Too bad it is under these bad times but it is a giant wake up call to the liberals.
Here is a great photo of Hillary from AP. Do you think she even knows it is her husband and her policy that has us here today? 
Posted on 09/13/2001 6:52:52 AM PDT by TLBSHOW
Barbara Olson kept her cool. In the hysteria and terror of hijackers herding passengers to the rear of the plane, she retrieved her cell phone and called her husband, Ted, the solicitor general of the United States. She informed him that he had better call the FBI (news - web sites) -- the plane had been hijacked. According to reports, Barbara was still on the phone with Ted when her plane plunged in a fiery explosion directly into the Pentagon (news - web sites).
Barbara risked having her neck slit to warn the country of a terrorist attack. She was a patriot to the very end.
This is not to engage in the media's typical hallucinatory overstatement about anyone who is the victim of a horrible tragedy. The furtive cell phone call was an act of incredible daring and panache. If it were not, we'd be hearing reports of a hundred more cell phone calls. (Even people who swear to hate cell phones carry them for commercial air travel.)
The last time I saw Barbara in person was about three weeks ago. She generously praised one of my recent columns and told me I had really found my niche. Ted, she said, had taken to reading my columns aloud to her over breakfast.
I mention that to say three things about Barbara. First, she was really nice. A lot of people on TV seem nice, but aren't. (And some who don't seem nice, are.) But Barbara was always her charming, graceful, ebullient self. "Nice" is an amazingly rare quality among writers. In the opinion business, bitter, jealous hatred is the norm. Barbara had reason to be secure.
Second, it was actually easy to imagine Ted reading political columns aloud to Barbara at the breakfast table. Theirs was a relationship that could only be cheaply imitated by Bill and Hillary -- the latter being a subject of Barbara's appropriately biting best seller, "Hell to Pay."
Hillary claimed preposterously in the Talk magazine interview that she discussed policy with Bill while cutting his grapefruit in the morning. Ted and Barbara really did talk politics -- and really did have breakfast together.
It's "Ted and Barbara" just like it's Fred and Ginger, and George and Gracie. They were so perfect together, so obvious, that their friends were as happy they were on their wedding day. This is more than the death of a great person and patriotic American. It's a human amputation.
Third, since Barbara's compliment, I've been writing my columns for Ted and Barbara. I'm always writing to someone in my head. Now I don't know who to write to. Ted and Barbara were a good muse.
Apart from hearing that this beautiful light has been extinguished from the world, only one other news flash broke beyond the numbingly omnipresent horror of the entire day. That evening, CNN reported that bombs were dropping in Afghanistan (news - web sites) -- and then updated the report to say they weren't our bombs.
They should have been ours. I want them to be ours.
This is no time to be precious about locating the exact individuals directly involved in this particular terrorist attack. Those responsible include anyone anywhere in the world who smiled in response to the annihilation of patriots like Barbara Olson.
We don't need long investigations of the forensic evidence to determine with scientific accuracy the person or persons who ordered this specific attack. We don't need an "international coalition." We don't need a study on "terrorism." We certainly didn't need a congressional resolution condemning the attack this week.
The nation has been invaded by a fanatical, murderous cult. And we welcome them. We are so good and so pure we would never engage in discriminatory racial or "religious" profiling.
People who want our country destroyed live here, work for our airlines, and are submitted to the exact same airport shakedown as a lumberman from Idaho. This would be like having the Wehrmacht immigrate to America and work for our airlines during World War II. Except the Wehrmacht was not so bloodthirsty.
"All of our lives" don't need to change, as they keep prattling on TV. Every single time there is a terrorist attack -- or a plane crashes because of pilot error -- Americans allow their rights to be contracted for no purpose whatsoever.
The airport kabuki theater of magnetometers, asinine questions about whether passengers "packed their own bags," and the hostile, lumpen mesomorphs ripping open our luggage somehow allowed over a dozen armed hijackers to board four American planes almost simultaneously on Bloody Tuesday. (Did those fabulous security procedures stop a single hijacker anyplace in America that day?)
Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
You're an even bigger clymer than I thought.
I also agree that we shouldn't convert them to Christianity.
After we've given them a Carthaginian peace, there won't be anyone left to convert.
