AFS Cinema
Don't Exploit 9/11
RECEIVED Mon., March 8, 2004
Dear Editor,
It wouldn't have taken a soothsayer par excellence to predict that the GOP would wrap its re-election hopes around the tragedy of 9/11. And now the first ads are up and running, showing the backdrop of the twin towers wreckage and firefighters laboring away. I find it repulsive that anything relative of 9/11 is being used for political gain, and apparently so do the kin and friends of those who perished. It was hard to watch local GOP lapdog Karen Hughes defend this as being in "good taste," after all, these "patriots" have done everything possible they can to impede, if not outright scuttle, the bipartisan investigation into why all this happened in the first place. Oh, by the way, for all the GOP attack dogs who have tried to blame Billbo and Co. for this mess, Clinton/Gore have offered to testify at unlimited length, while Bush/Cheney have offered up all of one measly hour each. And Condescending Rice has refused to testify, period ... why? Why re-elect anybody who is never held accountable for anything? Karen Hughes can put lipstick on this pig all day long, but it still stinks to high heaven.
It wouldn't have taken a soothsayer par excellence to predict that the GOP would wrap its re-election hopes around the tragedy of 9/11. And now the first ads are up and running, showing the backdrop of the twin towers wreckage and firefighters laboring away. I find it repulsive that anything relative of 9/11 is being used for political gain, and apparently so do the kin and friends of those who perished. It was hard to watch local GOP lapdog Karen Hughes defend this as being in "good taste," after all, these "patriots" have done everything possible they can to impede, if not outright scuttle, the bipartisan investigation into why all this happened in the first place. Oh, by the way, for all the GOP attack dogs who have tried to blame Billbo and Co. for this mess, Clinton/Gore have offered to testify at unlimited length, while Bush/Cheney have offered up all of one measly hour each. And Condescending Rice has refused to testify, period ... why? Why re-elect anybody who is never held accountable for anything? Karen Hughes can put lipstick on this pig all day long, but it still stinks to high heaven.
Tim Abbott