The same arguements

[nfotxn]

I wonder if she's ever had to deal with famine? Or can't afford anti-biotics? Let's not forget guerilla warfare or summary execution based on prejudice? Probably not.

Oh, but Americans died. It's totally different. It's terrorism, and we're fighting a war against it. Apparently I'm even in on this war.

Frankly I think the terror of sept 11th was coercion into seeing the world beyond our beautiful lives broadcasted live on AOL/TW. Make more money and fuel more ignorance.

It was a minor mistake, the war on terrorism is on it. We'll never have to hear about anything like that again. So go tune into CNN and watch their fantastic 9/11 6-month memorial circus. Sell some commercial time to MS or Acura. Gotta pay for those STARWARS satelite somehow, ya know to fight the war on terrorism.

Same old arguements, same old America. I'm just shootin' my mouth off, everyone who understands the world (that means all the continents) knows what's up and has heard the arguements.

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[kj.livejournal.com]

Hey, don't pin the whiny bitch on us. She's Canadian, you have to claim her.

The rest, I'm right with you on.

[deafeuphoria.livejournal.com]

damn efn straight.

[mathan.livejournal.com]

Admitedly, my thought today was, "It happened, get over it." Now that is more directed to people in on the hoopla, stirring the media frenzy.

If something liked September 11th happened to Canada, the hype just wouldn't be there. Okay, it might, but not the crap we're seeing on TV these days. If this happened in the UK, everything would be a lot more "tasteful" than the patriotic stirring in the US.

I can't stand the bullshit in the American media.

[mathan.livejournal.com]

For the record, my comments are more directed at the US media, rather than this particular article.

[plaidninja.livejournal.com]

I suppose I can't blame Americans for making a big deal out of it because it is a big deal for them, even if it's something that lots of other nations have to deal with on a daily basis.
I do wish they weren't so tacky about it though.

[dancubca.livejournal.com]

funny... I was just thinking about posting a pic of the earth and asking that we remember EVERYONE IN THE WORLD that died in the name of political, or worse, religious differences/dogmas. I'm sure that the list of Americans is a short one in comparison.

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

All I have to say is, here here. Yes, what happened was tragic, but NOTHING will come of DWELLING on it like THIS. In a way, it DOES seem damned selfish. -_-

Land of the Free Home of the Brave

[loganbeary.livejournal.com]

We're not cheap, we're free.

Hurry and get yours today!!!

Supplies are unlimited, so please take as many as you like.

It was amazing how in a matter of 10 minutes, while watching the live coverage 6 months ago, how the number of people working in the towers at that time of day went from 5,000 to 10,000 to 20,000.

And then the estimated #'s on fatalities kept falling afterwards, last I heard it was somewhere around 2,000.

Its amazing how in the land of the free, a show called Politically Incorrect can be pulled because the host suggested that the terrorist were indeed brave and not cowards to die for what they believe in. Of course the moment the show was pulled for that the terrorist won.

Shhh.. don't even suggest that US policies over seas might have had anything to do with 9-11, that people might be justified feeling hatred towards the US because of what the US did to them and theirs.

Personally I wish US policy would go back to being neutral and stop interferring in. I do not vote for candidates so that they can play policeman to the world, but of course, no one I ever voted for ever won, go figure.

[tecknow.livejournal.com]

If I were in her shoes, I'd be happy that I was being left to grieve in peace. All the noise in the states isn't about sharing the grief of the victims, it's about nursing a wounded sense of security. For all the outcry, the vast majority of people didn't do a thing for anyone who actually suffered.

I gave blood,
I laughed, because fags arn't supposed to,
I moved on.

Everything bad in the US has been blamed on 9/11 from my increase in tuition to massive layoffs to bad hairdays. Its a giant get out of accountability free card and it's very annoying.

Canada 9/11

[jamesbeary.livejournal.com]

It seems that Canada had some loss in the 9/11 attacks and even had to bear the burden of handling the incoming international flight that was diverted to Canada. But still, it does not seem right that your country would not remember their loss in that event. It is not right.

[cub4bear.livejournal.com]

9/11 is over. Now it's being used as an excuse for an ever-expanding and increasingly nebulous "war on terrorism" and being used to silence criticism of Bush. What happened to the Anthrax investigation? How come they mysteriously couldn't find the black boxes in the WTC rubble? Why aren't they releasing flight recorder data from the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania? How come Bush doesn't seem to care about where Osama bin Laden is any more?

