Bush Slept & 3,000 Died

[Beloved Citizen]

Regarding Bush's exploitation of the 9-11 terrorist attacks for political purposes, a letter in today's (3/6) New York Times pretty much summed it up for me:

"It continues to baffle me that the Republican Party insists on reminding the American people over and over again that George W. Bush's administration is responsible for the greatest security failure in the history of the United States." - Seth Appel

An article printed in The Washington Post on 8/7/01 calculated Buush's vacation rate going into Labor Day of that year at a whopping 42%. Golfing with Poppy in Kennebunkport, trips to his vanity ranch in Crawford (including the entire month of August), and lost weekends at Camp David were all figured into the total.

In other words, we had a "president" who was showing all the signs of not being truly engaged in performing the duties of the office awarded to him by the United States Supreme Court.

Unfortunately for those who died on 9-11, Osama bin Laden was not as concerned with his golf game that year as was the President of the United States.

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/2001/wpost080701.html

[Media_Lies_Daily]

1. Junior was wide awake and knew exactly what was going to happen...

...LIHOP or MIHOP, your choice.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. This is why these ads will backfire

I read a letter from a 911 widow who described in graphic language exactly how her husband died and how much of his remains were found. She asked Bush if it was her husband's remains under that flag, and then said how dare he use them. He's got a lot of people mad, and rightly so.

[imax2268]

4. ok...

call me stupid or maybe it's that I didn't get the memo...
but what is the deal with LIHOP and MIHOP...?
I see it everywhere and could never figure out it means...

[TahitiNut]

5. (off-topic) LIHOP = Let It Happen On Purpose

MIHOP = Made It Happen On Purpose

These are alternative 'conspiracy theories' to the 'conspiracy theory' alleged (but not proven) by the administration. There's a great deal of circumstantial 'evidence' to support such theories, almost all of which has been extensively hashed and re-hashed on DU

[imax2268]

6. ahhhhh...

cool...thanks...I have seen that so many times and just didn't quite get it...

now I can follow along when I see that...thanks...

[enough]

3. Great post.

That letter in the Times is right on, and your point following is too. The article from the WP is terrific ammunition.

I'm bookmarking the whole thing for use on a couple of wavering Republicans in my neighborhood.

Welcome to DU, Beloved Citizen!