9/11 versus other realities

[RedCloud]

Unlike almost all of you, I am horrified by the extreme attention given to 9/11. This is the Republican rally cry for how "great" they were at keeping us protected.

The jingoism prevalent yesterday was out of control. Did we need to hear 7 digit salary announcers telling us we are the greatest? What is the proof of this? Merely mouth opened and said it? Are our troops really allowing us to see football?

My reality is that the 9/11 military action figures of my community were slumbering and partying AFTER 9/11, almost like they knew a heavy pay boost was coming. At most jobs you get fired for incompetence, not pay hiked.

And then there is the nauseating self serving W who gathered up all the victims' family donations (which were private, not government in nature)and made those families PROMISE NOT TO SUE HIM BY WAIVING THEIR RIGHTS OR NO MONEY! Will we have a ten year remembrance of THAT?

And now for the 3,000 dead. Yes I know that is a large number. As I told close friends at the time, "Watch and you will see how we only remember that 2 towers fell!" They said I was crazy, that everyone would remember 4 buildings fell. Well, who's crazy NOW?

And so 3,000 died, mainly of US birth. To put that into the Jewish Holocaust perspective, that means there would be five and one half years of "9/11" EVERY day. If William Jefferson Clinton was correct in his statement about the Soviet Union losing 57,000,000 to WWII that would be over 50 years, every day another 9/11. The slaughter of Native Americans and the killings of those from Africa would be each around a century long of 9/11s every day. And that is back when there were not so many people on the planet so I don't know what that would be in today's more populated numbers.

I understand the tragedy that unfolded there. I also believe that if Obama had been the President we would be remembering it as a moment of weakness rather than solidarity.

[Javaman]

1. the more 9/11 is "celebrated", george w. moron* escapes responsibility of it happing on his* watch.

see how the propaganda works?

[murphyj87]

2. 450,000 dead......

Having insurance company bureaucrats making medical decisions while being wedged between Americans and their physicians has killed 450,000 Americans since 9/11. The United States has an insurance run health care system ranked 19th in the industrialized world, which is responsible for killing 45,000 Americans each year on an ongoing basis (450,000 in 10 years), and Americans don't bat an eyelash about it, while they bathe themselves in self pity for the death of 3000 in three little buildings in a little one time thing.