"Make no mistake: The United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts."
-George W. Bush, September 11, 2001
It seems to me like hijacking four airplanes and jamming three of them into buildings, killing 3000 people is a pretty gutsy thing to do. I don't understand what he meant by cowardly.
Dictionary says:
cowardly
adj : lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted;
What are people's thoughts?
2006-08-23 06:52:34 · 12 answers · asked by Peter 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Ah....Ignore Bush...he is stupid!
2006-08-23 06:58:27 · answer #1 · answered by Japan_is_home 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Cowardly in the sense that these people attacked a country they were not technically at war with. The same thing applied when the Japanese attacked Perl Harbor. Both groups acted cowardly in giving America a "sucker punch" without any warning.
2006-08-23 07:04:20 · answer #2 · answered by BobbyD 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Political rhetoric. By using the word 'cowardly' it places the perpetrators in a category - 'treacherous' is probably nearer the mark. He terms them cowardly because there was no advance warning of a terrorist attack against civilians, unlike Pearl Harbour which was an attack to begin a war, made against mainly military targets.
2006-08-23 07:00:58 · answer #3 · answered by limey_not_lime 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-11 13:51:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your very point is what got Bill Mahr moved to HBO. The president means by cowardly that they killed innocent men and women in their attack. A non cowardly attack would be on our armed forces i guess.
2006-08-23 07:00:51 · answer #5 · answered by brokolay 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I seem to remember Bill Maher saying the same thing.
2006-08-23 06:58:08 · answer #6 · answered by JB 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cowards are terrorist to pretend to be soldiers and hide behind women and children during the battle.
2006-08-23 06:58:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't take courage to attack civilians. If they faced our military head to head, that would be courage.
2006-08-23 06:57:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not worth trying to explain to a dick head like you..
2006-08-23 06:56:29 · answer #9 · answered by angelo26 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know, but somehow he made it seem that Iraq was somehow responsable.
2006-08-23 07:03:57 · answer #10 · answered by Demon of hand-writing analysis 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they took their own lives in committing these acts...just as hitler took his own life...cowardly.
2006-08-23 06:55:15 · answer #11 · answered by bushfan88 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