Posted on 09/14/2006 9:31:30 AM PDT by Tolik
In speeches leading up to the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, President Bush focused on the dangers of Islamic fascism and the efforts, both at home and abroad, to combat them. In response, his election-year rivals fired back that we are no safer than we were five years ago. According to them, we are mired in Afghanistan and Iraq, and have sacrificed our civil liberties while exaggerating the global terrorist threat.
But al-Qaida is not so conflicted. While American politicians tore into each other, Al Jazeera calmly released a video of Osama bin Laden from before 9/11. Given the timing of the tape's release, you could call it bin Laden's alternative commemoration of the mass murder of 3,000 Americans.
The film reveals bin Laden strutting through his Afghanistan terrorist camp — and blessing those who were preparing the 9/11 suicide attacks. Other top men in al-Qaida appear, and at least two of the hijackers boast of their planned jihad in Manhattan.
There is a lot to relearn from the footage that we have apparently forgotten in these last five years.
Let's start with what actually prompted 9/11.
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(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
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Is he the one who is shown in "The Path to 9/11" being denied entry into the US because the Customs agent had a wierd feeling about him?
Victor Davis Hanson nails the 'jihad apologists' in this article!
That may be the scariest news of all. Next time you go to a ball game or a movie, or sit down at a bar, look to your left and then look to your right. One of those two people, on average, believes that 9/11 was an inside job. That's assuming, of course, that you yourself don't believe it.
This is the same one-third of the population that is hopelessly liberal, reflexively anti-war, and spectacularly anti-Bush. They are living in some post-Socialist La-La Land where good intentions and the right "feelings" are all that is needed for world peace and global prosperity. It's one out of three, so those sounds of Kumbaya should be audible outside all of our windows.
Article: "Instead of having any precise claim against America, these killers showed that their hurt arose from their own sense of envy and collective failure — as the now all too familiar references to "being humiliated" and lost honor in the tape attest."
Could explain why the Frogs oppose whatever we do, and the Rats here in the U.S., for that matter (envy power they lost and failure to gain it back). At any rate, the stifling of the human spirit seems to be a hallmark of that cult of death.
No that was someone else...
I wish that people would answer the question of 'whether we are safer how than 5 years ago' with the response of "maybe yes, maybe no. No one knows since that is not a quantifiable commodity as there is no suitable metric that could be used or agreed upon to determine it. Much has been done to beef up security (and sure there is no limit to how much is enough). However, the terrorists are also trying harder to kill us - we really don't know everything about that side and thus the net result is always going to be questionable...... The right questions are 'Are we safer than we would have been if the path that the country was on under Clinton was allowed to continue? Are we safer now than we would have been under the appeasing regimes that would have resulted under Gore and Kerry? How many attacks and catastrophes been prevented versus how many known ones have been attempted? .... and so on. The problem I see with the question of 'are we safer now than we were 5 years ago' is that even if the answer is an emphatic no, that does not necessarily mean that a bad job is being done any more than if an answer of yes meant that a good job was being done. It's far to complicated an issue to address in such a simplistic form and ultimately any answer is quite misleading.
If there's one thing that astonishes me the most about this entire topic it is the effort some people put forth to find some alternate explanation for the bald fact that a fellow who has said he wants to kill you then goes ahead and attempts it. That fellow may be called a lot of things - lunatic, bully, murderer - but not "liar." The one denying the whole thing or imputing some dark motive to a third party may be called a lot of things too, "fool" being pre-eminent.
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Well, let's see:
• You can no longer depend on privacy when you telephone your middle-east co-conspirators.
• You can no longer board a plane with your box cutter.
• You can no longer depend on the CIA and FBI to fail to share information, should they happen to have something incriminating on you.
• If you are a non-American committing an act of war on the U.S. overseas, you can no longer count on a trial in the U.S.
Lots of liberties you lost!
While watching "The Path to 9/11" I had an intense urge to strangle the Rat leadership for their treason post 9/11.
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Hansen lays it out for all of us exactly what the Leftists have in common with bin Laden: lies, lies, lies.
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This is the only thing that brings me any pleasure about the despicable act of 911.
The lefts pretending that we are at fault is reprehensible, and anyone who votes for them is just as deplorable.
Instead, why not just watch and listen to what they themselves really do and say?
That is what is so bizarre about the lefts effective support, the extremists are brutally honest about their plans, yet the left ignores them.....they should be either laughed off the stage as morons, too stupid to understand plain english, or persecuted and prosecuted as fith columnists.....
Instead, why not just watch and listen to what they themselves really do and say?
That is what is so bizarre about the lefts effective support, the extremists are brutally honest about their plans, yet the left ignores them.....they should be either laughed off the stage as morons, too stupid to understand plain english, or persecuted and prosecuted as fifth columnists.....
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