{"id":16544,"date":"2010-09-11T00:02:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T04:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=16544"},"modified":"2010-09-11T00:02:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T04:02:26","slug":"seven-minutes-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/09\/11\/seven-minutes-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Minutes of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0rO3F6mZUaE<\/p>\n<p>This is of course a terrible anniversary.\u00a0 Above is Michael Moore&#8217;s recounting of the seven minutes of silence which captures both the negligence and the ineptitude of the Bush administration on all fronts.<\/p>\n<p>Remember: the administration&#8217;s national security team, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/elizabeth-benedict\/philip-shenons-commission_b_90481.html\" target=\"_blank\">Condoleeza Rice most especially<\/a>, spent that entire spring and summer ignoring <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=8142285767776807556#\" target=\"_blank\">repeated and increasingly urgent warnings<\/a>. As then FBI Director George Tenet put it, &#8220;The system was blinking red.&#8221;\u00a0 Just a month before the attacks, Bush dismissed his CIA briefers after being presented with the infamous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bin_Ladin_Determined_To_Strike_in_US\" target=\"_blank\">August 6, 2001 President&#8217;s Daily Brief<\/a>, saying, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.historycommons.org\/context.jsp?item=a080601coveredyourass&amp;scale=0#a080601coveredyourass\" target=\"_blank\">Okay, you&#8217;ve covered your ass<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What were the priorities of the Bush administration between January and September 11, 2001?\u00a0 More than a trillion dollars in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2004\/08\/16\/politics\/main636398.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">tax cuts<\/a> heavily favoring the richest 1% of the population.\u00a0 The convergence of those tax cuts and the events of 9\/11 led directly to an unfunded &#8220;war on terror&#8221; which has left the U.S. staggered and a significant portion of its population on the verge of blind rage for the hardship that has befallen it.<\/p>\n<p>This is why non-partisan reporting matters.\u00a0 You&#8217;d be unlikely to know any of this if your primary source of information were Fox News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0rO3F6mZUaE This is of course a terrible anniversary.\u00a0 Above is Michael Moore&#8217;s recounting of the seven minutes of silence which captures both the negligence and the ineptitude of the Bush administration on all fronts. 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