"Never forget 9/11!".....fuck that!

[Ignacio Upton]

I'm sorry but all 9/11 has brought us and the world is war and death. When people tell me "never forget" the term becomes loaded with the connotation of "fighting them over there, so we don't have to fight them over here."

I want to forget that that gruesome attack ever happened, and that nearly 3,000 of my fellow countrymen (and visitors to America) weren't murdered by Al Qaida. On 9/11/06, I will not watch any cable networks that day, because it will just be one big grief-orgy, with Bush running around to exploit it.

[Monkeyman]

1. better not pick up a paper or watch news this is now all we will hear

Rove will push this issue to death

[liberal N proud]

2. Response - Never forget how bu$h squandered the compassion the world

showed for us after that.
Never forget how the bu$h regime used 9/11 for political gain and to start an illegal war while stripping us of our civil liberties.

That is what I tell anyone who tells me to never forget 9/11

[Blutodog]

3. 9/11

Bu$h acts as if he owns 9/11. What a wanker he is. The man has no shame along with no brain.

[Ignacio Upton]

6. The public must know the truth

Unfortunately, it's up to our Democratic leaders to get the truth out to the public...and they sure as hell haven't done enough on that!

[Olney Blue]

4. "The Lessons of Nine One One..."

that's what I hate to hear.... from ruthless politicos trying to exploit fear and grief.

[Webster Green]

5. I think its's time we moved on...

I'll never forget that it was republics that let it happen on their watch. We should take them out of power and move on.

[BOSSHOG]

7. They are already here and they are supported by the gop

Insane "christians" led by radical christian clerics doing their best to undermine the constitution. They are the number one domestic enemy of our constitution, and they are more of a threat then Muslims, because the "christians" are amongst us right now, and they have the support of the majority political party in this country.

What I'll never forget:
- The 1969 Arkansas-Texas Football Game
- The 1964 Phillies season

[Brian Stevens]

26. Well then,

there is one thing to do. Become the lion, Bosshog. If ya know what I mean :)

[BOSSHOG]

29. I don't know what you mean

If you are suggesting throwing the "christians" to the Lions, the comparison fails. Today's "christians" in America aren't meek and mild and defenseless. They are a powerful force and their number one goal is to neuter the constitution because they cannot stand American citizens they hate because of their religious beliefs to be granted constitutional liberties. Its really quite simple, if you value the constitution and the liberties it affords our citizens then you have to keep a wary eye out for the motivations and actions and political chicanery of those who call themselves "christians." They would choose a theocracy. I suggest they move to Iran.

[Brian Stevens]

31. Just keeping an eye out

does not constitute action though, IMHO

[stray cat]

8. We remember Pearl Harbor, respect Memorial day

No surprise 9-11 is remembered - the problem is we let Bush and the repubs own it.

[Kajsa]

21. Good point, dmordue.

:thumbsup:

[panader0]

9. I, for one, am still not truly convinced that Al Queda was 100% responsibl

There are still too unanswered questions.

[orpupilofnature57]

10. Just another day, thats what it was.We should instead, go back day by day

from 9\11 on and review the piano being turned 360 Degrees to get us to this point!

[Blue_Tires]

11. who could forget it? it's my birthday!

:party: :party: :bounce: :party: :toast: :nuke:

[Ignacio Upton]

12. How old will you be?

BTW, did you know that Markos from Daily Kos was born on 9/11/1971?

[90-percent]

13. squandered?

Bush squandered 9/11 worldwide goodwill in about the same manner as a lottery winner ending up bankrupt!

-85% Jimmy

[Blue_Tires]

14. no, i didn't know that....

and I'll be turning 30 (!)

lol, yes, i've been dreading this day like a root canal....there's been a lot of crap in my life i've been trying to work through, and having this and all of life's other questions weigh me down isn't helping!

[The_Casual_Observer]

15. When ever some asshole tells me "Never forget" I try like

hell to forget. Not that they will let me forget that one, they need it as an excuse to lay more countries to waste.

[MrPrax]

16. The fraudulent solemnity of 'never forget'

is supposed to invoke a inference to the Holocaust...9/11 was like the Holocaust.

Ergo Bush and his pals like the 'fighting Nazis and fascists' line; they get to pretend they doing 'noble things' by infering another time, another enemy and another war.

By November, Bush and his minions will be re-writing Churchill's old scripts..."we'll fight them on the beaches, we'll fight them in Wal-Mart's parking lots, we'll fight them at the gas pumps,..." It interesting because another American meta-narrative claims that the GOP defeated communism...you figure if that was 'solid' history, Bush would be invoking it now.

Apparently if you are seen to fighting Nazis, you can't be accused of being one.

[C_U_L8R]

17. Never forget all the stupid sh*t

George Bush has done and the blinding
incompetence of the republican congress...
especially on election day.

[Octafish]

18. Never forget who was responsible.

The Little Turd
from Crawford.

[bullwinkle428]

19. What is this "Patriot Day" crap I see on a calendar I have at home, marked

on September 11? Have the Pukes actually come up with their own official holiday?

[treestar]

30. Has this or any other country made a holiday out of something

negative like that before?

We should celebrate Sept. 17, Constitution Day, instead. In fact, it's a travesty that we barely know of it.

[EstimatedProphet]

20. Wounds don't heal if you pick at them

The same people would have you still acting on Pearl Harbor and the Alamo.

[Superman Returns]

22. wait,

is the OP saying that Al Qaeda didn't attack us on 9/11?

[alarimer]

23. We can't forget because they won't LET us

A grief-orgy indeed. There will be a lot of maudlin sentimentality and lies all day long. Barf. Fortunately I will be at work and until late too so I can safely ignore the orgy.

I am angry about it myself because it didn't have to happen. The Bush administration, if they had been at all competent, should have stopped it. I can't quite bring myself to say they let it happen but something smells, that's for sure.

[niyad]

24. NEVER forget 12/12/2000--when 5 REPUBLICAN-appointed justices of

the supreme court abrogated the constitution and handed this country over to the neocons, with all the attendant horrors we have witnessed since then.

[orpupilofnature57]

27. A day that stood out !

[no_hypocrisy]

25. You mean like "Remember the Maine"?

It depends upon where you are in history.

[WinkyDink]

28. I don't hear this about Pearl Harbor much any more. Why 9/11/01?