Most over used phrase in America: "9/11 changed everything"

[liberal N proud]

Anytime anyone want to justify something that they have no other explanation they use the term "9/11 changed everything"

It is used by the morons who support the bu$h regime and their war. It is used by people who give up civil liberties with out any questions.

It has become the excuse of fashion for America.

Every time I hear someone say it, I reply "That means the terrorist won" It really gets them.

[soothsayer]

1. Good one! I use that too, but more often say "No it didn't"

[Greyhound]

2. Great come-back, I'm gonna use it.

I have been saying that all 9/11 changed was the skyline of NYC, and the families of those killed. Everything else has been the result of our inappropriate reaction to it.

Your line is much better.
:kick:

[Poiuyt]

14. 9/11 also changed the lives of the people who've been able to profit from it

Giuliani, Bush, Halliburton, etc.

[wake.up.america]

3. I agree! Sad to see many are "using" 9/11 for their own gain.

[ixion]

4. to which I respond: "Oh no it di'int"

because it changed nothing.

[screembloodymurder]

5. The 911 story is a fairy tale conservatives tell their children at night.

It's a crock.

[iamjoy]

6. Well, It Didn't Change EVERY thing

I can't agree with the other posters who say 9-11 didn't change everything, because it very plainly did change things, if not everything. And rather than get into a lengthy discussion about what it did and did not change, your response is better.

[mmonk]

7. It did here.

It just didn't change reality into what they think. Just the nature of this republic.

[Greyhound]

19. I'm not sure I know what you mean.

Would you care to elaborate?

[WiseButAngrySara]

8. I tend to agree with the statement. I've used it many times myself.

Don't assume that all people who use this phrase support B*. It is because of 9/11 that the BFEE came to wield such grossly disproportionate power.

[rudy23]

9. Why would a leader keep claiming that one day changed everything?

Why would a leader keep reminding his people that one success by the terrorists changed everything in the greatest, most powerful country in the world?

[rug]

10. 12/12/00 changed everything.

http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-949.ZPC.html

[kath]

17. Beat me to it - Dec. 12, 2000 is the day that changed everything.

truly a day that will live in infamy.

We had a coup, and people didn't much care.

[LynnTheDem]

11. Since "change" is the reason for terrorism in the first place, if "911 changed everything"

then the terrorists won.

Period.

[Octafish]

12. Most underused phrase: ''We need some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor.''

How We Got Into This Imperial Pickle:
A PNAC Primer

Bernard Weiner
Co-Editor, The Crisis Papers
May 26, 2003

http://www.crisispapers.org/Editorials/PNAC-Primer.htm

[Cabcere]

13. 9/11 did change things.

It changed the way we look at things, and it certainly changed the lives of those who lost loved ones in the attacks. I wish I could say that it didn't change the fact that we, the American people, are strong citizens who still believe in freedom...but the fact that GWB was elected in 2004 kind of disputes that, doesn't it. :( Republican officials are always spouting off nonsense about how "we must fight them over there, so we don't have to fight them over here," but the battle is already here. I think George W. Bush and his cronies have made it perfectly clear whose side they are on...and it's not the side of the American people. Think about it. Bush has already caused the deaths of more Americans than Osama bin Laden did on that day. And for what? For freedom? What freedom have we gained by going into Iraq? What freedom have the Iraqis gained? (Elections, yes...but since then? Freedom from peace?) BushCo constantly claims that "they hate us for our freedoms," and it's become quite apparent to me over the past few years how they plan to defend "us" against "them." It's very simple, really - if you take away our "freedoms," then "they" will have no reason to hate us...right? That's the only logical conclusion I can reach about their actions. It seems to me that this administration wants to protect America by destroying that which makes us American - and that makes me very sad for my country.

[johnaries]

15. Truth is still Truth. Lies are still Lies. Justice is still Justice.

Freedom is still Freedom. Oppression is still Oppression. Basic Human Rights are still Basic Human Rights.

So, what of importance changed?

[marmar]

16. Everytime I hear it, I want to hurl.....

I was in a security line at an airport when a woman said that, blaming the long lines on "terrorists who hate America," and it took ALL of my powers of self-control not to go into a "Fool, Puhleaze" tirade that probably would have landed me on a watchlist, or in Gitmo.

[ldf]

18. i am so sick of 9/11

that i am going to start calling it 911.

and i'm a manhattanite.