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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 12:07 AM
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I've had it with the Post 9/11 World. There is no such thing
Yes some mostly renegades Saudis made hits by air. How does that translate to we need to change our very fabric?

Get a grip on reality. The Saudis hit us, did we go after them? No, in fact the Saudi prince is welcome in W's ranch. We went after Iraq, who was harmless but we turned their country into hell.

W turned 9/11 into a corporate global war to drain our resources and transfer them to W's buds. Corporate globalism knew what they wanted in W and got it. They've hit the working class harder than hell. But W never identified with the working class. He had no clue.
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Union Thug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 12:23 AM
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1. Agreed. Nothing changed for me, except for having to take off my shoes
when I go through airport security.

You're right on the subject of the working class. As the IWW puts it, the working class and the employing class have nothing in common. It is impossible for the rich to understand the plight of working people, and I doubt that they would even try unless it meant discovering new ways to exploit them. This is my problem with government - both repuke and dem - it is composed mostly of the rich.
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Ron Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 12:28 AM
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2. 9/11 changed everything.
It legitimized Bush in the minds of some otherwise reasonable people, and that alone may very well be the death knell for this country as we knew it.
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 12:43 AM
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4. Some do cower over a W warning
and aren't smart enough to know he's welcoming the real power and $ behind 9/11 to stay at his Texas ranch.

9/11 was a big, sad, tragic, Oklahoma federal building type thing.

It was nothing more.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 12:29 AM
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3. I won't give up that easily. I'll wait and see dimson get his due.
He thinks that will happen after he's dead, and the world will honor him. HA!
I don't think so, and that's not a threat, Agent Mike. You have to agree with me,
that this is the worst asshole, never mind prez, in the world. Just my humble
opinion, but one many agree with.
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 12:45 AM
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5. Honor W?
For what? Giving to the rich and damning our kids to an endless war? Cold day in hell before I will honor the SOB.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 04:01 AM
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6. rAmen
On 9/12/01 Chimpy tells us to go on with life as usual (e.g. spend money like crazy) so the terrorists will not have won, then he spends the next 5 years telling us we can't live life as usual because it's a "Post 9/11 World". Idiot.
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ChicagoRonin Donating Member (250 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 04:56 AM
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7. Let's not say "Post 9-11 World"
I think "Pre-Apocalyptic World," "Proto-Fascist America" or "Post-Constitutional USA" would be more appropriate.
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CJCRANE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 06:09 AM
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8. We don't go after
the Saudis because 9/11 was a set up.

B*sh just needed some arabs to attack America because his stupid followers wouldn't notice if the revenge was against a completely different country.
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AzDar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 06:15 AM
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9. I've never understood the phrase, anyway. By using it, doesn't that
allow the terrorists to DEFINE us?
There is no 'Post-9/11 World'; anymore than there was a 'Post-Pearl Harbor World' in 1941.
It's simply bullshit Bush-speak...a slogan.
Goebbels would be proud.
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