Most Disgraceful Event In Recent US History?

[ThomWV]

I'm hard pressed to choose between:

Colin Powell's pre-war presentation to the UN.

George Bush's childish display on the aircraft carrier.

What do you see as our low?

[Patchuli]

1. The week long Reagan funeral

was a bit over the top...!

[ladjf]

31. I thought I was watching a re-run of "Weekend at Bernies".

My God! They hauled his body back and forth between the coast and other places that I was worried about an endurance problem. It finally occurred to me that they probably were hauling and empty box around for convenience.

[Arugula Latte]

47. During the Reagasm,I was waiting for the wingnuts to swarm his casket and

dump him out like the crowd did at Ayatollah Khomeini's funeral.

[Burried News]

2. Abu Ghraib Torture Photos released.

[stellanoir]

3. the coup of December 12th '00

It's been downward ever since then. IMHO.

[oasis]

32. Yup,stolen election 2000. that started the downward spiral.(eom)

[Uben]

4. Without a doubt!

The appointment of George W. Bush as president! The worst day in American history.

[rzemanfl]

13. I wore all black to work the next day, little did I know how bad it

truly would be.

[yurbud]

18. ironically, as bad as how he got in was, I expected a mediocre imitation

of his dad and the public would show him the door at the end of four years.

[Mythsaje]

5. Too many to choose from...

But "Bring it on," comes to mind.

[Nutmegger]

6. Hurricane Katrina

The response was pitiful, we can take care of our citizens better than that!

[amitten]

16. By far. Nothing else comes close--a total disgrace. n/t

[fishwax]

49. I totally agree

in the weeks after, Katrina was often compared to 9/11.

I can understand being blindsided/confused/taken aback by 9/11.

But with Katrina, everybody knew for days in advance. And the thing that people sometimes forget is that the storm wasn't even as bad as expected! Jesus!

Fucking shame. Shame! SHAME!

[stillcool]

7. the death and destruction of a country and it's people....

for profit.

[JuniperLea]

9. That about sums it up!

n/t

[babylonsister]

8. So many to choose from! I'd have to say Katrina,

the lack of a national response while Americans perished, the way the gulf coast still looks/is, and my fear for the coming season with the incompetents still 'in charge'.
Iraq is right up there though.

[Swede]

10. Absolutely everything Bush has done in office.

I dare anyone to list one good thing.

[Steven_S]

21. He fell on his face after eating a pretzel......

Other than that one, I'm lost. :)

[laura888]

11. The probability that the idea of the "War on Terror" was...

...manufactured several years ago.

[Richard Steele]

12. Death by Dereliction of Duty.

[NYCGirl]

14. How recent? I'd say Kent State. NT

[Warren DeMontague]

15. These past six years have been one long embarassment.

Beyond that, I don't even know how to start narrowing it down.

[yurbud]

17. 9/11: like New Orleans, a disaster that didn't have to happen

[mahatmakanejeeves]

19. Bush not impeached and convicted

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[longship]

20. Pre-emptive, unjustified war.

Nuf said?

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

28. I'll say it again. Pre-emptive, unjustified war. What a Shame..

What a crime!

[Arkansas Granny]

29. I'll say it a third time. Pre-emptive, unjustified war.

This administration has shamed America to the world, alienated our allies, killed over 2,300 of our troops and countless thousands of Iraqis. Now they are making the same noises about Iran and I fear it will happen all over again.

[MichiganVote]

22. This is the most disgraceful face of America in the last 5 years

And the fault lies with George Bush and his incompetent, mendacious administration.

[gilpo]

23. My Pet Goat

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

24. Katrina, Iraq and the theft of several trillion dollars from the people.

Not necessarily in that order.

[pitohui]

25. my friends drowned in breech of london avenue canal in new orleans

the personal is political i guess caused by whack-off job done by army corps of engineers

and it's more recent than the events of your choice

[windy252]

26. In hindsight

December 12, 2000. Boy, was I dumb to think that Supreme Court judges would try to be fair.

