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Awesome pictures, awesome day in our history and RINTENSE,
more than ever, you are an awsome lady who
has been doing a great service literally to the country. I appreciate your work.
I have been an admirer of W's for a very long time.
I have taken a real beating from family, friends and
acquaintences for this thru the years.
I couldn't be prouder of W's presidency up to the 11th.
The ooponents have had to make up, any complaints they have with him.
They have had to stick with their slanderous plan of attack while he has been respectful to all.
Like Clinton said during the transition, "He Gets It".
I don't know if Clinton ever did though,
as talented as he was he wasted his time obessesed with crushing his opponent.
The President has to be the president of all Americans, not just one party or pop culture.
W's approval rating has risen to 91%
and I'm only sorry it took this action to let
Americans see past prejudice to who we really have as our leader.
I remember a great line of W's, "They had their chance, they have NOT led, we will".
Lead W lead!
I am equally overwhelmed by this terror we now share,
the great joy I have with our great leader and
the amazing love expressed to us today by almost all
countries and peoples of the world.
It made me realize how bad this event must have been to see
finally the world in mass, showing us the appreciation
we Americans have longed for all my life.
Its unprecedented.v Below is my response to an article sent to me
by a liberal friend that expresses the wishes of the Taliban
for us to go easy on them because
they are pitiful. I'm no writer, but this fat dumb and happy
American has never felt this much emotion for
national events in my life and I feel the need to share.
Thanks so much again RINTENSE, keep it up!
I wish you the best!

Don't they remember how we helped them fight a vicious
enemy in the soviet Union that laid bombs in toys for
children to find and die playing with?
Don't they know we would once again lift them up
high and help them rebuild their nation if they only ask?
How could a nation that we helped so much be so ungrateful?
Its true they have very little but they could have so much.
Why would a nation choose to risk the lives of their
innocents and let their economy starve due to the
irrational decisions of who to hide and who to hate?
We even boycotted the Olympics for these people.
Now after they had been duly warned, they too, sadly, will
so what they reap as will others who have made these
same decisions to kill and as some say we will.
No one is glad about these matters.
We as the US have killed many.
But with all our power to overwhelm the world and assume control
of as much as we wish, have never done so.
And when we have inadvertently
killed civilians we have apologized and made reparations.
This is unprecedented in history.
I get home from work Friday and finally openly wept
watching a report on all the nations
of the world joining us in our National Day of Prayer.
In my lifetime I have never seen any appreciation for the good
that America has done for all mankind.
I was shocked to see the British and their queen singing
our national anthem about our flag surviving
a mortal battle with the British themselves.
Serbians who finally rose up to defeat the man
who led them down the same path as the Afghans joined us.
The Russians, Iranians, Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese...
on and on friend and former foe alike. I was overwhelmed.
Now we as mere mortals with great power but the self
discipline not to dominate the world must
find a way to stop this constant use of civilian attack
for once and all.
There are no easy answers.
Only those who choose to be our enemies
can truly stop the bloodshed about to occur.
Again we would welcome them in to our arms as brothers and raise
their states high and help build them back to modern nations
in the blink of a eye if they only asked us too.

John

Taliban Plead for Mercy to the Miserable in a Land of Nothing
By BARRY BEARAK

KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 12 — If there are Americans clamoring to
bomb Afghanistan back to the Stone Age,
they ought to know that
this nation does not have so far to go.
This is a post-apocalyptic place of felled cities,
parched land and downtrodden people.

The fragility of this country was part of the message the Taliban
government conveyed in a plea for restraint issued late tonight.
It said in part, "We appeal to the United States not to put
Afghanistan into more misery because our people have suffered so much."
I believe this is the rest of the article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/13/international/13AFGH.html?ex=1001470510&ei=1&en=f62757f33ab3e7da