More 9/11 Links

• Debra:

  It is past time for us to quit wallowing in self-pity and to remember that this country used to stand for freedom, democracy, a good standard of living, fresh air and an urge to improve the future. NOT: hiding in the dark, scared of some elusive bogeyman and willing to give up hundreds of years of freedoms in a futile attempt to make everything "safer".
  
  If you want safer, improve the working conditions of the coal mines, poultry plants, infrastructure, and construction sites. Protecting oneself does not mean turning in your neighbors, restricting travel to a select few, being photographed wherever you go (what will the paparazzi do?), with all your financial, medical, credit and employment information available to anyone with a "badge". This does not make you safer, it makes you trackable. Like a UPS package.

• The Dark Wraith:

  Since 2001, Mr. Bush and his allies in Congress have spent $430 billion waging a "global war on terror." This world-wide engagement includes large-scale wars in two countries, Iraq and Afghanistan, where a total of approximately 3,000 American soldiers have been killed, along with perhaps 70,000 civilians.
  
  Yet, despite all of the thousands upon thousands of lives lost, the hundreds of billions of dollars spent, and the nearly two thousand days since the United States fell victim to the largest attack in history on its continental soil, the man in the picture at right, above, is still free, and by President Bush's own testament we must remain fearful because al-Qa'ida—as well as other, similar terrorist organizations—remains a clear and present threat to the United States and its citizens.

• Badtux:

  So what changed on 9/11? Nothing. Utterly nothing. The risks facing this nation were no different on 9/10/2001 than they were on 9/12/2001....Nothing changed, other than that the most incompetent, most corrupt administration in American history managed to put together a successful propaganda campaign to convince similarly craven members of their generation that they were the saviors of America against some sort of imaginary existential threat.

[That's all, folks]