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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (478721)	10/20/2003 1:39:04 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Ever think there might be a reason why that is?! Time to wake up a smell the coffee Kenny...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (478721)	10/20/2003 1:43:54 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 769667

I think the magic of the "9/11!" chant is beginning to wear thin with Americans. They're realizing Bush hypnotized them with the chant and tricked them into Iraq when they were afraid and looking for a leader, and instead got a neo-con man. They just keep chantin' though. Health care? = "9/11!", deficit = "9/11!", dead in Iraq = "9/11!", no jobs = "9/11!", economy sucks = "9/11!".

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (478721)	10/20/2003 2:50:57 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

No, not everything gets blamed on 9/11. Clinton gets blamed for allowing all the pre-9/11 terrorism to occur, unanswered, that led up to 9/11 ('93 WTC bombing, Khobar Towers bombing, African embassies bombings, USS Kole bombing). With a bolder response in the '90's, it wouldn't have happened. Aside from that, you and your friends have a very convenient and selective amnesia about how devastating 9/11 was, and still is for the survivors and many Americans, and in nearly every element of the economy. Somebody on this thread, I believe, reluctantly acknowledged the other day that 9/11 did affect the travel industry (implying no one else was affected)! I drove the NJ turnpike past NYC in Aug. '02, and listening to NYC talk radio in the car, you would have thought 9/11 had happened just the day before. People were weeping on the radio, wondering if and how they were going to get their lives back together.