The real death toll

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September 11, 2001 saw the death of over 3000 ordinary people on an ordinary day in extraordinary circumstances.

But that doesn't mean the death toll of 9/11 was 3000. Far from it. The REAL death toll for Americans is now over 6000, and the death toll of thousands of ordinary people on many ordinary days in extraordinary circumstances numbers in the hundreds of thousands.

For forcing a phony war on Americans, for lying, for leading American into a pre-emptive strike against a country not even involved in 9/11, GWB has doubled the actual death toll for Americans, and caused the death and mutilation of more Iraqis than we can count.

I look at the death toll from this perspective because it is disingenuous to look at it otherwise. THIS is the real toll of this presidency. THIS is why we must win in November as many seats in both the Senate and the House, and THIS is why we must impeach. If we do not impeach both GWB and Dickhead Cheney, we can be compared, regardless of protests, to the millions of Germans who allowed the Holocaust to occur, and the ascent of Adolph Hitler to Chancellor of Germany.

It is getting more frighteningly real every single day that we delay that our nation is completely in chaos and there is so much divisiveness that it is scary. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke) This quote shows that we are culpable for the misery this "war" has caused--as a nation, we allowed these criminals to govern all actions for nearly six years, whose sole intention was to become war profiteers, regardless of how that "war" was conducted.

Even the bible, for those dimwitted enough to take it literally, has spoken of how disaster and evil reigns when good people do nothing:

When good men do nothing, they get nothing good done. To be good, one must do good. The Lord commands his people to do good (Luke 6:35; Eph. 2:10). Christ "gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works" (Titus 2:14).

Christians are to not only to "have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but (also) reprove them" (Eph. 5:11). Those who do nothing about sin and evil, help the sin and evil to prevail. One who is silent when there are those around him in sin becomes a partaker with them (Eph. 5: 7 )

We, as a nation, have been led by wicked people whose goals are greed and depravity. And yet another President, whose one sin was that of a personal nature, was dragged through the mud and impeached for something insignificant in comparison to the heinous deeds being conducted under this regime. It is truly amazing to see how spite has triumphed, and how people try to justify everything that has happened.

We are a nation divided, we are a nation whose soul has been ripped out and whose very existence threatens many others around the world. We must act decisively and immediately. We must show that we can turn things around and even work with those whose viewpoint is at odds with our own, for the simple reason that if we don't, we are our own enemy, and just as reprehensible as those who have arrogantly taken control of our country.

[Karenina]

1. Tell'em, Hyphenate!

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[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Hmm.

I think it's worth making the distinction that the 3000+ dead since 9/12 aren't victims of 9-11, they're victims of an entirely different crime.

[Karenina]

3. A crime perpetrated by the *MIC.

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4. The 3000 killed so far in war

are still part of the death toll of 9/11, regardless of where and when they occurred. They might have been at war, but it was GWB's justification that Iraq was part of al Qaeda for which they died.

No matter how we look at it, any death that followed 9/11 resulted from it. They can be directly attributable to it. And I think more important than anything, we need to remember that fact.

Our current regime takes delight in resurrecting the spectre of 9/11 (as we have just seen) whenever they find themselves embroiled in bad publicity. They are Pavlov to our "dogs"--whenever they push the buttons of "terrorism" we cower as a nation and let them have their way. We never had such fear at any other time in the existence of our country, and it is debilitating us beyond the imagination.

[Karenina]

5. Kick!

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