Does anyone else feel like I do that we make too much of 9/11?

[Sapere aude]

IMHO we should have gone after what was left of the perpetrators and not gone to war in Afghanistan. We didn't need the Patriot Act, the Iraq war and the war on terror. I feel these are all bogus efforts re: PNAC. It is terrible that 3000 people died but our reaction is just as fucked up.
9/11 was not another Pearl Harbor but we have made it so. No country attacked us. A bunch of individual Saudis and others attacked us. I'm not so sure that Osama had anything to do with it.

I feel bad that we will now talk about 9/11 in the same terms that we talk about Pearl Harbor yet there is no comparison. History is being edited and rewritten as we speak.

I don't have any other way of putting it but to say I don't feel it was such a big deal. Other than the numbers killed, it should not be the turing point in our country's history. It is to me what the Reichstag was to Germany in the 1930's. Just a means for fascism to take over this country.

[Tace]

1. More Than 3,000 Innocent People Die In The US Every Day...

for lack of proper medical care. I agree that the event is blown out of proportion, and I live in Manhattan and witnessed the 9/11 attacks first-hand.

[wtmusic]

11. Not to mention the people who die because of our illegal war nt

[boolean]

2. FUCK YEAH

9/11 happened 5 years ago. Get over it.

[texastoast]

3. Don't you see--they did it TO US this time

instead of us doing it to them.

Big difference in the minds of many.

[Kikosexy2]

4. Unfortunately...

like you've pointed out this administration saw 9/11 as political opportunity and ran with it full steam....now we're all paying a heavy, dangerous price...like I keep saying 'connect the dots and follow the money'...look hard and ask "who has benefited most politically and financially from this tradegy?"...why is no one asking such a question...hmmmm???

[Cooley Hurd]

5. I think the Repiglicans are taking a BIG gamble when bringing up 9/11...

...hardly a shining moment in our history, and it happened under the Chimp's watch!:thumbsup:

[Robbien]

6. Last night I watched the PBS film on Katrina-one year later

In it where all these people who were stuggling and suffering and trying to piece some sort of life back together while trying to hold on to hope.

Then PBS aired this sappy promo for their show on 9/11 which would be airing today.

The people directly affected by the towers going down have had the support of the nation. The people of Katrina are stuggling and feel they are being forgotten.

No I do not care to listen to anything about 9/11 today knowing that our nation's attention is drastically needed in the Gulf area.

[lonestarnot]

7. 9/11 was a day for redistribution of wealth from the middle class

to the corp elitists and war profiteers. They salivate for another harvest.

[jazzjunkysue]

15. Amen. It's like the commercialization of Christmas. Ruins it.

All most americans see, whether on public assistance or a private yacht, is dollar signs.

We'll never change until we realize it's all about power and the $$ power brings.

That explains both 9/11 and Katrina and why the poor live in a flood zone to begin with.

[stillcool]

8. for some reason...

more than anything else 9/11 signifies the 'take-over'....as if it were over -night rather than over decades.

[CrispyQ]

9. A house that has never had anything political displayed, today

has a huge US flag streaming from their mailbox & under it a piece of plywood with the message:

9/11
Never Forget
USA #1


I almost spewed vomit all over the flag.

[NC_Nurse]

10. More people die every day in third world

countries. The tsunami killed 200,000, we've killed at least 10 times as many Iraqis as died in 9/11. Our own troops killed will pass the number of dead in 9/11 pretty soon.
Katrina killed half as many and they KNEW it was coming. Unbelievable.
It's all propaganda - be afraid, be very afraid!
I heard the only comment that Shrub made today was that these memorials reminded him that there are still people out there who would try kill Americans...blah, blah., blah. Just let me do whatever I want because THOSE PEOPLE are EVIL! EVIL, I tell ya! :puke:
Carte Blanche to f*ck up our country. :eyes:

[Imagevision]

12. Bush has failed us in his first term and made things worse in his second

Two more years, as Hillary put it; "a failed policy"

[EstimatedProphet]

13. I think the media makes way too much of it

Her's an example. For at least 2 years following 9/11, WTOP in DC would start at least 1 story every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with the words "Since 9/11" or "Since the tragedy of 9/11" or something similar, followed by a story about how things are different. They worked overtime to bang the drum.

WTOP is a popular station in DC because it's an all-news format. People listen to it in their cars while commuting, in their offices in the background too. That's a lot of messages out there that '9/11 changed everything'. And this is just 1 radio station. From what I saw, all the media was spouting this message, and has been for the last 5 years.

In my opinion, what the media is doing takes closure away from us. We can't get over what happened because they won't let us get over it. It's like continually picking at a scab.

[Poiuyt]

14. I agree 100% Well, 95% (I think that Osama bin Laden had something to do

with it)

400,000 Americans die every year from tobacco related illnesses. Should we have a War on Smokers?

50,000 Americans die each year from drunken driving accidents. Should we we send the military to all the bars in the US?

The Bush Administration has overreacted in order to maintain political power. They are playing to the macho instincts of Americans. Solid police work is the best way to fight terrorism, not by starting a fucking war (the British have proved this). But one of the Right Wing's favorite talking points is that we are at war and that fighting terrorism with law enforcement is the sissy's way to do it.

[Solly Mack]

16. As bad as 911 was...everything that came after it has been worse

911 didn't change anything for the nation much less the world...the US government's reaction to 911 did.

[jazzjunkysue]

17. Dangerous ground but I agree. Most countries deal with this often.

Suddenly, when it's our turn, terror is real.

Go spend 15 minutes in Sudan, or working in a chinese or indan sweat shop, and suddenly, there are serious problems in the world, that dwarf your gas prices or the inconvenience of addressing global warming. Or driving an old, unimpressive car.

I want what I want and I want it now.

[agincourt]

18. We must keep rehashing it over and over,

touching the emotional moments because collectively the USA didn't get the lesson. The GOPig Ditto monkey politicians that took over in 1994 needed to go! Years of voting pro-corporation conservative left us in a position so that 19 punks could destroy one of our major financial centers and hit the pentagon. Those fat swarmy pigs like Gingrich, Delay, Hyde, W, Cheney, all that shit had to go, 9/11 proved them useless worms. Instead we pumped in more sewage into our political system so the USA needs more patriotic denial to make the people feel better. The date should be a date of shame that we moved away from not a Karl Rove national holiday.