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Marking 10 Years Since 9/11/2001
10 years ago today, coordinated terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. killed nearly 3,000 people. It wasn't the first terrorist attack directed against the U.S., or even on U.S. soil, but it was the deadliest, and came at a time of relative peace. Probably most people reading this remember where and how they heard the news. We've often discussed the consequences of the attack: security cordons, ID checks and metal detectors where none existed before, a reexamination of how U.S. policy affects international perception and attitudes, and the encroachment of surveillance policies and technology, to name a few. Today, we don’t want to inundate you with links to tributes and retrospectives, so we’ll offer the only thing we can: a look back at how the day unfolded here. Our thoughts are with everyone who lost friends and family members.
Umm...well..you have to admit that the Towers coming down was cool......kinda like seeing the entire Mexican airforce crash into an oil refinery!
Seriously.....for the other 95% of the worlds population while we all go "Oh wow, that's terrible.."...under our breath we also say '...but amazingly fucking cool too!"..
Come on....the towers collapsing live on TV was like the biggest Michael Bray movie ever!
Way to keep the hater meter pegged dumbass.
Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.
After ten years of this charade I'm still shaking my head. There is NO way the World Trade Towers came down on their own like they did. You can't make a call on a cell phone from an airplane. And the Pentagon is the most unusual case with almost no (believable) physical evidence. And yet the United States has embarked on a "mission" to rid the world of evil, which has driven it to the brink of bankruptcy. I cringe every time I hear "God Bless America". And keep waiting for all this to make sense. Heroes my ass. And all the celebrating only makes the citizens of the U.S. look like the fools they are.
Wait, wait, wait - the parent points out that there are thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians who have been killed or injured by US forces and he's modded "Troll"?!
Why?
And when you think that the US' invasion of Iraq that was justified for different reasons at different times which lead me to believe that the invasion was for bogus reasons to begin with, I can't help thinking that 9/11 was used for an excuse to invade for reasons completely unrelated to 9/11 - *cough* oil *cough*
And there's the innocents in Afghanistan. Their lives are just as important as the Wall Street traders and bankers who were killed in the Twin Tower attacks.
Suicide attacks are always about religion, in some form. A person who doesn't believe in an afterlife finds ways to fight that don't involve his own death.
I would urge everybody to read the official report or at least a short summary. What is glaring is what is not in it:
If anybody calls you a "conspiracy theorist", ask him wether he believes that WTC-7 did not collapse because according to the "official story" it did not. All that "pancake theory"-stuff is just as "inofficial" as Alex Jones.
"this guy died of snake bite, but those 10 guys died while snorkeling, therefore..."
therefore what?!
false equivalency only makes you look like a fool
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Religion? Don't be ridiculous. We occupied their countries, didn't let them import medicine, bombed their factories, and killed their children for decades. Then they came and blew our buildings up, like they told us they were gonna if we didn't leave. And you want to talk about religion?
Stupid fucking militant atheists. It's always religion with you, just like it's always race with the racists. Shut the fuck up.
Hey, I finally got my first freak! Took you long enough!