 PM
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kick, good point
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 06:11 PM
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14. I'm glad to hear it
I really hope he gets a loud reception out there.
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Sticky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 05:43 PM
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2. More photo ops for campaign ads, no doubt
The arrogance of this administration is astounding.
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Bonhomme Richard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 05:45 PM
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3. Brilliant minds think alike
I was just going to say that. LOL
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joeunderdog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 02:00 PM
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27. Say CHEEEEEESE!!!
Asshole.
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boobooday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 05:47 PM
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4. Don't forget to throw some meat
To those evangelical Christians.

I'm sure it will be his usual punching bag: Gay Americans.

http://www.wgoeshome.com



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russian33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 05:50 PM
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5. Come on!
He doesn't think he's pissed me off enough, he has to screw up my traffic! I work in Nassau County, near East Meadow....damn it!

At least it'll warm my heart to know that the Evangelical Christians are happy
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alcuno Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 05:57 PM
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8. Welsome to DU, russian33
I think it's conspiracy to eventually irritate and annoy every American that is out there; it's my only way of explaining them.
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 08:26 PM
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20. Oh please skip work or whatever and get some people out there to ruin his
political game. Big signs, lot's of noise. Make it friggin' impossible for him to get the photos.
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young_at_heart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 05:54 PM
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6. New Yorkers might want to ask.............what was he doing on 9/11?
Sitting idly in the classroom........doing nothing!!! Guliani took charge immediately. Bush absolutely never shows any shame about any single thing.
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 08:27 PM
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21. Ya think Guliani may have known about it in advance?
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young_at_heart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 10:37 PM
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23. Absolutley not!
I think he showed excellent leadership.......he sprang into action immediately. He deserved the praise he received!
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 05:57 PM
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7. is this the endless re-selection tour, or what? thought Busboy was busy
"doin' the peoples bizness" and providing "steady leadership in a time of change"....seems I heard that in a parallel universe not too long ago.
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guajira Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 06:08 PM
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12. You Mean..... Steady Leadership - in the Wrong Direction!!!
That should be our motto for B*.
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Catt03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 06:05 PM
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10. Does anyone else ever notice that Bush
has made hundreds of trips as Presdient of the united States to JUST attend fund raisers all over the county

and

that he never, never interacts with the citizens of this country EXCEPT people who pay him?

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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 06:06 PM
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11. where I come from we call that prostitution....
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PaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 06:32 PM
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15. male whore..n/t
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 01:54 PM
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26. most whores ARE male
Edited on Sat Mar-06-04 02:05 PM by Skittles
except they are called CEOs and EXECUTIVES and BUSINESSMEN instead of PROSTITUTES.
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Kikosexy2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 06:10 PM
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13. Great! more "blasphemous" photo ops..
And just downright tackiness! Just like when African Americans were outraged when he was uninvited to visit MLK Jr.'s grave--I hope all New Yorkers give him hell for this visit and remind him how he allowed this tradegy to happen in the first place.
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teryang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 07:01 PM
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16. Am I wrong?
Edited on Fri Mar-05-04 07:03 PM by teryang
Chimp is unpopular on Long Island. This is Newsday country. I don't think he'll get much favorable press coverage for barking up the 911 tree some more.

He pisses a lot of New Yorkers off. Believe me, a lot of NYC workers live in Nassau. They resent his patently political ploys and divisive tactics. Initially they were overwhelmed with the 911 attack. Since, they've seen that nothing has changed, they are still dealing with lying hypocrites when it comes to government. He's making a mistake. The metropolitan NYC area is very sophisticated. Even fox news panders a blander message in metro NY, because they know their faux news doesn't go over there. But then this is the follow up to the original electoral strategy of allowing (or arranging) for the second "terrorist" attack on the WTC to occur.

"This will not stand." Shades of Churchill, MacArthur, and George I all rolled into one. Fools nobody.
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 07:03 PM
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17. apropos of nothing and everything, remember the cartoon w/Busboy
milking the cow...'course the Holstein was labeled "9/11"....thought it was great.
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Lefty48197 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 07:10 PM
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18. Maybe one of the deceased soldiers' families should have the funeral
at ground zero? Would Jr. turn and run away when he saw the family?
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 07:58 PM
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19. Bush Uses Graves (MLK's and 9/11's) As Backdrops for Fundraising.
Didn't he just do this with Martin Luther King, Jr.'s gravesite in Atlanta right before a fundraiser.

Is this a pattern? Drive-by's to graves on the way to political fundraisers?
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 08:37 PM
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22. 911 Attacks
A protest sign: 911-"What did the Pres. know and when did he know it?"
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RedSock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 12:53 PM
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24. jimmy breslin in newsday
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/nyc-bres0306,0,5341970,print.column?coll=ny-news-columnists

First Sentence:
"In his first campaign commercial, George Bush reached down and molested the dead."

