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Phil:
9-11, the innocent that died, the terrorists who stalk us. Thursday
9/11 put a sign in your window, yard, your car. It only needs to be two
words - NEVER Forget

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I'm unlikely to forget this dastardly crime, but I'm not going to dwell
on it and get maudlin over it. Instead of making a sign, I think I'll
spend some time reading Al-ahram and As-sharq Al-awsat and An-nahar to
try to better understand the world I live in. I especially need to
understand why so many good folks around the world sympathized with us
but, at the same time, thought that we had it coming.

Davoud

Davoud,

Let me put this to you real succinctly and save you some reading time.
Those people died because the Islamic fundamentalists who indoctrinated
them hate the freedom those in the west have and view it as a threat to
their way of life -- i.e. their radical brand of Islam. The way we
could have prevented the attack -- had the US converted to their brand
of Islam and worshipped at the feet of their Ayatollahs while killing
all Christians and others who defied their will -- that would have
satsified them. Oh, in case killing Christians doesn't sound so bad to
you, all homosexuals, adulterers, and those who question the absolute
authority of those Ayatollahs also would fall into the category of "must
be killed to appease" category.

I find it absolutely absurd that somehow people think that the way to
solve these kinds of problems is to read their literature and
"understand" the terrorists. Perhaps that was our mistake in WWII, we
should have attempted to "understand" Hitler and Tojo. Believe it or
not, there are people in this world who have as their sole motivation
the subjugation and enslavement of others -- and not in the ivory-
towered ephemeral made-up world of "enslaved to wages" or "subjugated to
the rich people supported by a Republican administration" but in the
real, guns, bullets, real physical torture sense of the phrase.

A President lied to us with the terrible consequence that a woman had
to send her dress to the cleaners. Another President came along and
lied to us and the only thing that happened was that thousands of
innocent people died. Jeez! Go figure!

Ah, now I see -- this puts your prior statement into perspective. The
fact that millions of innocent lives have been freed and many thousands
saved from a brutal dictator's torture and killing, the fact that our
troops weren't gassed indicates our president lied, despite the
overwhelming intelligence at the time that indicated a chemical threat.