I read a couple of weeks ago that her new book would be called "The Final Days" and that it was about the last few weeks of x42's presidency. According to what I have read, he was distracted and despondent, and she got info from 'inside x42's White House' sources as well. I can't wait to read it!
I feel so bad for Ted, who had breakfast with her that morning which was his birthday, then had to bear the tragedy of actually knowing when her final moment was; even to the point of possibly being on the phone with her when the plane hit. I guess I feel that way also about all whose loved ones were killed on Tuesday.
I especially pray for the souls of those brave few who stuggled with the hijackers on the flight that went down in PA. It is entirely possible that it was the plane that was turning around to go for the White House. I did not realize that the plane Barbara was on had gone so far west before turning back to hit the Pentagon, so the PA plane could have been planning to do the same.
Too bad it is under these bad times but it is a giant wake up call to the liberals.
Here is a great photo of Hillary from AP. Do you think she even knows it is her husband and her policy that has us here today?
I don’t understand why we allow muslims access to airports the whole idea is ludicrous, these people have proven time and again they are not worthy of our trust. How many air hijackings / atrocities have been perpetrated by non-islamic people? How many people must die before we restrict islamic access to the world’s treasures. These people have no respect for the world, humanity, or any other religion than islam, which is an anathema to all other religions.
We should no longer allow hyphenated Americans who demand our tolerance to their culture / religion operate freely in our society without an assurance from them that they will conform to our laws.
Convert them? What ever happened to freedom of religion? Not all muslims are bad. Many of them in our armed forces, during the gulf war, were used as translators and were loyal to our country. Since they were muslims why didn't they get kicked out of our army. The once dancing in the streets should be taught a lesson. If these people are so bad why would we want them as christians?
Sorry, Flame me if you want, but nobody should be forced to change their religion.
I agree with you, but I think Coulter is probably using hyperbole to make a point. I've got to say, though, that I wouldn't have much of a problem with a little 'collateral destruction' of some of allah's most important shrines. Then take away his oil, and see how much power allah has.
Cordially,
What exactly do you mean by "assurance from them that they will conform to our laws?" A lot of Muslims are already American citizens. I agree that we should punish and destroy those, American citizens or not, who committed such heinous acts. But we should never target a people because of their religious persuasion. Target their ACTIONS, not their FAITH or RACE.
And, by the way, those people who committed such crimes are not in fact Muslims. No Muslim, no reasonable human being for that matter, commits such actions.
Ann Coulter has written a nice tribute to a fine person.
Unfortunatley, one of the costs of liberty is eternal vigilance. Peace is not the absence of guns, my friend, peace is the absence of war. I would agree that the last eight years of American foreign policy were lowbrow, asinine attempts, that were way over the heads of the the Arkansas-hilljack First Couple.We should leave no stone unturned bagging the culprits, but frankly, the state that did the most to harbor and assist these swine was that tawdry southern bannana republic called Florida, and we already have troops there, but of course, not much legitimate democracy.
Ah! Sour grapes over the election, eh? Sorry, my friend; despite Socialist Gore's attempts to sabatoge a Federal election, democracy prevailed, the Constitution was upheld, and the man the people wanted is president. Of course, there is the issue of the jack-booted thugs illegally storming the home where Elian Gonzalez was living, so maybe you have a point. See the above comments concerning lowbrow, asinine, Arkansas-hilljack, etc. for help in understanding the Elian incident. (as a side note, I just spent a week vacationing in Florida. Your depiction of that state is way off the mark. Methinks you have never been there.)For all intents and purposes, Ann Coulter is just another lamentable ancestral RINO war Democrat.
That's quite a charge! Certainly at odds with what most Freepers believe. But then, you probably think similar thoughts about most Freepers, if you think at all. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, though: provide some arguments, verifiable references, and examples to back your claim, and I'll seriously reconsider my opinion of Ann Coulter.
One last thing: Why are you on this forum? Yes, yes, I know you have a right to be here. I'm not questioning that, I just want to know if you have the courage of your convictions to honestly state your purpose for being on Free Republic?
1955 - 2001
Some 2,403 U.S. servicemen and civilians died at Pear Harbor. In Hiroshima, the United States killed 118,661, and at Nagasaki we killed 73,884.)
This is an 80 - 1 ratio. If we have 20,000 dead then a similar response as to Pearl Harbor would be 1.6 MILLION.
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