Look at the photos of 9/11 families with Clarke

[underpants]

Former U.S. counter-terrorism coordinator Richard Clarke greets family members of victims of the September 11 attacks following testimony before a national commission investigating the attacks on Capitol Hill March 24, 2004. Clarke, a senior adviser to Bush and the three previous administrations, has accused Bush of paying insufficient attention to the al Qaeda threat before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and afterward focusing on Iraq (news - web sites) at the expense of efforts to crush the network. REUTERS/Win McNamee

[boobooday]

1. Thanks for posting those, Underpants

Those poor people have been waiting for an apology for almost three years. :-(

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[chimpymustgo]

2. Wow. Thanks for posting.

Did they give anyone else a standing ovation after their testimony?

[Spazito]

3. Wow, look at their faces, they say it all...

it is an incredibly sad moment. Sad because they should never have to be so grateful for the simple truth, they were due that by the bush cabal immediately.

[rumguy]

4. What a great guy, his emotions are genuine

I like this Clarke fellow

[9215]

32. Yep, he is doing this from the heart. He has no future ambitions

nothing to gain except to do what he has always done: fight the good fight for its own sake.

PS. Clinton had the good sense to put this guy in a key role to fight terror, Bush marginalized him. The Bush legacy will be one of failure, miserable failure.

[TacticalPeek]

5. Worth >1K words. n/t

[BootinUp]

6. That is so neat! thank you.

:)

[ElsewheresDaughter]

7. God bless this man... i am typing through tears...i just recieved his book

and it is dedicated to John O'Neill (the FBI agent who resigned because bush ordered him off the bin Laden/Al Qaeda investigation and who was then hired at a WTC security company where he was killed on his 1st day at work on 911) and all the murdered victims of 911


wonder if the security firm was Securacom, Marvin Bush*s security firm who had the contract on the WTC, United Airlines and Dulles Airport on 9/11?

[sadiesworld]

10. We'll share a box of tissues, heh?

[soleft]

14. John O'Neil, who resigned FBI to work at WTC

because the Gov. wasn't doing enough to combat Al Quada

[rumguy]

18. dedicated to O'Neill, nice touch..nt

[proud patriot]

8. Shit I'm crying again

who has the kleenex .?. :-(

[Fleshdancer]

13. glad I'm not the only one.

I can't imagine what the widows have had to endure. It's bad enough losing your spouse, but for everything to be stonewalled and for Rice to not even show up to give a few answers...there are no words.

[proud patriot]

16. My family didn't have money

but when 911 happened I dedicated myself to helping
in anyway I could .

Letters Phone calls ..

I hope beyond hope that America is paying attention today !

[NewYorkerfromMass]

20. Because someone finally had the decency to say "we failed you"

good God it's so heartbreaking. And here is their greatest hope for the truth- someone far outnumbered by equivicators like Powell and Rice.
Good God.... what should be the norm is a freakish exception.
And that first photo says it all- trying to stand proudly and fighting for composure amidst all this evil.

Here's another angle of that same image up top

[Guava Jelly]

36. God damn thats cool

I am crying right now also.
the 911 ers finally got an apology

[CatWoman]

9. dammit underpants

ok-- i'll give you this one :D

[qanda]

11. Man, that breaks my heart

:cry:

[sadiesworld]

12. History will be kind to this man.

[Catfight]

15. A true American Hero

This man has more morals and integrity than I'll ever know. When will the bloodshed stop?

[Deb]

17. Nothing bad will ever happen to this man

He now has 3,000 Guardian Angels.

[tom_paine]

19. God, that's heartrending

I have no doubt they are savaging them over at Stormtrooperville.

[ignatius]

21. What a contrast to Bush who hasn't an ounce of warmth in his

coldhearted body.

I think Clarkes words today,,"I failed you" were very telling. He is not doing this for the money, he genuinely knows that Bush and Co. did nothing and feels like he could have pushed them harder.

A man with a conscience, how do the BFEE bastards sleep at night?

[DeepModem Mom]

22. Thank you, so much, for posting these --

[maveric]

23. My God, you just made me cry, Underpants.

Their expressions speak volumes. Clarke is a hero with the integrity of steel and a heart of gold.
I hope and pray that his testimony will put these murdering, war profiteering, fascist bastards in jail where they belong.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

24. big ass KICK

[The Night Owl]

25. Clarke obviously has no "credibility problems" with the 9/11 widows...

:kick:

[underpants]

26. "I guess the truth hurts" Clarke after his testimony

No apparently that might have been what they were asking for....a simple apology. W would never do that and if I was his handler I wouldn't have him do it but.........the silence is deafening.

