[Howlin]

These women wholly prostituted the empathy granted to them by every decent human being in this country and used it to further a political agenda that was not intended to enhance national security or bring about reform, but was meant to do only one thing: sully Bush and hurt conservatives. This point is irrefutable and sometimes it has to be put bluntly for people to understand.

A Freeper friend of mine corresponded with one of them for a while; I honestly cannot remember whether I did or not, but something makes me think I did.

But I remember reading her replies (and it is one of the ones on Matthews' show) -- they were stunning in their vitriolic claims about Bush; it was as if he and he alone caused the entire thing.

And the most shocking passages left you with only one conclusion: that they believe each and every one of us is at fault because WE didn't stop the airplanes.

Never mind that this woman's husband had been in the building during the 1993 bombing and had walked almost completely down the stairs on 9-11, then heard an announcement that their building was safe, and returned to his office.

Now, I'm thinking to myself, if I had been there in 1993, no way in HELL would I have gone back up, how about you?

I was left thinking that if this issue ever goes away, this woman may, in fact, commit suicide because it has consumed her.

[pollyannaish]

You know, Howlin, I have worked with/ known several people who have lost loved one's unexpectedly.

The one's I really, really worry about are the ones who exhibit exactly the kind of behavior you describe here. A person becomes so consumed with keeping someones memory alive that it leads to irrationality. I would make this observation about Sheehan as well.

[STARWISE]

As Ann Coulter reminds us, they personalized it so, they completely ignore the fact that the terrorists attacked AMERICA .. it wasn't a plot to take out the Jersey girls' husbands.