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On the fifth anniversary of 9/11, we honor the Jersey Girls through
the just-released memoir of Kristen Breitweiser, one of the 9/11
widows slandered-for-profit by GOP terrorist pundit, Ann Coulter.
The Publisher tells us, "A former Republican, Breitweiser, along with
three other 9/11 widows (known to the media as "The Jersey Girls"),
fought tirelessly for the creation of the 9/11 Commission, in spite of
strong opposition from President Bush, Vice President Cheney,
Condoleeza Rice, and many other top government officials.
While describing her journey, Breitweiser discloses eye-opening
information about mistakes made prior to the 9/11 attacks, cover-ups
discovered during her campaign for the 9/11 Commission, surprising
encounters with some of the country's most powerful officials, and
unsettling facts about present-day national security.
Moving, hard-hitting, and revelatory, Kristen Breitweiser's book is a
wake-up call no American can ignore."
Indeed, the mainstream news media has already forgotten that Bush was
forced into establishing an independent 9/11 Commission (which he
finally consented to, after stacking the deck) and the Department of
Homeland Security.
Despite that, he has done little to repair the holes in America's
national security system, or lack thereof.
Bush, as Breitweiser discovered, is all politics and little action to
truly protect Americans.
And many Democrats couldn't articulate or forcefully advocate for
change against the GOP political machine.
The Chicago Sun-Times writes of Breitweiser's book:
"Five years after the attacks, she insists, Americans are no safer,
facing more, and more dangerous, assaults.
Getting aboard an airplane now, she writes, "is a life-or-death
decision.
I know how completely unsafe and compromised the airlines are to
terrorism ... I am still scared.
Probably more scared than I was immediately after 9/11 because I know
a lot more now ... how very little has been done to fix the problems
that leave us so recklessly, senselessly, and perilously vulnerable to
terrorist attack."
This book might make you weep.
More important, it will also make you think.
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Harry
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