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But this only in keeping with both Bushes. George Bush, Sr., had the badge of officer Eddie Byrne, who was gunned down in South
Jamaica, and he stood up at Christ the King High School in Middle Village and held it up and said he would have this badge on him
forever. Some chance. Bush then led high school girls into insane cheers for the death penalty.
Now, right off, this second George Bush came up with the badge of a Port Authority cop, George Howard, who died. He was from
Hicksville. His mother gave Bush the son's badge. When Bush came back to the trade center a year later, he reached into his pocket and
whipped out that badge and he had a tear in his eye. What makes it worse is that this George W. Bush acts like he's entitled to treat the
remains of a dead man like a souvenir. Now he shows a commercial with dead bodies, or body parts, covered with an American flag
being taken through the smoke and flames of the world trade center attack. It caused people who had lost family members in the attack
to complain about using the dead or parts thereof being used for a politician's gain.
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Most of this comes from these dazed Pekingese of the Press. As this was being written on Friday night, the television announcers kept
saying that Martha Stewart would go to a country club federal prison. The fools. Try any jail on any day. At five o'clock, you can't go home.
Giuliani was a hero with these news people. He did not pick up a piece of steel or help carry one of the injured off.
He made the trade center his private cathedral. Police commanders were terrified of letting you in. There was only Rudy, who flew his
stars, Opra and the like, down to see it. Now he says a Bush ad is "appropriate."
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