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Also, I was very moved upon reading Keith Olbermann's speech from the World Trade Center site on yesterday's emotional but completely overstated anniversary. I encourage you to read the entire text here. Some excerpts:
"The only positive on 9/11 and the days and weeks that so slowly and painfully followed it was the unanimous humanity, here, and throughout the country. The government, the President in particular, was given every possible measure of support...Posted by ayelet at September 12, 2006 10:32 AM...History teaches us that nearly unanimous support of a government cannot be taken away from that government by its critics. It can only be squandered by those who use it not to heal a nation's wounds, but to take political advantage.
Terrorists did not come and steal our newly-regained sense of being American first, and political, fiftieth. Nor did the Democrats. Nor did the media. Nor did the people.
The President -- and those around him -- did that.
They promised protection, and then showed that to them 'protection' meant going to war against a despot whose hand they had once shaken, a despot who we now learn from our own Senate Intelligence Committee, hated al-Qaida as much as we did.
The polite phrase for how so many of us were duped into supporting a war, on the false premise that it had 'something to do' with 9/11 is 'lying by implication.'
The impolite phrase is 'impeachable offense.'
...How dare you, Mr. President, after taking cynical advantage of the unanimity and love, and transmuting it into fraudulent war and needless death, after monstrously transforming it into fear and suspicion and turning that fear into the campaign slogan of three elections? How dare you -- or those around you -- ever 'spin' 9/11?...
Who has left this hole in the ground?
We have not forgotten, Mr. President.
You have.
May this country forgive you."
Sorry, I needed to vent.
Posted by: Marney at September 12, 2006 09:10 PMWord! Right after I fled from a building that fell less than 30 minutes after I left it, I was not angry about the situation. I did not hate people or want revenge on those who killed themselves to kill 3000 innocent people. But over the past 5 years, I have grown to hate the Bush administration, who has made all of the bad decisions to lead us to the insecurity and dangerous lifestyle that we have today. The fact that my near death experience (and one that was a death experience for some) has been used to promote political gain for those charged to protect us is truly disgusting. They don't deserve to make decisions on my behalf. They don't speak for my best interest. And I am tired of them telling me that they do.
Yes we lost an innocence and security on September 11, 2001, but that is nothing compared to the security that we lost after that due to the choices that our leaders made. I am not safer today than 9/12/01. I am not in a better place. Just more cautious and more wary of those in charge. Our political system has become a terrorist organization. I have become a hostage to the bad judgement of those making my personal and painful experience a reason to kill people.
Posted by: Marney at September 12, 2006 09:09 PM