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Can you believe these people in there think we PROVOKED 9/11 AND HAD IT COMING?
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Hard to believe that there are actually people who can think that way, especially Americans. Here is another article you might like. It was written by a British journalist.
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Tony Parsons Daily Mirror September 11, 2002
One year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of
broadcasting - the mass murder of thousands, live on television.
As a lesson in the pitiless cruelty of the human race, September 11
was up there with Pol Pot's Mountain of Skulls in Cambodia, or
the skeletal bodies stacked like garbage in the Nazi
concentration camps.
An unspeakable act so cruel, so calculated and so utterly merciless that
surely the world could agree on one thing - nobody deserves this fate.
Surely there could be consensus: The victims were truly innocent, the
perpetrators truly evil.
But to the world's eternal shame, 9/11 is increasingly seen as America's
comeuppance. Incredibly, anti-Americanism has increased over the last
year. There has always been a simmering resentment to the USA in this
country; too loud, too rich, too full of themselves, and so much happier
than Europeans - but it has become an epidemic.
And it seems incredible to me. More than that, it turns my stomach.
America is this country's greatest friend and our staunchest ally.
We are bonded to the US by culture, language and blood.
A little over half a century ago, around half a million Americans died
for our freedoms, as well as their own. Have we forgotten so soon? And
exactly a year ago, thousands of ordinary men, women and children -
not just Americans, but from dozens of countries, were butchered by
a small group of religious fanatics! Are we so quick to betray them?
What touched the heart about those who died in the Twin Towers
and on the planes, was that we recognized them.
Young fathers and mothers, somebody's son and somebody' s daughter,
husbands, wives, and children, some unborn.
And these people brought it on themselves? Their nation is to blame for their meticulously planned slaughter?
These days you don' t have to be some dust-encrusted nut job
in Kabul or Karachi or Finsbury Park to see America as the Great Satan.
The anti-American alliance is made up of self-loathing liberals who
blame the Americans for every ill in the Third World, and conservatives
suffering from power-envy, bitter that the world's only superpower can
do what it likes without having to ask permission.
The truth is that America has behaved with enormous restraint since
September 11.
Remember, remember -
Remember the gut-wrenching tapes of weeping men phoning their
wives to say, "I love you," before they were burned alive.
Remember those people leaping to their deaths from the top of burning
skyscrapers.
Remember the hundreds of firemen buried alive.
Remember the smiling face of that beautiful little girl who was
on one of the planes with her mum.
Remember, remember -
And realize that America has never retaliated for 9/11 in anything like
the way it could have.
So a few al-Qaeda tourists got locked up without a trial in Camp
X-ray? Pass the Kleenex...
So some Afghan wedding receptions were shot up after they merrily
fired their semi-automatics in a sky full of American planes?
A shame, but maybe next time they should stick to confetti.
AMERICA could have turned a large chunk of the world
into a parking lot.
That it didn' t is a sign of strength. American voices are already
being raised against attacking Iraq - that's what a democracy is for.
How many in the Islamic world will have a minute's silence for the
slaughtered innocents of 9/11?
How many Islamic leaders will have the guts to say that the
mass murder of 9/11 was an abomination?
When the news of 9/11 broke on the West Bank, those freedom-loving
Palestinians were dancing in the street. America watched all of that -
and didn't push the button.
We should thank the stars that America is the most powerful nation
in the world. I still find it incredible that 9/11 did not provoke all-out war.
Not a "war on terrorism." A real war.
The fundamentalist dudes are talking about "opening the gates of hell,"
if America attacks Iraq. Well, America could have opened the gates of
hell like you wouldn' t believe.
The US is the most militarily powerful nation that ever strode the face
of the earth. The campaign in Afghanistan may have been less than
perfect and the planned war on Iraq may be misconceived.
But don't blame America for not bringing peace and light to these
wretched countries. How many democracies are there in the
Middle East, or in the Muslim world? You can count them on the
fingers of one hand - assuming you haven't had any chopped off
for minor shoplifting.
I love America, yet America is hated. I guess that makes me Bush's
poodle. But I would rather be a dog in New York City than a Prince in
Riyadh.
Above all, America is hated because it is what every country wants
to be - rich, free, strong, open, optimistic. Not ground down by the
past, or religion, or some caste system.
America is the best friend this country ever had and we should start
remembering that.
Or do you really think the USA is the root of all evil? Tell it to the
loved ones of the men and women who leaped to their death
from the burning towers.
Tell it to the nursing mothers whose husbands died on one of the
hijacked planes, or were ripped apart in a collapsing skyscraper.
And tell it to the hundreds of young widows whose husbands
worked for the New York Fire Department.
To our shame, George Bush gets worse press than Saddam Hussein.
Once we were told that Saddam gassed the Kurds, tortured his own people
And set up rape-camps in Kuwait.
Now we are told he likes Quality Street. Save me the orange
center, Oh Mighty One!
Remember, remember, September 11 -
One of the greatest atrocities in human history was committed
against America.
No, do more than remember; never forget!
Can you re-post that letter from Canadian supporting USA?
