The 9-11 Hijackers Redux
Originally posted on September 11, 2006.
The ones who used 9-11 to hijack the country, that is.
The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, were unspeakably vile. What is even more vile (and I use the phrase deliberately: more vile) is the way the thugs running our country have exploited those attacks to their own craven political ends. It will surely go down as the most extraordinary act of national treachery in our history.
Who would have thought, in those stunned days after 9-11, that while the rest of us were traumatized and sickened, our leaders in Washington were already calculating how to profit from the horror? To the American people 9-11 was a nightmare; to the neocons and neofascists in the GOP, it was a dream come true. Just what we need, they thought. Now, how can we use this to justify that war we’ve been planning? How can we use this to get rid of those pesky civil liberties and that annoying rule of law? How can we use this to establish a GOP dictatorship?
Five years on, and thanks to Bush and the other hijackers pictured above, the 9-11 terrorists have won. We are now the most hated nation in the world. Millions of Muslims are united against us. Whatever moral standing we used to have has evaporated: we are now known around the globe as a nation that tortures, a nation that “disappears” people, a nation that spies on its own citizens, a nation that stifles dissent, a nation that invades other countries without provocation, a nation that cannot be trusted.
Those nineteen hijackers accomplished quite a bit.
3 Responses to “The 9-11 Hijackers Redux”
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Pastor Al E Pistle says:
I blame the Clintons.
September 11th, 2007 at 2:01 am EST -
Victoria says:
Glad you recycled this post, I missed it last year.
Respect.
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Mary Tracy9 says:
Well said. Now you just have to make the connection that the 9/11 was, most likely, AN INSIDE JOB.
I strongly recommend LOOSE CHANGE (documentary)
