"We could see President Bush giving his acceptance speech at Ground Zero"

[scottxyz]

“Or, and this is a real possibility, we could see President Bush giving his acceptance speech at Ground Zero,” {the source, a veteran official of past GOP conventions,} added. “It’s clearly a venue they’re considering.”

http://www.thehill.com/under_dome/022604.aspx


No, they're not trying to politicize September 11th AT ALL.

http://www.pandagon.net/mtarchives/001280.html

[Gman]

1. That would be an absolutely great day for an enormous demonstration

hundreds of thousands of people. Just like before the war. It can be done. There's hundreds of thousands of people that would do it. It just needs to be organized. Maybe moveon.org can get it started.

[knight_of_the_star]

6. Its already underway

The big movement to shutdown the convention probably won't overlook that.

[Gman]

16. Coooooooool!!!

[BigDaddyLove]

40. There's actually a movement to shut down.........

the Republican convention?

[ComerPerro]

2. That would be so god damned disgusting

And for that reason, I would not put it past Bush at all.

[dflprincess]

3. Given that the families of 9/11 victims

have promised to demonstrate at the Republican convention if the commission's time is not extended, it might be amusing (not the right word, but I can't think of a better one) to see him try and give his speech there.

[scottxyz]

5. With the extra 5,000 US soldiers being called in by the GOP

...(in violation of the Posse Comitatus act) it might be hard to get any real protests going or meaningfully covered in NYC.

[northzax]

43. Tienanmen square syndrome.

if you read the histories of Tienanmen square, you see that the CCP leadership called in troops from outside Beijing to start the shooting, knowing that locals would never fire on their neighbors. Look for the GOP to bring in national guard troops from outside new york to provide security.

[Kolesar]

4. the criminal always returns to the scene of the crime

as the old saying goes.

[Art_from_Ark]

7. As a backdrop, they can show that video

of Bu$h continuing with the second-grade reading lesson after being told of the attack on the second tower.

[kalian]

8. You got that right....

[scottxyz]

9. The ghost of John O'Neill could haunt Bush

O'Neill was our top expert on Osama Bin Laden

O'Neill resigned before 9/11 because the White House kept telling him to back off on his investigations in Bin Laden

He took a job in private security in the World Trade Center - and died in the attacks.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

26. Don't worry. I'll be there saying "I told you so!" n/t

[scottxyz]

10. This could turn into another "Top Gun" moment that Bush ends up regretting

His prancing around in a fly boy uniform came back and bit him in the ass when all the information about his time AWOL surfaced.

(We know he was grounded for skipping a mandatory physical which included a drug test. We theorize he was doing a lot of drinking and snorting in those days. Larry Flynt also claims to have evidence, which he will release this summer, showing that Bush paid for his 15-year-old girlfriend's abortion around that time. Ah - remember the good old issues back before we got onto the gay marriage thing!)

Prancing around on the final resting place of 3,000 peole who were killed - possibly due his own negligence or even complicity, we're having a hard time finding out because he's stonewalling the investigation into this - that's something else that could come back and bite him in the ass one day.

= = =

As a minimum, I propose people at Bush's party coronation in NYC hand out the following very concise and reasonable article by a former Member of Pariliament showing how Bush sat on his hands up to and during 9/11:

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,1036687,00.html

[kayell]

15. She was 15????

* was what, 26? Abortion AND pedophilia? (Does being born again rub that out in his fundie bases eyes?)

Oh please let that not just be a sleazy rumor with no proof. I want nice reliable witnesses, I want pictures, I want them to stay out of small planes. I may have to look into the possibility of the existance of a higher power if that all proves out....

[Arugula Latte]

44. Bush = Statutory Rapist

You screw a 15-year-old, you're a rapist. Plain & simple.

[leftchick]

28. Wow! Thanks for this scott....

I can't believe I missed this article. It is one of the best ever....

