9/11 tapes reveal raw and emotional Hillary Clinton

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/09/hillary-clinton-9-11-attacks-response
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It was 26 August 2003, almost two years since 9/11, and the sickening plume of smoke that hung over Ground Zero in lower Manhattan had long since dissipated. But steam was rising from the steps of city hall, three blocks away, where Hillary Clinton was venting her rage at the Bush administration for having lied to the American people.

“I don’t think any of us expected that our government would knowingly deceive us about something as sacred as the air we breathe,” she said, her voice tightening in anger. “The air that our children breathe in schools, that our valiant first responders were facing on the pile.”

Surrounded by firefighters and the doctors who were treating them for respiratory and other illnesses incurred when they worked on the massive mound of Ground Zero rubble – the “pile”, as it was known – the junior senator from New York was incandescent. Audiotape recorded at the time by WNYC, the city’s public radio affiliate, captures a Clinton quite unlike the controlled public figure who is now a step away from the White House.

The Clinton who emerges from the WNYC tapes is passionate, raw and unrestrained. Above all, she is livid. She had just learned that the Bush administration instructed officials of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reassure New Yorkers after 9/11 that the air over Ground Zero was safe. In fact, they had a pretty good idea that it was a toxic pall of asbestos, cement, glass dust, heavy metals, fuels and PCBs.

“I am outraged,” Clinton went on. “In the immediate aftermath, the first couple of days, nobody could know. But a week later? Two weeks later? Two months later? Six months later? Give me a break!”

[nolabels]

1. And how did you feel on that day?

and subsequently do you feel that you have been duped in the aftermath?

RIDICULOUS MILITARY SPENDING: 12 Facts That Show America Can't Afford To Police The World Anymore
www.businessinsider.com/us-military-spending-is-out-of-control

[malaise]

2. We have all been duped

America isn't policing the world - it's just a new version of imperialism

[nolabels]

6. Military imperialism

Analogous, if the use of force could win the day then cops would rule the world. We are losing the bet and some conglomerate group of nations from the asian pacific will rule it in the near future. When you apply the actual producing force of your group to accomplish feats that people want and need eventually your force gets multiplied

Presently we are living on the fat of the land from things that were produced fifty years ago

[malaise]

8. True but folks never learn from history

Empires always self destruct

[nolabels]

17. Pretty sure most us having to live in it and with it never would have signed up for it

If anything, this empire thing would be something we actually could blame on the Roosevelt office tenure.

Then you have the other side, they were saying we shouldn't get involved and they are still the biggest losers at this present time.

Maybe we could do like Britain and pass it on to some other unsuspecting entity*






*This of course without the requisite Hitler type nation trying to take us over in the process

[whathehell]

3. Her campaign really needs to use this stuff, IMO

The Dems, in general, need to be much more vocal on Repuke's lousy, miserly actions and inactions. They need to attack, not just individuals, but Repuke policies, and their votes against things like veteran's benefits and unemployment benefit extensions. People need to be reminded that they even voted against extending health benefits for 9/11 first responders as they were DYING from the effects of breathing the air on that day. They need to go all in.

[malaise]

5. Add this to it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028156982

[whathehell]

11. Good stuff..

Thanks.

[duncang]

4. There was a reporter from the guardian on cnn this morning

Talking about her and the first responders. Saying they really connected to her when she was out there with them. A short but really good interview.

[maryellen99]

7. But then why was she booed at the 9/11 concert?

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the firefighters are voting for Trump.

[malaise]

9. Yep they're likely to be Doc the Con supporters

for all the wrong reasons

[maryellen99]

10. They buy into the rhetoric that Bill Clinton caused 9/11

And don't forget that the firefighter who stood on the pile with Bush came out and said that he wished Bush had gotten OBL and not Obama.

[whathehell]

13. You know, I absolutely get your frustration, but

the Dems are partly to blame, IMO, for not being NEARLY aggressive enough on their messaging...They need to pound the TRUTH about the Repukes' record versus THEIR record, every freaking day...I get disgusted with their lack of fight and insight...I mean, what IS the deal?....Aren't we supposed to be the 'smart party'?

[maryellen99]

14. I agree nt

[duncang]

15. Some of the firemen he was talking to

Sounded like they actually talked to her. And saw the concern. I know some would probably be dipshit supporters. The rw has always been good at spreading lies and hate.

[maryellen99]

16. Yes nt

[msanthrope]

12. Was about to post this.....nt