White House Briefing: Why President Embraces 9/11, Shuns Sheehan

[sabra]

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White House Briefing: Why President Embraces 9/11, Shuns Sheehan

NEW YORK Responding this week to growing public unrest about Iraq, and declining personal approval ratings, President Bush, in several public appearances, has revived an earlier strategy of linking the current war tightly to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2002. Today, a White House spokesman went even further, responding to the inevitable press questioning about the president's view of war protestor Cindy Sheehan, who has returned to Texas, by focusing on 9/11.

The spokesman, Trent Duffy, at a press briefing in Texas, also refused to be pinned down on whether the president had decided to rule out meeting with Sheehan again. And he said the president wasn't worried about the Iraqis putting off a vote on their new constitution because they are continuing to "work very hard" on it, and look how long it took America to finish its own constitution.

Here is much of the transcript:

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Q Does the President feel that over the last couple of days he's made an effective and convincing case that Cindy Sheehan is misguided in her feelings about the war and what should happen to the troops?

MR. DUFFY: Well, first of all, the President has spoken continuously about the way he approaches this war, following September 11th, 2001. On September 14th, 2001, he stood at the National Cathedral and told all of America that this was going to be a very long and difficult war, and that there were going to be some very trying moments; but that because of what happened on 9/11, that we had to view the world in a different way.

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[SammyWinstonJack]

1. 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11

blah blah blah BLAH!

[formerrepuke]

2. The war he was referring to at that time was the one against Al-Qaeda

in Afghanistan.. He didn't mention that he was going to throw into the mix an unrelated country with whom his family has a personal beef .

[sabra]

3. he didn't mention it to us... but it was there all along.

[rodeodance]

5. what war was Jr. talking about on Sept 14, 2001 the war on terror?

On September 14th, 2001, he stood at the National Cathedral and told all of America that this was going to be a very long and difficult war,

[gatorboy]

4. Yeah it was real hard work

for ole Bush to hide out for three days while America carried on in his absence. Even Clinton was at Ground Zero during 9/11!

Bush? Hiding in his cubby hole somewhere.

[smoogatz]

6. Invade Brazil. Or, as it's known in Brazil, Brasil.

I mean, they don't even know how to spell the name of their own country. And, when we invade, no doubt thousands of Brazilians will resist. Therefore, Brazil is harboring thousands of terrorists, who would threaten us if we invaded them. So we have no choice but to invade NOW.