What are your thoughts ob 9/11? What were your thoughts when the tragedy first happened?

Question

I know that it is a sensitive subject for many. If you feel comfortable sharing, please do.

I know it was especially hard for New Yorkers. I lived in Manhattan at the time and it was horrible.

It keeps telling me to choose the best answer. I believe that there is no best answer, all of you opened up. If you want me to choose a best answer type "123" on my other question. The title is !@#$%^^&*()_. I just typed in random words!

Answer 1

When it happened, I returned to work while most everyone else was glued to their television sets. From the very beginning, I believed it was an 'inside job', and that our own government had something to do with it - or at least was aware that it was going to happen.
I believe it provided the excuse Bush needed to illegally and unconstitutionally invade Iraq (a sovereign nation that in no way threatened, provoked or attacked the U.S.). I believe that the Bush family had a vendetta against Saddam Hussein ever since George H.W. Bush was humiliated, criticized and ridiculed for "not finishing the job" during Desert Storm and ousting Hussein then.
I believe that Dick Cheney and all his oil buddies want all that OIL swimming underneath Iraq's sands so they can continue to feed America's dependency on cheap, easily-accessible foreign OIL. I believe that the giant U.S. military-industrial complex needed another 'war' to help boost their sagging profits. I believe that George Bush's buddy that owned the World Trade Center buildings was in serious financial trouble, and blowing them apart (after insuring the building against 'terrorist attacks') was a fortunate way to turn his $16 million investment into an enormous $7 billion profit. I believe the Bush administration is so profit-oriented that they will collude with big business to make money - at ANY cost (even the cost of a few thousand American lives).
I believe that the Iraqi 'war' is an intentional debacle that will enrich the pockets of George W. Bush's oil buddies for decades to come (if we're really intent on bringing 'democracy' to Iraq and then pulling out, WHY are we building the world's largest embassy in downtown Baghdad on a 104-acre site overlooking the 'new' Iraqi government headquarters?).
We will be in Iraq until we have sucked every drop of OIL from its sands. The bombing of the WorldTrade Centers was a way to mobilize people, rip at their emotions, and give Bush whatever 'powers' he needed to attack Iraq.
What's next for the murderous Bush gang? IRAN. By spring, 2007, Bush will illegally invade Iran (once he can come up with a plausible excuse that his 'ditto heads' will buy into). Why? Because he and his OIL buddies want all that easily-accessible OIL (instead of developing new alternative fuels and forcing the manufacture of vehicles that are more fuel-efficient and environmentally-friendly).
I believe George W. Bush to be a mass murderer, no better (or worse) than Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Idi Amin or Saddam Hussein (all great terrorists of the 20th century). I believe Bush and his cronies should be tried for high crimes against humanity in an international tribunal, and - if convicted - should hang just as they hung Hussein. -RKO-

Answer 2

I was in third grade at the time. I remember our teacher getting a phone call at school sometime around 10:00, and she seemed really scared, but she said she didn't have any details. (And wouldn't have told us even if she did.) I was getting picked up early that day from school to attend a funeral for an elderly relative. Since no one had truly explained what happened on 9/11 - all I knew was that a plane crashed into a building in NYC - I believed that the relative had been killed because of 9/11. (He simply died of old age.)

The next day, children at my school were talking about the planes and the buildings... I had no clue! I was a bit oblivious. Now in retrospect (I'm 8th grade) I feel incredibly upset because I feel that the Bush administration handled the situation in the worst way possible. Bush and his people are truly the worst representatives of this country, and I feel embarassed that he let this happen. This is Bush's war, not America's.

Answer 3

at first it sounded like the way it was reported.. But when you actually do research and look at everything that has been looked into over the years, you will see that it didn't happen as they tell us. There is no way a plane could hit the world trade center building and have it fall the way it did. There was no plane wreckage at the pentagon and nobody saw/heard a plane which would have been flying close to the ground. And flight 93, there were lots of witnesses who heard a boom in the sky and the wreckage was scattered all over the ground as if it was blown up in the air, not as it had hit the ground. This was a big conspiracy, they have just used it to control everyone in this country. But i just don't see how they are so concerned about terrorists all over the world and them blowing up planes, but don't care about protecting our borders?? go figure. There are many books on this topic and if you google 911 you can see these and ones that state it happened the way it did. But if you really look it the evidence, there is not way in heck it could of happened the way it was reported to us

Answer 4

I was watching the news in the morning on the west coast and getting ready for work. At first I thought it was an advertisement or preview for a movie because I wasn't listening to the television, just glancing at it as I was getting ready.

