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National 9/11 Memorial Museum's emotional opening and dedication ceremony this morning?
The Obamas were there. The Clintons were there. Ghouliani was there.
Where was shrubco?? Why were they not there???
irisblue
(32,973 posts)Bush and Cheneys' shame endures for all time.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)They are guilty.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)remembers their fallen loved-ones.
Does ANYONE have any insight or idea about why not a single shrubco representative was there?
Cha
(297,196 posts)Hekate
(90,674 posts)... in the deaths of their loved ones. They wouldn't be welcome.
northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)has happened to the "united we stand" rhetoric? We aren't "united". But didn't everyone cheer bush up on the pile of wreckage?
deutsey
(20,166 posts)I am one of the most dedicated critics of Bush (protested both inaugurations, attended countless anti-war rallies, wrote numerous criticisms of Bush, volunteered during elections (actually co-led the local Dean group in '04), etc.), yet even I wanted to give the asshole a chance to lead us out of the devastation of 9/11.
He blew it, of course. Not that he really tried. He had another agenda to follow.
PS: I think a lot of people now recognize that pile of rubble speech for what it was: a Rovian photo op.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)Kber
(5,043 posts)You and me both. I so wanted a leader I was willing to listen with an open mind and open heart.
May they all rot.
Blue Owl
(50,360 posts)n/t
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)to even whisper that here.
Brother Buzz
(36,423 posts)Ernesto
(5,077 posts)wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)Last edited Fri Jun 27, 2014, 01:24 AM - Edit history (1)
napkinz
(17,199 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)the treachery of allowing it to happen (LIHOP)?
napkinz
(17,199 posts)'
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)and after 911, napkinz.
Cha
(297,196 posts)blistering bush over this.
Every American should wonder why.. thanks napkinz!
sheshe2
(83,753 posts)Thanks napkinz!
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)IDK about Cheney.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)Leme
(1,092 posts)Many entities use "National" in their names. Some are better than others.
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This is a private museum. The above ground may be free, but the Museum is $24.00 I think. They can invite anyone they choose, or not.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)Leme
(1,092 posts)It's a private organization that made and runs this Museum. Who owns and runs it? I only can guess why people go to an opening of any private museum. Especially this one.
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I don't know if I would ever go to it. If it were a public or National site...perhaps.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)And his keepers tried, but they just couldn't get Dumbya dried out.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)to them or the Republicans.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)And attention on them at a 911 based event may well be something the Republicans of today wish to avoid. If Republicans would have thought an appearance of Bush anywhere would help today's candidates, they would have him there. That's why he's painting instead.
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,584 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)[center][font size="4"]W's 9/11 Tour[font size="2"]
Gettin' Out of Harm's Way![/center]
I'd like a T-shirt of this!
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)Got the idea from those rock-band concert-tour t-shirts:
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,584 posts)Yes, that would make a good t-shirt.
I'd forgotten he went to Barksdale first.
All the CEOs were at Offutt.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)9/11 Barksdale, LA
9/11 Offutt, NE
9/11 Washington, DC
Like those rock-band concert-tour t-shirts!
Stellar
(5,644 posts)trying to feed B.S. to FOX. You know..how to stick the Dems for not mentioning Benghazi in to it. Or, maybe no one...family/friends wanted them there.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)has there been any commentary at all as to why? I've even been waiting for the observation that they were absent to be mentioned in some of the coverage and follow-up reporting but so far not a whisper about them.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)It's just me taking a wild guess. If I had peeps that were injured or killed under their watch...I don't think I'd want them there.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)late as the past few days the rightwingcult seems to have forgotten all about it. Curious...
So, how do they explain how bushco wasn't negligent in 9/11 or that it didn't even happen on their watch while at the same time they are not welcome at any 9/11 event?
malaise
(268,980 posts)Benghazi. It is no accident that ReTHUGs and Fox hacks repeat ad nauseum that there were no terrorist attaks on home soil during Bushco's tenure.
That is deliberate misinformation being used for revisionist purposes.
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)to the scene of their crime.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)CrispyQ
(36,462 posts)OldEurope
(1,273 posts)...the Republicans want to make everyone believe that there was never any bad things happening in America during a Bush administration. All those atrocities were while Clinton or Obama were busily trying to build up communism.
Or Benghazi.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)OldEurope
(1,273 posts)I've been here since 9/11 but I do not often contribute.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)Glad my post was able to draw you out of lurk-mode for a moment =).
Note to self: Just because someone's post count is low doesn't mean they haven't been here all along.
tritsofme
(17,377 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)They wouldn't show up dead in NYC, because so many who live and work there know that 9/11 was LIHOP!
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)tour before the ceremony. So we would be assuming he was invited to the ceremony itself. Perhaps he was. I'd like to know for sure and that article doesn't clear it up.
Let's change tack, then. Is there any record of how the 9/11 families feel about shrubco as a collective group?
JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Bush was AWOL, and Cheney got another deferment. As usual!
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)what you are talking about.
What flipout thread? Did I win something?
I dunno.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)It's better to get pissed off than pissed on!
tblue37
(65,340 posts)Fred Gilmore
(80 posts)9/11 was a contrived gamble by Buschco, designed to detract from the impending financial disaster that he had created in just his first few months in office. His economic policies were a disaster from the very start, and those with any knowledge of that fact, were desperate to find a way to keep Bushco in office past the 2004 election cycle.
The big problem that resulted from this, was of course, their underestimation of the lengths to which those whom they enabled would go. A couple of hijacked airplanes didn't bother them, but they never imagined that using those hijacked airplanes as weapons of mass destruction would happen.
They (Bushco) have spent nearly 13 years now trying to lie their way out of any responsibility for 9/11, even going so far as to try and have those attacks ignored as acts of terrorists.
wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)2001. Rumsfeld announce the pentagon can't account for how much again?
"2.3 trillion?
9/11 made everyone forget all about that and also destroyed any evidence against the thieves who took it IMHOOC!
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)largest attack & loss of like on the continental US since the war of 1812.
Reading is fundamental and they flunked when they blew of the Aug 6, 2001 PDB... They thought is was just more smoke from the Clinton administration thanks to Connie Rice.
Martin Eden
(12,864 posts)hatrack
(59,585 posts)Cheney was in his bunker, eating the liver of a still-screaming eight-year-old boy.
Priorities, people, priorities.
Oldtimeralso
(1,937 posts)Does that mean that shrub will not have to relearn the words from "My Pet Goat"?
Paladin
(28,256 posts)It damn sure ought to be......
onecaliberal
(32,854 posts)I think we all know the answer. Their absence speaks volumes. My guess is the families did not want either of those war criminals anywhere near that place.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)And they had their illegal war over something "they" did. 9/11, the joke that keeps going.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to tune up the fusion reactor. Get it out of the way so I can make it to Lennon's show tonight. Cobain's opening for him!
hughee99
(16,113 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)they weren't there because they're guilty as hell.
spanone
(135,831 posts)fuck them
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I just saw a posting about how the 9/11 attacks were AFTER GWB 's presidency, which they said was 2002 to 2008. Hello, Orwell!
madokie
(51,076 posts)Let it happen on purpose, whichever.
eppur_se_muova
(36,262 posts)they really should have gotten all the credit.
mylye2222
(2,992 posts)BUNCH OF STINKY SHITS
Gothmog
(145,188 posts)These cowards know that they use Sept 11 for political purposes
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)They are ashamed. Well maybe not ashamed. Maybe they fear the people will put two and two together.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024961609