The news for New York is Bush has made a gargantuan blunder.
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The Associated Press
March 4, 2004, 12:42 PM EST
Many families of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack expressed
anger Thursday at President Bush's use of ground zero images in his new
campaign ads, accusing him of using the attack for political gain.
Until Bush cooperates with the federal commission that is investigating the
nation's preparedness before the attacks and its response "by testifying in
public under oath ... he should not be using 9-11 as political propaganda,"
said Kristen Breitweiser, of Middletown Township, N.J., whose husband,
Ronald Breitweiser, 39, died in the World Trade Center.
"Three-thousand people were murdered on President Bush's watch," Breitweiser
said. "He has not cooperated with the investigation to find out why that
happened." The bipartisan panel reviewing the Sept. 11 attacks has requested
private meetings with Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney about what the
administration knew before the attacks, potentially a sensitive subject in
an election year.
The first three campaign ads, unveiled at campaign headquarters in suburban
Washington on Wednesday, will run on broadcast channels in about 80 markets
in 18 states, most of which are expected to be competitive, and nationwide
on select cable networks.
Two of the spots show pictures of the destruction at the World Trade Center
and include pictures of an American flag flying amid the debris. They also
feature images of firefighters working through the wreckage.
"I oppose anyone using it to promote their personal agenda," said Sally
Regenhard, whose firefighter son, Christian Regenhard, 28, died on Sept. 11,
2001. "While I certainly oppose the commercialization of ground zero, I have
to say he's not the only one to further his political goals or to make money
off it."
Bush's campaign on Thursday defended the commercials as appropriate for an
election about public policy and the war on terror, saying they are a
tasteful reminder of what the country has been through the last three years.
The campaign previously had said it would not use the attacks for political
gain.
"September 11th was not just a distant tragedy. It's a defining event for
the future of our country," Karen Hughes, a Bush campaign adviser, told "The
Early Show" on CBS. "Obviously, all of us mourn and grieve for the victims
of that terrible day, but September 11 fundamentally changed our public
policy in many important ways, and I think it's vital that the next
president recognize that."
Patricia Riley, of New Dorp, Staten Island, who lost her sister, Lorraine
Riley, 37, in the terrorist attack, agreed with that view, saying Bush's use
of Sept. 11 imagery in campaign spots was "appropriate."
"The country needs to be reminded of 9-11," she said. "The president has
every right to point to this leadership during that time. We're about to
elect another leader, and we have to make decisions on what a person is
capable of doing to protect our national security."
The ads do not mention Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry but
instead focus on improving Bush's image after lengthy attacks by Democrats
in recent months.
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CBS reporter David Martin revealed that weeks before the attacks, the CIA
had warned Bush personally of Osama Bin Laden's intent to use hijacked
planes as missiles. That followed the damaging exposure by The Associated
Press's John Solomon of a pre-9/11 FBI memo from an officer in Phoenix
warning of suspicious Middle Eastern men training at flight schools-a
warning that went unheeded.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=340_0_1_0_C
kw
@news.teranews.com>, outsou...@whitehouse.gov
says...
> Many families of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack expressed
> anger Thursday at President Bush's use of ground zero images in his new
> campaign ads, accusing him of using the attack for political gain.
Clintoon and the democraps used the Oklahoma City
bombing for political gain. You don't seem to care about
that. Hypocrite!
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Osama Bin Laden supports Kerry, shouldn't you?
OutsourceBush2004
"kw " <1...@1.1.1.1.1.1.edu.com> wrote in message
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> In <9c89a5bd9ce40592289551bd81aa7770
> @news.teranews.com>, outsou...@whitehouse.gov
> says...
> > Many families of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack expressed
> > anger Thursday at President Bush's use of ground zero images in his new
> > campaign ads, accusing him of using the attack for political gain.
>
> Clintoon and the democraps used the Oklahoma City
> bombing for political gain. You don't seem to care about
> that. Hypocrite!
Prove it.
If they did they didn't make it the center piece of their re-election
campaign.
OKC was a rightwing terrorist strike, not an event that Bush has turned into
an excuse for invading Iraq based on warmongering and deception while using
it as a campaign tool to scare the public.
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Reports by the US Senate's committee on banking, housing and urban
affairs -- which oversees American exports policy -- reveal that the US,
under the successive administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr,
sold materials including anthrax, VX nerve gas, West Nile fever germs and
botulism to Iraq right up until March 1992, as well as germs similar to
tuberculosis and pneumonia. Other bacteria sold included brucella
melitensis, which damages major organs, and clostridium perfringens, which
causes gas gangrene.
kw
@news.teranews.com>, outsou...@whitehouse.gov
says...
> > Clintoon and the democraps used the Oklahoma City
> > bombing for political gain. You don't seem to care about
> > that. Hypocrite!
