In retrospect, I should have had my musings the September 11, 2001 attacks on Tuesday, but I didn't think that I had anything to contribute. However, I have reconsidered even if we should also commemorate Augusto Pinochet's bloody, and US supported, coup, which also happened on September 11, but in 1973.
When I first heard about them, I thought the first collision was a pure accident like when that B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945. However, the clear weather of that day and the second plane hit the other World Trade Center tower made horrifically clear that this was no accident.
When that revelation sank in, I had only thought, "Please, let these attacker be another Timothy McVeigh." That is, I was hoping that a native white American militia organization was responsible for this horror like they were in the Oklahoma City Bombing, because if it isn't, then President George W. Bush would able be exploit this for anything he wants to do. Unfortunately, it turns out that Osama Bin Laden was responsible, and Bush and his cronies got to pursue anything they wanted.
I was actually hoping that this incident could have led to Bush and company reexamining US foreign policy to realize what provoked this. Yes that was a naive hope, but it was all I had to cling to. Instead, we were subjected to deceptive blandishments like "They hate our freedom" and stupid appeals to shop
That has led to among other things, the glorified gulag of the Guantanamo detention camp, making a volume of lies and exaggerations for the 2003 Iraq invasion and the draining chaos that followed including the sickening abuses at Abu Ghraib prison. You know, there was a time when the US was famous for their comfy POW camps that were better quarters for many enemy soldiers than their own side's barracks. Furthermore, that policy paid off in World War II with encouraging surrenders, minimizing inmate trouble and getting them to blab any secrets they had. It's just like Bush and company ignore American history and simple common sense from that to do something right in a war.
Finally, whatever the other causes of our economy's turmoil, the trillion dollar public expense has got to have been a contributing factor to our biggest trading partner's troubles.
After all, only a ideological idiot like Bush and his gang would cut taxes during a war; however, I would just love to see what they could have done if they had the chutzpah to do a war bond drive like they did in World War II like this cartoon. This may be violating Godwin's Law but a big reason why Nazi Germany never went for war bonds was that they didn't wanted the German public to have a safe means of criticizing their policies by boycotting them. Regardless, Bush and co. were in no mood to listen to basic sanity anyway.
So, that's at least part of the legacy of 9/11, an attack we are all still paying for in all the miserable ways.
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See WTC7.net
Unless you go back and look again with 20/20 hindsight, you will never see "what really happened". There is so MUCH evidence to reveal that insiders of our own government were involved, including the Bush family (Presidents brother's company was in charge of "security" at 911 AND Oklahoma!..not to mention arms dealing contracts for his daddy's company).ALL structures could NOT have collapsed without additional explosives (which had clearly been planted before hand at BOTH locations! Building 7's owner admitted to having it "pulled" (destroyed with charges) which takes weeks or months to prepare! It was simply "a new Pearl Harbor" to get us into war after war after war to enrich the Industrial Military Complex big money boys at the expense of our country's economy and our son's blood! May God DAMN these evil greedy men. Though man's courts let them go with "handslaps" the courts of Heaven have them numbered and they will answer to God for their sins.
Like ALL conspiracy theories, we all go on for YEARS talking ourselves blue in the face about the Federal Reserve, Kennedy, 911, Pearl Harbor (SURPRISE?) Attack, Oklahoma City, etc.etc.etc. But REALLY NOW... If we in this modern age we have such systems of surveillance and justice set in place, can you imagine our mighty GOD and HIS setup? Don't worry folks...He sees it all, and has the WHOLE world in His hands. He will NOT MISS A THING, so put your fears, and anger, and judgmental feelings into a bundle of faith and give it to HIM, and then relax as otherwise we all will go insane trying to judge all the wrongs being committed on our planet. He will RENEW our planet and destroy the wicked, leaving us with a NEW earth and His own righteous rule. If we try to take it into our own judgmental minds, we will find ourselves becoming the same monsters that we are attempting to judge.
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