Trent Duffy's been filling in for Scott McClelland lately at the daily White House press briefings. This exchange is from last Thursday the 25th. Do YOU think there's a reason to say 9/11 twice (and a Sept. 14th, 2001 thrown in for good measure)? I mean other than that they're still trying to peddle the lie that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11. You know, the lie that killed Casey Sheehan and almost 2,000 other Americans, maimed an unknown number and tens, if not, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis? You don't, do you? Of course not.

Q Does the President feel that over the last couple of days he's made an effective and convincing case that Cindy Sheehan is misguided in her feelings about the war and what should happen to the troops?

MR. DUFFY: Well, first of all, the President has spoken continuously about the way he approaches this war, following September 11th, 2001. On September 14th, 2001, he stood at the National Cathedral and told all of America that this was going to be a very long and difficult war, and that there were going to be some very trying moments; but that because of what happened on 9/11, that we had to view the world in a different way.
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