Reply #1: 9/11 changed everything [View All]

[skygazer]

You know, I am so sick of that statement. The only reason 9/11 changed everything is because the Bush administration USED it to change everything.

I read a chilling article the other day that was posted here - in it, an aide to Bush told the author that guys like him (the author) were "in what we call the reality-based community" which was described as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." He went on to say that that's not the way the world really works anymore. "We're an empire now," he said, "and when we act, we create our own reality."

Terrorism has been around since long before 9/11 and countries around the world have been dealing with it with varying success for a lot longer than we have. Terrorism has been used here on our soil, in Oklahoma City and in the first WTC bombing. It is merely George W. Bush's fantasy that makes him believe that 9/11 somehow changed things and that we are the only nation in the world capable of dealing with terrorism.

The boogyman that Bush uses to frighten people is a false image and it really pisses me off that our representatives in Congress and the media have allowed him to use it that way. FDR said, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." George Bush says, "Be afraid, be very afraid."

I say, "Fuck you, George."