Never, Ever Forget

It's Cover Your Ass Day

And it's nothing to celebrate. Rather, it's something to mourn.

Seven years ago today, a frantic CIA briefer hand-delivered to George Bush, who at the time was on the longest Presidential vacation in history, the urgent warning:

Remember that this was the culmination of what Richard Clarke described as months of red flags and flashing lights and warnings.

Bush's response to the CIA briefer: "All right, you've covered your ass now."

Bush then proceeded to:

Go Fishin'

Five weeks later:

It's time for a change.

Quick show of hands . . .

Who's in favor of another 4 years of George Bush's and Dick Cheney's failed policies and misplaced priorities of ignoring the people who attacked us on 9/11 in favor of killing alot of innocent people who meant us no harm but now also want to kill us?

Never, ever forget . . .

BTW,

As the GOP gets ready for their murder-porn tomorrow, never forget that it was five weeks, 35 days, after Bush was warned that Osama Bin Laden was determined to hit us here that he decided that rather than do his job and protect his country, he'd rather meet with his peer group:

Countdown to 9/11

Now that we're in the dog-days of Summer, it's the annual countdown to the GOP exploitation of the murder of over 3000 citizens on September 11, 2001. Of course, the GOP exploits 9/11 constantly, but the anniversary is a particularly big day for them.


Sitting here on August 6th or August 7th, September 11th may seem like a long way off.


And it is.


And as each long day turns into a long week, as we trudge through August and eventually get to Labor Day, remember that it was six years ago this week, five long weeks before 9/11, that George W. Bush was told:




And instead of treating this threat seriously, he told the intelligence agents that were concerned enough about this that they felt they needed to bring it to illegitimate pResident's attention in person, "okay, you've covered your asses", and went back to this:



That. Mother. Fucker.

Republican Family Values at Work . . .

And his handling of 9/11 is supposed to be serial-spouse Guiliani's selling point?

Well, at least he kept a few of the remains out of the potholes to wrap himself in come election time.

Asshole.