What Bush squandered in our name - in pictures.

[KyndCulture]

These are photos of World unity with the US on 9/11/01.....


US Embassy Moscow


Tokyo


India


Australia


Ottawa


Pakistan


Jordan


London

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24KmSCBbxM
Video from the UK of the Palace Guard Band playing our National Anthem....


5 years later... here's what Bush has done.


London


Indonesia


South Korea


Amsterdam


India

[Bonobo]

1. Great work! Recommended!

[YOY]

2. This is the true meaning of 9-11

The day that could have been remembered as a tragedy but led to the worlds hatred of America by severe mishandling.

[KyndCulture]

4. It's what I've been thinking about all day.

[YOY]

52. Thanks for hitting the nail on the head KyndCulture

I only wish most Americans really cared about what goes on in the hearts and minds of our fellow Earthlings.

[Xenotime]

59. and all done by one man....wow.

[YOY]

61. Quite a few more than one

It has taken many participants...and anyone who thinks Chimpy did it all by himself needs a freaking reality check.

[Supersedeas]

3. another paradigm shifting idea not to be discussed by Corp Media pundits

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

5. K&R

[MamaBear]

6. Well done, Kynd.

And STILL we are called unAmerican for questioning our foreign policy.

Thanks for putting that collection together for us, and making it real.

[KyndCulture]

8. Hey MamaB... I am just sick today..

of this 9/11 orgy going on.

This is all I have been thinking about all day... Look what he totally blew in 5 yrs... A chance for some world peace... flushed like a the turd he is.

[truedelphi]

7. Thank you

I bet many of us remember our email inboxes with attachments from friends

Here are photos from Lebanon, Palestine, Peru, Mexico, China

The whole world reached out to us on 9-11-2001

Now those same nations recoil

[SeanQ]

9. Even with all the problems we have here at home (US),

this is what has always broken my heart. For a brief moment we had a chance to show the world our nobility, to show that even in our darkest hour we could lead the world to justice and safety. We had an unprecedented chance to increase the rule of law internationally, to strengthen alliances and bring borderline moderate predominantly Muslim nations more firmly into the world community, involving them in putting out the fires of extremism and capturing terrorists.

Instead, our administration went in exactly the opposite direction. There is now more terrorism in the world than there was before 9/11. We have alienated not only those who could have been allies, but even old friends, weakening America both politically, but worse, morally. I weep twice for those we lost on that tragic day and their loved ones, once for their personal loss, and once for the squandered opportunities that could have stood for ages as a balance to their loss and testament of hope.

[KyndCulture]

12. We had a chance..

to bring more peace to the world...

It disgusts me.

[malmapus]

21. Same here, we really could have taken the torch and run with it.

One of the (many) reasons I utterly detest the Bush administration so deeply.

[barbtries]

34. that was

beautifully put. do you have a blog? i'd like to quote you on mine...

[lumpy]

45. Yes

v

[Lone_Star_Dem]

10. Thank you for taking the time to put this together! K&R

This is what I keep thinking of today and here you gave me a pictorial memorial as if you knew my very thoughts. Thank you again!

[KyndCulture]

11. They were thoughts as soon as I woke up.

We lost a heckuva lot more....

[jhain]

13. As John Kerry said:

There is simply no way to overstate how Iraq has subverted our efforts to free the world from global terror. It has overstretched our military. It has served as an essential recruitment tool for terrorists. It has divided and pushed away our traditional allies. It has diverted critical billions of dollars from the real front lines against terrorism and from homeland security. It has unleashed dangerous, pent-up forces of radical religious extremism. It has weakened moderate leaders in the Middle East. It has strengthened and played into Iran’s hand. It has diminished our moral authority in the world.-John Kerry

Thank you for your time in putting this together. It is very telling.

[KyndCulture]

14. Kick

[treestar]

15. Thank you! Where did you get the ones from Jordan and Pakistan?

Would love to use them in debates with certain freepers about how they all "want us dead."

[KyndCulture]

16. They came from

http://www.september11news.com

There's LOTS more pictures on there than what i had room for here.

[malmapus]

17. Thank you for taking the time to put this together!

Hope you don't mind that I've spread it to other forums that I frequent (giving due credit of course!).

[KyndCulture]

18. Not at all.

Spread it far and wide!

[lukasahero]

19. Thank you

What I find most heartbreaking to remember today is just this: the opportunity and good will we squandered. :cry:

[Straight Shooter]

20. Millions of those who once shared their compassion for our tragedy

would now shrug if the same thing were to happen again, and they would say, "You made your bed, you lie in it."

Those pictures are heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing, for reminding us why we must keep fighting to get the truth out.

[file83]

22. America has stumbled - it's up to us now to change our failed leadership!!

[Cameron27]

23. Thank you for this

A rare moment in time that could have been used for good, but instead was corrupted and squandered.

What an ignorant, shallow and callous man can do in the world. He's a disgrace and an embarrassment.

[KyndCulture]

24. India TODAY 2006

[vickitulsa]

57. Wow. This is a stunner.

I'd seen the other photos you put in the OP. All too well do I remember some of them from having seen them at the time such scenes were broadcast or published.

