9/11 over rated?

[GeZe]

no in the media attention it got for the amount of people that died

[cystic crypt]

nope. Not yet.
not in the volume.
This wasn’t some little blip - some little accident. This was an act of war, and the destruction of thousands of ordinary people by evil forces.
If this was a battle where this happened, we would have grief for a while, but other news events and battles would eventually overwhelm it. This is different. Everyone who died was a non-combattant, and many died heroes - trying to save the lives of others. Each person who died is, has, and leaves behind many stories. You can’t capture the ethos inherent to the event in a few weeks or even years.
Compound these events with the security measures that it inspired, the massive manhunts and conflict in Afghanistan, and the event seems even greater, if only because of the media spin-offs.
There’s too much there for it to “just die already!”.

[TG Moses VI]

well put. 8)

[GeZe]

it was not an act of war.
it was terrisam.
lots of non-combatants died in afganastan.
the conflict in afganistan was inspiered because of the attenchan it got.
lots of non-cobatants that died in afganistan had stories to.

[cystic crypt]

@GeZe:

it was not an act of war.
it was terrisam.

it was both.

lots of non-combatants died in afganastan…

true. and so did lots of combatants. Just b/c the gov’t of Afghanistan did not formally declare war on the US, they might as well have for their actions, as well as lack of actions.

the conflict in afganistan was inspiered because of the attenchan it got.
lots of non-cobatants that died in afganistan had stories to.

true - another reason for all of the 9/11 hype. we’ve had more than a few articles of various “accidents” by allied (read: American) forces in Afghanistan

[TG Moses VI]

At least, there weren’t any coverups then. :)

To be killed by friendly fire… that’s one of the worst ways to die as a soldier on the field.

[GeZe]

ya an american bomber killed 4 canadians :evil:

[TG Moses VI]

Yea, we went over that before. Poor Canucks. :(

[GeZe]

US pilot facing mansloter

[TG Moses VI]

Doubtful he will get convicted.

[GeZe]

ya the victoms familys just want him fired

[cystic crypt]

i’m just happy that the US is making a stink about it. Sure they were idiots, and they shouldn’t fly again,
but they were over-eager, not trying to kill allies.
just so long as the next ones are more careful

[TG Moses VI]

Friendly fire happened a lot more often in the Desert Storm, and weren’t reported as much. So this is more of a way of asking for forgiveness.

[Guest]

ya Ive seen videos on CNN of th US troops hitting US troops.

[TG Moses VI]

Yeah, they even made a movie of it once. I can’t remember the name but it was based on a tank commander(?) [Denzel Washington?] opening fire on his own men during the intense night battles of Desert Storm.

[GeZe]

@Anonymous:

ya Ive seen videos on CNN of th US troops hitting US troops.

opps that was me :oops:

[mini_phreek]

your thinking of “Cruage under fire”

any way. heres my take on 9/11, first i’d like to apolagise in advance for anything that may ofend you people. i tend to be a little more outspocken then usale on these kinds of topics.
ok a few thousand incent civilans died at the hands of mercilus terorists. thats how the media in both our countrys have presented it, right?
lets take it from a diferent point of view shell we.
in an impoverished nation, war stricken and starving. instede of giving this poor nation help, the most powful nation turns a blind eye to it. simple becase of whos in power in the impoverished nation. so after a wile the people living in the gutter start to get upset at the nation that should be helping them but is not becase of there own interests. so these people decide to strike back at this selfish rich nation by using there own machines agenst them. so using nothing more then knives razer blades they take over 4 air planes and crash them into the heart of the nation. giving up ther own lives for what they belive in. to attack at the greedy curupt rich snobs that have forgoton about ther sufering.

now heres a diferent idea, now how could this hapen completly under the nose of the US athoritys. simple they wanted it to hapan, ok they did’nt want them to blow up the WTC but the bush administration wanted a terorist attack in amarica so he could get suport to go play with his new military toys in the sand. he just had no idea how bad it was going to be.

i could go on with the rest of amarican hypocrycy but i’ll save that for a diferent thread.

[Yanny]

The US has spent hundreds of thousands per EACH AIDS VICTIM because of the fear and rantings of the gay community.

Completely false. Aids victims have a 85%+ death rate. Money is very rarely spent on them individually. And I myself have yet to see one outcry from the gay community about aids.

Aids is the most serious disease ever to sweep our race. Worse than the Black Plague. Worse than the Spanish Flu. Aids is the pinacle of Darwenism. The perfect virus. We need to fight this disease, because it doesn’t go away like other diseases. In fact, it doesn’t kill you, it lets other viruses do that. If Aids is not controlled, researched, and cured, hundreds of millions of people are slowly going to rot away.

[TG Moses VI]

And I myself have yet to see one outcry from the gay community about aids.

I don’t know, there was a pretty big outcry in California a while back…

If Aids is not controlled, researched, and cured, hundreds of millions of people are slowly going to rot away.

Doubtful it can be cured… the answer lies in containing it and through education

[cystic crypt]

AIDS can be prevented. That’s a hell of a lot better than many cancers and heart diseases.
How do i not get AIDS now???
I stop being an idiot.
Very very simple.