MB Civic

By E. J. Dionne | Friday, September 8, 2006 | The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090701619.html

An elegantly brief and pointed piece that speaks for many like me, who actually lost someone in those burning towers. It’s personal and only secondarily political, and there is no word except “betrayed” that does justoce to the horrifying way the Neocons have responded to that moment. They gave lost the public’s trust, and harmed our nation’s credibility – even with traditional allies. In Dionne’s words,

“The president has no good answers, so he wants to lift the whole debate to a misty, ideological plane where he can bunch bin Laden with Hitler and Lenin as totalitarian threats. A president who kept quiet about bin Laden when doing so served his political purposes now revives him rhetorically just before the anniversary of Sept. 11, at a moment when his party is in grave jeopardy in another election.”

He had some credibility in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, but no more. Well worth reading…BS