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This is pue evil and pisses me off to no end.....


THE DAILY MIS-LEAD: REVERSING POSITION, BUSH USES 9/11 IN POLITICAL AD

Less than 19 weeks after the tragic attacks of September 11th, President
Bush reassured America that he had "no ambition whatsoever to use [the war
on terror or 9/11] as a political issue."(1) Today, however, "President
Bush's re-election team unveiled his first campaign advertisements [which]
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)
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