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rfenst Offline
#1 Posted:
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WAPO
On the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that changed his presidency, former president George W. Bush on Saturday warned there is growing evidence that domestic terrorism could pose as much of a threat to the United States as terrorism originating from abroad, and he urged Americans to confront “violence that gathers within.”

Without naming it, Bush seemed to condemn the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, when a pro-Trump mob overran the complex in a violent siege that resulted in the deaths of five people. Bush compared those “violent extremists at home” to the terrorists who had hijacked planes on Sept. 11, 2001, and crashed them in New York City, Arlington, and Shanksville, Pa., killing nearly 3,000 people.

“There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home,” Bush said in a speech at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville. “But in their disdain for pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols — they are children of the same foul spirit, and it is our continuing duty to confront them.”

Bush, a Republican who was president when the 9/11 attacks happened, continually invoked “the nation I know” in his remarks Saturday, an echo of his previous rejection of the rhetoric of former president Donald Trump. Bush spoke of the difficulty of describing “the mix of feelings” everyone experienced on that clear September day 20 years ago.


“There was horror at the scale of destruction and awe at the bravery and kindness that rose to meet it,” Bush said. “There was shock at the audacity — audacity of evil — and gratitude for the heroism and decency that opposed it. In the sacrifice of the first responders, in the mutual aid of strangers, in the solidarity of grief and grace, the actions of an enemy revealed the spirit of a people. And we were proud of our wounded nation.”

As President Biden and Vice President Harris also did in remarks for the 20th anniversary of the attacks, Bush called on the nation to once again hold fast to its best qualities and shared strengths, to come together as many Americans felt the country had in the days after 9/11. Left unspoken — but alluded to plenty of times Saturday — was that the nation felt as divided as ever, and that Trump was continuing to stoke those divisions.

“In the weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks, I was proud to lead an amazing, resilient, united people,” Bush said. “When it comes to the unity of America, those days seem distant from our own. Malign force seems at work in our common life that turns every disagreement into an argument, and every argument into a clash of cultures. So much of our politics has become a naked appeal to anger, fear and resentment. That leaves us worried about our nation and our future together.”

In an unscheduled stop Saturday at the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department, Biden, too, alluded to Trump’s presidency as a period in which American democracy foundered under the weight of its divisions. The United States was founded on an idea that all men are created equal, Biden noted, as he frequently does in his speeches.

“It’s an idea, ‘we hold these truths,’ ” Biden said. “We never lived up to it, but we never walked away from it — except these last previous four years.”

Trump skipped the official remembrance ceremonies at all three sites Saturday, instead issuing several statements criticizing the Biden administration. A Trump spokeswoman told The Washington Post that he had the option of going to the ceremonies but chose to commemorate the day separately.

Trump is scheduled to provide commentary at a heavyweight boxing match on Saturday evening.

In a video message made public Saturday morning, Trump honored those who were killed in the 9/11 attacks — then blasted Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan last month. He ended the video with a call to “make America great again,” his campaign slogan.

On Saturday afternoon, Trump made a surprise visit to a New York City police precinct, where he baselessly alleged, as he has for months, that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged” against him and continued to bash Biden’s “gross incompetence” over his withdrawal from Afghanistan.

“It’s a sad day, it’s a very sad day for a lot of reasons,” Trump said at the police precinct. “And we just added to that reason last week because that never should have been allowed to happen, I have to say, and I’ve watched all the speeches, and nobody mentions it.”

Asked whether he planned to run for president again, Trump said it was an “easy question” but that “we’re not supposed to be talking about it yet.”

“I think you’re going to be happy,” he added. “Let me put it that way. I think you’re going to be very happy.”
ZRX1200 Offline
#2 Posted:
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F all of the Bush family…..
rfenst Offline
#3 Posted:
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ZRX1200 wrote:
F all of the Bush family…..

