On Friday, just three days before the fifth anniversary of September 11, the US senate declared definitively that there was not pre-9/11 connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. With polls showing that a significant portion of Americans still believe there is a connection, it is important that this distinction is made. Now all the Senate needs to do is appoint someone to follow the president around and shock him with a cattleprod everytime he tries to reassert a false connection between the two. Bush spent the last week ramping up his "be afraid, be very afraid" campaign. Why do that when (1), he's not running, and (2), the country is already significantly afraid? Because there are Republicans trying to keep their seats in congress...
Bush also announced last week that the secret prisons we've all suspected are there, are real. They're real, they're run by the CIA, and they're all around the world, and if I keep blogging, I may disappear to one.
Also, ABC caused quite a stir with their miniseries about the 2001 terror attacks, as everyone and their brother in the Democratic camp came out against it, citing it as false, distorted and slanted to favor Republicans. Shocking that a station controlled by Disney of all companies would be slanted in such a way, huh? Supposedly, ABC edited the program before airing, but who knows. The original supposedly blamed the entire thing on the Clinton administration despite the resounding crash that was heard when the Bush administration dropped the ball in the days leading up to 9/11.
I'm not going to say much more about 9/11 today because today shouldn't be about politics. It should be about remembering those whose lives were senselessly taken on that day 5 years ago. Much love and sympathy to those who lost loved ones that day, and to those who have lost more since in the war that sprung out of that tragedy.
My prayers and thoughts are with all of those who mourn today.
More tomorrow as I prepare myself for my brother in law's departure for the Middle East.
Bush also announced last week that the secret prisons we've all suspected are there, are real. They're real, they're run by the CIA, and they're all around the world, and if I keep blogging, I may disappear to one.
Also, ABC caused quite a stir with their miniseries about the 2001 terror attacks, as everyone and their brother in the Democratic camp came out against it, citing it as false, distorted and slanted to favor Republicans. Shocking that a station controlled by Disney of all companies would be slanted in such a way, huh? Supposedly, ABC edited the program before airing, but who knows. The original supposedly blamed the entire thing on the Clinton administration despite the resounding crash that was heard when the Bush administration dropped the ball in the days leading up to 9/11.
I'm not going to say much more about 9/11 today because today shouldn't be about politics. It should be about remembering those whose lives were senselessly taken on that day 5 years ago. Much love and sympathy to those who lost loved ones that day, and to those who have lost more since in the war that sprung out of that tragedy.
My prayers and thoughts are with all of those who mourn today.
More tomorrow as I prepare myself for my brother in law's departure for the Middle East.
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