Happy “Determined to Strike” Day
Via atrios, the folks at Think Progress remind us that seven years ago today, George Bush received his Presidential Daily Brief titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike In US”.
The President responded All right, you’ve covered your ass now
“All right, you’ve covered your ass now.”
“All right, you’ve covered your ass now.”
“All right, you’ve covered your ass now.”
I remember walking through the subways in New York mere days after the attacks, and seeing signs posted everywhere for people missing in the explosion. Everywhere I went there were people who looked sad and who would often just start spontaneously crying. I stood on the docks across the East River in Brooklyn, looking at a pile of charred spreadsheets: it was a month after the buildings came down and you could still smell the burning. And all because this lazy asshole:
…didn’t do fucking SHIT when he had a chance.
So “Happy Determined to Strike” Day everyone. And while we’re thinking of murdered civilians, let’s also remember Hiroshima Day.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:13 am
I remember doing my radio show while the aftermath was unfolding, reporting it as best I could, and wondering if my brother Eamon and my cousin Mike, who were working a job near the towers during the attack, were still alive. Eamon and Mike did live, but not without seeing people jumping to their deaths firsthand. I knew that day that everything from then on was going to be fucked up, but I couldn’t imagine just how perversely the illegally ruling Bush terrorist organization would twist it to fuck the world to the degree that they have today. Treason deserves death. War criminals deserve death. In a perfect world, Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, et. al. would, well, fill in the blank.