[proud patriot]

27. I hope everyone can see these

[Spazito]

28. Here are the pictures on Yahoo..

please go to this link and rate the pictures of Clarke and families a 5, everyone possible needs to see these!

http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?c=news_photos&p=Richard+Clarke

[proud patriot]

37. Thanks I rated them

:hi:

[ThirdWheelLegend]

50. What is sick is that the photos are averaging like 3-3.5

The disgusting freeper complicit assholes are voting 0 for pictures of family members of victims from the day that all these freeper assholes have used to back all their lies for the last 2+ years.

TWL

[Solomon]

29. Thanks for a great post.

[Skittles]

30. I hope it does his soul good

he is a good man and I bet he wonders every day if he did everything he could, if he could have done more or done things differently. 09/11 is a heavy burden on all of us but imagine if you had been "in the loop" (reagardless of what that lying f*** Cheney says).

[DeepModem Mom]

33. Watching Clarke --

my daughter said she thought he was so prepared, so ready, so calm, so completely undaunted today because he knew in his heart, with those 9/11 families sitting behind him, that what he was doing was as right as anything can be in this world.

[Skittles]

35. that's exactly the feeling I got

this is cathartic to him - and to those 9/11 families too; bless them all.

[Octafish]

31. Clarke did all he could to stop 9-11...

... then apologized for not being able to stop them.

Wow. Great picture, 'pants!

How I feel for those families. My neighbor's boss lost his son in the WTC that day. His only son.

[gator_in_Ontario]

34. Pics that need no captions....thanks! n/t

[ElementaryPenguin]

38. Perfect! Have Kerry run these counter to the Bush 9-11 ads!

With photos of Paul O'Neil and other whistleblowers!

[WillyT]

39. Thanks Underpants...

Made my eyes well up...again.

Sigh...

[linazelle]

40. Makes me want to cry

Thank God for Richard Clarke.

[Jade Fox]

41. Thank god these people have finally gotten some straight info...

and an apology. The looks on their faces testifiy to the power of a
simple honest apology.

I think if I were one of them I would have gone postal awhile ago.

[WillyT]

42. Kick !!!

:kick:

[west hollywood dem]

43. Great post.

Thank you. You have made my day. Time to start circulating that image to the public.

I am going to a Kerry Meet-up in West Hollywood, tomorrow night,at Buzz Cafe and will print this out for the troops.

[Norbert]

44. A well deserved kick

.

[Liberal_Dog]

45. I Bet We Will Never See...

a photo of 9-11 family member giving Condi Rice a hug.

[CalebHayes]

46. Gee, that is heart breaking.

[Robbien]

47. The families really needed an "I'm sorry"

Bless it, the whole country needed an "I'm sorry".

Thank you, Mr. Clarke.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

48. Now I don't ever want to see any DUer....

saying there are no good Republicans! Hear me????

This man is an old-school Republican: a man you can disagree with on policy (Clarke is quite the hawk), but at the end of the day, is a reasonable man who is an American first and doesn't forget it.

Yes, once upon a time there used to be a lot like him.

God knows we need a few more.

Helen Thomas was right when she said that, when there is evil afoot in the government, someone always steps forward and spills the beans. ALWAYS.

She must be one happy gal right now.

[underpants]

52. That is exactly right

There was a day were differences were dealt with not smashed for a WIN that news cycle.

[SharonAnn]

54. Thanks, I used to be one of those Republicans. Pro civil-rights,

serious about foreign policy and long term strategy for peace, fiscally responsible, etc.

Sadly, it became apparent under Reagan that the others were gaining control over the party. I stayed "Independent" for years and finally had to admit that the only home for fiscal, social, and foreign policy responsibility was the Democratic Party.

[NV1962]

49. Well-deserved kick for Dick Clarke

A man of principle and integrity - and I salute that.

[DeepModem Mom]

51. By contrast, what is the Bush adm. saying to these families?

How could they let Thompson and Lehman try to tear Clarke apart, for purely political purposes, in front of their eyes? How could they stall investigation into 9/11 when these people deserve answers? They show contempt for these families, yet run a campaign based on the source of their grief.

[Dhalgren]

53. Well, after this, I don't think they will be running many adds

showing Bush at ground zero. And how about the convention? If this issue has legs (and it should) how will it play with the Pukes strutting around ground zero, each of them saying "Hey, it wasn't our fault!"