GOP zinged for meeting in N.Y.: Convention locale called 9/11 exploitation

[mandyky]

By Anna Badkhen, San Francisco Chronicle

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New York -- Dawn Peterson sat on a couch and recalled President Bush's greatest moment as the nation's leader.

It was Sept. 14, 2001. Bush was standing shoulder-to-shoulder with a New York rescue worker on a jagged, gnarled piece of rubble of what had once been the World Trade Center. Through a loudspeaker fire chiefs had been using to direct rescue efforts, the president vowed to avenge the attacks that had devastated the United States three days earlier.

Behind him, palls of smoke were rising from the debris. Somewhere in that smoldering wreckage lay the remains of Peterson's brother, Davin, who had been on the 107th floor of the North Tower when terrorists slammed a Boeing 767 into the building several floors below.

Nearly three years later, on Sept. 2, Bush will come to New York again for another great milestone in his leadership: to accept the Republican nomination for four more years in office at the Republican National Convention.


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[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. They've been exploiting and profiteering off of 9/11 since 9/12