Larry Gude
Strung Out
...smuggled liquid bombs by suicide bombers suspected. Prelimenary lists show among the missing are Massechusetts Congressman Barney Frank and televangelist Pat Robertson. Pro football hall of famer Joe Montana is also feared to have been on one of the lost flights.
Any chance I have your attention? Feel a little different there for a moment? Focusing on anything bedsides travel inconveneince?
No, it hasn't happened...yet. Would ANY of you be surprised if it did happen? When it does happen or is 9/11 now just a movie? Are we gonna ignore yet another close call and just be happy it didn't happen today while, in all honesty, just waiting to act until it does happen...again?
What should we have done had the first Trade Tower attack toppled both buildings, as intended, and killed 50,000? Why didn't we act? Just because only 6 died and a parking deck was messed up?
How about the USS Cole? What if the magazine had been breached and it went up with all hands? What should we have done? Why didn't we act? Just because only 17 sailors were lost?
How about the Embassies? What if the truck bombs had pierced the walls and killed all US personel instead of 250 locals?
This is not a political issue. It is not partisan. All of the above happened under leadership of one major party, 9/11/2001 under another. War was delcared on us in 1997 and is still ongoing, the enemy not having sued for peace or quit. If Democrats say Republicans are doing it wrong, fine. Argue you can do a better job, not quit. Tell me you are going to kill and destroy every single US enemy you can get your hands on until they are all dead or they quit.
Don't tell me it's this group or that group, that it's Americans fault when all three people and their very different backgrounds on my fake list are targets. All of us. Americans. Free people. THAT is what they hate, not left or right; freedom.
Quit arguing over why we'd be better off with Saddam Hussein in power. He's our enemy. Get over it.
People, the battle is defined, the conditions for peace set; Osama set it. We meet the challenge and defeat radical Islam or it defeats us. One building at a time. One plane at a time. It's not about what we do, it's about who we are. They say so.
Once again, had this latest plot worked, how would we feel? How would we act? Why would we act ANY different simply because they missed...this time?
Any chance I have your attention? Feel a little different there for a moment? Focusing on anything bedsides travel inconveneince?
No, it hasn't happened...yet. Would ANY of you be surprised if it did happen? When it does happen or is 9/11 now just a movie? Are we gonna ignore yet another close call and just be happy it didn't happen today while, in all honesty, just waiting to act until it does happen...again?
What should we have done had the first Trade Tower attack toppled both buildings, as intended, and killed 50,000? Why didn't we act? Just because only 6 died and a parking deck was messed up?
How about the USS Cole? What if the magazine had been breached and it went up with all hands? What should we have done? Why didn't we act? Just because only 17 sailors were lost?
How about the Embassies? What if the truck bombs had pierced the walls and killed all US personel instead of 250 locals?
This is not a political issue. It is not partisan. All of the above happened under leadership of one major party, 9/11/2001 under another. War was delcared on us in 1997 and is still ongoing, the enemy not having sued for peace or quit. If Democrats say Republicans are doing it wrong, fine. Argue you can do a better job, not quit. Tell me you are going to kill and destroy every single US enemy you can get your hands on until they are all dead or they quit.
Don't tell me it's this group or that group, that it's Americans fault when all three people and their very different backgrounds on my fake list are targets. All of us. Americans. Free people. THAT is what they hate, not left or right; freedom.
Quit arguing over why we'd be better off with Saddam Hussein in power. He's our enemy. Get over it.
People, the battle is defined, the conditions for peace set; Osama set it. We meet the challenge and defeat radical Islam or it defeats us. One building at a time. One plane at a time. It's not about what we do, it's about who we are. They say so.
Once again, had this latest plot worked, how would we feel? How would we act? Why would we act ANY different simply because they missed...this time?