Have You Forgotten?
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Matt's Chat
John Lehman and the 9/11 Commission have...have you forgotten?Rudi Guiliani gets it. He hasn't forgotten. He said it best when he said, "Our enemy is not each other but the terrorists who attacked us." This isn't a time for blame. It really isn't. Americans didn't crash those planes into those towers. Terrorists did. Dispute that, leftists. I dare you. I challenge you. You can't? Shut the pie hole.
This Commission jumped the shark just after Condi Rice appeared. I think it was when John Ashcroft let the world know about Jamie Gorelick and the Commission decided to protect her. Now it is nothing more than political hackery and grandstanding. It is disgusting and despicable. Those who survived deserve better. Those who fought and died on 9/11 deserve better. America deserves better.
Mark's Remarks
Tragically, I think many Americans have forgotten. We are so concerned for ourselves and that we can live our lives decadently and uninterrupted that we have forgotten what we are fighting for. Folks, we were attacked. We were massacred, and all anyone wants to do is say, what did we do to deserve it?
Do you ask that when a woman is raped? Do you ask that when someone is murdered? Do we blame the victims? Well, that is precisely what is going on now with this commission and its aims. It is no longer and has never been about seeking initiatives to better prepare America. No, instead, it is like the defense attorney who wants to defame the victim in order to earn points. This is disgraceful.
I am ashamed of fellow citizens who will cry and moan about Iraqi prisoner abuses but who will not talk about the 3,000 who were tortured and died in 9/11. What about the torture the survivors have to go through each day?
I am ashamed of this commission and its blame gaming. If we would have known there was an attack, we would have tried to prevent it. No one, Republicans or Democrat (except maybe Ted Kennedy and Hillary) are that cold as to offer up 3,000 Americans for political gain. Yet, that is what this commission is trying to show, instead of trying to find what we have done right and what we still need to do. I am ashamed of them, and I am ashamed of people who give them credibility.
I am ashamed of protestors who only talk about our "unjust" invasion of two nations who sponsored terrorists, even though they will only pay lip service to the "unjust" destruction of human lives on that September day....Remember the outrage? Where is it now?
