Giuliani, Bush & Whitman Leave New Yorkers For Dead

[babylonsister]

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Giuliani, Bush & Whitman Leave New Yorkers For Dead
Posted by Guest Blogger on May 22, 2007 at 2:43 PM.

This post originally appeared on Free Press.org

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Bush's Environmental Protection Agency knew full well that the airborne fallout from the smoldering the World Trade Center was absolutely lethal.

Then headed by the "green" nuclear power advocate Christine Todd Whitman, the EPA knew the cancerous clouds pouring out of the site were a toxic brew of lethal chemicals, the likes of which the world had not seen since Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

The WTC towers were among the last buildings to be lined with large quantities of asbestos, an infamous agent of lethal lung diseases, including cancer.

But they also contained countless computer screens, light fixtures, calculators, telephones, network servers, paging systems, copy machines and much more high-tech office equipment laden with mercury, lead, arsenic and too many other toxic metals to list here. The chlorine-laden plastics, carpeting, concrete, chemical cleaners, furniture, metal struts, window glass --all were pulverized and vaporized into a horrific cloud of murderous dioxins, furans, powdered glass and noxious soot whose killing powers were hideous.

Whitman, Giuliani and Bush were told all that --and then waged a conscious campaign to make sure the rest of us didn't find out. Our callous, corrupt, corporate-controlled media of course complied.

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[Captain Hilts]

1. Who insisted that the EPA report on air quality be whitewashed? nt

[Fredda Weinberg]

2. Nonsense

We knew ... you think we're idiots? Those first days were all about rescue, then the issue became recovery of remains. Firefighters were searching for their own and under such circumstances, they're relentless.

[Golden Raisin]

3. On Wednesday (9/12) when the wind direction changed

I could see (and smell) the huge toxic cloud making its way up the Hudson River (my apartment overlooks the river). The smell was unbelievable: a combination of burnt human flesh mixed with toxic, poisonous, chemical stench. In addition to the brave first responders who worked on site downtown and who are already ill, I predict that in years to come many Manhattanites in mid and uptown will start developing horrible pulmonary complications and cancers from breathing in that noxious cloud. I will never forget that smell, nor will I forget nor forgive that we were told the air quality was safe.