Our president has turned 9/11 into a sickening political prop.

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from OurFuture.org:



9/11: How Bush Has Betrayed Us
Submitted by Rick Perlstein on September 10, 2007 - 7:04pm.


Like everyone else, I'll never forget Tuesday, September 11, 2001. I was living in Brooklyn then, and breathed air polluted by the ash from of' incinerated flesh. But I'll also never forget Friday, September 14. That was the day my Brooklyn neighborhood held its candlelight vigil. Our bodies spanned Seventh Avenue from sidewalk to sidewalk, for over a dozen blocks. I'll never forget the next morning either, because that's what really made me cry. I nearly broke my neck, you see, from all the leftover candle wax coating the sidewalk. So many people feeling the same thing together: remember the solidarity?

Solidarity. That was America's, and the world's, immediate response to September 11. Christopher Hayes wrote a classic essay on this forgotten word last year. He quoted the dictionary definition: "The fact or quality, on the part of communities...of being perfectly united or at lone in some respects, .esp. in the interests, sympathies, or aspirations."

The concept, wrote Hayes, "embodies a powerful moral aspiration to realize the fundamental fellowship of humankind." He quoted Rebecca Solnit on the "Uses of Disaster": "Again and again, we see a latent civil society—a community—arising from the ruins of some disaster and becoming the grounds for connection and joy."

Isn't that exactly what it was?

"We Are All Americans Now," a French newspaper proclaimed. And we Americans were all New Yorkers: "Gentiles in Georgia weeping for dead Jews in Brooklyn," is how Chris Hayes put it. And to the victims' families, we New Yorkers all shouted, We are all your brothers and sisters.

Every day, we scanned the thousands of posters taped to every lamppost and fence, the faces of the missing. And for months, we scanned the faces of our neighbors: Who did you know? How can we help? And by the way, did I tell you today how glad I am to have you around? We immediately ached to serve: the lines at our hospitals to give blood snaked around the block, until they told us there were not enough survivors to need much blood, and told us to go home. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/9_11_how_bush_has_betrayed_us?tx=3

[hobbit709]

1. He started on 9/12/01

and he's been at it ever since.

[HeeBGBz]

2. Time for the yearly war recruitment propaganda fest.

An insult to those who lost their lives because of that horrendous event.

[soothsayer]

3. 9-11 was a sickening political prop from the get-go.