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"Harry Hope" |
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30 Aug 2004 12:36:01 PM |
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Karl Rove's 9/11 exploitation strategy will blow up in his face. |
From The Christian Science Monitor,
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0830/p01s02-usfp.html
Bush's risky 9/11 legacy
GOP walks fine line in touting its terror record vs. politicizing it.
By Liz Marlantes | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
NEW YORK --
As the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks approaches, the
legacy of 9/11 has become more complicated for the president,
presenting political risks along with opportunity.
References to such a searing emotional event could come across as
exploiting a tragedy - something critics accused the Bush campaign of
doing when it ran its first advertisements using 9/11 footage, months
ago.
More problematic, the president's handling of the terrorist threat has
lately generated pointed criticism as well as praise - both from
neutral sources such as the bipartisan 9/11 commission, as well as
partisan opponents such as filmmaker Michael Moore, whose movie
"Fahrenheit 9/11" highlighted the seven minutes Bush continued to sit
with schoolchildren he'd been visiting after learning that the second
tower had been hit.
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"I don't think you can win it," the president said, when asked if the
war on terrorism can be won. "But I think you can create conditions so
that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of
the world."
Where are the WMDs?
Harry
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| User: "Draft the Bush Twins" |
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| Title: Re: Karl Rove's 9/11 exploitation strategy will blow up in his face. |
30 Aug 2004 03:20:52 PM |
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Exactly. The repubs are profiting from the tragedy of thousands and
their families. It also paints Bush/Cheny as living in the past and among
those who failed to defend their country during a crisis. Do we really
want to revisit this tragedy for a party's political gain? People want to
move on.
Harry Hope wrote:
From The Christian Science Monitor,
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0830/p01s02-usfp.html
Bush's risky 9/11 legacy
GOP walks fine line in touting its terror record vs. politicizing it.
By Liz Marlantes | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
NEW YORK --
As the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks approaches, the
legacy of 9/11 has become more complicated for the president,
presenting political risks along with opportunity.
References to such a searing emotional event could come across as
exploiting a tragedy - something critics accused the Bush campaign of
doing when it ran its first advertisements using 9/11 footage, months
ago.
More problematic, the president's handling of the terrorist threat has
lately generated pointed criticism as well as praise - both from
neutral sources such as the bipartisan 9/11 commission, as well as
partisan opponents such as filmmaker Michael Moore, whose movie
"Fahrenheit 9/11" highlighted the seven minutes Bush continued to sit
with schoolchildren he'd been visiting after learning that the second
tower had been hit.
_________________________________________________________
"I don't think you can win it," the president said, when asked if the
war on terrorism can be won. "But I think you can create conditions so
that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of
the world."
Where are the WMDs?
Harry
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