I was searching around The Memory Hole for a project and came across this very telling bit deleted from the New York Times about a year and a half ago. In an article that was published in the print and web versions of the paper, a story ran with the title and first paragraph stating the GOP would lay the cornerstone for the new 9/11 buildings during the Republican National Convention.
Was this why they chose New York? Someone suggested to me that they want to face the enemy head-on by taking the party to New York, the state hardest for them to win. She may be right, but given that we already know Bush was planning to do a schpiel at Ground Zero which has now been cancelled, the evidence is pretty heavy that the Republicans were planning to exploit the hell out of 9/11 for political gain years ago.
Rebuilding officials said yesterday that they hoped to complete a review of the environmental impact of the proposed construction at the World Trade Center site by next April. This would allow them to lay the cornerstone of a 1,776-foot tower in August 2004, during the Republican National Convention.
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