Were Republicans glad about 9/11?

[KingFlorez]

I can't help but get the suspicion these people were glad this happened so they could use it for political gain. Every other word out of their mouth is 9/11, 9/11.

[LoKnLoD]

1. the ones who MIHOP or LIHOP

are happy. :tinfoilhat:

[TahitiNut]

2. It's their 'Slayboy Centerfold'

:shrug:

[BuyingThyme]

3. No question. "Everything changed on 9/11."

They see 9/11 as their get out of jail card, their lottery jackpot, their license to kill, and their mandate from heaven.

Republicans are evil. They are Nazis.

[orion9941]

4. Well according to some of tinfoil hat wearing friends they were.

I know some people that say the republicans orchestrated the whole thing for various nefarious reasons, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Whether you go the conspiracy route or not, I think that ultimatly they were happy with 9/11 landing on their laps because it has allowed them broad measures to screw, glue, and tattoo who ever and what ever they would like to.

[bee]

5. mihop.

:tinfoilhat:

[Vincardog]

6. Their only regret is that they had to do it. There is no way we would have

allowed the Idiot * to mis Lead us without it.

[patrice]

7. Yes.

None of them ever met a War they didn't like.

War Profiteers are Real.

[TomPainesBones]

8. September 11th:

The worst thing to ever happen to NYC, and the best thing to ever happen to the Republican party.

[Mandate My Ass]

9. Yes, and the honest ones admit it

Some have even posted here that they were glad. The one thing they always get wrong though is that it proved he was a uniter and he shut the liberals up for a change. He didn't rally the country; he was just as arrogant and dismissive as he always had been. The left backed off because it was the right thing to do under the circumstances.

THey always like to say Hillary is a polarizing figure. She isn't polarizing. She doesn't say "with me or against me" rather the right wing spin machine has demonized her to such an extent that there is polarization but she isn't the source of it.

[Boomer]

10. Cheering and clapping

I personally witnessed two reporters from a conservative right-wing magazine laughing and cheering during the TV coverage for 9-11, just hours after the planes hit the twin towers. They were camped out in my company's break lounge, waiting for the traffic into DC to subside so they could drive home.

"This is going to be so good for the Republican Party!" crowed one of them (a young, blond 20ish woman). She caught me staring at her and sheepisly shrugged. "Don't mind us, that's just the way we are."

Indeed.

I wanted to slap her silly, but they were clients, so I just left the room. The events of that day -- both in and out of my office -- turned me from an apolitical person who avoided political news into a news junkie. I was glued to the news for hours a day, and to my surprise the fascination never ended, even after the events of 9/11 faded away.

But I've NEVER forgotten those two Repugs and what they stand for.

[PowerToThePeople]

23. You should have slapped her.

You don't need fucking dirty money anyways. Fuck the Nazis...

[Boomer]

25. Unfortunately, I DO need fucking dirty money

Sigh.

[buddysmellgood]

11. It was hard work, but someone had to do it.

[TechBear_Seattle]

12. Wasn't it part of Fearless Leader's trifecta? n/t

[Neocondriac]

13. Stanley Hilton

while at the University of Chicago in the 60's did his thesis on this very matter. How the political landscape could be radically changed with an event that would compell citizens to give up basic civil rights for securities sake. Some of his classmates just happen tp be Feith and Wolfowitz.

[JohnnyBoots]

15. It makes entirely too much sense for

people to believe. The PNAC even says they needed a new Pearl Harbor to serve as a catalyst for their plans to come to fruition. When will people wake up?

[youthere]

14. I don't believe that they were "happy" it happened..

but it doesn't seem to have stopped them from being opportunists and capitolizing on the tragedy of 9-11. Maybe I'm naive here, but I just can't let myself believe that anyone- Dem or Repub.- was "cheering" about the horrible loss of life on September 11th. JMHO.

[Boomer]

18. Not every Republican

But I personally witnessed two Washington Republicans literally cheering at the news. (see post above)

Having led a relatively sheltered life, I'd never seen "respectable" people taking such joy in a tragedy that had shocked everyone else around me. It radically changed my perspective on politics.

[youthere]

21. Dammit Boomer...

I didn't need to hear that...I really didn't. What a world.;(

[pocket]

16. Of course they were happy that their plan worked

MIHOP

[Skittles]

17. yes

although take 9/11 out of the picture and we'd still be at war, the economy would still be trashed, etc.

[Sterling]

24. we'd still be at war

What would the excuse have been do you think? I think they had to have 9-11 to invade the countries the had already planned on attacking in the PNAC doc. The acknowledged in that doc the need for such an event.

[porphyrian]

19. Who benefitted from the attack?

The current administration did.

[StellaBlue]

20. .

If creaming all over themselves is the same as 'glad'

[PowerToThePeople]

22. Glad about what it has allowed them to do...

Fucking Nazis....