Courage in 'United'
missing in D.C.
Denis Hamill
NY Daily News
Really Good read that sums it all up:
"That act of unity on United 93 was a metaphor for what this nation needed to do starting on Sept. 12. United, we needed to track down and capture or kill Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan. We needed to stay on the job until he was on trial or in a grave. But instead you are reminded at the end of "United 93" that almost five years later we have still not brought all the monsters responsible for killing our fellow Americans on Sept. 11 to justice. Bin Laden roams free, issuing more videos than Eminem. We have lost almost 2,400 more beautiful Americans - 70 in April alone - in a disgraceful bait-and-switch war in Iraq, launched on cherry-picked intelligence and bald lies by oilmen who never saw a day of combat in their cozy lives."
"Instead of having a "united" United States at war against Bin Laden's Al Qaeda, which killed our people, we are trapped in a quagmire in Iraq, refereeing a civil war. We are crippled with a lame-duck President who ran as a "uniter, not a divider" now telling us he's the "decider," presiding over the most divided nation since the Civil War."
"In his six years in the White House, the only thing President Bush has managed to unite the majority of Americans about is that he is divisive, untruthful and doing a terrible job as President. Watching "United 93," this gave me no Bush-hating liberal glee. It filled me with rage that we have let the true killers get away with mass murder."
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/414042p-349870c.html