Posted on 09/18/2006 10:35:52 AM PDT by DCfreedom2005
I guess my question is, how do we expect to defend ourselves against terrorism? We're fighting a war overseas and we can't even keep it together here! Sure, there have been incidences of foreign terrorists (specifically the WTC in '93 and of course on 9/11 along with the Pentagon and the downing of Flight United 93), but there is domestic terrorism! Does anyone remember Timothy McVeigh or Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris? With the latter mentioned, these were two sick individuals who were planning on a wide scale attack on their school. Fortunately, they weren't able to pull it off to full scale but many people died and it seems that acts of terrorism in this country have only escalated since I can remember.
Our beloved President is doing what he can to make us feel better by saying that we're going to fight this battle against terrorism not only through our military but through our ideas. Sure, it sounds good and it's a way to make us feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Then again, I don't believe anything he says will make us feel that way... that's besides the point. We watch the daily news on TV and see the death and destruction and the war that keeps raging overseas and we're being told that we're winning but we're only fighting a battle that can't be fought.
Recently we have been asked to remember 9/11 on the 5th anniversary but do we remember right after 9/11? We were being bombarded with fear tactics not only being dished out through the media but by our government. We were told there were threats of Anthrax, poisons, motorized planes, toys that contain explosives, attacks could happen on this, attacks could happen on that, orange, yellow, red, Terror alerts, but then our beloved president would get on and aleviate our fears by saying that "We're gaining ground on our war on terror... everything is going to be fields of wheat from here on out."
Yet, I have found these series of events to be extremely fishy.
When the planes were flown into the World Trade Center, The Pentagon, and outside of Pittsburgh, a very small, very dim bead of light turned on amidst the other thoughts in my head at that time. I think part of that light was neon and it took shape of the words "Something Fishy is going on here!" Yet more powerful was the thought, at that time, that what is happening here and is everything in my little corner of the world okay? I had to call my parents at that point and ask if everything was alright because they were not too close to Shanksville but I know that air flights from Pittsburgh were flying over their house quite often. I thought something else might be going on at that point.
Yet the "Something is Fishy" light has only become more brightly lit in the last year or so after seeing how our news carries out what is going on overseas and in Iraq, Afghanistan, Isreal, and the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.
I'm not questioning so much the attacks on the US as I am asking who was REALLY involved. I'm not questioning what the President wants to do about terrorism abroad and domestically as much as I am asking how he is going to fight this "war". I'm not questioning the plan of attacks overseas as much as I am questioning when they were carried out. It took two months before troops were deployed to Afghanistan, yet as soon as a plan was made to attack Iraq it what almost an overnight action.
Most of all, I question what power the President and our government is gaining by using fear tactics and telling us that terrorism is all around us. I'm also looking at his cabinet advisors and seeing how much younger they are compared to him. One example is Fran Townsend who is now our beloved Homeland Security advisor. This was a position that was fabricated by the Bush administration after 9/11 and it was appointed to former governor Tom Ridge (who is older than Fran). Another example would be Condoleeza Rice as our Secretary of State who replaced Colin Powell. Colin had served in Washington as Charirman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as a National Security Advisor with many years of experience under his belt before Ms. Rice even stepped foot into our Capitol. Colin - born in 1937, Ms. Rice - born in 1954. You do the math!
Our beloved President wants to gain more power and it starts with those who work right under him. Hire the young and foolish so that he can look good no matter how stupid his mistakes are. He'll gain praise from his younger colleagues because they don't know any better. This attitude will only trickle down. First his cabinet, then through congress, after congress, the federal workers, then it just goes from there. You can't argue with the President! Keep him in power so that he can keep on being our Heroic WAR PRESIDENT!! Hey, this is something I've seen many times in the many companies that I've worked for. These people want power and the best way to gain power is to hire people who will go along with the game even though most of the times the game is unfair.
I guess my last question is, what are we still doing in Iraq? I thought our initiative over there was to topple Saddam Hussein from power and high-tail it out of there? Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe we have more of an initiative but I don't think it has anything to do with terrorism. I believe there will be a time very soon where we won't be able to post messages such as what I have written here.
I give up..
Who's "Bush Jr."??
I like cheese.
Then you are in the right place.
Sub-IQ - Bi-Polar Alert!
Never mind that, I just heard that Fat Joe left Atlantic?
Is there a child of W somewhere we don't know about? An unclaimed son of 41?
Must be.....
Okay... so... we found one mistake to my post! Any others?
You'll have to excuse us.....
Mainstream lefties have made it a practice of calling President Bush...."Junior".
Facts confuse them.
We were just having some fun, FRiend.
Mainstream lefties.... hmmm?? If I'm not mistaken, last time I looked, I write with my right hand so that would make me a righty... no?
Manning the drive-thru at fast-food restaurants hardly gives you an adequate worldview for judging a president.
The dark night of fascism!
Gawd, this is so stupid it makes my head hurt, sleeper troll. Bush spent a year trying to get UN action on Iraq. Do you think he had the military just sitting around on their thumbs during that time?
Methinks he should join the V for Vendetta fantasy threads over at DU.
Your primary mistake was starting with a stupid and demonstrably false premise. Everything went downhill from there, sleeper troll.
Hey, this twit is from Pennsylvania! Maybe he's a Murtha campaign staffer - he shore whines like Surrender Jack.
At best.
Well, maybe you need to check your head then and also check the facts... Bush took a year TO FIGURE OUT if Iraq had any connection with Al-Quaeda. It was once he found out that there MIGHT be a connection, he deployed troops!
I guess you think it's stupid and demonstrably false, but so who am I to speak for you?
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