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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 877560" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>Krugman's piece......shameful</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/12/rumsfeld-cancels-times-subscription-over-krugman-11-shame-blog/" target="_blank">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/12/rumsfeld-cancels-times-subscription-over-krugman-11-shame-blog/</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>here's the piece....</p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #808080">September 11, 2011, 8:41 am</span></span> [h=1]The Years of Shame[/h]Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">I’m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 877560, member: 1246"] Krugman's piece......shameful [URL]http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/12/rumsfeld-cancels-times-subscription-over-krugman-11-shame-blog/[/URL] here's the piece.... [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][SIZE=2][COLOR=#808080]September 11, 2011, 8:41 am[/COLOR][/SIZE] [h=1]The Years of Shame[/h]Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued? Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd. What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons. A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity? The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it. I’m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons. [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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