>
> Prove it.
In his April 27, 1995, memo on the Oklahoma City
bombing, Morris shrewdly advised Clinton to
goad the GOP into a debate over restrictions on high-
powered weapons, since that issue pitted
anti-government gun owners, who held sway over the GOP,
against the broader public. The
upshot, Morris predicted, would be "self-inflicted
linkage between [the] party and
extremists."
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/power_plays/1999/0
3/saletan.html
In the week following the bombing, President Clinton
cleverly structured his attack on "purveyors of hatred
and division, the promoters of paranoia," so as to
broadly include virtually all of his conservative
opponents in the condemnation. "They spread hate," he
said. "They leave the impression by their very words,
that violence is acceptable." In a subsequent speech he
denounced the bombing as an act by "the forces of
organized evil" who, he insinuated, are linked to
mainstream conservative and constitutionalist forces.
This is so, he averred, because "they do practice and
they do preach violence against those who are of a
different color, a different background, or who worship
a different God. They do feed on fear and uncertainty.
They do promote paranoia...."
Even worse, charged the President, "these people attack
our government and the citizens who work for it who
actually guarantee the freedoms they abuse.... They can
certainly snuff out innocent lives and sow fear in our
hearts. They are indifferent to the slaughter of
children. They threaten our freedoms and our way of
life, and we must stop them."
It was an insidious attack clearly calculated to smear
principled opponents of socialist government by falsely
associating them with the perpetrators of vile terrorist
acts. And it was the same base tactic to which he
returned on May 1, 1995 in another disgraceful attempt
to identify his critics with those responsible for the
deadly bombing: " we must also stand up against those
who say that somehow this is alright, this is somehow a
political act - people who say, I love my country but I
hate my government."
Mr. Clinton's harangues were so transparently deceitful
that even liberal columnist Charles Krauthammer (CFR)
was moved to remark that the President had "repeatedly
charged dark and unseen forces, a shadowy unnamed
"they," with spreading paranoia - a classic of the very
paranoid style of politics Clinton is ostensibly
decrying." Unfortunately, Krauthammer's cogent
observation was drowned out by the CFR-dominated media
echo chamber which amplified and intensified the Clinton
defamation campaign, and, borrowing a page from Nero's
handbook, virtually branded all their opposition as
guilty of "hating the human race."
http://www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/chapter16.htm
Dan Dredick
"kw " <1...@1.1.1.1.1.1.edu.com> wrote in message
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OutsourceBush2004
> > Clintoon and the democraps used the Oklahoma City
> > bombing for political gain. You don't seem to care about
> > that. Hypocrite!
>
> Prove it.
-snippage of irrelevant cites-
Wasn't your original claim that Clinton used OKC for his 1996 re-election
campaign?
Now you're weezling about it being for "political gain."
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kw said:
Bush is not doing anything that clinton didn't do for
the 1996 election after the OKC bombing.
Hypocrite!
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Relatives of 9/11 victims call Bush ads in poor taste
LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer Thursday, March 4, 2004
(03-04) 10:10 PST WASHINGTON (AP) --
President Bush's day-old campaign commercials drew sharp criticism Thursday
from relatives of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and
a firefighters union with ties to Democratic rival John Kerry demanded they
be pulled from the air.
-snip-
"Three thousand people were murdered on President Bush's watch," Breitweiser
said. "He has not cooperated with the investigation to find out why that
happened."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/03/04/politics1129EST0562.DTL
kw
@news.teranews.com>, outsou...@whitehouse.gov
says...
> "kw " <1...@1.1.1.1.1.1.edu.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1ab13ad84...@newsgroups.bellsouth.net...
> In <f241cff872a715383286d79e1e11aea5
> @news.teranews.com>, outsou...@whitehouse.gov
> says...
>
> > > Clintoon and the democraps used the Oklahoma City
> > > bombing for political gain. You don't seem to care about
> > > that. Hypocrite!
> >
> > Prove it.
>
> -snippage of irrelevant cites-
>
> Wasn't your original claim that Clinton used OKC for his 1996 re-election
> campaign?
>
> Now you're weezling about it being for "political gain."
A campaign is for political gain, idiot.
King Pineapple
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> BWAHAHAHAHA Dick Morris. Too much
Translation: "I just got my ass kicked with facts, so I will attack the
source and discredit it".
Unfortunately, despite the fact that Morris was involved, Clinton DID do
what the article says. Namely, use OKC for political gain. Remember how he
tried to blame it on Rush Limbag?
"Was he (Clinton) trying to mislead the Paula Jones lawyers?"
"Absolutely"-David Kendall, the Clintons' (pro bono) legal mouthpiece
z
@newsgroups.bellsouth.net:
> In <9c89a5bd9ce40592289551bd81aa7770
> @news.teranews.com>, outsou...@whitehouse.gov
> says...
