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9/11 Families Slam Government Over Anniversary
Attempt to "force a non-existent connection" via Petraeus Testimony called "abuse" to the memory of loved ones, lack of government accountability and secretive 9/11 reports also criticized
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The decision to hold Iraq war commander Gen. David Petraeus'
testimony to the Congress on the sixth anniversary of 9/11
has been condemned by families of the victims of the attacks
as another crude attempt by government officials to link
the event to the war in Iraq despite the fact prior intelligence
reports have dismissed any such notion.
Petraeus' testimony, throughout which he has
advocated a continuation of the so called surge in Iraq,
has been running side by side all day on news networks with
the 9/11 memorials and tributes taking place in New York.
The 9/11 family group September
Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
has released
a statement which slams the timing of the hearing:
"The timing of this testimony is another attempt
by government officials to force a non-existent connection
between the events of 9-11 and this administration's disastrous
policy of invasion and war in Iraq. The 9-11 Commission
found there was no operational or cooperative relationship
between Al Qaida and Iraq. It is widely understood today
that this administration's actions in Iraq have in fact
created a terrorist sanctuary where none previously existed,
at a cost of more American lives than were lost on 9-11,
tens of thousands maimed and wounded, and over 100,000 Iraqi
dead.
Six years after September 11, 2001, politicians, from the
White House to the halls of Congress, continue to abuse
the memory of our loved ones who died in that attack by
attempting to invoke their and our suffering to further
this administration's political goals. As we have stated
on previous occasions, we ask any and all politicians and
candidates for office to respect the memory of the innocent
lives lost on 9-11 by refraining from using the 9-11 sites,
memorials, and anniversaries for political ends, either
explicitly or as political 'backdrop.'"
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Senior officials including Bush, Rumsfeld
and particularly Dick
Cheney have repeatedly asserted that the U.S.
needed to go to war with Iraq because U.S. intelligence
had evidence that Saddam Hussein was working with Al Qaeda.
As reported by the NY Times, "The chairman
of the monitoring group appointed by the United Nations
Security Council to track Al Qaeda told reporters that his
team had found no evidence linking Al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein"
[6/27/03]. Similarly, even the 9/11
commission report undercuts claims before the
war that Hussein had links to Al Qaeda.
Even the Pentagon
dismissed any link between Al Qaeda and Iraq.
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In addition to condemning the use of 9/11
to launch preemptive war, September Eleventh Families
for Peaceful Tomorrows has also slammed the use of
9/11 by the Neocon White House to engage in domestic repression
of civil rights, stating on their website:
"We have witnessed the use of 9/11 to justify the
slaughter of tens of thousands of people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Thousands of our own soldiers have been killed. Two million
refugees in Syria and Jordan languish in poverty and desperation.
And we have witnessed as well the suppression of our constitutional
rights at home. We have been unable to stop any of it."
The group has also been vocal in calling for an end to secrecy
surrounding the events of 9/11 and has dispelled the myth,
often leveled at 9/11 truth groups, that the families are
insulted by questioning of the official version of events:
"And so we come to the sixth anniversary of the
attacks of September 11th. There has been too little introspection
concerning those attacks, no accountability from our government,
and reports more secretive than revealing about what happened
in the immediate aftermath of those attacks. Six years later,
we have more questions than answers, more dead to mourn,
and a thing with feathers still perches in our souls, yearning
for peaceful tomorrows."
We have reported
many times previously that some of the largest
9/11 family groups are, like 9/11 truth groups, seriously
concerned over the government's account of the events and
are themselves vocally active in demanding answers to the
many questions that still remain unanswered and uninvestigated
six years later.
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