Where's the outrage? By Karen Hughes

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> Where's the outrage? USA Today 9/11/2006
> A united world must resolutely condemn terror
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> By Karen Hughes
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> Five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, one essential ingredient is still lacking in our international response to terrorism: the concerted moral outrage of everyday citizens of every faith and country.
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> The names of the people murdered that morning read like a roll call of the world's family: Ahmed, Alonso, Chung, Fazio, Fitzgerald, Goldstein, Gonzalez, Jablonski, Mbaya, McSweeney, Mohammed, Rizzo, Wallendorf and Zukelman. The victims, citizens of more than 90 countries, included a young Muslim woman, seven months pregnant, on her way to attend a friend's wedding; an Iranian grandmother who had overcome her fear of flying to visit her grandsons in Boston; a German businessman in New York to attend a meeting. His son, 4 at the time, said, “If the terrorists knew how much we love Papa, they wouldn't have flown the plane into the tower.”
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> Unfortunately, the extremists we face don't care. Since that fateful day, hundreds of others have been torn from their families, murdered as terrorists targeted morning commuters in London, Madrid and India, wedding guests at a hotel in Jordan, children in school in Russia and lining up for candy in Iraq, tourists in Egypt and Bali, Indonesia.
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> This is not right, or normal, or acceptable, and a much louder chorus of voices needs to join in condemning it. Terrorism threatens all of us. It targets the very foundations of a free society. Yet where are the mothers organizing against terrorism as American mothers did against drunken driving? Where are the fathers promising to teach their sons to choose to live rather than choose to die? Where are the religious clerics and congregations of all faiths arguing that no just and loving God would call on young men and women to kill themselves and others in the name of religion?
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> To be fair, many voices, Western and Eastern, Islamic and Christian, have spoken out against the violence. Yet the criticism seems oddly muted. Offensive cartoons sparked massive protests in nations across the Islamic world. The international outcry was immediate when civilians were killed in the recent conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
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[Sapere aude]

1. Yes where's the hate? Damned Islomofascists! Wait, there is enough

hate on the right for all of us. Karen must be criticizing us for not jumping on the I hate Islam band wagon. The Pope has sure done his share fucking up the works why don't we join in, huh Karen?

[rodeodance]

5. she just wants to scare the moms again---as they were

the ones that were sitting on the fence, then when the bin laden tape came along, they fell into the bush camp for the pres. vote. But, now some realize they fell into a pile of shit so she is out to get them back.

[ShortnFiery]

19. Shut up Karen Hughes! You and Bolton are The Anti-Diplomats

[rodeodance]

2. for once, I agree with Tucker

.........I make no secret of how I feel toward Karen Hughes: I thoroughly loathe her. She is the female version of Karl Rove, and while Karl is the master of the smear, Karen is the master of the deceptive talking point. Universally despised by every reporter for her maddening insistence on "staying on-message" even when everyone knows she is lying, Karen's game was best summarized by right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson after he held a BS interview with her.

I've obviously been lied to a lot by campaign operatives, but the striking thing about the way she lied was she knew I knew she was lying, and she did it anyway. There is no word in English that captures that. It almost crosses over from bravado into mental illness.

Which brings us to today's story. Karen is upset that we aren't all going crazy enough over the nightmare of terrorism, even though so many of us now look with dread and suspicion on all things Moslem, even though we are throwing people off of planes because of T-shirts with arabic writing, even though we are indulging in non-stop grieving (understandably so) over 911, which the president raises at every possible moment. No, none of this is enough. We must do more, each and every one of us, making terrorism our No. 1 obsession. Where, oh where, Karen mournfully asks, is all the outrage??...........

[Fridays Child]

4. When did Tucker say that?

Pre-2000? He was a McCain supporter back then but he's spot on about her, in any case.

[rodeodance]

9. it was at the link--commentary on the Hughes article

[donco6]

8. I agree, too.

And I can hardly believe I'm saying that, either.

[mediaman007]

14. News for Ms. Hughes...

The rest of the World has dealt with terrorism for at least 60 years, dating back to the end of World War II and the establishment of Israel. The United States has no claim to be unique. If my memory serves me somewhat well, the World was appalled in September, 2001. However, when Hughes, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice went on a rampage, I think that the rest of the World watched the United States shed its "beacon of liberty."

I'm sure that is why having Bush* as the president was the most important factor for the terrorists. Knowing that Bush* would attack terrorism blindly only fed into their actions. They don't even need to attack us to show what the United States has become. Just getting caught in the attempt, or sending an email will cause this administration to take more liberties away from us.

"They hate us for our freedoms"...well, if Bush* has his way, they won't have much to hate us for anymore.


("They hate us for our freedoms" is the most infantile comment ever made by an American president. Don't you just think that they are more free than we are?

Anyway Karen, just about time to saddle up and git back to Texas. Your busted.

[POAS]

3. I guess she didn't notice that world outrageis

directed at US!

[LeighAnn]

6. Where is the outrage at Karen Hughes?

[reichstag911]

15. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwww...

Why'd you do that to me?!?!?!?!? :puke:

[LeighAnn]

17. I know... that's nasty

:puke:

[reichstag911]

18. It's a good PhotoShop job, though...yours? nt

[joemurphy]

7. Maybe if Bush had pursued terrorists instead of invading

Iraq, we would have more outrage. Right now I'm much more outraged at Bush and his knee-jerk supporters -- people like you, Karen. Maybe too, we've been through too much to be outraged. Outrage takes energy and some of us are spent. I've been outraged at Iraq, Katrina, torture, Delay, Abramoff,
the media, Enron, warrantless wiretapping, Halliburton, Cheney, Bolton, Lebanon... it goes on. Now I can't must much more artificial outrage. Besides, Karen, you and Bush pull out your "outrage" like a weapon, to be ginned up and used any time Bush takes a sag in the polls. I'm out of outrage now. I just want an end to Bush, you Karen, and the miserable people like you that have brought my country so low.

[hvn_nbr_2]

10. Chimpie squandered the outrage and redirected it

Chimpie squandered the outrage along with the world's good will and our budget surplus. He redirected the outrage toward his own outrageous actions.

[katty]

11. she'll be asking "where's my next check coming from?" soon enough

[Elidor]

12. It's like a dispatch from another planet

Someone should explain it to her. God, they really want to milk those 3,000 dead people for all they're worth, don't they?

[flordehinojos]

13. the real outrage here karen is that bush wants to make torture legal,

that you are advocating for that to happen. that you are pretending to carry a torch to the less confused minds who will buy your spin and that there are people who see nothing wrong, immoral or evil in torturing other human beigns. that is where the outrage is karen. and really you ought to just shut up your lying trap.

[MaineYooper]

16. Terrorism does not "target the very foundations of a free society."

Terrorism threatens to kill people, including occasionally frighteningly large groups of people. By this statement, I do not mean to denigrate the danger of death. Any death, especially those due to violent acts, are a violation and a shock.

However, the foundations of a free society are not under threat from the terrorists, but rather by our reaction to their acts. If we lose site of our laws, our principles, or our decency, then the foundations of our society are threatened. But this threat comes from within, not without.

[samsingh]

20. where's the outrage against the repugs and their treachery