He doesn't let up!
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graphixtech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 01:30 PM
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25. THIS sign
Edited on Sat Mar-06-04 01:31 PM by graphixtech
should greet him. Contact this activist group in NYC: http://ny911truth.org/



DO something with your outrage about 9-11!
Add YOUR voice at this important time in history!
http://www.septembereleventh.org/alerts.php
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Brand NEW article by Bill Douglas:
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/DOU403A.html

Historic Moment for the Peace & Justice Movement
Stopping the 9-11 Cover Up
is Ground Zero for the Peace Effort
by William Douglas

www.globalresearch.ca    4 March 2004
WORLDWIDE 9-11 PHONE, FAX, EMAIL CAMPAIGN

Tom Flocco ( TomFlocco.com ) Bill Douglas
http://tomflocco.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=1
www.911Visibility.org )

PLEASE POST AND/OR EMAIL WIDELY:
There are six individuals who have the power to influence whether President George Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, General Richard Myers, will publicly testify under oath before the American people to explain why they sat at their desks and in a school classroom, failing to take decisive action on September 11, 2001, until after four planes attacked the United States and killed 3,000 Americans and citizens from many other countries.  This, despite knowledge of the hijackings earlier that morning before any of the four planes crashed. 

Below you will find contact numbers and questions to initiate weekly communication with those who have the over-sight responsibility, public microphone, and/or power to influence the strength of the 9-11 Commission investigation.  These actions may well determine whether those in charge on 9-11 publicly testify under oath and submit to questioning by Commission-assisted and experienced career prosecutors rather than appointed former government bureaucrats and/or legislators.  Lawyers with prosecutorial skills prepare intensely for specific areas of interrogation and will be able to elicit truth and facts via questi . . .
(much more. . . )

The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/DOU403A.html
The American people would have never allowed such dramatic rollbacks in civil liberties at home and the launching of two wars overseas had it not been for one event . . . 9-11. 9-11 gave the Bush Administration and Pentagon hawks cart blanche to turn the world upside down. It frightened Americans into answering the age old question "guns or butter?" with a resounding answer of "GUNS!!" The problem is, the "official" 9-11 story does not hold water. 9-11 families in mass are filing litigations to demand full 9-11 disclosure. However, they need the support of the peace movement to gain a larger voice. Why should the peace & justice movement be involved in 9-11 truth actions?

Bush has persuaded Americans that to stop future 9-11 terrorist type strikes, we need A) Endless wars, and B) Reduced Liberty at home. The truth is that neither is necessary, the only thing required was for Bush et al to DO THEIR JOBS before and on 9-11, which they did not. President Bush actually ordered the FBI's head of counter terrorism to "back off" the Bin Laden and Al Qaeda investigations before 9-11. All airforce hijacked flight intercept procedures were violated on 9-11, and 9-11 widow Ellen Mariani's attorney is charging that this could only have happened if someone had issued a "stand down" order on 9-11. Oddly, immediately after 9-11 when other planes were grounded throughout the U.S., Bush allowed private jets to spirit Bin Laden family members and other Saudi royals out of the U.S. with no substantive questioning from the FBI. Insider stock trades profiting off the coming attacks of United and American airlines were made at a bank with known CIA connections, AB Brown Trust. The current head of AB Brown resigned on 9-11-2001, leaving behind $2.5 million in unclaimed "winnings" from someone who had bet AGAINST United and American Airlines stocks "the day before" 9-11. If 9-11 was allowed to happen, as it appears it was, it would remove the fuel from the militaristic fires in many Americans hearts that the Bush Admin. absolutely needs to justify endless war and civil liberty rollbacks.

It is time for the peace and justice movement to get behind heroes like Mrs. Ellen Mariani, Kristin Breitweiser, and Mindy Klienburg, 9-11 widows who are fighting for a truth that may unravel the entire Bush "endless war" agenda. Mrs. Mariani's attorney in her suit against Bush, stated that Mrs. Mariani's goal is to end Bush's endless illegal wars, to recover civil rights in America, and to end Bush's manipulation of the American people by shamelessly using 9-11, an event that he allowed to happen for personal political gain, and is now covering up.

Mrs. Mariani and her attorney Phil Berg, former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, recently spoke in Kansas City to capacity crowds at several metro churches, and were interviewed by local ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX News affiliates, as well as The Kansas City Star.

A subtle and silent revolution for truth is beginning to boil across North America, and beyond. The 911Visibility.org Movement has emerged in the United States in response to 9-11 widow, Ellen Mariani's, historic lawsuit against G.W. Bush et al for complicity in allowing the 9-11 attacks to occur and for his subsequent "attempted" 9-11 cover up. Long Island Press wrote last week that www.911visibility.org is giving Americans demanding 9-11 truth a voice.

Bush's cover up is about to be thwarted. The 911Visibility.org Project released it's new website www.septembereleventh.org to 100,000 hits from visitors in the first two weeks of it's launch. It's purpose is many fold. To empower ordinary people to contact media and governments worldwide to demand a full and complete disclosure of all relevant 9-11 facts. It seeks to engage the mainstream peace & justice movement in the 9-11 truth movement. It provides step-by-step manuals on how to organize local 9-11 Visibility Projects, from organizing to media outreach, and by forming coalitions of existing peace & justice groups.

