9/11 Words, Images, and The Resulting War: An Overall Picture
A video tribute
People talking
9-11 Commission
President Bush and his thoughts (he thinks!) !
Notice that he said, "It was an amazing thought." Poor choice of words!
The Iraq War-This supposedly is somehow supposed to be related to what happened on 9/11, though how has never really been explained and certainly never proven!
I think most of these speak for themselves. I never shut up,however, so I am going to say a few things. The terrible tragedy that happened 5 years ago has been exploited to further the agendas of certain politicians, namely President George W. Bush. Every time an invasion is going to happen, President Bush says it has something to do with 9/11 without offering anything near to proof. Was Osama Bin Laden (forgive me if I've misspelled in this) hiding in Afganistan? If so, why couldn't he be found? And where were the WMD in Iraq? Are they hiding in the basement of some little old lady's now demolished house? Is President Bush going to blame his every foolish decision on 9/11? It looks that way to me.
The following information comes from this website:
National Security
"We're engaged in a global struggle against the followers of a murderous ideology that despises freedom and crushes all dissent, and has territorial ambitions and pursues totalitarian aims. … And against such an enemy there is only one effective response: We will never back down, we will never give in and we will never accept anything less than complete victory. … We will defeat the terrorists and their hateful ideology by spreading the hope of freedom across the world. … The security of our nation depends on the advance of liberty in other nations."
President George W. Bush
July 4, 2006
"On September 5, 2006, The President Released His Updated National Strategy For Combating Terrorism (NSCT), Which Outlines The United States Government Strategy To Protect And Defend American Interests At Home And Abroad From Terrorism. In the years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States, along with our partners, have waged a relentless war against the terrorists using all elements of national power and influence. We have made substantial progress in degrading the al-Qaida network, killing or capturing key lieutenants, eliminating safehavens, and disrupting existing lines of support.
Today, the United States is battling a transnational terrorist movement fueled by a radical ideology of hatred, oppression, and murder.
To win the War on Terror, the United States will continue to lead an expansive international effort to:
Defeat violent extremism as a threat to our way of life as a free and open society.
Create a global environment inhospitable to violent extremists and their supporters."
How can there ever be a victory? What exactly are they fighting? A concept? An ideology? President Bush claims time and again all this war is because of 9/11. He has this theory that there was this big conspiracy or something like that. Only in his mind! On a less sarcastic note, one thing I have learned is that a good theory has the potential to be falsifiable (thank you DR Walz). This means that it is open to be disproven if it isn't true! Yet he sets things up in such a way that they can neither be proven nor disproven. Are we just supposed to swallow his theory whole? He still hasn't given any evidence on how Iraq is linked to 9/11. Again, only in his mind! I'm obviously sick of all the claims of things being done in the name of protecting America after 9/11 when there's no proof that it has anything to do with it.
Lisa Messenger
People talking
9-11 Commission
President Bush and his thoughts (he thinks!) !
Notice that he said, "It was an amazing thought." Poor choice of words!
The Iraq War-This supposedly is somehow supposed to be related to what happened on 9/11, though how has never really been explained and certainly never proven!
I think most of these speak for themselves. I never shut up,however, so I am going to say a few things. The terrible tragedy that happened 5 years ago has been exploited to further the agendas of certain politicians, namely President George W. Bush. Every time an invasion is going to happen, President Bush says it has something to do with 9/11 without offering anything near to proof. Was Osama Bin Laden (forgive me if I've misspelled in this) hiding in Afganistan? If so, why couldn't he be found? And where were the WMD in Iraq? Are they hiding in the basement of some little old lady's now demolished house? Is President Bush going to blame his every foolish decision on 9/11? It looks that way to me.
The following information comes from this website:
National Security
"We're engaged in a global struggle against the followers of a murderous ideology that despises freedom and crushes all dissent, and has territorial ambitions and pursues totalitarian aims. … And against such an enemy there is only one effective response: We will never back down, we will never give in and we will never accept anything less than complete victory. … We will defeat the terrorists and their hateful ideology by spreading the hope of freedom across the world. … The security of our nation depends on the advance of liberty in other nations."
President George W. Bush
July 4, 2006
"On September 5, 2006, The President Released His Updated National Strategy For Combating Terrorism (NSCT), Which Outlines The United States Government Strategy To Protect And Defend American Interests At Home And Abroad From Terrorism. In the years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States, along with our partners, have waged a relentless war against the terrorists using all elements of national power and influence. We have made substantial progress in degrading the al-Qaida network, killing or capturing key lieutenants, eliminating safehavens, and disrupting existing lines of support.
Today, the United States is battling a transnational terrorist movement fueled by a radical ideology of hatred, oppression, and murder.
To win the War on Terror, the United States will continue to lead an expansive international effort to:
Defeat violent extremism as a threat to our way of life as a free and open society.
Create a global environment inhospitable to violent extremists and their supporters."
How can there ever be a victory? What exactly are they fighting? A concept? An ideology? President Bush claims time and again all this war is because of 9/11. He has this theory that there was this big conspiracy or something like that. Only in his mind! On a less sarcastic note, one thing I have learned is that a good theory has the potential to be falsifiable (thank you DR Walz). This means that it is open to be disproven if it isn't true! Yet he sets things up in such a way that they can neither be proven nor disproven. Are we just supposed to swallow his theory whole? He still hasn't given any evidence on how Iraq is linked to 9/11. Again, only in his mind! I'm obviously sick of all the claims of things being done in the name of protecting America after 9/11 when there's no proof that it has anything to do with it.
Lisa Messenger
posted by CatholicGirlie at 9:58 PM
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