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Republican strategist Jack Burkman on Thursday asserted that the 2012 attacks in Benghazi that killed four Americans were "much worse" than the original attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 that killed almost 3,000 people because of "the level of how things were ignored."

In an panel segment on Current TV, host Michael Shure asked Burkman if he agreed that the Republican obsession with Benghazi was "totally about politics."

"Well, it's about both," Burkman explained. "This thing could turn into a Watergate. I don't think you realize how bad this is. Obama -- all of this -- why did any of this happen? This happened because Obama is so afraid. He didn't want to defend the embassy because he didn't want to offend Islam. Then he didn't want to call it an act of terrorism because he didn't want to offend Islam. That's fundamentally what it's about."

"There are reasonable ways to disagree on this, but to say he didn't want to defend the embassy because he didn't want to defend Islam... I'll give you political advice too, stay away from that one," Shure advised.

"But the evidence shows that," Burkman insisted. "Strip aside all the politics and the theory. The evidence shows -- take [U.S. diplomat] Gregory Hicks, these guys were trying to get through at 2 in the morning, they were trying to warn, they made so many repeated calls and contacts. What other conclusions can you draw? They were systemically ignored. I mean, I've just never seen or heard of anything like this."

"Well, how about 9/11?" Shure noted. "Talk about systemically ignored."

"I would say, oh, sure, 9/11 is much worse in terms of in terms of what happened," Burkman opined. "But this is much worse in terms of the level of how things were ignored. It's almost unfathomable."

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Sunday suggested that President Barack Obama was "disengaged" and personally responsible for some of the deaths caused by a terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11 of last year, but seemingly forgot that President George W. Bush read the book "My Pet Goat" for seven minutes as almost 3,000 people died during the 2001 terrorist attacks.

"Did the president at any time during this eight hour attack pick up the phone and call anybody in Libya to get help for these folks?" Graham opined during an interview on CBS News. "And I do believe if he had picked up the phone, called the Libyan government, these folks could have gotten out of the airport to the annex, and the last two guys may very well be alive... But if he failed to call on behalf of those people under siege then I think that's a massive failure of leadership by our commander in chief."

CBS host Bob Schieffer asked Graham if he had any proof that the president had not made an attempt to contact Libya during the September attacks.

"I don't know what the president did that evening," the South Carolina senator admitted. "I don't know if he ever called anyone, I know that he never talked to the secretary of defense, I know that he never talked to the chairman of the Join Chiefs. They never talked to anybody at the White House."

"This was incredibly mismanaged, and what we know now, it seems to be a very disengaged president," he added. "Again, if he had lent his voice to this cause, I think it would have made a big difference. And I'm not going to stop until we get an accounting."

"We know nothing about what the president did on the night of Sept. 11th during a time of national crisis, and the American people need to know what their commander in chief did, if anything, during the eight hour attack."

As Bush was reading the book "My Pet Goat" with school children on Sept. 11, 2001, Chief of Staff Andrew Card interrupted to let him know a second plane had hit the World Trade Center in New York City.

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Parents in El Paso, Texas say they were shocked to find out that a teacher at Hughey Elementary asked their children to depict airplanes flying into buildings, explosions and people jumping to their deaths to remember the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

"We had to draw the boom cloud, the planes hitting, and people jumping out of the windows," the daughter of Ivie Gremillion recalled.

The girl's drawing shows people jumping out of burning buildings and yelling, "Help!" and "I love you!" One student's drawing obtained by KFOX had the writing, "One way ticket to heaven."

In another picture, the terrorist pilots are laughing as they fly planes into the World Trade Center.

"That's something that kids should get in trouble for drawing," Gremillion said. "That's people being murdered, committing suicide."

According to the El Paso mom, the teacher taught students that "the Afghans did this because they hate all of us and want to kill all of us."

A neighbor's son was so distraught after the Monday assignment that he did not want to go to school the next day.

"He was under the impression that this happens every 9/11," Gremillion explained.

To make matter's worse, Gremillion's husband is being deployed to Afghanistan later this year.

"She like, 'My dad's going to die,'" she said her daughter told her. "I would like a counselor to go in there and re-explain all this to that class."

"The way she worded [it] is just teaching racism and hate for an entire nation, and that's not OK," Gremillion insisted.

El Paso Independent School District confirmed to KFOX that students were asked to draw pictures of 9/11 after a class discussion about the tragedy.

"EPISD is very concerned about the images that were drawn in response to a lesson on the events of September 11," district officials said in a statement. "District and campus administrators are investigating the specific assignment and are interviewing the personnel involved."

"We regret the insensitivity that this action may have caused and wish to assure our community that we will act swiftly in this matter and will take any and all appropriate action. We extend our sincere apologies."

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September 10, 2009 ABC News- FBI Informant Says Agents Missed Chance to Stop 9/11 Ringleader Mohammed Atta:

On the eve of the eight year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, an FBI informant who infiltrated alleged terrorist cells in the U.S. tells ABC News the FBI missed a chance to stop the al Qaeda plot because they focused more on undercover stings than on the man who would later become known as 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta.

In an exclusive interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC World News with Charles Gibson and Nightline, former undercover operative Elie Assaad says he spotted and became suspicious of Atta in early 2001, when he was sent by the FBI to infiltrate a small mosque outside Miami. Atta was there with Adnan Shukrujuman, an al Qaeda fugitive who now has a $5 million U.S. reward on his head.

"There was something wrong with these guys," Assaad, a 36-year-old Catholic native of Lebanon who pretended to be an Islamic extremist, says.

The FBI initially declined to comment but released a statement following the ABC News report, saying: "The 9/11 investigation, the most extensive ever conducted by the FBI, has been reviewed in its totality by the 9/11 Commission, Congress and others. The claims made in the news report and the factual conclusions contained in the story are not supported by the evidence."

The FBI did not specify which claims or conclusions it referred to.

Asaad said he told ABC News the truth and stands by his story.

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September 11, 2009 CNN

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(Heather): News Hounds has a nice run down of this segment for anyone that would rather listen to fingernails on a chalkboard than the sound of Sean Hannity's voice.

Unrepentant Bigot Hannity In No Position To Be Complaining About Van Jones "Racism":

Hannity began the segment by trumpeting the “new and disturbing information” about Jones that, according to Hannity shows "he is not fit for office.” Apparently, the new and disturbing information was that Jones had signed a letter by the “infamous 9/11 Trust organization” asking for an “immediate inquiry into evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur.” Hannity forgot to mention that the letter was very lengthy and called for investigations into many other aspects of 9/11. Jones now says he did not carefully review the letter before signing it and has issued a statement saying that the letter “certainly does not reflect my views now or ever.” He has also apologized for calling Republicans "assholes" in a remark made before he joined the Obama administration. But of course, while an apology from Duane "Dog" Chapman for his n-word rant was enough to garner a full hour of image rehab from Hannity, the apology from Jones was barely considered.

Hannity continued, “The fact that the president would not only allow but appoint a man who harbors these conspiratorial beliefs to serve the United States should provoke not only concern but outrage among all Americans.”

Really? Then where’s the concern and outrage for the birther conspiracy theorists which Hannity not only did not condemn but promoted and legitimized on his show?

News Hounds has much more on this segment and I encourage everyone to go read the entire post.

UPDATE: Wow, Little Green Footballs says: Truther Document 'Signatories' Say They Were Misled

In other words, the Truthers lied about the real intent of their document in order to get people to sign it.

Imagine my surprise.

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April 22, 2009 C-SPAN. Rep. Dan Burton on the House floor using the 9-11 fear card to justify waterboarding prisoners.

March 14, 2009 C-SPAN