GOP Wrecking Ball Trump Raises Issue of Malfeasance and Nonfeasance of George W. Bush in Runup to 9/11 Terror Attacks Occurred on Bush’s Watch

"GOP Wrecking Ball Trump Raises Issue of Malfeasance and Nonfeasance of George W. Bush in Runup to 9/11 Terror Attacks Which Occurred on Bush’s Watch"

"George W. Bush – The Nero of 9/11 Who Golfed While New York Burned"

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"The Bush campaign presented the 9/11 myth as a new compulsory pagan civic mystery cult of which their candidate was the high priest. Bush unwaveringly built his entire campaign on the demagogic ethos of 9/11 and its related chauvinistic and racist themes. 9/11 was evoked in the majority of the most widely used Bush-Cheney television ads. The entire Republican National Convention was organized around the 9/11 motif. 9/11 was conjured up by Bush, Cheney, and their surrogates in every speech. Bush spoke about 9/11 in the televised debates, and returned to stress 9/11 in his campaign crescendo at the end of October. 9/11 was Bush’s chief alibi, his pretext, his escape clause; when Bush found that his back was to the wall, he invariably reached for 9/11. The weak and vacillating Kerry allowed Bush to use the 9/11 fiasco, in reality the moment of his greatest malfeasance, as a positive credential."

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"Even so, the 9/11 myth came under significant attack. Howard Dean noted in December 2003 that many thought the Bush administration knew about 9/11 in advance, and many Democrats objected to the phony terror alert designed to step on Kerry’s mid-2004 convention bounce. However, Kerry and Edwards failed to hold Bush systematically accountable for his passivity before 9/11, and for freezing in the “My Pet Goat” episode that day."

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"Former Senator Bob Kerrey, himself a 9/11 commission member, announced some days after the vote that he no longer felt bound by the nonpartisan pledge sworn by all the commissioners, and outlined how the 9/11 issue could in his opinion have been turned against Bush. In Kerrey’s view, this could have been done by stressing Bush’s inertia, passivity, and failure to act in any way in response to the many warnings the White House was receiving about the imminence of major attacks — the Nero of 9/11 argument. This would have amounted to an attempt to spin the 9/11 story against Bush from within the confines of the myth, and it can be debated whether such a strategy would have proven effective, but Democratic candidate Kerry was not even capable of this. This approach was also illustrated in the cover story by Benjamin DeMott in the October 2004 issue of Harper’s Magazine; here the 9/11 commission report a “whitewash,” a “cheat and a fraud.”

[link to tarpley.net]