<All of this makes it all the more astonishing - on the war on terrorism perspective - that there was such slow reaction on September 11 itself. The first hijacking was suspected at not later than 8.20am, and the last hijacked aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania at 10.06am. Not a single fighter plane was scrambled to investigate from the US Andrews airforce base, just 10 miles from Washington DC, until after the third plane had hit the Pentagon at 9.38 am. Why not? There were standard FAA intercept procedures for hijacked aircraft before 9/11. Between September 2000 and June 2001 the US military launched fighter aircraft on 67 occasions to chase suspicious aircraft (AP, August 13 2002). It is a US legal requirement that once an aircraft has moved significantly off its flight plan, fighter planes are sent up to investigate.

Was this inaction simply the result of key people disregarding, or being ignorant of, the evidence? Or could US air security operations have been deliberately stood down on September 11? If so, why, and on whose authority? The former US federal crimes prosecutor, John Loftus, has said: "The information provided by European intelligence services prior to 9/11 was so extensive that it is no longer possible for either the CIA or FBI to assert a defence of incompetence."

Nor is the US response after 9/11 any better. No serious attempt has ever been made to catch Bin Laden. In late September and early October 2001, leaders of Pakistan's two Islamist parties negotiated Bin Laden's extradition to Pakistan to stand trial for 9/11. However, a US official said, significantly, that "casting our objectives too narrowly" risked "a premature collapse of the international effort if by some lucky chance Mr Bin Laden was captured". The US chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, General Myers, went so far as to say that "the goal has never been to get Bin Laden" (AP, April 5 2002). The whistleblowing FBI agent Robert Wright told ABC News (December 19 2002) that FBI headquarters wanted no arrests. And in November 2001 the US airforce complained it had had al-Qaida and Taliban leaders in its sights as many as 10 times over the previous six weeks, but had been unable to attack because they did not receive permission quickly enough (Time Magazine, May 13 2002). None of this assembled evidence, all of which comes from sources already in the public domain, is compatible with the idea of a real, determined war on terrorism>

[FreedomSpirit]

11. If he does that

I hope the spirits of the dead from 9/11 descend on him like the ghost army in the LOTR and destroy him.

[madrchsod]

12. maybe he`ll carry a cross

into the site and plant it where the twin towers stood. -thank god for george bush-the son of god.

[ComerPerro]

14. You may think that is funny, but

Don't be too suprised if it actually happens...

Nothing would suprise me from this sick asshole.

[Cat Atomic]

13. There's a book coming out by a guy who gave Bush his

intelligence briefings up to August, 2001. It's going to make the Price of Loyalty look like Hannity's "Let Freedom Ring".

I really doubt they'll be able to have Bush speak at ground zero after that book comes out.

[bagnana]

19. really? When?!?

That's the best news I've heard all day. I have been fuming about Hastert's refusal to grant *Bush's* request to extend the 9/11 commission, coupled with Bush's refusal to speak to the whole commission, and demand that his questions be limited to one hour. It is unbelievable that despite this he would be shameless enough to stand on the graves and capitalize on the suffering of those who died so that he could push through his tax cuts, gut the EPA, go to war, and give Halliburton 1 billion dollars. What a villainous bunch.

[aldebaran]

42. Richard Clarke

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743260244/qid=1077896615/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-2046783-5604128?v=glance&s=books

[Terran]

17. I hope he does

Bush and Rove seem to have a real talent for making these huge extravagant mistakes. It'll come back to haunt them threefold! Come on Georgie, DO IT!

[historian]

18. That'll blow up in his face

...because the families of the victims of 9/11 are angry at him because he refuses to reveal the truth and keeps on stonewalling that they too would participate. And who is stupid enough (not even Bush) to have the police attack demonstrators carrying placards saying "familes of 9/11 victims"?
Oh please let him do it.

[DebJ]

21. literally?

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

20. that's assuming he's going to be the nominee

it's a long way to september.

