How much will the government spend on the celebration of 9/11?

[gatorboy]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/31/AR2005083102599.html?nav=rss_nation

Karen Hughes, who has been tasked with re-crafting America's image, sent a cable to all U.S. embassies yesterday urging them to think of ways to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that will demonstrate that terrorism is a challenge faced not just by the United States.

The instructions from the State Department's new undersecretary for public diplomacy are an early sample of Hughes's plans to try to close the chasm between the United States and much of the rest of the world, particularly the bloc of more than 50 Islamic countries.

As one step, she explained in an interview yesterday, the U.S. ambassador to Egypt could go to Sharm el-Sheikh, the Red Sea resort where terrorist bombs killed at least 64 people and injured more than 100 last month. In the cable, she also urged U.S. diplomatic missions to use the occasion to bring together religious leaders for an interfaith dialogue.

"The fourth anniversary gives us an opportunity to really remind the world that it's about more than America, that it's about all of us," she said. "I suggested that they might want to have events particularly in countries that have also been targets of terrorist attacks; that our ambassadors might want to reach out, and in a way that resonates with the population in that country and communicates that we understand that it's not just Americans who have been victims of this, but it's been Egyptians and people all over the world, Muslims as well as Christians and Jewish citizens."
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How dare they spend money on this when we have another catastrophe on our hands this very moment???

I seriously hope this bites Bush, Hughes and the rest of these cronies in the ass big time. I can't imagine the amount that will be spent on the 9/11 anniversary love fest. It was a deplorable day. Why treat it like a parade???

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[Horse with no Name]

1. They better not spend a fucking cent eom

[gatorboy]

3. Oh you know they will.

They're all about big, expensive celebrations. You can't outdo these people when it comes to putting on an expensive party!

[annabanana]

2. In the wake of Katrina? They'd better cancel....

If he has a big showy party and parade people will go friggen nuts!

[DinahMoeHum]

4. They better cancel this travesty. Gallows humor like this

ain't going down too well right now.


:mad:

[Biased Liberal Media]

5. The mere fact that they want to have a "celebration" of 9/11

should be enough to disgust ANYONE. Not just because it's at this time, but because 9/11 is NOT a holiday to celebrate.

What fucktards.

[Democrats_win]

6. Goodwill after 9/11 was bombed in Baghdad. Enjoy your shock & awe, bush.

The CIA calls it blowback.