Bush using 9-11 grief for self promotion

[Moi]

Originally posted by spillmind
sorry, that's BS, and he FAILED. we need new leadership. period. trying to blame former presidents while things happen on your watch is not the type of courageous leadership i look for.

The only person that I have ever heard George Bush blame is the terrorists themselves. You must be hearing voices.

 

[jimnyc]

Originally posted by spillmind
"It makes me sick," Colleen Kelly, who lost her brother Bill Kelly Jr., in the attacks and leads a victims families group called Peaceful Tomorrows, said Thursday. "Would you ever go to someone's grave site and use that as an instrument of politics? That truly is what Ground Zero represents to me."

I wonder if there's a different agenda behind "Peaceful Tomorrows"?

Heinz Foundation Bankrolled Group Protesting Bush 9/11 Ads

The group Peaceful Tomorrows, which bills itself as an independent group of 9/11 victim families and whose members have led the charge to force the Bush re-election campaign to yank ads citing the Twin Towers attacks, has direct financial ties to the Heinz Foundation, the charitable trust administered by the wife of likely Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.

On its Web site, Peaceful Tomorrows identifies itself as "a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization."

A December 2003 report in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review detailed the financial relationship between the Tides Center and the charitable foundation controlled by Mrs. Heinz Kerry:

"Known as the Tides Center for Pennsylvania, formerly the Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania, it is a creation of the Tides Foundation and Center, headquartered in San Francisco, and two Pennsylvania-based foundations – the Vira Heinz Endowment and the Howard Heinz Endowment – chaired by Teresa Heinz Kerry."

According to the Tribune-Review, Mrs. Heinz Kerry funneled millions of dollars into the parent group of Peaceful Tomorrows:

"Between 1995 and 2001, $4.3 million of that money came from the Howard Heinz Endowment. In 2002, it and the Vira Heinz Endowment blessed The Tides Center, a San Francisco spin-off of the Tides Foundation, with another $190,000 while the two endowments gave $1.6 million to the new Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania," the paper revealed.

Though the Tribune-Review report was first unearthed by researchers on FreeRepublic.com within 36 hours of the inception of the Bush ad controversy, the mainstream press has been slow to pick up on Peaceful Tomorrows' anti-Bush pedigree. The group, for instance, has long been active in opposing U.S. involvement in Iraq.

Still, PT's political portfolio escaped the notice of the Washington Post, which described the group as "nonpartisan" on Thursday.

Other mainstream outlets repeatedly quoted PT members without revealing their anti-Bush agenda.

Comments by PT's leader, Colleen Kelly, have been prominently covered by the Associated Press, the Boston Globe and in dozens of other press reports complaining about the Bush ads. None of the reports mentioned PT's money ties to Heinz Kerry.

Andrew Rice, another prominent member of PT, has been quoted in the New York Times and has appeared on MSNBC, again without a single reference to his group's Heinz Foundation funding.

Besides Peaceful Tomorrows, other Tides grant recipients include the Iraq Peace Fund, which has helped bankroll anti-war marches, and MoveOn.org, which featured a campaign ad in November comparing President Bush to Hitler.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/6/121052.shtml

 

[nbdysfu]

True.

From the 9-11 ad protester's website:

http://www.peacefultomorrows.org/contribute.html

*Peaceful Tomorrows is a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Many thanks to our initial fiscal sponsor The Fellowship of Reconciliation for helping us get started!

Hmm. Let's see now.

1. Bush airs three seconds of 9-11 footage mixed in with two minutes of other footage that might be seen if you turn on the tv.

2. Kerry funds the pt foundation through his wife's foundation.

3. The pt foundation protests the ads.

4. 5 different ap articles alone report the a same thing. It's all over the news that this pt group says bush is abusing 9-11. What the news doesn't say is that pt has the same relationship with Kerry as Soros has with moveon.org. And doubly, that because of #1, #3 is unfounded....

It's not Dubya who has reminded us so blatantly in the past few days, so who exactly was it that brought up 9-11 for political gain?:scratch: