It's what they didn't say in the 9/11 ads....

[kentuck]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/05/opinion/05FRI3.html

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The first Bush commercial, with its stark glimpse back at the smoking shell of the World Trade Center, speaks to people's natural fear of changing leaders in perilous times. But it is also a reminder that the great sense of unity and national purpose of those days was lost. How to weigh those two factors is only one of the issues relating to 9/11 that are bound to surface. To choose the next president, Americans will have to judge whether the country is safer now than when the tragedy occurred, whether the proper response to the attacks was the invasion of Iraq and whether the president has been fully cooperative with the independent commission investigating 9/11.

...more

[jbfam4]

1. another good source quoting several papers etc.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/administration/whbriefing/


Ads Raise Issue of Bush Testimony
Friday, Mar 05, 2004; 11:38 AM

"If e-mail from my readers is any indication, the commotion over the use of 9/11 imagery in President Bush's campaign ads is just the prologue to a bigger furor.

At issue is the contrast between Bush's willingness to use the still raw feelings about the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as a central theme of his reelection campaign -- and his refusal to give the commission investigating the attacks more than an hour of his time, in private, with only two members allowed to attend."

This is a great rundown of what other papers are saying. Every time I see the ad it just reminds me that bush didn't keep his oath of office to serve and protect us.

[maggrwaggr]

2. When the USS Cole as hit, Bush said "this wouldn't happen on my watch"

all we need is to find the video of that and make an ad out of it.

Bush is the biggest fucking failure in the history of the United States.

The fact that the Dumbocratic party has been unable, or unwilling, to go after him, to get him out of office and into jail is a huge failure on the part of the Dumbocrats.

They've been handed a goddamn silver bullet and they think it's a suppository.

[Katie]

3. Bush never followed up on the USS Cole either

Curious, isnt it? How can one call bush "strong" on national security, with 3,000 dead on his watch?