Keith Olbermann’s Top 9/11 Story: The Promotion Of Failure In Bush Administration

Published: September 12, 2007, 1:58 pm

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Countdown’s #1 story on tonight’s special 9/11 edition was some of Keith Olbermann’s best work to date. In this clip, he runs down the astonishing and outrageous list of Bush administration lackeys who, instead of being demoted or fired for their failures surrounding the September 11th attacks and the subsequent invasion and occupation of Iraq, were promoted and awarded medals for those failures. Keith ends the segment with the two main figures who haunt the memory of 9/11 — George Bush and Osama bin Laden. Download (519) Play (649) Download (196) Play (331) Transcripts below the fold… To this day, millions of Americans believe we invaded Iraq because of 9/11. 33 percent still believe there was some interconnection between Saddam Hussein and the nightmares here and in Washington and in Pennsylvania. Iraq, of course, had nothing to do with 9/11. Then. Six years later, that has changed. Iraq has distracted us from

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