BUSH-HATRED WATCH

“The recent 9/11 anniversary, with its replays of those devil-driven jets, careening at top speed into the World Trade Towers, made me think again of what those passengers must have endured. It is such a heart-searing image that the mind cannot linger on it for long.
But at times I feel a similar helplessness, as if our whole country is hurtling toward disaster, the cockpit commandeered by a proud and zealous crew that won’t listen and won’t change course.
Like the passengers in three of those four jets, we’re frozen in our seats, obeying the unwritten protocols of captivity.
But then I remember the passengers in the fourth jet, the one thought to have been headed for Washington, D.C. They didn’t stay strapped in their seats. They had the onerous advantage of learning by cell phone what had happened to the towers and to the Pentagon, and they had the time — and the courage — to act. They stormed the cockpit and lost their lives, but undoubtedly saved hundreds of others, and probably the symbolic heart of the nation.” – Susan Lenfesty, comparing the Bush administration to the mass murderers of 9/11.