When I realized it was real (and my room mates confirmed it was REAL news) I immediately thought that Bush was at the bottom of it. My first thoughts were full of conspiracy theories...my intuition still feels there is a lot to it that the public will never know. The public is only told what they want us to believe. I wonder what news is being suppressed.

Its really hard to tell what is true these days when you can't tell what is news and what is movie previews during the news hour. I wish they'd keep celebritys and entertainment off the news completely but instead of it getting less fluff after 9/11, there appears to be more....a real indication to me that there is a lot of news even liberals don't want to report.

Answer 5

I had the same questions , I felt I didn't get alot of reporting on the events of 9/11 from my media. The first couple of days it was heavy but disappeared from the news quite quickly. I was complete shocked at how it affected our country that day and how it has changed our freedoms. I watched the 2nd plane hit the tower and didn't know what to think at first. I worked in Sf that day and the city was like a ghost town. It is usually very hectic and busy but it was like the twilight zone. I Researched on the internet and found many reasons why our media didn't give us more in depth coverage and it scared me more than the events of 9/11. James Brolin has mentioned on the view to look at this website www.911weknow.com shocking and scary are the things we expect least.

Answer 6

when was it first announced that al-qaeda was responsible, and how come mind readers like the guy in Dannion Brinkley's book "Saved by the Light" didn't know what was going to happen?
Because prior to 9.11.2001, i had only even heard of al-qaeda once before, and had no idea who or what they stood for. For all i knew they could have just been some middle-east motorcycle club, with no criminal intentions. basically prior to 9.11, i worked for a living so wasn't really up on foreign affairs. And since religion is being abused and used to get converts willing to murder to attain there churchs goals, i am writting boldly as paul before his death. If it makes you uncomfortable, thats just to bad. As the bible said religion is supposed to be about helping widows and orphans, not murdering infidels, non-chriStians, roman catholics, or even worshipping a Man posing as a God. Probably in Rome europe before they fell, the orphan clause was to get legions families taken care of after they died in battle. Used to get recruits, with promises of rights for survivors of veterans.

And north america was never apart of the roman empire, was it?

But to answer your Q. i though perhaps one plane was the desparete act of a terrorist. But then the other planes hit and i thought "it looks like someone has declared war on the Americans" ( I AM Canadian)

Answer 7

My thought was "I really wish I had gone up to the top of the world trade center when I had the chance."

And then I was sad that all the people died. Of course, they said that 25,000 bodybags had been ordered, and from that point on the death toll went down, not up. So it was a really bad thing that happened, and it spooked me and everyone else for a few days, but I soon realized that we were a lot safer than the terrorists and the republicans wanted us to believe.

Answer 8

actually being in the military at the time i saw video slides someone made me of people jumping to their deaths and the airplanes smashing into the buildings. i was disgusted with what happened and even more pissed off that they didn't evacuate the other tower with people in it. i was wondering to myself why terrorists would strike us like that and we couldn't even defend ourselves that day. we were a country unprepared for what happened. don't get me wrong or anything i love my country but with the whole situation with war we have to think clearly. i was glued to all the news channels like everyone else and trying to make phone calls just like everyone else to make sure that family was aware of what was going on.

another note. we may have captured saddam hussein and killed him for his crimes but think about this. he hated terrorists as much as we did and he wouldn't think about not killing them in a heartbeat. he ruled his country that way and you never saw terrorists trying anything there. but since we took over iraq thats where terrorists are now and they are setting up camp because there is no one else there to execute them.

Answer 9

I hate that it happened and wear a 9/11 t-shirt every year. The terrorists "telegraphed" it when they did the van bombing.

Answer 10

It was one of the saddest day in American history along with Pearl Harbor and many other days when so many die so awful.