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In reply to the discussion: Is Glenn Greenwald trying to save face? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)sounding right. However, he was not engaged in politics the way we were back then. He did not become a blogger until 2005. His interest in politics came, like many other people, during the Bush administration. I know many very intelligent people, lawyers, doctors etc who had a similar reaction. Many of them Democrats. But they loved their country and assumed that no president, even a Republican would use that tragic event to lie this country into war.
It is my feeling that they were so honest themselves, as is Greenwald, they could not imagine someone, even someone they would not vote for, committing such a horrific crime. I believe that is how Greenwald described himself at the time.
I remember myself, when Bush was inaugurated, how devastated I was that he had won. But watching it on TV, I did try to get over it and told myself, despite the uneasy feelings that man always gave me, that the weight of the office would make him a better person. I guess I wanted to believe it, but it was hard, and then came 9/11 and yes, I knew he would use it. But Greenwald was not politically involved so his perspective was different.