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09/10/2003 Archived Entry: "Cheney disinvited, Rummy heckled. Happy 9/11, thugs."
Cheney disinvited, Rummy heckled. Happy 9/11, thugs.
Geez, no wonder they're trying to avoid making a big deal out of the second anniversary of 9/11 - people are not being kind. Cheney wanted to come to the 9/11 commemoration at Ground Zero, but Bloomie told him to stay away.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has asked Vice President Dick Cheney not to attend the city's World Trade Center anniversary ceremony because Cheney's security would have "inconvenienced" family members of victims, the mayor said Wednesday."Because of concerns that the increased security measures required for vice presidential travel would have inconvenienced or delayed family members, I have asked Vice President Cheney to attend a memorial service later in the day honoring fallen Port Authority officers and employees, instead of the morning's commemoration at the World Trade Center site," Bloomberg said in a statement.
CNN reported that some 9/11 victims' family members said Cheney would have been booed had he come to the service.
And in other news, Rumsfeld was giving a speech before the National Press Club, and barely two minutes into the speech, a voice rang out from the balcony: 'Mr. Rumsfeld, you're fired!'
The protestor, reportedly from Code Pink, continued:
'Your foreign policy is based on lies. The war in Iraq is unjust, illegal and the occupation is immoral! There are US Soldiers dying in Iraq every day! Bring the troops home now! Tell us when the troops are coming home!Hey Rumsfeld, what do you say? How many children did you kill today?'
Rummy was completely shaken, going on to mumble something about newspapers in Iraq. Not sure what his point was, but he was stammering until I stopped watching.
Replies: 5 people speak up
I can hardly wait for the RNC convention in 2004. That's going to be sweet.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 09/10/2003 04:17 PM NY
mark my words, there will be riots (protests, but the police will turn them into riots) in new york durring that convention, its exactly what bush needs to declare marshal law and stop the election from happening if things are going bad for him, and by then i guarantee they will be going bad for him if recent trends continue. we live in dangerous times
Posted by justin @ 09/10/2003 04:21 PM NY
by the way, its 9/11 eve, have you all hung your red white and blue stockings by the chimney with care? you had best be good for goodness sake, or else ashcroft will be dispatching a team of ski masked elves with shotguns to whisk you away to guantanamo. he knows when you are sleeping, he knows when your awake, he even reads your email, so be patriotic, and shut up, for goodness sake. how long till bush decalares 9/11 a holiday to forever commemorate his own glory?
Posted by justin @ 09/10/2003 04:27 PM NY
I watched Rumsfeld on TV today. I was actually dozing on the couch and wasn't sure what program he was on- not that it mattered. He was crowing about how the terror front is now in Iraq, and how it's so much better to "fight them in Baghdad instead of Boise." For a moment I thought I was in the middle of a wierd nightmare. 2004 can't get here fast enough. It can't get here fast enough.
Posted by Yasmin @ 09/10/2003 11:02 PM NY
Listened to "Day to Day" on NPR (WNYE) Thursday and heard Kristen Breitweiser (one of the Sept 11th widows from NJ aka the Jersey Girls). She IS not backing down from calling the government responsible for her husband's death. I feel these women and other families have been left flapping in the wind. It would be something if we could get a protest for the Sept 11th families up and going when the Moron hits town on 9/23-9/24.
Posted by jeff @ 09/12/2003 01:53 PM NY
