NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2006
Bush: 'The War Is Not Over'
On 5th Anniversary Of Attacks, President Says U.S. In 'Early Hours' Of War
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Play CBS Video Video Fallen Heroes CBS News RAW: Kevin Dowdell was one of the 343 firefighters killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. President Bush discusses why America is blessed to have heroes like Dowdell.
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Video 9/11 Remembered Jim Axelrod reports on the 9/11 remembrance ceremonies in New York, Shanksville, Pa., and the Pentagon.
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Video Bush Defends Iraq CBS News RAW: President Bush explained why he went to war in Iraq even though Saddam Hussein was not responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
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President Bush said, in an address from the Oval Office on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks: "Whatever mistakes have been made in Iraq, the worst mistake would be to think that if we pulled out, the terrorists would leave us alone." (CBS)
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President Bush participates in a moment of silence at the Fort Pitt Firehouse in New York,, Sept. 11, 2006. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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First responders who were on the scene of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon salute above a large U.S. flag draped on the building's side during a memorial ceremony, Sept. 11, 2006 (Getty Images/Mandel Ngan)
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Retired fireman Capt. Jim McDermott, of Ladder 52 in the Bronx, N.Y., looks at photos of victims on the outside of a bus parked near ground zero in Lower Manhattan, Sept. 11 2006. (Getty Images/Don Emmert)
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Dan Hatlestad, center, his son, Erik, 13, left, and wife Lesia, of Littleton, Colo., pause to remember their neighbor, Capt. Jason M. Dahl, the captain of United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001, at the memorial to Flight 93 victims in Shanksville, Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Photos Images: Five Years Later Remembering the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the heroes who perished trying to save them.
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Timeline In Terror's Wake A look at the major developments following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Interactive Virtual Tour Models, maps, audio reports and a 360-degree view show the changes at Ground Zero five years later.
While Mr. Bush urged resolve, the two co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission accused the Bush administration and Congress of a continued lack of urgency in protecting the country. About half of their 41 recommendations to better secure Americans, offered in July 2004, have become law.
"Where in the world have we been for five years?" said former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., who was joined by his Republican counterpart, former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean. Hamilton spoke of failures to put first responders on the same radio spectrum so they can talk to each other during an emergency — as firefighters and police officers who died in the World Trade Center could not in 2001.
The 9/11 attacks changed the political tone in Washington and abroad — but only briefly.
"We had an astonishing moment of unity in America and around the world," former President Clinton told a Jewish conference in Washington. That has given way to bitter political divisions between Democrats and Republicans. Many nations that rushed to stand with the United States now accuse the Bush administration of failing to honor human rights, tolerance and diversity of cultures.
Still, dozens of lawmakers, Republicans and Democrats alike, joined on the steps of the Capitol Monday to remember the attacks, singing "God Bless America" as they had five years ago.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Monday, "Five years later, we have to continue to move forward with unity, urgency and in the spirit of international cooperation, because we are not yet fully healed and not yet as safe as we should be."
Mr. Bush began the day in New York with firefighters and police officers at a Lower East Side firehouse. He stood in front of a door salvaged from a fire truck destroyed on Sept. 11. It was a cloudless morning reminiscent of the sunny day when two hijacked planes slammed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
The mourners silently bowed their heads, at 8:46 a.m. and again at 9:03 a.m., marking the moments when the planes slammed into the towers. The attacks killed 2,749 people.
Mr. Bush spent time talking with the first responders about what they had been through the last five years, spokesman Tony Snow said.
Five years after the attacks, a piece of limestone, charred by burning jet fuel, is all that remains of the Pentagon wall destroyed by a passenger jet hijacked by terrorists. Just inside that wall, CBS' Aleen Sirgany reports, there is now a military chapel and a permanent memorial. Among the 184 who died in the Pentagon was Dave Laychak.
"I think about Dave every day," his brother Jim Laychak told Sirgany. "I wear a band around my wrist that has his name on it.
The ritual has changed little since the first anniversary of the attacks, and in many ways the site has remained the same as well.
Squabbles over design and security have caused long delays in the project to rebuild at ground zero. Only this year did construction start on a Sept. 11 memorial and the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower, which is not expected to be finished for five more years.
Read more about the delay in rebuilding.The next stop was in Shanksville, Pa., where Mr. Bush and his wife stood without umbrellas in a chilly rain to lay a wreath honoring the 40 passengers and crew killed when United Airlines Flight 93 plowed into a Pennsylvania field. The terrorists apparently had been planning on crashing the plane into the White House or the Capitol until passengers stormed the cockpit to take control.
"We stand here today with pride because of heroism," said Hamilton Peterson, whose father and stepmother died when the plane went down.
The Rev. Paul H. Britton, whose brother, Marion Britton, died on Flight 93, offered a prayer for all as well as for Mr. Bush, whom he called "our conscience and our heart."
Mr. Bush had an emotional meeting with relatives of the Shanksville victims. "There were some people who were still clearly grieving about what happened five years ago," Snow said.
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See all 95 CommentsThis Saint GWL Bush is continuously induced in error. He needs to be liberated from his fellows inducers... Yeah RonnieHisMajesty, show me some wisdom, and for once blame this administration for duping its constituents. The damage has been done. The panel has duped the highest office of elected american delegates (Congress), all resulting in unfair political decision toward another nation... whatever it is.
Let's re-examin what has been declared in this report:
The agency noted five major errors in the committee's 29-page report, which said Iran's nuclear capabilities are more advanced than either the IAEA or U.S. intelligence has shown
This panel has not even considered the accuracy of US intelligence. What does this Panel know more than the US intelligence?
Since you have nothing to say about wider views of a situation, you just make personal attacks in order to discredit the writer. This is not a fair discussion.
We have a monkey at the white house who is faking being a president of the most powerful state of the world.
In reality, he is part of the Axis of evil. This is the worst one ever. Any reasonable person would agree on those views. Systematically lying about everything. Should be named GWL-Bush for George Walking-Liar Bush.
What do you have to say about the letter sent by Vilmos Scerveny, the guy from UN-IAEA, regarding the lies printed in the Intelligence Paper on Iranian Nuclear Aims? Answer this and tell everyone here what you think of this adminstration. Do you think Bush will retract and apologize for this other misleading...
This is an extract of the article: '
The agency noted five major errors in the committee's 29-page report, which said Iran's nuclear capabilities are more advanced than either the IAEA or U.S. intelligence has shown.
Let's wait n see...
The fact Roosevelt knew about it all doesn't give us the right (but our president seems to take it at will) to lie about our intents. Liar is again trying to dupe his nationals, who voted for him... (be sure I did not) in order to drag us into another war inthe Middle_East. Nobody wants war. Do you?
It's incredible how cowards and liars make it to the top and become heroes. If that is the case with FDR, well I'm really not proud of that guy either.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/document091406.pdf
Same old way liar, as per the UNited Nations IAEA agent Vilmos Scerveny
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/13/AR2006091302052_pf.html
The same way he did lie at the face the face of the world that SadDam has Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) previous to his saint Invasion of Iraq, and creating Hell there. You still like your father?
At least I can count on clestes to make a point every now and then.
Absolutely, but the thought is what counts!
People who think they have to support him just because he is president are the same ones who kill a civilian just because a superior officer orders it and then expects to have the defense of "I was ordered to."
This is not George Orwell's 1984 and in this country our leaders are expected to be accountable. You think that blindly supporting Bush is what makes this country great? You cound not be more wrong. If that is what you think go live in a dicatatorship cause you have no idea of what this country was founded on.
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