September Eleventh Patriotism
While I was at the collision repair place, dropping off my car and waiting for the rental place to come pick me up (by the way I've decided I hate rental car companies), CNN was on in the waiting room, showing lots of live footage of 9/11 memorials going on in the East Coast, and lots of footage of the president shaking hands, and consoling blonde families who'd lost a loved one five years ago. The newscasters were spouting various phrases I actually haven't heard much of in a looong time (aside from in the occassional stand up comedy routine) like "fighting a successful War on Terror...although we haven't caught Bin Laden, we have found various members of Al Queda...the president is exceptionally good at consoling family members of soldiers who gave their lives to the War on Terror..." and then a different person with a newsclip came on and said,
"The number of American lives lost in the Iraq War exceeds the number of lives lost in 9/11 as of Labor Day".
And then they went back to the footage of Bush shaking hands with families of dead people, and the newscasters continued talking about how Bush is proud of the War on Terror and considers it a success and plans to continue it. Because we're succeeding everday.
EDIT: today at work I received an issue of US NEWS magazine and inside was a quote that seemed altogether too straightforward to be true.
"One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." - President Bush, in a CBS interview.
"The number of American lives lost in the Iraq War exceeds the number of lives lost in 9/11 as of Labor Day".
And then they went back to the footage of Bush shaking hands with families of dead people, and the newscasters continued talking about how Bush is proud of the War on Terror and considers it a success and plans to continue it. Because we're succeeding everday.
EDIT: today at work I received an issue of US NEWS magazine and inside was a quote that seemed altogether too straightforward to be true.
"One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." - President Bush, in a CBS interview.