Sept. 11th RNC video shameful

Admittedly I did not watch the RNC convention. I only caught snip-its here and there. I avoided watching it knowing I'd be fed enough of what happened sooner or later and wanted to avoid it as long as possible.

I came across this page on the Huffington Post. I watched the "video tribute to 9-11" as well as Olbermann's reaction to it. Mine was almost equal to his. What I came away with was anger. The video presentation seems to say that up until now, no one took 9-11 seriously enough to do anything about it, especially when the images of previous attacks were shown. That would mean all the lives lost in Afghanistan were not a response to the attack. All the lives lost in Iraq were not either. All the money spent was not. It's almost as if the RNC wanted to pretend nothing was done since that horrible day.

9-11 has been used to justify everything the GOP has done, everything Bush has done with their blessing. This video was a disgraceful attempt to avoid any mention of all that came after. There are no limits to the depths they are willing to sink to in order to try to prove something. What were the last 7 years about if not in "retaliation" in the minds of the Republicans? They have been telling us that Iraq was about 9-11 but we know it wasn't and they knew it wasn't but sold it to the voters as being about it all the same. In all these years, Afghanistan has hardly been mentioned at all.

When was it decided they were Republicans above being Americans? I've read too many posts since that day saying the division of this nation was all about the election of 2000 simply because avoiding the evidence of the unity that spread across this nation after 9-11 was wasted. Who can forget driving through cities and towns with flags flying on almost every house or the cars with their flags decorating the highways? We were all Americans, together, in all of this together and trying to heal together. The division occurred when Iraq was invaded. You don't have to believe me. Go back and look at the Zogby approval rating Bush had and when it really began to tank and see the numbers with your own eyes. This division had nothing to do with the fact the court sent Bush into the Presidential office. It had everything to do with Iraq.

Now the RNC uses that day we were all Americans to support their twisted conception of McCain being the savior of the nation finally addressing what happened as if nothing has happened already. kc

A visibly upset Keith Olbermann apologized to viewers Thursday night for the graphic 9/11 tribute played in the lead-up to John McCain's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention.

Olbermann said of the video:

"If at this late date, any television network had, of its own accord, shown that much video tape and that much graphic video tape of 9/11...it, we, would be rightly eviscerated at all quarters, perhaps by the Republican Party itself, for exploiting the memories of the dead, and perhaps even for trying to evoke that pain again. If you reacted to that video tape the way I did, I apologize. It is a subject of great pain, for many of us still, and it was probably not appropriate to be shown."

go here for both videos

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/05/keith-olbermann
-apologize_n_124179.html