http://www.bluelemur.com/
10/29/2004
In final hours, Bush mailings display images of burning World Trade
Center
By John Byrne | RAW STORY Editor
In a last ditch bid to win Pennsylvania’s electoral votes, where
Democratic Sen. John Kerry is leading is most polls, President George
W. Bush has engaged in mailings which contain myriad graphic images of
the burning World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
The ad is three-fold.
RAW STORY has acquired scans of two and a half pages.
On the front side, the ad asks in red print, "How Can John Kerry Lead
America In A Time of War?"
It adds three subsequent lines, "Kerry: Changing Positions," "Kerry:
Cutting Defense" and "Kerry: Slashing Intelligence."
Following that, there are nine images of the front pages of Sept. 12,
2001 newspapers,
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http://bluelemur.com/images/stories/rnc/rncmailer2thumb.jpg
all of which display the smoking towers of the World Trade Center
before they collapsed, killing some 2,600 people.
One includes the approach of the plane.
While the Bush-Cheney campaign has routinely used 9/11 as a keystone
of their campaign, these are the first print advertisements this site
is aware of which actually display multiple images of the burning twin
towers.
The ad states that it was paid for by the Republican National
Committee, with the approval of Bush-Cheney ‘04.
The second side blames Kerry for "slashing intelligence," though it
neglects to note that the CIA did not believe there was a solid case
for war.
President Bush took America to war over the CIA’s objection, leaving
it unclear what the relevance of Kerry’s alleged "slashing
intelligence" means in this election.
The third side details the programs Kerry allegedly voted "to cut."
These programs were part of broad Defense Department packages, which
Kerry is believed to have voted against in protest of excessive
Pentagon spending .
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Just another sign of Bush desperation.
Harry
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