Tag: George W. Bush

9/11 Mom: An Open Letter to George W. Bush

By Donna Marsh O'Connor, Liverpool, NY, Mother of Vanessa Lang Langer, WTC Tower II, 93rd floor Friday 22 October 2004 On the Thirty-third Anniversary of My Daughter's Birth Sometimes, Mr. Bush, it's the smallest of details that makes everything...

Press Reaction to the Zogby Poll

Below are some of the media outlets who reported on the Zogby poll: UPI Washington Post Al-Jazeera Scoop BigNewsNetwork MotherJones Magazine WorldNetDaily UN Observer Common Dreams Truthout World News Democracy Now Yahoo Financial News Stop Bush Newsmax World Socialist Philadelphia Daily News

The coincidence theorist’s guide to 9/11

That governments have permitted terrorist acts against their own people, and have even themselves been perpetrators in order to find strategic advantage is quite likely true, but this is the United States we're talking...

Press Picks Up on AWOL Chain of Command on 9/11

On the morning of September 11, Secretary Rumsfeld was having breakfast at the Pentagon with a group of members of Congress. He then returned to his office for his daily intelligence briefing. The Secretary ...

The War on Freedom

In the weeks before the 9/11 attacks, warnings poured in from the world's spy agencies, but U.S. officials did nothing. Instead, our intelligence agencies were reined in, air interceptors grounded, and the attacks exploited...

Rewarding Incompetence

We strongly agree with President Bush's decision to move Condoleezza Rice out of her position as National Security Advisor. Ms. Rice's statement from her May 16, 2002 press briefing: "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile" made it clear that she was ill equipped to be advising anyone on matters of national security. Condoleezza Rice was the top National Security official with President Bush at the July 2001 G-8 summit in Genoa. This was where "U.S. officials were warned that Islamic terrorists might attempt to crash an airliner into the summit ..."