Posted on 09/01/2002 3:54:35 PM PDT by Diogenesis
Music to Remember -- It is September 2002
Gotta Hear This [ENYA.mp3 3 Megabytes]
"What is more dangerous than Saddam or Al-Qaeda?"
THE ANSWER IS:
Failing to learn from their terroristic past
-- and having to repeat it.
Another great tribute is below. Uses the same song and adds some of the images... Someone else may have posted it already. I have saved it.
As long as Pres. Bush listens to Cheney and Rumsfield and not Powell and the liberal media we will win.
What we have already done is pretty impressive. The Taliban is all but wiped out in Afghanistan with minimal U.S. casualties and Al Qaida is on the run and have thus far not been able to conduct any additional acts of terrorism. Remember all those weeks after 9/11 waiting for the other shoe to drop? Well we have been terrorism free for nearly a year now and unfortunately there are those who just want to snipe and take potshots at Bush. Apparently, because we haven't nuked Mecca yet or seen big things blow up on TV, there are people who assume we are sitting on our hands and doing nothing.
There is no doubt in my mind that our job over there is just beginning and when we are finished, the terrorists, or what is left of them, will rue the day they crashed those airliners into our buildings on 9/11.
I would also like to discuss the disturbing photos at the top of this thread. At first I wondered why those people trapped up top jumped to their deaths instead of waiting for a rescue attempt. I now realize that the temperatures must have been unbearable up there from the fires below and that jumping to a sure death below was preferable to literally burning to death above. We should never forget the horrible choice those people faced that day.
I have lost faith in this administration in the "war on terror." Inviting Prince Bandar to Crawford? Please.
Saudi Arabia is the source of the terror.
Why is Norman Mineta still the Secretary of Transportation? I guess because his "no profiling ever" policies are congruent with those of his boss.
Listening to all the "Attacking Iraq distracts from the war on terror" talk just makes me ill - attacking Iraq would be a continuation of the war on terror.
I am sure that Freepers care enough. But all of the tentativeness in the press and the public and the world has given our national apparatus pause - it has become timid.
Afghanistan is releasing hundreds of Taliban and al Quaeda prisoners in exchange for some petty thieves held in Pakistan. Our response is?
Saudi Arabia paid money to bin Laden post 9/11. Our response is?
They pay money to Palestinian suicide bombers' families. Our response is?
Germany withholds information on terrorist suspects. Our response is?
Egypt, which is the recipient of a billion or so of our tax dollars annually opposes US action in Iraq and our support of Israel in the same war on terror we are supposedly engaging in. Our response is?
The al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade - a part of Yasir Arafat's Fatah organization - killed 5 Americans in Israel. Our response is?
Do you get my point here?
You and I and other Freepers may care, but as a nation, we have forgotten the horrors of 9/11, and prepare to wallow in sorrow.
Gone are the days where even a squish like McCain could say to our enemies, "May God have mercy on your soul, for the United States will not."
Here we are, afraid to carry nail clippers onto the plane, and worried about what Belgium thinks about taking out Saddam Hussein.
You and I may care, but the United States, alas, does not.
Eh, what sort of girl do you think I am? Ewwww!
As Much as They Hate to Admit It, Some Americans Are Tired of Being Reminded
Here's a Bush/Powell MIB graphic:
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