Reply #5: I seem to remember, about a year or so ago [View All]

a statement or a video clip of some white house official stating that they would not be 'exploiting' September 11 for political purposes..

I think the statement was made a day or two after it was announced that the repug convention would be in New York on September 11

of course, I didn't believe it then and I don't believe it now

but... it would be sweet to see a commercial with that particular statment/video followed by clip of bush*'s Sept. 11 exploitation commercial


on edit: Reversing Position, Bush Uses 9/11 in Political Ad
http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df03042004.html

Less than 19 weeks after the tragic attacks of September 11th, President Bush reassured America that he had "no ambition whatsoever to use as a political issue."1 Today, however, "President Bush's re-election team unveiled his first campaign advertisements in part use the events of Sept. 11, 2001...Two ads refer to the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001...One ad, entitled 'Tested,' shows, among other images, a damaged building from the World Trade Center ruins behind an American flag."2

The ad is already provoking outrage among 9/11 victims' families as well as firefighters who were at the scene that day. "It's a slap in the face of the murders of 3,000 people. It is unconscionable," said Monica Gabrielle, whose husband died in the twin towers. Similarly, firefighter Tommy Fee of Queens Rescue Squad 270 said, "It's as sick as people who stole things out of the place. The image of firefighters at ground zero should not be used for this stuff, for politics."3