To Cheney, on the anniversary of my daughter's murder

[Clinton Crusader]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=17779

By Donna Marsh O'Connor

An open letter to Dick Cheney on the anniversary of my daughter's murder:

Thank you for warning me about my vote for John Kerry. In this version of America, the one you all have crafted, clarity is very difficult to come by. Let me make myself perfectly clear: my daughter was murdered on 9/11/2001, on an absolutely clear, late summer morning. She was four months pregnant and, that morning, five minutes after the first of two planes hit the World Trade Center, she was told she was "safe." She was told to "stay at her desk." She was found whole and intact ten feet from an alley between Towers IV and V. I cannot tell you how I would have appreciated such a clear warning before September 11th, or even on September 11th. Before that day, there were warnings, clear warnings, but they only reached the desk of George W. Bush. And I note he did nothing to stop the events of 9/11.

Nothing.

There were other warnings during Clinton's tenure in the White House (many I'm sure you don't need me to innumerate)--some, though they were perhaps more coded than your recent missive, came in the form of Ken Starr's investigation of Clinton. As a mother or a citizen of this country, did I read this as a warning then? No. I did not. Was this money well spent by the Republicans? Many of my Republican friends at the time did not think so. Could we Americans afford this kind of investigation, knowing now how much we needed Clinton to be free to pursue more pressing issues? No. Should I have read in my lack of understanding of the import of the Ken Starr investigation that there was something you people wanted to have occur? Was this a deliberate distraction? Has anyone in the media since, or, in fact, has anyone in any office of power in this nation asked any of you to, perhaps, answer for that?
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[PittLib]

1. Wow. Not that it will mean anything to Cheney ...

but this is good stuff. I wish all the Bushies citing 9/11 were forced to read it. My sympathies and praise to Donna Marsh O'Connor.

[Walt Starr]

2. Thsi is powerful!

I'm emailing this around.

[Walt Starr]

3. another one that belongs at the top

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[Walt Starr]

4. Back up you go

Tough to read, but should be read on the air on a major network newscast.

[Rambis]

5. I am floored! Everyone in "Merika" read this immediatley if not sooner

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[Walt Starr]

6. This is more important than a side issue about documents and typfaces

Back to the top you go!

[Walt Starr]

7. Hold it, this thread is dropping too low

Back up you go!

[seabeyond]

8. awesome woman, awesome..............kerry should, lo lol

get that woman and put her up, (if she wants) so she can get her voice out. she has a message it appears she wants to give to the people. let her

and i laugh because of the kerry should, we all have what kerry should do.

[Scorpious_Maximus]

9. KICK n/t

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[NewYorkerfromMass]

10. 2 important and indisputable facts here:

1. The Republicans compromised our security by pursuing their witch hunt of Clinton.

2. Bush's blindness to the gathering threat of 9/11 prevented the WTC from recieving at last enough advance warning to know that after the 1st plane hit we were definitely, beyond a doubt, under attack.

This woman's daughter might have had a chance.

[cheshire]

11. That speaks for so many who lost someone, and many who didn't

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Tremendous stuff

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[abrock]

13. Stuff like this would bury Bush if it got out to the mainstream.

But it never does. Look at F 9/11 - We've got stuff that powerful on the internet showing up almost daily, but it never makes it into the average american's conscious because the media ignores anything thats not a scandal, and even then they often ignore it if its pointed at a republican.

[wicket]

14. kick

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[blkeyedszn]

15. Wow.

[Spazito]

16. This letter says it all

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[peekaloo]

17. kick......that heartless bastid in the nuts!

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[skygazer]

18. Too painful

And even more painful to think about the thousands who have died in Iraq since then. Yeah, I said thousands. It drives me nuts when people talk about there being over 1000 dead - there are many, many dead Iraqi civilians and no one has yet given me a rational reason for our presence there.