Remember how you felt on 9/12/01?

Question

Remember being angry, distraught, unable to believe that something like that had happened in the United States of America?
Remember feeling like our country had been violated?
Remember wanting Osama bin Laden's head on a platter?
Remember George Bush's "Dead or Alive" speech?

What happened????

rimrocka: No. I meant 9/12.

Answer 1

At first Bush did the right thing by going after the people who attacked us.

THEN

The neo-con idiots diverted this country's attention and spent up all international respect on a mission they had been wanting to take on since Gulf War I.

Powell and the other Generals recommended against us having an all out war back then and these worms stewed about it back then. When they were in a position to "finish the job" no matter the lack of intel or the lies that would have to be told they took it and went to war.

Without 9/11 I don't think they would have had their opportunity to invade Iraq and implement other policy such as the Patriot Act.

9/11 has hurt this country in a way much deeper than the terrorists could have hoped for...

Answer 2

I am still angry, distraught, unable to believe that something like that happened in the United States of America.
I still feel that our country has been violated
I still want Bin Laden's head on a platter
I do remember Bush's "Dead or Alive" speech.
What happened is that not a damn thing has been done about any of the above.

Answer 3

To imply nothing has been done would be an error in observation on your part.

There was/is much more involved that just a knee jerk reaction motivated by revenge.

I will agree that we have not managed the job in Iraq anywhere near the level that it should have been. But, in a war there is little that goes as planned. So many feel that a war is a scripted thing and that if something doesn't go as planned, then the failure is in the planning.

I don't see it that way. I think that the fluidity of changing the plan is the big error here. Seeing that a strategy is not working, one must react to the situation as it is, not as one perceived it during the planning stage.

Who or what is at the source of this reality is the true culprit of why we haven't achieved the goals we want to achieve in Iraq.

I do not think that leaving on a time table is remotely the correct strategy as it makes the goal one of leaving, not one of achieving military/political goals.

I think that much has been accomplished. There have been setbacks and failures as well. I think that much of the public opinion has been molded due to the inordinate focus on the failures as opposed to the achievements by certain groups of the political class in Washington and the liberal media.

Can we now achieve our goals? I don't know. Can we afford not to? Definately.

Answer 4

I never liked Bush but was behind him 100% on 9/12 as most Americans were. He had a great chance, one like very few Presidents get, to be a truly great President. He could have gone after and destroyed Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Instead he made a token effort toward them and went after Saddam Hussein instead. Every opportunity he has had to get some redemption for his failed presidency he has messed up. Now, what little faith I may have had in Sept. of 01 is gone the way of the dodo bird.

Answer 5

Yes , I felt that way at first. Then I wised up and realized even with Bin Laden's head on a platter - terrorism would continue. Terrorists are so entrenched around the world, we would have to bomb virtually every nation on Earth to put a dent in the movement. Even then, new ones would surface the next day. I no longer know what the answer is.

Answer 6

Here's what happened- there was a meeting. Karl Rove or Dick Cheney or whoever is actually in charge of this place told the president the plan, which was and is to invoke the fear every American felt on that terrible day in order to carry out the farthest of the far right agendas.
"They'll believe it was Saddam if you tell them, Mr. President."
"They'll gladly hand over every last one of their civil rights in order to feel a little less scared, Mr. President."
"They'll believe every excuse you give them, as long as you keep them afraid, Mr. President."

And so he did what they told him to do. Every interview was 9/11, 9/11, 9/11. The righties were terrified, and thus submissive. Only now are they starting to wake up. Only now are they starting to realize that this man has not done a single solitary thing to prevent the next attack, that he has, in fact, painted a terrorist bullseye on this country that grows bigger with every day our troops are in another country's civil war.

He tried for empire, and almost got there. thank god there were enough of us who actually remember what this country was supposed to be about to stop him. We must stay vigilant to ensure that this collossal failure is never repeated.

Answer 7

I hope that history will show that the leader of this country took advantage of those sentiments, and led his people into a personal war, under the auspices of a 'War on Terror'. Had he stayed the course in Afghanistan, and continued his crusade against those responsible for the 9/11 attack, there wouldn't be so much fuel for the 'motive' in the conspiracy theories. But as it stands, it would appear that GWB patted his country on the head by going into Afghanistan, and pulled out before the job was done. And used the emotions of the American people to support his invasion in Iraq.

Answer 8

I was very scared. I was in disbelieve. I still am scared and still in disbelieve.

What was accomplished since that day? We have added to the list of dead Americans. We still have not caught the true villain. We went on a wild goose chase for WMD'S that we did not find. They probably did exist, but we gave them enough time to move them to another country. Our mission has not been accomplished!!!!

Answer 9

We are contuing to look for that scumbag but he seems to be a master at hiding. No, I have not forgotten the horror and fright and sadness felt on Septemer 12, 2001.

Answer 10

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