Posted on 09/12/2001 2:43:23 AM PDT by mrustow
Article discusses the fate of World Trade Center, focusing on the reporters covering the attack, the firemen who sought to save the victims, and who in the process themselves became victims, and on whether George Bush has the resolve to do what must be done.
Where have you gone, Colin Pow-w-ell?...
Sheesh. First ragheads, then sand fleas, now this. When will you people learn?
The correct term is rug pilots.
While I admit to an agenda, one thing that I don't hear much of on FR and not at all in the traditional media is that all of the passengers on the aircraft were disarmed sheep being led to the slaughter. Just think about whqt might have been prevented if one or more of the passengers were armed with a gun.
I feel that it needs to be put right into the face of Sara Brady and her kind that they have the blood of every single one of these victims on their hands. If I get the chance, I will.
Here we have the real "Universal Nation"...
After the first plane hit the WTC, the TV networks were able to get their news helicopter in the air within 5 to 10 minutes, so that the second plane crash was on live TV, but I never did see any military aircraft flying over New York until much later that day.
Out here where I live in New Mexico, we have several major power plants that supply electricity to many Western states, and there was never any military response to protect the power plants. They are still wide open to air and truck bomb attacks right now.
We are on our own, folks. The politicians are just giving speeches and that’s all they are equipped to do. It made me sick to see so many of them say we are going to “get even” for these attacks. Well, hell, it’s too late. We hire these jerks to help protect us. We pay a lot of taxes so our military can guard and protect us. And all of the bureaucrats and military leaders have failed us.
This is another Pear Harbor all over again. Lots of military people, but no one on alert. No one prepared to react immediately to the first attack. Too many military bureaucrats at the water coolers at the Pentagon, so that they couldn’t even protect the Pentagon from attack.
And now Bush is asking for more money? More money for what? More money for the hiring of more bureaucrats?
I would prefer to be guarded by the brave firemen and policemen of New York City than by all the federal bureaucrats in the entire country. To hell with the federal bureaucrats.
The reporters covering the attack are mostly slime. The firefighters are heroes. George Bush is lacking the resolve needed to answer any terrorists.
Giuliani just said that 3,900 are missing, in addition to the 89 corpses that have been brought out.
Where did you hear this? Was it a talk-show caller making speculation? Was it a news report? I would have SERIOUS doubts about any report of Arabs (or Arab-Americans) celebrating in the streets of ANY American city.
The impact and destruction hasn't been completely understood yet. In the case of my neighbor's son-in-law alone, he has in all probability died leaving behind a 2 year old set of twins and a wife who is 8 months pregnant. This is going to be so horrific that when the final casualty lists are published Americans are finally going to understand that wherever you live, whatever you do for a living an enemy has just told you in the most dramatic way possible that they see no distinction between American citizens an members of the armed forces of the U.S.
Where did you hear this? Was it a talk-show caller making speculation? Was it a news report? I would have SERIOUS doubts about any report of Arabs (or Arab-Americans) celebrating in the streets of ANY American city.
It couldn't be speculation; either it was a truthful statement or it was a lie. Yes, it was a caller from Paterson. It couldn't be a news report, because all of the local newscasts have giving pro-Arab immigrant spin since the attacks started. At this point, the mainstream news organizations will not report any stories showing local Arabs in a negative light.
I used to work in Paterson several years ago, and it was known to be opne of the meanest cities in America (sometimes ranked thus on the "worst cities in America" list), but I did not know that it has a sizable Arab population. I am more familiar with Jersey City, N.J., which has long had a large Arab population. In 1993, Sheik Abdul Rahman organized the WTC bombing from his mosque, the truck was rented from the Ryder Truck Rental on Kennedy Blvd., and many local Moslems supported the bombing.
How do I know that? No, they didn't dance in the streets. Rather, one of my Arab students disappeared from class for two or three weeks. When he returned, he challenged me, "You believe that? You believe that happened?" I asked him if he were saying that the bombing was a hoax. He smiled. I asked him, if he thought that some huge conspiracy of local, state, regional (Port Authority) and federal law enforcement, and local and national, print, TV, and radio media had foisted a hoax on the American public. He nodded.
An Arabic-speaking African student related a story in which a man in an Arab shop told a third man not to talk to the African, because he "has no morals. This man has no God," because the African was not a Moslem.
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