[cascadiance]

27. I think later it may be shown to be 9/11

I've not been a conspiracy theorist, but I have to say, that the longer questions posed by works like "Loose Change" don't get answered and more doubts get created with other related news (Sibel Edmonds, etc.), and if we do find out that their was a MIHOP or LIHOP conspiracy then, that will easily be the most disgusting day in history then.

[Toucano]

30. Hands down, Katrina.

He drowned his own people for god's sake!

[mdmc]

33. cowards cut and run

this is the most recent low.

[lpbk2713]

34. Smirky claiming that he didn't know about the extent of damage in NOLA.

That he hadn't been told.

Lying sack of shit.

[Liberty Belle]

35. GWB reading My Pet Goat while our country was under attack;

though his playing the guitar and laughing while New Orleans drowned is a very close second.

[shance]

36. September 11th, 2001, the biggest hoax and lie has been played

upon all Americans,

where hundreds if not thousands waited up in the buildings of the WTC waiting, to be rescued only to have the buildings crush them to death.

America and those who died deserve the truth.

RE-OPEN 9-11.

[madokie]

37. this weeks air assault

[Neil Lisst]

38. the moment to which I refer here ...

It seems to demonstrates how wrong our leadership and their minions have been, have wrongly they have abused those in their charge.

[Swamp Rat]

39. Katrina response

Allowing my hometown to drown. :(

[cherokeeprogressive]

40. Funny

Bubba's bombing of an aspirin factory doesn't even register. No matter how many innocents may have lost their lives in the attack. OR, how may innocents may have lost their lives because of the loss of the aspirin output of the said bombed factory.

Sometimes I wonder what separates "moderates" from "progressives".

[dorkulon]

41. Abu Ghraib/Gitmo/Rendition/Secret Prisons.

There can be no doubt about this. This is a disgusting legacy which will haunt us for decades. When people look back at this, there will be no case to make for the virtue or honor of America in this era.

Katirna was awful, for sure. But I think sodomizing prisoners as a matter of policy is the worst thing we've done in my lifetimte.

[Gabi Hayes]

42. here

[Solomon]

43. The Most Disgraceful Event Was the Supreme Court of the world's

most famous and premier democracy ordering that votes NOT be counted in a case in which it had no jurisdiction in the first place.

The most despicable event was the 9-11 attack on america by americans.

[Pastiche423]

44. 9/11

And the complicity of our own government.

[OneBlueSky]

46. amen . . . amen . . . amen . . . n/t

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[SeattleGirl]

45. The Katrina Response

To stand by and let so many people die, to keep them in the SuperDome for so many days, and especially, to see Bush eating cake, fake-playing a guitar, etc., while people are dying is absolutely beyond the pale.

[fishwax]

48. Katrina

Without a doubt, Katrina was the most disgraceful event in recent US history. How the richest and most powerful nation in the history of the world could fail so many of their own is beyond belief.

The Iraq war was forced onto the Americna public by a small cabal of neo-cons who had the will to impose their agenda. But Katrina revealed just how passively the country was willing to accept the policies dictated by similar people.

It was one thing to feel helpless when the planes hit the twin towers on 9/11. We had no warning and very little means of understanding that experience. But with Katrina, we had plenty of warning, and we've all seen horrible storms before. But the administration chose to do virtually nothing. Jesus. Thinking about it just pisses me off.

[cascadiance]

50. I'd say Katrina SO FAR is the worst, but 9/11 could be worse later...

... if and when we discover the truth around our government's complicity in it. It's one thing to in effect take a LIHOP approach to letting the disaster of Katrina wreak havoc in a diabolical way, which I would say is as disgusting as most of us can remember. But if we find out that our government was complicit in the events of 9/11 where a man-made act against our people was fomented by our own government, that to me is far worse, even if the scope of the numbers of people dying is less than Katrina. You can probably extrapolate the deaths in the Iraq war also being a result of 9/11 if it is found to have been an orchestrated event, which makes its impact worse too, since Iraq would never have happened if we hadn't had 9/11 first to allow these fascists to use it as an excuse to go into Iraq.

[Cats Against Frist]

51. "Freedom Fries"

The height of childishness, and it sums up so much about where the GOP wants to take this country.