Did George W. Bush Write This?

[patrioticintellect]

Six years ago, on a bright and beautiful Tuesday morning, a new kind of enemy came to America’s shores.

We will never forget the images of that terrible day -- the planes vanishing into buildings, the thick black clouds of smoke, and the haunting pictures of the missing.

On this anniversary, we pause to remember each and every victim of those attacks.

We celebrate the lives that were tragically cut short. We grieve with the families and friends who lost loved ones. We honor the service and sacrifice of the emergency responders who set an example to the whole world that in America we are our brother’s keeper and our sister’s keeper.

And we pause to honor the brave men and women of the United States military -- and their families -- who have borne such a heavy burden for the last six years.

We also remember how Americans were stirred to a common purpose. On the lines to donate blood or the candlelight vigils that stretched across our country, there was no red America and there was no blue America. We were united in our grief for our fellow citizens. We were united in our resolve to stand with one another and to stand up to terror. We were united as Americans.

Six years later, the threat to America has only grown. Al Qaeda has reconstituted a new safe-haven where it trains recruits and plots attacks. Al Qaeda’s top two leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, continue to disseminate their hate-filled propaganda and inspire legions of followers. Like-minded extremists have struck in scores of countries. The war in Iraq continues to fuel terror and extremism. A Taliban insurgency rages on in Afghanistan. In too many disconnected corners of the world, hate is casting a shadow over hope.

Our calling today remains the same as it was on 9/11. We must write a new chapter in American history. We must bring justice to the terrorists who killed on our shores. We must devise new strategies, develop new capabilities, and build new alliances to defeat the threats of the 21st century. We must extend hope to the hopeless corners of the world and reaffirm our core values to counter the hateful message of the extremists. And we must secure a more resilient homeland.

To write that new American story, we must recapture that sense of common purpose that we had on September 11, 2001.

America is bigger than the challenge that came to our shores. Let us honor the legacy of those we lost by coming together anew. Let us always mark this day by affirming that hope will triumph over fear, and that a new generation of Americans will seek a safer, freer, and more perfect union.

No...Barack Obama sent this to me and many other Americans. Think Now America. Do you want more of the same?

[muntrv]

1. The message doesn't say "stay the course."

[bbinacan]

2. What's your problem with this?

I don't disagree with Obama.

[patrioticintellect]

7. It promises more of the same.

And I think America is ready for a new direction.

Let me hear your argument for it being not more of the same and I will open up on why I disagree the moment I see your reasoning for it not being more of what Bush has done.

[bbinacan]

14. It doesn't promise the same.

The strategic ambition may be the same, but the tactical resolution would be different. BTW, welcome to DU.

[babylonsister]

3. What did he say that so offended you-the truth? And who might you

think would be better, because I'll bet you I can find a similar statement any of your choices made today-unless they said nothing.

[patrioticintellect]

8. This is my choice. My choice IS better.

“This Administration long ago politicized the September 11 attacks, distorted it and dishonored it. If Congress really wanted to honor the memory of those who died on September 11, we would cause the full truth to be told to the American people. If Congress really supported our troops we would bring them home and not provide more funding for the war.”

For more visit: http://www.kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=73486

Obama is continuing to politicize Sept. 11th like Bush did. That's wrong. My choice, Dennis Kucinich accurately brings attention to that politicization.

[lynnertic]

15. Honestly if we were playing to WIN (more than just the election) Kucinich is the obvious choice.

[bahrbearian]

4. You forgot "Now go Shopping"

[valerief]

5. You also forgot, "He he he," and "Now watch this drive." nt

[abq e streeter]

6. Not an obama supporter

but I didn't see anything there that I have a problem with...Generalities that any politician would say, but nothing offensive as far as I'm concerned. Acknowledging threats and calling for unity is only bullshit when the source is known to be a lying hypocrite ; say for instance a certain unelected two term president.

[patrioticintellect]

9. It's not what he said

But what he didn't say and should be saying now. Only Ohio Congressman and presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich understood that a new dialogue on the matter needed to be opened up.

He patriotically opposed the recent September 11 resolution.

[abq e streeter]

10. Good point --what Obama said was reasonable but as usual , not much on specifics

I read Kucinich's statement re: the sept. 11 resolution ; it was magnificent, and I posted a reaction to it on DU referring to Kucinich's integrity and bravery.

[0007]

11. Are you kidding?

Calling David Vitter

[JPZenger]

12. Nothing controversial, but a little too general

Obama's statement has nothing to do with King George.

If any Dem had been President on 9-11, he would have sent troops into Afghanistan. The difference is he would not have wasted our good will, military morale and personnel and money in Iraq.

We do need to prepare against international terrorism, and to chase the bad guys. If we had not spent so many hundreds of billions in Iraq, we would have had the money to search more containers and install radioactive monitoring equipment in all ports. If we had not wasted our energy in Iraq, we could have continued to benefit from useful intelligence on terrorists from countries (such as Syria) that have not always been friends with the US.

When I read the heading of this post, I thought it was showing the similarities between General Petraius's statement with George Bush's speeches - which was highlighted on the Daily Show.

[patrioticintellect]

13. What?

What "bad guys"? Our policy is so flawed now that we don't know who are terrorists and who are freedom fighters. Innocent civilians are dying because we are waging a "war on terror" that hurts the Middle East region by exacerbating tensions. We need to pull back and stop chasing so-called "bad guys" and move to diplomacy.

An open dialogue with countries like Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, and Turkey is the only way we can move towards stabilizing the region. We have to stop this anti-Palestinian stance (which Obama has no problem upholding with the help of AIPAC) and move towards giving the Palestinians rights so that they can live in peace and so that terrorist organizations will stop rising to take on Israel with their crude brand of extremism because Israel is going after Palestinians.

Dennis did vote for the Afghanistan War. But he wouldn't have left us hanging in Afghanistan like our troops are now. And he would not have moved on to another war without making sure our mission was over in Afghanistan.

That's something Obama should be held accountable for and all other Democrats should be held accountable for.