But this one -- Whoa! It's a new one for me and it packs a real gut punch! This person definitely sees things very clearly, and perhaps that's what he's implying by putting the names of bin Laden and the Chimp where the lenses of his glasses are...? "I see you the same!" he might be saying.

Thanks for this, your OP, and all you do here at DU, Kyndculture -- you're a real gem!

It's clear from the number of recs this thread has received that you represent so many of us in the way you "memorialized" the 9/11 anniversary today. I'm proud that you brought our focus back to this very important aspect so that it doesn't once again get lost in the outpouring of intense emotion that can sometimes confuse or distract us.

Olbermann's editorial speech tonight reminded everyone of that same amazing, beautiful, and groundbreaking sense of unity we Americans felt with each other and with the world on that horrible day five years ago, and that's why I believe the power of his speech will be increased exponentially. You have done the same thing here in your way -- and I'd love to see you given the opportunity Keith had to touch the wider world with your message as well!

Sadly, this key factor of the squandering of the world's compassion for us and sense of unity with us after 9/11 has been allowed to slide from Americans' memories during the last five years. I think that's one big reason why the criminals in the White House have been able to get away with their evil manipulations.

They have harped and carped with their drumbeat of rhetoric that emphasized the idea that people HATE us -- not love or care about us! It was easy, and all a matter of where they directed our FOCUS.

How different things could be now if our leaders had embraced the compassion and willingness to join and to help us that poured in from around the world. Instead they had the U.S. act like a mad dog that had been kicked and sought to fight back by biting almost everyone in sight....

If "the Decider" had made choices directly opposite to those he did make ever since 9/11, what a different country and world we might be living in today!

Does anyone else here remember also that the Chimp seemed almost to shrug off abruptly at that time the many gifts, offers of help, and books of condolences that were given us by the people of countries around the globe? I swear, when I think of how he behaved then when presented with these most valuable and meaningful of gifts, I can see that he already KNEW how he planned to "respond" to the attacks and so didn't want to even consider any other tack he might take that would head us in another direction entirely. Why let others help you when you don't want them "meddling" in the plans you had ready to launch?

He played the martyr only very briefly in order to justify what he was about to do -- and then quickly and guiltily turned aside those who would have, as our allies, influenced us away from launching any military attacks beyond the first ones on al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan.

As for us -- genuine American patriots and regular folk who have far more right than Dubya does to express how it is WE really feel: Let's not allow the unity and the love to be forgotten again as it has been up till now, right?

Let's keep reminding other Americans of how we all felt that day in THIS respect. I know I'm going to do that in my daily life from now on. Whenever anyone says "Never forget" September 11th, I'm going to respond with "Never forget the LOVE of the entire world felt for us on September 11th!"

Then ask, rhetorically, "Oh yeah, what ever happened to that?" WHY did the feelings of love and oneness with us seem to just DISSOLVE so soon afterward? What happened to it? WHY did virtually everyone withdraw it like it had been a big mistake for them to have cared about us?

And WHY did they begin instead to hate and fear us with an intensity and a dedication we can't remember ever feeling from most of them before....?

People need to remember ALL of this, not just the sad and angry parts. And then IMO they're very likely to rethink what's been happening and wonder how they've been led astray ... led, in fact, right into the mouths of the lions! Why did the number of dangerous predators out there hunting us down to eat us multiply instead of dying off?

For all those Americans who have been stewing with resentment of ARAB terrorists and therefore embracing whatever Bu$hCo wanted to do to fight them -- the same ones who are by this time tired of stewing for too long so they're beginning to question the integrity and wisdom of the Chimperor ---- to them this could be the issue that gives them the ultimate "out" from their embarrassment over having supported such a madman.

Here's how that would work: Whenever any of them wants to abandon at last the neocon team's pep squad but hesitates because s/he doesn't know what to say about WHY, s/he can simply mention that s/he's been thinking about it all again after today and has REMEMBERED that unity and goodwill from the world that we have now lost. S/HE felt it too -- s/he knows what it was like, how it gave each and every one of us HOPE in the midst of so much pain and anger. Hope, and comfort as well.

It's an area where I think we can begin to rebuild our bond with our fellow citizens. It could be ours again, that precious and rare bond we felt so strongly but for such a short time immediately after 9/11.

Then the world is next! How wonderful it would be to feel loved, understood, and accepted again by the people of the world as we did that day and for a brief time afterward. I'd give a LOT for that feeling again.

[Libby2]

25. I just have no words,

except to thank you, for posting this.

[Usrename]

26. A perfect post for today.

Thanks.

[blonndee]

27. A truly tragic loss, and a senseless one at that.

How DARE he do this to our country and the world! Those photographs show that the people can and will come together in peace. Peace is the way!

But the weasel and his neocon ghouls don't value peace, love and understanding. All they hold dear is money and power, and they will do anything to build up their stock in both. It's sickening.

[AZBlue]

28. Thank you for putting that together.

I was so saddened today (again) as I read the article on msnbc:

Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel — an advocate of closer ties with Washington — had veiled criticism of the United States, saying: “The ends cannot justify the means.”