It's just an excuse for jingoistic American bullshit. Where were the memorials, the endless whining, and the retaliatory "war" by the US when hundreds of thousands of people were being slaughtered in Rwanda?

Oh yeah, they were all black, and they were in some faraway unimportant place. I guess African "savages" don't matter.

[sultmhoor.livejournal.com]

"War on Terrorism" that most of Europe and a good number of "Arab" countries are behind and contributing to. It's not that nebulous, since prior to 9/11/1 the US and Europe and any number of other countries have been working behind the scenes to put as much of the kaibash on as possible. It's just now unguilty, and in the open.

The momentum from a million tons of rubble is just about enough to pulverize most things. The most they're finding of some people who were in the towers are bits of bone, scraps of cloth and skin, a tooth or two. They still have barely 20% of the planes recovered, most of which was found scattered up to several blocks away. Not all black boxes survive crashes. They DID release a number of things from the Pennsylvania black boxes, including that there was cursing and screaming in arabic on that plane before it crashed, as well as all of the reports and recordings of the "Heroic Four" calling their loved ones from cell phones. Is maybe the Canadian media filtering things?

We need an excuse for jingoistic American bullshit? Since when?

African savages don't matter? Why can't most high-tier executives from the DeBeers corporation come to U.S. for fear of being arrested for profiting on the blood of innocents in middle Africa, then? How come the U.S. tried to render humanitarian aid to Somalia if they don't matter?

I find the world's reaction to American outrage and patriotism and foriegn policy to be profoundly neurotic. Not that we as a country don't facilitate the neuroses...

When a country is being plunged into civil war, how come the US with its military might didn't step in to stop the slaughter? Wait, that pisses one of the two (or more) factions off. Ok, the US will back off because of the appearance of being too "Western" in its views of how things should go. You know, democracy vs. ancient tribal customs. Wait! They're calling us isolationist! They're saying we're prosperous and don't want to feed the world which makes us feel guilty! Arrgh! Start sending them halal food! Drop it from planes! Wait. Someone just said that since McDonalds donated money to go to the halal food packets, that they're planning on opening McDonalds in Kabul. NO! It'll destroy the Afghani culture! EEK! Now we're expansionist! Oh nooo! But.. but... no official US policy prevents McDonalds from opening in Moscow! Ack! We backed the enemy of our enemy, those who seemed like a plain ol' good god fearin' religious-based pious ethnic people. Ack! They hired a spoiled brat who got deposed from his home country by daddy and mumsy whose cash comes from the West! What happened to the "good neighbor" nature of Islam, again?

Who is it that decides what's good for the world now, and in the past, and in the future? Is it those that criticise every move the U.S. makes? I wonder if there isn't a whole international market for "those who criticise everything the U.S. does". They certainly are at each other's throats ideologically. Being the 900lb monkey with ostensibly the freest economy and the greatest liberty seems to make us the policeman of the world, the most loved culture, the most hated culture, and the one most reviled when we (moronically or not) step into the cesspool of world affairs.

They don't know for sure yet whether Osama Bin Hidin's dead yet. Last I heard, the military coalition was asking the bin Ladin family for some blood to check whether the people among the dead (or what was left of the dead) were related.

[sultmhoor.livejournal.com]

Reply limits are assinine.

For the record, Bill Maher is still on TV, and still making an ass out of himself, among saying things that make him seem like he's the only one making valid observations, predominantly because he's a most visible guy that has the balls to say them. There are editorial cartoons depicting loved ones of victims as whiners because they dare to curse at the government for not dispensing the 9/11 fund money fast enough. There are editorial cartoons still depicting "W" as a big-eared moron. There are still people picketing "Ground Zero" because they're thinking of rebuilding. Or was it not rebuilding and putting in a memorial? Or was it the US foriegn policy? Or was it the aliens who should've been watching with their time machine eyes and using their gravity beams to stop the 7x7s?

[sultmhoor.livejournal.com]

(Also for the record, in Detroit they sell Halal McNuggets, and it's proudly displayed on the sign in front of the McDonalds on Woodward in Highland Park...)