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Undertoad · 03-12-2002, 10:18 PM

Most of the remembrance was not connected to the government.

All of it was optional, and a lot of people decided to opt in.

And I'll repeat what I said earlier about the paranoid left. Really making the paranoid right look pretty good by comparison. When the whole thing started, we were going to carpet bomb the Afghans? Then we were going to starve the Afghans to death? Then we were targeting civilians? Then we'd killed 3500 of them? We were mistreating prisoners? False, false, false, false, false.

The carpet bombing is right here, and it's not bombs, it's stupid rumors from speculative, wishful-thinking pundits.

And if you think that remembrance of the last terrorist attack gives an administration the political will to wage war, <i>just imagine what another terrorist attack would do</i>. Given the choice of remembering the last one - and experiencing another one because we didn't have the will to continue the damn effort - I say let's take a TV night out to remember the last one.

03-12-2002, 10:18 PM	#19
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Most of the remembrance was not connected to the government. All of it was optional, and a lot of people decided to opt in. And I'll repeat what I said earlier about the paranoid left. Really making the paranoid right look pretty good by comparison. When the whole thing started, we were going to carpet bomb the Afghans? Then we were going to starve the Afghans to death? Then we were targeting civilians? Then we'd killed 3500 of them? We were mistreating prisoners? False, false, false, false, false. The carpet bombing is right here, and it's not bombs, it's stupid rumors from speculative, wishful-thinking pundits. And if you think that remembrance of the last terrorist attack gives an administration the political will to wage war, <i>just imagine what another terrorist attack would do</i>. Given the choice of remembering the last one - and experiencing another one because we didn't have the will to continue the damn effort - I say let's take a TV night out to remember the last one.