In response to the Bush campaign ads that began running today:
The campaign of Senator John Kerry, the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party, as well as firefighters and some families of the victims of the World Trade Center attacks, have criticized the use of the images as cynical exploitation of a national tragedy.
Excuse me Senator, do you recognise this image?
You have no problem cynically thumping your medals and metaphorically standing on their graves to make yourself more palatable to voters in 2004. No one has used death and destruction more cynically than have you and the Dems in the primary campaign.
There are more than 58,000 families who still grieve for their fathers, husbands, brothers and sons, many who served willingly and all who served honorably, only to have their service tarnished by your self-serving rhetoric.
We are deeply offended.
The tragic events of Sept 11, 2001 occured during President Bush's term in office, he has the same right as any American to display the imagery of that awful day in a respectful manner. Sept. 11th was a national tradegy, and a rite of passage for all Americans, they were our brothers and sisters, we mourned them then and still grieve for their loss.
It is the Democrats who are using the issue improperly by making a campaign issue of it. Shame on you.
Update:
Isn't it curious that both widows protesting the ads had almost identical verbiage and that all four major networks found both of them simultaneously?