“A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America.”
–President George W. Bush, 9/11/01
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“Always willbe remembered the character of the on-slaught against us”
– FDR
John Kerry:
9/11 and its memory shouldn’t be used as a partisan battle axe. The country came together as never before in the moments right after, lets remember that spirit and work toward walking in that direction today!
9/11 brought together the country and indeed the world in a way that no other event in my life time has been able to do. And for some time, I hoped – as I believe my elected officials did – that we would work together to move America and the world forward. But instead Democrats were stabbed front and back while reaching out to the majority Republicans in an effort to secure our country. Foreign nations received the same treatment and have distanced themselves from us.
If we wish to heal our partisan wounds, someone out there needs to show a good-faith effort to put away the political knives. More likely, we have to elect some new leadership whose first impulse is not to draw and use weaponry.
I wish that it weren’t so, but just because the onset of war is an indication of failure doesn’t mean that your side didn’t do its best to prevent it. As indicated by the other FP article on Republican election strategy, the GOP has declared war on the Democratic Party and its candidates in an attempt to retain power it cannot show that it deserves. So while the Democratic Party must continue to reach out in hopes that this senseless idiocy will end, they – like all parties attacked by aggressors – must also strive to win a battle they did not wish to have to fight.
but I bet you $5 that Bush’s speech tonight will include:
– references linking Iraq and 9/11
– winning the war in Afghanistan
– America needs to stay the course
– Iraq is the central front in the war on terror
It is hard for the masses to move forward when the leaders use a national tragedy for political purposes.
Those are interesting predictions . . .
I’m not positive about the linking of Iraq and 9/11. They’ve really backed away from that because the evidence so overwhelmingly refutes it, and any mention of it would just get picked apart, perhaps even in the mainstream press. I feel like they’re going to on their tip-toes with that sort of thing.
Afghanistan, on the other hand, has been really poorly managed my the Bush administration, so I’m guessing that they’ll just get a head nod or some spin about everything we’ve done there, but I don’t know it they’ll really emphasize it.
The second two are totally solid. Those are normative statements that nobody can really check out factually, and they run no risk repeating them endlessly. The ‘fighting them there so we don’t have to fight them here’line of BS has been really successful in the past, so I guess we’ll continue to hear it.
I have a feeling they’ll try to throw some new angles into the mix though. The GOP strategists and speech writers are some seriously smart individuals, and they’re going to make every effort to capitalize on this opportunity. I’m only guessing that it will be Bush calling for bipartisan cooperation and unity between the parties (something he once campaigned on). Bush publicly backing this kind of rhetoric at an important speech would be a nice counter-balance in the public perception after the GOP’s media attacks get really nasty this fall.
won’t be linked directly as they used to be. There will be subtle parallels between 9/11 and Iraq.
As far as I’m concerned, the President shouldn’t mention anything about Iraq tonight and use the opportunity to honor the victims and heroes of that day.
I bet he’s going to talk about the following:
– Keeping troops in Iraq until they can “secure their Democracy”
– North Korea and/or Iran and the growing threat
– Something about the borders
– Embryonic stem cells
piece in Sunday’s Denver Post Perspective says it all.
He really nailed it. So did Andy Rooney. But I fear that the people who need to hear it never will.
No politics, no casting blame.
Just my sorrow for those who died and their family and friends.
– dave