That's not what you were saying when Bush2 was in office.
ZRX1200 Offline
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Yeah I had nothing but love for him then right….
HockeyDad Offline
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Bush was talking about Antifa and Black Lives Matter domestic terrorism.
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Trump is a broken record....

If trump runs again and wins the nomination but loses the general election...he will go into exile at MARLAGO and never be seen again like "ROSEBUD"
RayR Offline
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Herr rfenst forgot to credit WAPO for this piece.Bored

W Bush was a horrible progtard then as he is now, a failed administration still trying to redeem itself in history. The administration was so bad it gave us that empty suit Obummer as its gift.

I can see Bush parroting 🦜 woke Calamity Joe, like "We won't ignore what our intelligence agencies have determined to be the most lethal terrorist threat to our homeland today: White supremacy is terrorism,"
rfenst Offline
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RayR wrote:
Herr rfenst forgot to credit WAPO for this piece.Bored

W Bush was a horrible progtard then as he is now, a failed administration still trying to redeem itself in history. The administration was so bad it gave us that empty suit Obummer as its gift.

I can see Bush parroting 🦜 woke Calamity Joe, like "We won't ignore what our intelligence agencies have determined to be the most lethal terrorist threat to our homeland today: White supremacy is terrorism,"

Omission corrected. Thanks for pointing it out.
Why do you discount, disregard or ignore facts with little editorial- and not read articles published by WSJ, WAPO or NYT?Shame on you
RayR Offline
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rfenst wrote:
Omission corrected. Thanks for pointing it out.
Why do you discount, disregard or ignore facts with little editorial- and not read articles published by WSJ, WAPO or NYT?Shame on you


Hey, don't mention it.

I don't find the usual leftist regime propaganda in WAPO or NYT interesting other than a lesson in how the left concocts a narrative out of selective bits and pieces of fact of their choosing to push the agenda. I'm certainly not going to go out of way and subscribe to their crap when there are so many other news and opinion sites out there that speak my language and appeal to my interests. WSJ may publish some interesting news stories and opinion pieces though, but meh, not a first go to for me.
HockeyDad Offline
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rfenst wrote:
Omission corrected. Thanks for pointing it out.
Why do you discount, disregard or ignore facts with little editorial- and not read articles published by WSJ, WAPO or NYT?Shame on you


Often they are basically the same article written for the echo chamber. When somewhere in the first two sentences there is something to the effect of “If you don’t agree you’re an idiot” you can pretty put the the rest in the birdcage. LA Times as well.
Mr. Jones Offline
#11 Posted:
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I still say...

BUSH 2 IS A DAMN GOOD ARTIST and one heck of a portrait painter...

He is almost better than me...and he is LIGHT YEARS BEYOND ANY PIECE OF CRAP ART THAT HUNTER BIDEN CAN PRODUCE.
rfenst Offline
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HockeyDad wrote:
Often they are basically the same article written for the echo chamber. When somewhere in the first two sentences there is something to the effect of “If you don’t agree you’re an idiot” you can pretty put the the rest in the birdcage. LA Times as well.

Sure they are (excluding WSJ). But that doesn't mean the factual information that is not accurate. I get my news from several other sources, including foreign (when I can) and conservative sources- believe it or not. They aren't much different. It's mostly just a matter of what flavor you like best.
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RayR wrote:
Herr rfenst forgot to credit WAPO for this piece.Bored

W Bush was a horrible progtard then as he is now, a failed administration still trying to redeem itself in history. The administration was so bad it gave us that empty suit Obummer as its gift.

I can see Bush parroting 🦜 woke Calamity Joe, like "We won't ignore what our intelligence agencies have determined to be the most lethal terrorist threat to our homeland today: White supremacy is terrorism,"


Why do you insist on referring to Robert, but no one else here, using a Germanic pronoun which translates to Mr. as well as a position of rank?
RayR Offline
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Abrignac wrote:
Why do you insist on referring to Robert, but no one else here, using a Germanic pronoun which translates to Mr. as well as a position of rank?


You got something against German?Eh?
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