Comments on: 9/11: The day Old America died

By: Russ Wellen

Russ Wellen — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:21:49 +0000

Lockerbie, along with the first WTC bombing, were among those events that should have convinced the then-young administration that terrorists were our greatest threat.

By disregarding that and allowing 9/11 to happen, their administration became a failure that day, just one and a half years into its term.

The simplest way to begin the process of redemption was to bag bin Laden. Not only did Bush & Co. go off on the Iraq tangent instead, but the public let them.

Depressing poll came out yesterday: One-third of Americans still thinks Saddam was responsible for 9/11.

By: Sam Smith

Sam Smith — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:06:45 +0000

I take a lot of encouragement from the polls these days, which show that Americans are not happy with how things are going. There’s plenty to be unhappy about on the “American public” front, of course, but at least our countrymen have begun to grasp the obvious.

I’m far less encouraged by the leadersheep of the “opposition.” The Dems have been appalling since “taking control,” and if they can’t make progress with massive public support and majorities in both houses, hope is faint….

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:38:29 +0000

I think the thing that breaks my heart the most about this is that the America of Sept. 10 was, for all its faults, a much better place. Not simpler or more innocent–we still had Bush the election thief in office, and had 9/11 never happened, God knows what kind of craziness he’d be into instead–but it was more relaxed. The biggest things people were worrying about was balancing the budget and Eminem’s influence on our kids.

Now we’re a nation of scared, shrill crybabies, passively sitting by as our futures are raped to pay for a war we should never have begun. Our economy is in the toilet. Our bridges and roads are falling apart. Our culture of crass consumerism is at its nadir. People are hollowed-out, used up, angry all the time, and even when they try to hide it, they know something in our land is deeply, terribly wrong.

We’ve got to fix it. Because no one else can or will.