BUSH'S DAYS OF INFAMY
President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously called December 7, 1941, "a day that will live in infamy." But George W. Bush and his gang of criminal confederates contributed several days of infamy to our history.
The Supreme Court created the first day of infamy when they used twisted and fallacious reasoning to hand the presidency to Bush, who lost the popular vote, and who undoubtedly lost the vote in the pivotal state of Florida.
The second day of infamy was when Bush was sworn in as President. Bush stood there on that day and swore to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. He spent the next eight years doing exactly the opposite.
A third day of infamy was September 11, 2001, when, due to the Bush administration's abject incompetence, terrorists launched successful attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and on the Pentagon in Washington, D. C.
The fourth day of infamy was when an attack was launched on Iraq, a country that was no threat to us and had nothing to do with 9/11.
Robert Parry takes a look at the day Bush was sworn in as president and how the major media ignored the outrage felt by so many Americans. This excerpt is at www.consortiumnews.com:
But other Americans believed January 20, 2001, was a day of infamy for the American Republic. It was the first time in 112 years that a popular-vote loser was to be installed as President of the United States – and then only after he engineered an unprecedented intervention by political allies on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Five Republican justices had stopped the vote count in the swing state of Florida, where Bush’s brother, Jeb, was governor and other Bush loyalists oversaw the election, which then was awarded to Bush by 537 votes out of six million ballots cast.
So, on that cold January day, tens of thousands of protesters poured into the streets of Washington, D.C., shouting angry slogans and waving handwritten anti-Bush signs.
The protesters were convinced that Bush had stolen the presidential election and, in so doing, had disenfranchised the plurality of citizens who had cast their ballots for Democrat Al Gore.
Some signs were addressed directly to Bush. “You’re not my President,” read one. “I know you lost,” said another. One sign had just two large letters, “NO.” To these Americans, Bush’s ascension to the nation’s highest office was a travesty of democracy.
Where we stood, the protesters, many in dark-colored parkas and ski or baseball caps, outnumbered the elegantly attired Republicans.