[milkyway]

22. This is repulsive. I live in Manhattan, and that smirking s.o.b. didn't

show up for his photo-op until 4 days after 9/11. For decades the repugs have waged war on NYC, and now they'll come here to hold their fucking convention. I've been joking with people that bush* will probably give his speech on top of 3,000 dead bodies...they're actually considering it? It's goddam surreal.

[scottxyz]

23. "New Yorkers should form a human chain around Ground Zero"

"I've thought, and still think, that New Yorkers should form a human chain around Ground Zero to protect it from this nonsense. Nice photo op, eh?"

http://corrente.blogspot.com/2004_02_22_corrente_archive.html#107783945787125328

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

31. kick for a good idea - have Kerry and the Fire Fighters union there

and even I'd vote for him!

[strategery blunder]

24. Just when I thought Bush could trample upon the graves of 9/11

victims no more...

I thought it was physically impossible to abuse it more than he has.

I have been proven wrong. I am shamed. :mad:

NOT MY PRESIDENT! (For anyone who is wondering, I wasn't old enough to vote in 2000, but I am now. I also have the bonus fun round privilege of living in a battleground state he he he :evilgrin: )

[Doctor_J]

25. One more chance to flog the victims

for a few approval points. He is the most disgusting individual I have ever known.

Hopefully the victims' families will have their day in the sun before that.

[fujiyama]

27. Just when you think...

he couldn't get any worse :puke: :puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[snippy]

29. What truly foul filth.

With their blood on his hands Bush stands atop the corpses of the victims of his greed and proclaims his own magnificance.

[SammyWinstonJack]

36. Anyone still think he is a "nice" guy?

I have heard some here say that they think he is a nice enough guy,that they don't hate him, just hate what he is doing to the Country in general. Nice guy........:puke: :puke: :puke: I agree, bush* is truly foul filth.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

30. he better not, there will be trouble

How would it play on TV with Bush at Ground Zero giving a speech while NYC Firefighters and the 911 Widows spit on him? I wouldn't if I were him...

[snippy]

32. Such people would not be allowed near the Bush.

Failure to support the Bush is not allowed in the presence of the Bush.

[Cooley Hurd]

33. Fat chance, Shrub...

There's going to be at least a half million US citizens you'll have to get through to do so.

You stood on the smouldering remains of 2700 American citizens for your photo-op on 9/14/01. Just think... if you actually LISTENED to the Aug. 7th briefing, those 2700 people MIGHT still be alive!

I fucking HATE George W Bush...

[Zero Gravitas]

34. Bring it On

I hope he does it! It will back fire big time and make the fake fly-boy stunt look like a success in comparison. How sick and arrogant these people must be to even consider such a thing.

[americanstranger]

35. Take advantage of surrounding buildings, I say.

Could you imagine if, in the middle of his speech, huge banners were unfurled on surrounding buildings that said 'Come clean on what happened, George' or 'Why do you desecrate the victims' memories?' - right in the camera sight lines?

It could be done.

-as

[Cooley Hurd]

37. Unfortunately, the SS will be occupying the surrounding buildings...

...that would be sweet, though, wouldn't it?

[Poiuyt]

38. Does anyone know how credible the source is?

Who is this "veteran official of past GOP conventions?"

[GOPisEvil]

39. Do it George!!! Do it!!!

And we'll use the event to highlight your failures since that awful day. We'll use the event to highlight your sham of a 9/11 Commission. We'll use it to show your lies and deceptions to the American people and the world.

Do it George. I triple dog dare you.

[CaptainClark23]

41. Over my dead goddamned body

Or at the very least, incapacitated one.

I had planned to take place in the protests at the convention site. I am changing my plans.

I (and an increasing number of others) will be at the WTC to protect our City's honor and integrity. I'll not see NYC used for this shameless desecration.

The nerve of these treasonous bastards...

Anyone care to join?