When Will George Bush Stop Graverobbing The Dead of 9-11?

[wicket]

Michael at AMERICAblog is PISSED:

No, President Bush, we haven't forgotten. Your attack dog Karl Rove came to New York City and the sacred ground of 9-11 and made a nasty, partisan political speech and he used that national tragedy to do it. Rove very directly made a comparison between conservatives and liberals, but put that aside. Whether you believe Bush was using Rove to attack a small group of Americans he thinks are misguided or the 50 million Americans who didn't vote for him or the vast majority of Americans who now realize he lied about Iraq, using the dead of 9-11 to try and beef up your poll numbers is reprehensible and wrong.

No one should use the dead of 9-11 to try and further their partisan political agenda. Whomever Bush wants to pretend that screed was directed at, he used the innocent victims of 9-11 to do it.

Of course Bush hasn't apologized. He's abused the tragedy of 9-11 repeatedly. Bush used the carnage of 9-11 in a political ad. He showed the corpses of loved ones being pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center to try and score a few extra votes. Widows and children were put through the trauma of not knowing whether the ad might be showing their husband or wife, their brother or sister, their son or daughter being removed from that scene of horror. And Bush didn't care. The outcry was so immediate and intense over his crass use of a national tragedy for partisan political purposes that the ad didn't run. But Bush never apologized. In fact, he defended it to the hilt.

And Bush's Republicans have graverobbed the innocent dead of 9-11 again and again to push every pet project of theirs under the sun, from oil drilling in Alaska to the flag-burning amendment. The bereaved family members have begged and pleaded and prayed for everyone to stop politicizing their loved ones and making hay out of their pain and suffering. And George Bush has turned his back on them again and again.

The entire country was united behind our president after 9-11 and everyone, to put it bluntly, wanted revenge. George Bush has now had almost four years to hunt down and kill Osama Bin Laden and he has failed miserably. And because he's too weak to attack Bin Laden, Bush has resorted to attacking Americans. Because he's too weak to divide and conquer Al Queda, Bush is trying to divide and conquer America.

When will George Bush stop graverobbing the dead of 9-11? Never.

[smirkymonkey]

1. Recommended and Kicked!

:kick:

[PST]

2. recommended, my sentiments exactly! n/t

[Spinzonner]

3. What else has he got ?

[wicket]

7. absolutely nothing.

[katinmn]

4. It's been almost 4 years. They use it like their crowning achievement

which makes you wonder whether it was LIHOP or MIHOP, not "IF."

Four years of milking the tragedy is enough!

[meganmonkey]

5. Some guy used that on me yesterday - "Remember 9/11?"

It's been a while since someone accosted me for my bumper stickers, but yesterday at a gas station...well, a little background - they say "Bush is a Punk-Ass Chump" and "How many lives per gallon?". I am a 30 yr old woman alone in an empty parking lot (funny, they never say anything to me when my boyfriend is with me, or when other people are around...) The exhange went like this:

Man: I like your bumper stickers (in a tone indicating he did not, in fact, like my stickers)

Me: Pardon me?

Man: Remember 9/11? Yeah, think about that when you call our president a chump.

Me: Those guys weren't from Iraq. And Osama's still running free. Peace (loosely waved a peace sign gesture at him))

Man: Take your liberal shit somewhere else!

Me: Truth hurts, doesn't it?

:eyes:

[Stephanie]

6. Yeah I remember 9/11. I remember how that chump ignored dozens of warnings

I remember the reports from foreign intel agencies and his own CIA report that specifically warned of attacks on our soil. With airplanes. And I remember that the president did nothing about it. I remember that he went on vacation. Chump.

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. What an ass. I've noticed the same thing.

About guys striking up conversations about bumper stickers. Only happens when I'm alone, never when my husband is around. Sometimes I wonder if he thinks I'm making these confrontations up.

[halobeam]

9. bet he's only wondering if it's made up

because it's so hard to believe that people are still defending the prez and attacking those who aren't. Sadly, uninformed and that's what I chalk these people up to. I know there are those who have all the facts and still defend this mess, but I believe they are few and far between. I remember what my Mom said in bringing me up. Feel sorry for these kind of people. It's hard, but when you've adapted to that frame of mind your whole life, it's great preparation for times like this, you get better at it. Mind you, it's difficult to do, and not that clear cut, emotionally, but nevertheless, I find that it brings me more inner peace to focus my energy in the direction of pity for the ignorant than to expend the energy of anger (which is all consuming) and eats away at my insides, seemingly neverending.

That all said, "fuck that asshole", what a dick. See? never that clear cut.

[wicket]

11. My response would've been:

My response to his "take your liberal shit elsewhere" woulda been "take your Bush-loving ass to Iraq and REALLY support the troops". :evilgrin:

[ComerPerro]

10. Fantastic closing paragraph

And because he's too weak to attack Bin Laden, Bush has resorted to attacking Americans. Because he's too weak to divide and conquer Al Queda, Bush is trying to divide and conquer America.


Wow.

Great stuff.


And, to address the question: Bush will never stop, because quite frankly its his only claim to legitimacy.

[satya]

12. When Sibel Edmonds' gag order is removed. n/t