>> Many families of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack expressed
>> anger Thursday at President Bush's use of ground zero images in his new
>> campaign ads, accusing him of using the attack for political gain.
>
> Clintoon and the democraps used the Oklahoma City
> bombing for political gain. You don't seem to care about
> that. Hypocrite!
>
So because Clinton did something its OK for Bush to do something? Wasn't
Clinton a scumbag liar?
kw
z...@yada.yada.com says...
Yes, clintoon was a scumbag liar. You lowlifes didn't
complain when clintoon used the OKC bombing for his 1996
campaign. Hence, you are hypocrites for bitching about
Bush.
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****The documents also reveal how Clinton's advisers
weighed the political
implications of even the most tragic events, and
assessed ways in which
he might gain side benefits from his presidential
duties.****
On April 27, 1995 -- eight days after the Oklahoma City
bombing --
Morris directed a discussion of how to reap political
advantage from the
aftermath, according to the agenda for the date. As the
consultant saw
it, Clinton's handling of the tragedy would lead to
"temporary gain:
boost in ratings," and how he could create "a permanent
possible gain:
sets up Extremist Issue vs. Republicans."
[from book report of Dick Morris' book]
http://users.aol.com/patriot888/pollicy.txt
Within 48 hours, the president began a campaign to blame
everyone on the right for the "atmosphere of hate" that
had caused the tragedy. The left-wing media joined in
the feeding frenzy. No one was exempt: pro-lifers, pro-
family organizations, home schoolers, the religious
right (portrayed as whackos) and especially "hate
radio."
http://www.khouse.org/articles/political/20010701-
351.html
Writing in The London Sunday Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-
Pritchard describes how things had changed by election
night 1996. "Relaxing on Air Force One after the
election, Bill Clinton told reporters it was the
Oklahoma bombing that proved the turning point in his
political fortunes. It was the moment when the militias,
the Christian Right and the Gingrich onslaught against
government all melded together in the public mind as one
rampant movement of extremism. `It broke a spell in the
country as the people began searching for our common
ground again,' Clinton explained."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-
review/opinion/reiland/s_81066.html
In his April 27, 1995, memo on the Oklahoma City
bombing, Morris shrewdly advised Clinton to goad the GOP
into a debate over restrictions on high-powered weapons,
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z
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> In <Xns94A288F0171...@216.196.105.134>,
> z...@yada.yada.com says...
>> kw <1...@1.1.1.1.1.1.edu.com> wrote in news:MPG.1ab12e83f0c39e58989ab9
>> @newsgroups.bellsouth.net:
>>
>> > In <9c89a5bd9ce40592289551bd81aa7770
>> > @news.teranews.com>, outsou...@whitehouse.gov
>> > says...
>> >> Many families of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack
>> >> expresse
> d
>> >> anger Thursday at President Bush's use of ground zero images in
>> >> his ne
> w
>> >> campaign ads, accusing him of using the attack for political gain.
>> >
>> > Clintoon and the democraps used the Oklahoma City
>> > bombing for political gain. You don't seem to care about
>> > that. Hypocrite!
>> >
>>
>> So because Clinton did something its OK for Bush to do something?
>> Wasn't
>
>> Clinton a scumbag liar?
>
> Yes, clintoon was a scumbag liar. You lowlifes didn't
> complain when clintoon used the OKC bombing for his 1996
> campaign. Hence, you are hypocrites for bitching about
> Bush.
I wasn't subscribed to these newsgroup when clinton was in office
cc
> In <Xns94A288F0171...@216.196.105.134>,
> z...@yada.yada.com says...
> > kw <1...@1.1.1.1.1.1.edu.com> wrote in news:MPG.1ab12e83f0c39e58989ab9
> > @newsgroups.bellsouth.net:
> >
> > > In <9c89a5bd9ce40592289551bd81aa7770
> > > @news.teranews.com>, outsou...@whitehouse.gov
> > > says...
> > >> Many families of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack expressed
> > >> anger Thursday at President Bush's use of ground zero images in his new
> > >> campaign ads, accusing him of using the attack for political gain.
> > >
> > > Clintoon and the democraps used the Oklahoma City
> > > bombing for political gain. You don't seem to care about
> > > that. Hypocrite!
> > >
> >
> > So because Clinton did something its OK for Bush to do something? Wasn't
> > Clinton a scumbag liar?
>
> Yes, clintoon was a scumbag liar. You lowlifes didn't
> complain when clintoon used the OKC bombing for his 1996
> campaign. Hence, you are hypocrites for bitching about
> Bush.
Wait a minute, you're calling the families of the victims of the Sept. 11
terrorist attack scumbags, lowlife hypocrites?
Jeeze, that's the worst slap in the face since the Bush administration lied
to the people of New York that ground zero air quality was just fine.