Posted on 09/11/2011 8:59:46 AM PDT by JewishRighter
Thank you, that’s the one.
I don’t mind the memorials but the memorial architecture makes me sick.
They should have rebuilt the towers exactly (in design, not ruling out some desirable improvements). They could have put a memorial, shrine, chapel or whatever in the lobby or underground areas, and another on the roof, maybe using those twin Tribute searchlights they had on the site.
You don’t see the Pentagon making a fountain or a #*@&!%@ crescent on the spot where it was struck.
I do understand your point, when I got fed up I got on FR to clear my mind.
My reasoning is simple for me. I’m still PO’ed and will probably will be until I die.
Having said that, I do like to hear from like minded individuals who have learned to calm themselves, otherwise today is just more of my hatred for those cowards who chose to pick on defenseless civilians.
Today is the 10th anniversary and my blood boils as much today as it did on that day!
I don’t watch ncis anymore. Got mad several years ago when they made fun of Sarah Palin.
Then their Christmas special was about an honor killing. A Christian killed his brother because he had converted to mooselimb. There are thousands of honor killings by mooselimbs each year but ncis decided to manufacture one about Christians.
Go to hell ncis. And any company advertising on their show.
Thank you.
I too have been thinking the same thing about all you said.
I also think about Normandy. That was beyond belief. No tribute there.
I put the TV on this a.m. for 1 second. There was idiot Rove yammering. I turned if off and has not been on all day.
Thank you again. I agree with all you said.
You think he laid it on too thick, and that's fine. From what I remember, al-Qai'da not only had presences in the Middle East but also in Africa. I think the fear of al-Qai'da setting up hidden bases all over the world made the Bush team go out of their way to push the "RoP" line.
What I was really criticizing Bush for was two-fold: one, in many speeches to and about Muslims in America, he kept up this drivel about Islam being a religion of peace. He could just as well have left the issue alone or said some nice things about Muslims generally without resorting to an out-right poisonous lie which has not befriended the Muslims but emboldened them to exploit this perceived naivete. Now, every time someone wants to suggest that maybe Islam is not so peaceful (such as the Peter King hearings) they are relentlessly savaged as racists bigots and Islamophobes. Bush greatly contributed to that. Debate is squelched and our people are hampered in rooting out the terrorist cells that are forming right now in American mosques.I think he learned that the hard way. Bush was notorious for not responding to the hatred of him during his terms; you mentioned it yourself. That was one of his miscalculations. I think he underestimated the strength of the anti-war movement and overestimated the strength of what Washington insiders like to call "nationalism."
In fact, I think he went out of his way in the RoP department to euchre out a policy of internment. For whatever reasons they highlighted, he and his team decided that internment would make things worse on balance. As a result, as you mentioned, certain questions have been cut off at the knees and debate has been squelched.
In domestic policy, his mistakes were that of a war President. I think he tried to run what the Brits call a "National Government" out of the Oval Office. (In times of war, all major parties get seats in the Cabinet to fortify national unity.) Trouble is, the national-government approach doesn't fit well onto the American system. Certainly, the Dems didn't reciprocate.
Unfortunately, through his domestic policy, he wound up adding to America's fiscal woes. That's part of his legacy too, as you implied.
Again, thanks for your detailed reply.
I only heard a sound bite from Biden on the news, but of all the sound bites I heard, his seemed the most sincere. (He reminded people that is wife daughter were killed in an automobile accident; and that he knows what it is like to learn in an instant that people he loved were gone.)
ML/NJ
It’s a military call sign.
Eat s*** a******
Use your feeble imagination
good luck with all those US-created-through-war Arab democracies stopping terrorism...
Straw man, anyone?.
You may not be core anti-semitic; perhaps you are just a 'useful idiot'.
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