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What Atrios sez:

But, anyway, just a big hearty fuck you to the White House and the news media who have decided this day is largely a personal narrative about George Bush, a man who was almost entirely absent on that day then had a big giggle before falling asleep early. It isn't about him, and unless you were in New York or Washington or were close to people who were directly affected, it's probably not about you either.

Bush spent 9/11 hiding, and only surfaced to give one of the worst speeches of his career. (Remember, the address to Congress was designed to wash the stink of Bush's first appearance out of our brains.) By September 12th, the offices of the President and Vice President were already beavering away to attack... Iraq. The war in Afghanistan did not have, and has never had, their full attention like it deserved.

The idea that the calamity of that day has somehow been re-written to make Bush look like he was actually some kind of decent President is an indictment on us all.