The National 911Visibility.org Project was modeled on broad based peace & justice coalition efforts in Seattle and Kansas City, where hundreds demonstrated, got local media coverage, lobbied the local newspaper into condemning Bush's 9-11 cover up, and handed out many thousands of leaflets on the 9-11 cover up, as well as organizing public teach ins at churches etc.

www.septembereleventh.org provides downloadable flyers and posters, access to 9-11 cover up books and videos for house parties, etc. The 911Visibility.org Project also promotes and supports the 9-11 Meetups.com. 9-11 Meetups.com enables those concerned about the 9-11 cover up to meet with others in their communities to begin organizing. Activists in over 100 cities around the world have listed for 911Meetups. The 911Visibility.org Project provides tools for those 9-11 Meetups to utilize and hit the ground running, to empower them with techniques to broaden their effort by reaching out to mainstream peace & justice organizations, and by using the Internet more effectively.

Howard Dean called to attention the rumours that Bush was warned by the Saudi's of the coming 9-11 attacks BEFORE they occurred, and Dean asserted that this is exactly why we need FULL disclosure from the Bush Administration regarding 9-11. John Kerry recently demanded full 9-11 disclosure from the Bush administration as well. Former 9-11 Commissioner, Max Cleland, on CNN stated that Bush's obstructions of the 9-11 investigation were "DISGUSTING" and a "SCAM," and that in fact "America is being scammed!" CNN's Aaron Brown condemned Hastert's attempt to cut short the 9-11 Commission, and urged his viewers to call Congress to demand an extension of the 9-11 Commission deadline. The 9-11 movement seeks to build on these bold assertions, to create a mass movement calling attention to the Bush obstruction of the 9-11 investigation.

For 2 long years Bush has attempted to thwart any real 9-11 investigation. Ellen Mariani's suit against Bush et al under the RICO Act for racketeering, is the catalyst to demand truth. Bush tried to buy her off with a $1 MILLION "settlement," but Mariani said, "I'd rather eat dirt . . .". Mrs. Mariani's courageous act must not go unsupported by mainstream peace & justice activists.

We are at a critical point in human history. Americans are willing to be led into shameful acts, so long as they are terrorized into thinking that is the only way they can avoid future 9-11 type strikes. To expose the truth that 9-11 was allowed to happen by an administration that needed the strike to further it's own political ambitions will provide a shock therapy that can wake Americans up. It will be the healthiest possible thing that could happen right now.

"The Truth shall set you free."

Get involved today, and urge all other activists and activist organizations to get involved. The truth is ripe, it yearns to be broken free, but it will take a concerted effort by the movement to break the truth through the corporate media shroud that has thus far contained it. This week the Ellen Marinari suit was mentioned in some North American media. Together we can force it out to the mainstream public.

Roughly in America there are 40% who will love Bush no matter what he does. There are about 40% who have a visceral distaste for Bush no matter what he does. The 20% swing voters lean to Bush due to the carefully nurtured myth that Bush=Security. Of course the opposite is true, because evidence shows Bush allowed 9-11 to occur. So, to expose the Mariani suit to the general public, will result in Bush losing in a landslide in 2004, and THEN the truth of 9-11 can come out. We are at a historic moment. American Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison wrote, "We may be witnessing the Nazification of our nation." The Irish Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney, wrote, "We are living in a moment where hope and history rhyme."

We have within our grasp an opportunity to rent the fabric of our Prozac nation, and clear away the spell that has clouded our national vision. However, we must step forward and take it. The American peace & justice community has a historic opportunity before us. By embracing the 9-11 truth movement and taking up the cause of the courageous 9-11 family's fight for truth, they can remove the shroud that is clouding the vision of Americans to accept illegal wars and illegal rollbacks in rights at home. However, the peace & justice community must act fast, because once the 9-11 Commission closes its doors the opportunity to fight for truth . . . is over for good. Visit www.septembereleventh.org to get involved today with the 911Visibility.org movement to demand the truth that can set our nation free.


"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds" -- Samuel Adams - Bill Douglas, National 911Visibility.org Project
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Duck90MPH Donating Member (93 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 02:01 PM
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28. What a wonderful 911 site http://ny911truth.org is
I didn't see any link there to send them money. Do they have a donate link to send cash support to? This site should be sent out to everyone on peoples email lists to help get the truth out. Now is the right time to let the voters know that bushit engineered the whole 911 nightmare.

One of their points was this: "Jet fuel burns instantly. The WTC site burned for 100 days. Why?"

That is a good point and someone like Rather or Kuric needs to confront bush or his staff about this fact. They also mentioned the way the towers were detonated (firefighter staff agreeing) after the crash which hints that the bush engineering could involve pre-planted bombs.

Anyway, this site: http://ny911truth.org needs to be plastered everywhere including network and cable news.
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