Not that this is the first time the Bush administration would choose to use the events and the memories of 9/11 for political purposes, but it’s got to be one of the most brazen:
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, will likely testify to Congress about progress in the war on September 11 or September 12, the White House said on Monday.
White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe, speaking on Air Force One headed with President George W. Bush to a summit in Canada, said the hearing date was not related to the anniversary of the 2001 attacks. – Reuters
Pitiful. Choosing to give the administrations “status report” on how great everything is going in Iraq on the anniversary of the day that our nation was attacked by people who had no connection to Iraq.
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and sons Carter and Colton.
September 11 is Harry Connick, Jr.’s 40th birthday. You’re looking at it all wrong.