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Tucker Carlson blasts Bush for hiding on 9/11



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From Daily Kos, a piece about Tucker Carlson and his blunt remarks about Bush running and hiding most of the day on 9/11.

I could not agree with it any more and have been saying this since 9/11. As much as I may have disliked and still dislike Guiliani (Bush = Churchill? Get a grip pal) he was the only voice of America on 9/11. Operation Flight Suit boy was a coward, no bones about it, as he hid away in a bunker in the middle of the US. It's time to take the gloves off on this issue because this is the cornerstone of his campaign. On 9/11 Bush dicked around for those famous seven minutes and then he wet his pants and hid leaving the country and the world wondering what was happening. If Rudy thinks that is what Churchill or even Reagan would have done, call the men in white jackets because there is no way in hell either (or Clinton or Bush I) would have hid out sucking his thumb. What an embarassment it was.

Bush ran to Nebraska and cowered in fear. This issue needs to be pounded home every day until the election. Bush hid. He showed his colors and they were yellow.

Here's what Carlson said:

... The attacks initially made me sorry I voted for him. For most of that day, as my wife and children stayed inside our house listening to the roar of fighter jets overhead, and black smoke from the Pentagon hovered above our neighborhood, Bush failed to return to Washington. My family sat unprotected a few miles from the scene of a terrorist attack; Bush hid in a bunker on some faraway military base.

It infuriated me, as did the subsequent excuses from White House spokesman. There was a risk in coming back, they said. There was a risk in coming back, they said. Of course there was. That's the point: Leaders must take risks, sometimes physical ones. Bush should have elbowed his Secret Service detail out of the way and returned in a display of fearlessness to his nation's capital. I found it distressingly revealing that he didn't.
As Kos notes:
But as Carlson says, the incident was revealing. Just as Kerry's heroism half a world away is revealing. There's a reason the Swift Boat Liars are going after the story so hard. Kerry turned his boat into the danger he faced.


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