Ex-EPA Head Christine Todd Whitman Denies Misleading Public Over Environmental Dangers After 9/11; Admits White House Removed EPA Call for NYC Apartments to be Professionally Cleaned of Dust
Nearly six years after the Sept. 11 attacks, Whitman appeared on Capitol Hill Monday for the first time to answer questions about the EPA's statements after the collapse of the World Trade Center. Since Whitman assured New Yorkers that the air was "safe to breathe," thousands of downtown residents and workers have become sick.
Ref. https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/26/1413257
Talk about putting your foot in your mouth. Sometimes I believe Politicans really do think they work just as hard as everyone else because they talk so darn much.
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GIULIANI TAKES BACK 'SELF-ABSORBED' GROUND ZERO REMARK Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said Friday that he misspoke when he said he spent as much time, if not more, at ground zero exposed to the same health risks as workers combing the site after the Sept. 11 attacks. Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200...ni-remarks.html |
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EDITORIAL: ARE WE SAFER TODAY?
Tuesday will mark six years since what so far has been the worst day of the 21st century for the United States. Given the number of lives lost and the general fear that spread after the terrorist attacks that day, Americans have a right to expect their government has by now made strides to protect them from a repeat of such a thing.
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I woke this morning and for some reason I was thinking of Sept 11 and my initial reactions to it. I remember thinking what took what did it take so long for it to happen. It was a cowards attack but yet effective in hitting the country economically.
Innocents lost is always a tragic, soldiers fighting and dieing is bad enough. I sat last Saturday reading every name on a war memorial that placed in memorial of a beach storming that was executed by Canadians in WWII to my sons. It was a slaughter 919 entered the beach 109 return badly injured and 90 in fighting condition. They lost due to unforeseen issue with the heavy artillery and tanks not being able to get off the beach.
That battle was lost but what did occur was they learned some valuable techniques that they were able to employ on other beach raids where they were able to obtain complete and total victories.
I view 911 in the same light the world gained a valuable lesson. As long as we learned from it and can do different in the future, then the lives that were lost were not in vain. It does not lessen the sorrow of those left behind but maybe thoughts like this will ease the burden of a heavy heart.
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1. Are we safer today? No
Why? How can 12million of any group arrive in a country (USA) with no legal drivers license, drive cars, secure a job without legal identiifcation and no one is suspicious. There is vested interest somewhere!
It is the politicians who are the illegal aliens! Deport the politicians instead!
2. I was shocked when I heard and saw the incidents of 9/11. A Marine buddy called from Quantico, VA as I awoke from a stupor and told me to turn on the TV.
I have not heard from this fellow in about 10 years. I turned on the TV and these 2
buildings were on fire. While we were talking he said that a plane had hit the Pentagon also. We knew it was no coincidence. The Shi'ite had hit the fan!
3. The majority of the highjackers were fron an ally! Go figure.
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American Ties
After the 9//11 terrorist attacks, one patriotic Texan decided to do his part in an unusual way -- by wearing a tie. He vowed not to take off his American flag necktie until Osama bin Laden was caught. Six years later, his now-tattered tie is still around his neck.
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Judge rejects 9/11 burial claims
A legal case claiming that New York denied proper burials to the victims of the 11 September attacks is dismissed.
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