The Greatest Tragedy since 9/11/2001 was

[cthulu2016]

the Iraq War.




Duh.

[niyad]

1. afghanistan, pakistan, yemen, somalia, sudan, the patriot act, etc., etc.

[EarthWindFire]

3. yup

the list continues to grow, it's pretty crazy

[niyad]

11. deepwater horizon, katrina, sandy, and on, and on. . . .

[Angry Dragon]

2. bush

[Aristus]

4. One of the most cynical expressions of "It's-wrong-if-some-other-country-does-it-but-it's-okay-if-we

-do-it" in history.

B*sh and the neo-cons could have given Joseph Goebbels lessons in propanganda. This horrible, disgusting, tragic farce of a war will forever be known as, and referred to in the history books as, Operation Iraqi Freedom. Prompting apologists for this blatant oil-grab to bellow: "What? You didn't want the Iraqis to be FREE?"

[SidDithers]

5. The Indonesian Tsunami?...nt

Sid

[cthulu2016]

8. My sense of Tragedy

An act of God is horrible, but less tragic in the sense that it isn't usually preventable... lacks human agency. It is a disaster.

9/11 was not really a tragedy either. It was a crime.

The pointless murder of thousands and thousands by a large Democracy based on fear, greed, ambition, confusion and flat-out stupidity is, to me, the essence of tragedy.

Iraq was also a crime, of course. But a crime perpetrated by every American who supported it, and many of those acting out of pathetic ignorance.

To me, shooting your own child thinking her to be a burglar is truly tragic... in the ancient Greek sense. Your flawed desire to protect your children kills your children.

And killing more Americans than died on 9/11 to get even for 9/11 with some people who had nothing to do with 9/11 also qualifies.

[brucefan]

6. It was the day

The idiot son of Ron Paul was elected to the senate.

[srican69]

7. lets get serious ... it was the financial meltdown that affected all of us directly or indirectly

[magical thyme]

9. leaving thousands of our fellow citizens thirsty, hungry and dying for weeks

and starving and shooting their pets, following the worst hurricane in our history, has to be right up there too.

Deliberately blocking aid (Walmart's, for all their sins, had truckloads of bottled water deliberately stopped).

And then joking about Katrina cleaning up the ghettos.

Tragic, maybe. Shameful for sure.

[niyad]

10. I was going to add katrina, and probably sandy, because the response to both has been

disgusting.