Sept. 11 Families Disgusted by Bush Campaign Ads (Reuters story)

[pinto]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Families who lost relatives in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks voiced outrage on Thursday at President Bush's first ads of his re-election campaign that use images of the devastated World Trade Center to portray him as the right leader for tumultuous times.

"Families are enraged," said Bill Doyle, 57, of New York, who is active in several Sept. 11 family groups. "What I think is distasteful is that the president is trying to use 9/11 as a springboard for his re-election."

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Two ads refer to the hijacked airliner attacks as the Bush campaign seeks to present him as a leader who rose to the challenge. One ad shows World Trade Center ruins behind an American flag. Another shows firefighters removing the flag-draped remains of a victim.

Ron Willett of Walnut Shade, Missouri, said he was disgusted when he saw the ads. Willett, who lost his 29-year-old son, John Charles, when planes hit the trade center, said he is now so upset, "I would vote for Saddam Hussein before I would vote for Bush."

Two ads refer to the hijacked airliner attacks as the Bush campaign seeks to present him as a leader who rose to the challenge. One ad shows World Trade Center ruins behind an American flag. Another shows firefighters removing the flag-draped remains of a victim.

Ron Willett of Walnut Shade, Missouri, said he was disgusted when he saw the ads. Willett, who lost his 29-year-old son, John Charles, when planes hit the trade center, said he is now so upset, "I would vote for Saddam Hussein before I would vote for Bush."

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4500244§ion=news

[lancdem]

1. They did manage to find one relative who wasn't upset

"I don't have a problem with his pointing to his leadership at that time. He helped us weather it. To me it was a tasteful ad," said Patricia Reilly, who sister Lorraine Lee died in the New York attacks.

[Leilani]

2. Someone should make an ad

using the film of Bush, sitting in the school, reading to kids, while a voice over tells that we are under attack, & Commander in Chimp does nothing.

[montanacowboy]

3. Right!

who would have the guts to do that? All I can say is Kerry better start attacking this bullshit right away and every day.

[RhodaGrits]

7. pass this around:

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/true911.html

[ewagner]

4. Didn't Symbolman do one?

I remember seeing a flash video of Dubya sitting there while the clock ticked and other scenes from NY were played. Was it symbolman or blumberg?

[Mel]

5. this one?

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/true911.html

[ronnykmarshall]

6. That's one of the best.

[bobbieinok]

8. that is absolutely horribly stunning

the #1 event that makes me LIHOP at least is W's sitting there and NOT DOING ANYTHING while people died

[proud patriot]

9. bush is a disgrace

to America

[Sparkle]

10. Say it again, Sam!

BUSH IS A DISGRACE TO AMERICA!

[KurtNilsen]

11. No!

Some of the posts here are!

[TahitiNut]

12. Remember the Wellstone Memorial?

The same people who rabidly castigated Wellstone family and friends for "politicking" during the memorial service are now standing at brain-dead attention as the Facetious Fuhrer exploits the deaths of thousands in a campaign ad!!

These people swim in an ocean of hypocrisy.