HOW BUSH CHEAPENED 9/11 - Rall

[Khephra]

Two Years After the Horror, Business as Usual


NEW YORK--The doors of my New Jersey Transit train opened in Trenton, and a panicked madman scrambled aboard. "They're diving planes into both World Trade Centers! They've bombed the Pentagon (news - web sites)!" he yelled. I'll always wonder whether it was because the guy looked a little disheveled or due to the information he conveyed, but my carload of New Yorkers stared at him silently, cynically, disbelieving. "It's upstairs on TV!" he shouted for emphasis.


I took my cell and called my wife back in New York. "I'm watching it right now," she confirmed. "Oh, my God!" she said as my train pulled out of the station. "One of the towers just collapsed." More than 50,000 worked in those buildings. As we'd learned during the 1993 bombing, there had never been a real evacuation plan. How many people had gotten out? How many had died on the streets surrounding the buildings? A lot depended on whether the towers had tipped over or imploded vertically.


I hoped that an old pal, who worked on the 99th floor of Tower 2, hadn't given up his slacking ways and arrived early at his desk.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=127&ncid=742&e=7&u=/030911/7/58gi4.html

[LeahMira]

1. Bush Cheapened Himself!

"Instead of abandoning standard party-line politics, Bush cheapened the 9/11
attacks by using them to promote Republican platform planks like free trade
and huge tax cuts for his rich contributors. Instead of uniting Americans, he
smeared Democrats as unpatriotic. Instead of going after the Saudi and
Pakistani government officials who contributed to 9/11, he called them allies
in a "war on terrorism" that killed and maimed ordinary, innocent Muslims.
And he ruined a feeling of post-9/11 national unity that had prevailed among
all Americans."


Exactly. Very excellent article!

This only scratches the surface, though. I'm encouraged that the truth is beginning to come out and that some of the Congressional Republicans are beginning to stand up to the administration along with the Democrats. In the long run, this administration may wind up uniting the nation after all, but it will be against themselves.

[The Infidel]

2. how bush politicized sept.11 and the afghanistan and iraq wars

I agree with you 100%. I find it disgusting how Bush politicized not only Sept. 11, but the so called "war on terror" and Iraq war. And the worst part is that most of the American public either can't see through his lies or just doesn't care (ex:69% of the American public still believes that Saddam Hussein had some connection with Sept. 11). And now he wants to expand the Patriot Act!!(As if enough of our freedoms have'nt been taken away). Oh yeah, and happy Patriot Day to all!! (Sarasm intended)(i would've spelled sarasm orretly, but the button of the letter that's missing broke)

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[Rose Siding]

4. Aha! One of the 69%

Strange, with all the warnings, Bush did nothing to prevent this. TWO meetings on terror (Clinton had them twice a week), no jets scrambled, no airport security enforcement after warnings from a dozen countries- his level of concern was such that he took 5 weeks off, then didn't *even* regognize the attack for what it was as it was happening!

Then began the lies about Iraq. A designer war- here's the bill and the bags, sucker.

[Rainbowreflect]

5. Did you watch the whole Wellstone memorial or just the clips on faux?

I watched the whole thing & it was beautiful, emotional, passionate, and sometimes political, just like the lives they were celebrating. The real disgusting thing was the rights attack on a very small part of a 3+ hour memorial that no one had to watch if they didn't want to.

[newyawker99]

8. Hi The Infidel!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[newyawker99]

7. Hi LeahMira!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[blm]

6. I love Rall...he is tough and intuitive.

Mr. blm spent some time with him last weekend.

He really does not like D---.