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WussGawd
03-13-2004, 08:03 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/03/12/fbi.911.souvenirs.ap/index.html
jeff061
03-13-2004, 08:08 PM
I really don't see what the big deal is. And i hate the current administration.
WussGawd
03-13-2004, 08:22 PM
It's a piece of history I suppose. On the other hand, I'm not sure I'd want to take an artifact from a place where 3000 people died. Guess I must just be funny that way.
jeff061
03-13-2004, 08:33 PM
I kind of doubt its a souvenir in the traditional sense. I imagine Rumsfeld sitting in his office and kissing it everytime a bomb is dropped in the middle east.
MrBug708
03-13-2004, 08:44 PM
Nice misleading post
wig
03-13-2004, 08:49 PM
At least WussGawd is not biased at all.
JPhillips
03-13-2004, 09:46 PM
I don't think this makes him a monster or anything, but he really should be smart enough to know you shouldn't take evidence from a crime scene.
Dutch
03-13-2004, 09:54 PM
An earlier AP report said the piece was from debris that hit his offices in the Pentagon.
Abe Sargent
03-14-2004, 01:33 AM
Rumsfield takes a small piece of a plane, and uses it to remind the people around the Pentagon to be ever vigilant - and you honestly want to use it as a political attack on him as a grave robber? I think I pity you.


-Anxiety
JeeberD
03-14-2004, 10:13 AM
I don't think this makes him a monster or anything, but he really should be smart enough to know you shouldn't take evidence from a crime scene.

None of what was taken was considered evidence...

The Justice Department investigation also collected testimony that Pasquale D'Amuro, FBI Director Robert Mueller's executive assistant director for terrorism until last summer, asked a supervisory agent to "obtain a half dozen items from the WTC debris so the items could be given to dignitaries."

Six items -- none needed as evidence -- were gathered and sent to D'Amuro, the report said.
Hurst2112
03-14-2004, 10:24 AM
Why is this such a big deal? What is the difference if if all these people got the stuff after it was dumped in the ocean? Everybody is aware where it came from. I am sure very few people are taking the stuff and saying "cool...I wonder how many people died above this piece of rebar?"

And, what makes this stuff less appropriate to have than...the berlin wall? Hell, you had to buy that shit.

It was obviously a slow day in the newsroom.
JeeberD
03-14-2004, 10:28 AM
...the berlin wall? Hell, you had to buy that shit.


Nope. I broke my own chunks off.

You know, I think I still have a bag full of pieces somewhere down in my parents basement... :)
Hurst2112
03-14-2004, 11:08 AM
Glad to see that you were in Berlin during that time. You were probably more interested in seeing David Hasselhoff than seeing the wall come down that night.

:D
JeeberD
03-14-2004, 11:14 AM
Actually, I was in Stuttgart that night. But my family made it out to Berlin a month or two later and parts of the wall were still up and ripe for the picking...

Oh, and I wish I could have seen Hasselhoff. Michael Knight was one sexy bitch!!!