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Helen Clark joined many when she said: “No, we’re not more secure since 9/11.” Clark said more should be done to reach out to moderate states and leaders in the Islamic world to encourage understanding between different peoples, and to help end the sense of alienation and exclusion among some young Muslims that fuels extremism.

A week after the Sept. 11 attacks, Chirac flew over the World Trade Center site — the first foreign leader to pay personal condolences. That solidarity quickly dissipated into rancor in the buildup to the Iraq war, when Chirac led opposition to Bush’s plans.

Israel’s Haaretz daily expressed disappointment and cynicism in an op-ed piece that said: “This is Sept. 11 five years later: a political tool in the hands of the Bush administration.”"


And so on....
*sigh*


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14780467/

[never cry wolf]

29. k & r... excellent reminder.......n/t

[Mad_Dem_X]

30. What a difference!

Damn the Bush administration to Hell for what they've done to us!

[KyndCulture]

31. Randi Rhodes rants on this subject today >> audio clip.

http://www.radionewsamerica.com/index.php?cat=164

Very good!

[malaise]

32. Fabulous

Touche!!

[civildisoBDence]

33. Kind stuff

Just awesome. The whole world is watching.

Newsprism

[roguevalley]

35. this is among the parts that hurts the worst. they were with us and we

with them. now look at all of us. I could cry.

[Kurovski]

36. A beautiful reminder of how true compassion reveals itself.

K&R.

[Sydnie]

37. Thank you Kynd

[eggbeater]

38. It should be titled,

Ignorance, the Death of a Nation.

how sad to see the support that the U.S had after the attacks.
properly used, that support could have brought real results much faster with many less senseless deaths in the middle east. Ours, and theirs.

Instead, The U.S led by cowboy George, rode in alone and took on the world in an act of vengence.

Excellent work on the photo layout. I pray every day that this will all end to the advantage of the whole world, not just the oil greedy executives that are destroying our country.

[seabeyond]

39. the WORLD grieved for us way back when.... yes n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

40. Yes, on 9/11/01, we had the sympathy of the entire world, although

I bet a lot of Murrikans remember only the cleverly edited footage of half a dozen Palestinians dancing in the street. (I saw the unedited footage on a German website, and it really was only half a dozen people on a busy sidewalk.)

Those pictures of people throughout the Muslim world sympathizing with us somehow didn't get the same exposure.

[Joey Liberal]

41. Thank you! n/t

[speedoo]

42. Fantastic.

Thank you.

[Balderdash]

43. This is what I was

thinking about this morning. I remember the worlds outpouring of sympathy and empathy just after 9/11 and how that felt and then thinking about what Bush has done with all of that goodwill. So much has been wasted in our name, the lives and the goodwill, it's just crushing the weight of what this man has done in our name.

[Swamp Rat]

44. k&r

:kick:

[Sugar Smack]

46. Look, this is a great thread.

You don't REALLY HATE it here, do you? I wish you'd stop that; you have some great things to share.

[StrictlyRockers]

47. :tears: K&R

:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:
:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

[1620rock]

48. Of all the words...

...of tongue or pen...the saddest are, it might have been. :cry:

[Rhiannon12866]

49. Great post! K&R. And don't forget the reaction of the Iranians to 9/11

They were the only people in the region to take to the streets in support of the Americans after 9/11. Oh, wait! Aren't they "next?" ;(

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

50. A 9/11 thread that sucker punched me. Powerful barely describes it.

:kick" and R. MKJ

[Raster]

51. I awoke just before the jet hit the second tower, I saw it live. I knew

even then that it stank to high heaven. My first words that morning were "those fucking bastards." I was not only referring to the "terrorists." My mind staggered with the reality and implications. I was also shocked and amazed at the depth and breadth of global empathy afterwards. I briefly suspended reality and fervently hoped that just maybe bush* and the powers that be would use this most unique moment in human history for good and high purpose. Unfortunately, quite the contrary. 9/11 has been used an an excuse to rape, plunder, pillage and kill. Squandered is not the word to use here. Betrayed would be more accurate.

[gordontron]

53. good lord..

this nearly brought me to tears. thanks for the pictures

[Major Hogwash]

54. So true, so true.

Once when the entire world joined in our grief, Bush has squandered all of the good will and feelings of sympathy they had for us as he lead us into an illegal and immoral war with Iraq.

May gawd forgive him, because I won't!!

[Danger Mouse]

55. Wow...

Beautifully done. Thank you for this. It serves as a grim reminder of what harm we have done to ourselves in the eyes of those that once loved and respected us. Once a shining beacon, we have become tarnished. The attitude of Bush and his ilk is that it doesn't matter what the world think. We'll do what we want, and consequences be damned.
But we're still a part of this world. If we learned nothing else from 9/11, we should have learned that America is not isolated. We are a part of this world, and always will be.
Unless we destroy it.

[Jo March]

58. Welcome to DU, Elrond!

:hi:

[shireen]

56. that is so powerful....

thank you, Kyndculture. :cry:

[Old Smokey]

60. Great Job !!!!!

Excellent.