Posted on 06/14/2008 5:20:50 AM PDT by garbageguy
On 9/11 we were attacked by cowards whose hatred of our values brought them to kill more than 3,000 innocent fathers, sons, wives and daughters.
On a single day we were so painfully reminded that freedom is never free. After that day the nations of the world stood with us with an outreach of empathy and a spirit of unity that was unknown before the tragedy of 9/11.
While terrorism had been in the world, before 9/11 we had largely been spared its cruelty and injustice. Never again could we have such innocence.
(Excerpt) Read more at irontontribune.com ...
If they don’t know the difference between its and it’s then I’m not interested in the rest of the article.
It was the Freeper who got it wrong, not the paper.
Jim Crawford ought'a try pulling his head out of his a$$ before he scribbles.
Basically, the article argues that there is no such thing as a terrorist, and there’s been no reason for anything Bush has done to detect and frustrate terrorists. We don’t need any of the surveillance, etc. And Bush has harmed America far more than any terrorist ever could.
The anti-anti-Communist left has become the anti-anti-terrorism left.
Is the Ironton Tribune actually a newspaper? I see the worst kinds of leftist garbage coming from them online.
Too late! I h@te the author of the article and his editor now!
And we should not have used 9/11 as an excuse to rally patriotic Americans to invade Iraq, falsely implying that that nation was part of the terrorism movement that attacked America.
Let me get this straight. We should not have invaded Iraq, but we should have invaded Pakistan.
A nuclear power. One with a population of 165M, not 30M as for Iraq. With the mountains sheltering a fierce, never thoroughly conquered people.
Anybody want to take bets that the author would still think this was the right course if we had done it? He'd probably be writing articles about how we should have invaded Iraq instead.
The hypocrisy and condescending arrogance of these self-righteous buffoons is almost unbearable.
The left’s alleged support for the war in Afghanistan is just a temporary, and particularly cynical, expedient for undermining the war in Iraq.
Before the Iraq invasion in 2003, they demonized our efforts in Afghanistan with the same reckless arrogance they now direct toward the liberation of Iraq. Remember the Berkeley City Council voting unanimously to condemn military action in Afghanistan? Or the despicable arch-lefty Robert “hit me again” Fisk trying to blame his beating at the hands of Afghan refugees to rage over “American bombing?”
(I have always thought it was just as likely they recognized him as a Taliban apologist and decided to administer a little mountain wake-up call).
They are liars and the children of liars, born liars, preferential liars; smirking, cruel, genocidal liars; whose thundering moral screeds stink of hypocrisy and cynicism.
I disliked lefties before 9-11-01, having seen the barbarism they excused and facilitated in Vietnam, but since 9-11 I have grown to loathe them, along with their ally and mentor, the media-industrial complex.
They are the spawn of Satan.
The IT is “actually a newspaper”, the Guv of Ohio (Strickland) is from nearby.
I must point out that I am a proud Kentuckian, not a Buckeye.
The IT used to describe Crawford as a “local political enthusiast”, but I believe now is noted as a “contributing columnist”.
Either way he still sucks.
Thanks for the clarification!
I am sick and tired of people saying Saddam was not part of the terrorist movement...
The Truth About Saddam and Terrorism
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25604
Jim Crawford is our enemy, unfit to breathe American air.
Ahh. But the author’s point (probably more or less accurate) is that Saddam wasn’t personally involved with the 9/11 incident itself.
Therefore we should ignore his enthusiastic participation in other terrorist incidents, including attacks on Americans. We are only allowed to pursue terrorists who were involved in 9/11, don’t you know.
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