"Seeing Jane Fonda Saturday was enough to make me wish the unthinkable: it will take another terror attack on American soil in order to render these left-leaning crazies irrelevant again. Remember how quiet they were after 9/11? No one dared take them seriously. It was the United States against the terrorist world, just like it should be."
-Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Mike Gallagher (Radio host/ Fox political pundit)
Mike Gallagher's comments are not an isolated instance. Similar thoughts have been expressed to varying degrees by a number of republicans and democrats over the past few years. There are many who seem to look fondly on the 9/11 attacks because they provided an excuse to push through domestic and international policies they themselves had long advocated, but could not muster enough support to implement.
Many are manipulating our fears, it is true, but it's clearly out of a conviction of the rightness of their cause. Does this make it right?
2007-02-13 09:14:33 · 8 answers · asked by big-brother 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
(JJ)
Like amnesty for illegal immigrants?
2007-02-13 09:21:22 · update #1
no 9/11 wasn't good, but it did force republicans to start supporting things Clinton proposed before he left office, that they didn't when he was in.
2007-02-13 09:17:26 · answer #1 · answered by jj 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Obviously, there is truly nothing good about the events of 9/11.
However, the point he was trying to make isn't completely lost on most people who have a grasp on reality. The events of 9/11 absolutely shattered the "live and let live" idealistic liberals in this country when the reality finally set in - these Islamic radicals want to kill us?
It's sad that these events, horrific as they were, have faded into their memories and they are back on their fantasy band wagon of unrealistic agendas and fairy tail solutions to the real threats and problems presently facing our nation. Sad, indeed.
2007-02-13 10:02:16 · answer #2 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, we need some more policies like they pushed through because of 9-11. You remember. The "illegal wiretapping policy". The "putting people in prison without telling them what their charges were policy". The "torturing prisoners is now ok policy". The "secret Eastern European prisons policy". Maybe another 9-11 would let them push through some more winners like those.
2007-02-13 09:28:29 · answer #3 · answered by drea376 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
No. These people are Fascists, with twisted views of what they think America should be. God save us from the likes of them.
2007-02-13 09:25:06 · answer #4 · answered by blackdahiliamurder 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You are freakin' scary, man. You want another terrorist attack to quiet liberals????
You have been reported to the dept of homeland security. You better thow your computer out the window before they detonate it.
2007-02-13 09:23:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Mike gallagher is a TYPICALLY HATEFUL hatemonger who is, ahem ,"conservative".
Its enough to make you sick.
Look at all the good christians in the south who though 9-11 was a hoot because it killed jews and gays in New York.
Conservative "moral values" my asss.
2007-02-13 09:19:24 · answer #6 · answered by Cut The Crap 2 · 6⤊ 3⤋
Oh goodness sakes! Heaven *knows* there aren't any hateful people on the left. You guys are all angels.
2007-02-13 09:21:55 · answer #7 · answered by Jadis 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
INSIDE JOB!
2007-02-13 09:20:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