Relatives condemn Bush 9/11 ads BBC NEWS

The four television advertisements, which began showing on Thursday across the US, marked the beginning of the Bush administration’s campaign for the 2004 presidential elections.

”I’m optimistic about America because I believe in the people of America.”

Among the images shown in two of the advertisements are images of firefighters carrying a body, draped in a US flag, from the rubble at Ground Zero, where the World Trade Center once stood. …

[R]elatives said they felt their loved ones were being used to score political points.

”Families are enraged,” victims’ advocate Bill Doyle, who lost his 25-year-old son in the attacks, told Reuters news agency.

”What I think is distasteful is that the president is trying to use 9/11 as a springboard for his re-election.”

”It’s entirely wrong. He’s had 3,500 deaths on his watch, including Iraq.”