9/11: Why It Sucks.

[Pab Sungenis]

http://whytheysuck.com/?p=109

’ve written some controversial articles here in the past. Some have gotten me cheered, some have led to angry vituperation. Some have had people try to look up my home address so they could “thank” me in person.

This entry should transcend all others, although in which direction I have no idea. Only time, and restraining orders, will tell.

Let me start by saying that I am in no way diminishing the amount of human suffering caused by the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001. I lived through the day just like (nearly) everyone reading this did. I remember the shock and horror, and I grieve for the 3,000 people who died between the WTC, Pentagon, and UA93. It was a tragic and senseless day.

But really, for Christ’s sake, people, enough is ...ing enough!

Much more at the link.

[closeupready]

1. I kind of agree.

I was here that day, okay? And I've long since gotten past it, ok? some people who lost loved ones won't be able to, I understand that and that's fine. But for many others, it just seems like malingering.

[dana_b]

2. that's good

I especially like the last paragraph:
"It’s okay to mourn. It’s okay to feel sad. I still remember the event vividly and just thinking about it enough to type this is bringing tears to my eyes, but for fuck’s sake, people, it was eight years ago. It’s in the past. It’s time to move on. The best way to honor the memory of the people who died that day is to make the world a better place in their honor, and you can’t do that if you’re busy watching replays of the towers falling all day. That’s nothing more than snuff porn."

[spiritual_gunfighter]

7. I found it highly ironic that Keith Olbermann

slammed the RNC for showing their 9/11 cheerleader snuff movie during the Republican National Convention last year and this morning, like they have done nearly every year since 9/11, MSNBC showed the coverage of the entire horrible footage without commercial interruption. I wonder how Keith feels about that and will he have a special comment about MSNBC tonight as well.

ed. for spelling

[dana_b]

9. doubtful

I love K.O. but he does have to do a bunch crap too - like the post mortem M.J. crap that he had to do for 12 hours or whatever it was.

[Ferret Annica]

3. Until those that perpetrated this false flag operation

are brought to justice, it is highly appropriate to keep this issue to the forefront.

We killed our own to make war in the Middle East and Persian Gulf more palatable to the American public, and it destroyed a white elephant of a complex with severe rehabilitation expenses that would not ever be filled with tenants again or be cost effective because of many factors.

Bush lied, people died; when high explosives brought the World Trade Center down, and a missile struck the Pentagon.

[treestar]

4. that's pretty good actually

I remember in 2002 or so coming up with a list of most outrageous references to 911 to justify things people wanted. Everything from security on campus (like 911 made it more dangerous for girls to walk across campus at night, and someone invoked it to justify a need for escorts) and the worst was some securities law.

[Pharaoh]

5. There are unanswered questions

Otherwise I too would like to forget.

[boobooday]

6. Reliving is definitely the wrong way

It's what the Glenn Becks want. Remember how you felt on that day! We have to feel that again! (insert crocodile tears)

Devastated and horrified and grief stricken? No. I don't think so. I don't want to relive that feeling ever again.

There are different emotions that will take us forward. Those painful, frightened ones only keep us from moving ahead.

[OnyxCollie]

11. Nationalism leads to imperialism. nt

[Martin Eden]

8. This part was spot-on:

Stop using it as a fucking excuse.

Bush used 9/11 as an excuse to fight a bullshit war against a dictator who the CIA had funded and armed back in the 1980’s, who had no real army and no air force. The fascists hiding within our population used it as an excuse to stomp on freedom of speech and assembly. The racists used it as an excuse to fight for closing our borders even tighter. Business fuckers used it as an excuse to sell yellow car magnets made in China by slave labor.


9/11 was exploited by the White House to wage an illegal and senseless and obscenely costly war that was counterproductive to combating terrorism, bitterly divided our country, and squandered whatever opportunity might have come out of that national tragedy and upsurge in public unity.

Exploiting the fear, anger, and patriotism the American people felt in the wake of 9/11 to invade Iraq was IMO the most egregious betrayal of public trust by a president in our nation's history. This is why 9/11 will forever leave a taste in my mouth more bitter than the senseless death and destruction of that day.

[alarimer]

10. I am glad someone is saying out loud what I am thinking.

Is it just me or have we become more maudlin as the years have gone by?

Not just 9/11 but every remembrance of everything. Mawkish sentimentality rules and reason apparently does not.

[Tutankhamun]

12. Good article. Definitely worth reading the whole thing.