The Ongoing Attacks of 9/11

Whenever someone says "We haven't had an attack since 9/11," I say "None needed." The attacks of 9/11 are not over. They are ongoing. Thanks to Bush and his Republicans, the damage grows larger and more permanent every single day.

At first we lost some buildings and some people to an evil-minded sneak attack. But then, like a kind of auto-immune disorder, Bush and his Republicans began attacking America's remaining healthy tissue. They attacked our unity, our self-respect, our values, our treasury... They attacked our government. They attacked science. They attacked truth itself. Bush and his Republicans have continued the attacks on America begun by Bin Laden on 9/11. Under their leadership, we are a poorer, sicker country in every way.

Think Theodoric of York, the old Steve Martin bit on Saturday Night Live. Think of the guy in the monster movie who panics and fires the last of the ammunition into the trees. Think of auto-immune disorders. Think cancer. Those are apt metaphors for the haughty, plain wrong, near Platonically ideal incompetents and scoundrels who brought our country so low these last long years.

9/11 ain't over. We are still under the attack that started that day. It never stopped. It got worse. Bush and his Republicans, blinded by power-lust and hobbled by an innately incompetent, unworkable ideology unwittingly took sides against America. Bottom line: They are not with us; they are against us. They are only "with" themselves.

The cheapest, most obvious solution to protecting America is to vote out its attackers next year. Give the Republicans some time in the corner under a dunce cap to think about what they have done.

I remind them of the anthrax attacks.

Then I ask them, "What was the result of the investigation?"

I don't assume that those were committed by a Republican sympathizer. The second biggest terrorist attack on American soil was by Republican Timothy McVeigh. That already dwarfs the anthrax attacks. I would like to know what the result of the investigation was, though.

All three attacks (OK City, Anthrax, and 9/11) are dwarfed by the ongoing attack on America by the panic-stricken, endlessly self-approving Bush and his Republicans. We have already lost more soldiers in Iraq alone than perished in all three terrorist attacks put together. And all we have gotten for it so far is a huge bill for our children to pay and a majority of Iraqis who think attacking Americans is OK.

And pervasive and far beyond our control

Flipping through channels last night, I decided to give CNN a few minute of my time.
Can't remember what was on Larry King - Ryan Seacrest or some such. But was got my attention and put shivers down my spine was the Text crawl at the bottom of the screen

The crawl announced in endless repetition two and only two events: one) 160 protesters were arrested by Capital police two) Al Queda now has another sinister mission of assassinating political foes in Iraq

The interplay ON A BASIC HYPNOTIC level is sublime- the uninitiated in America are subliminally having the notion that anti-war protesters equal Al Queda.

Two hours later, when I checked back, the scrawl in text at the bottom of the screen was still the same.

BTW I have for years noted the substance of the Text crawl. This is the only time in my memory when only two events were played. EVER. They always have a dozen or more.

That 9/11 happened on BUSH'S watch, and more than one grand scale terrorist attack while he was at the helm is more than enough.

Though I fully realize that 9/11 is retroactively the fault of the Clenis, and that it doesn't matter if it happened while Bush was the one in office.

Ask me no questions, just blame the Clenis.

Edited to add: :spray:

:kick: and REC'D!!!

Bush only represents the upper elite, as well as his war profiteering cronies, and there is indeed a War on mainstream America.

I mean seriously, once elected, how will a Democratic Presidency/House/Senate change that?

Will Clinton use Osama as a bogeyman?

Will Obama overturn the Patriot Act?

Who, among our candidates, will end Corporate Imperialism and exploitation?

LTTE in this morning's Dallas paper:

After 9/11, I remember people decorating their cars with American flags and covering their houses in red, white and blue. Strangers prayed for strangers, and the nation came together.

This united bliss lasted only a short time. After a year, people started getting busy again and forgot to pray or watch for updates about the war.


Emphasis mine. Bliss? BLISS? She's only a few sentences away from the same conclusion some RW columnist came up with a few weeks ago: we need another terrorist attack to bring this country back together again. 'Cause those were such good times.

Disgusting.

that we need another domestic terrorist attack in order to unite the country behind Bush.

For example, I haven't watched CNN since their sickening deification of Commander Codpiece on 9/11/01. There have been no attacks since 9/11/01. Therefore, my refusal to watch CNN is all that's keeping America safe from the terra-ists. Think I'll go flip on the TV and see what happens...

But you're absolutely correct in saying that a follow-up hasn't been necessary to achieve the regime's objectives. Had there been massive resistance to the Iraq invasion, or rioting over lost Constitutional freedoms, another "event" would have been necessary to scare the rabble back into line.

Absent evidence of real organized resistance to BushCo's foreign and domestic policies -- summed up easily as unending war for oil, further transference of wealth from bottom to top, and suppression or marginalization of all dissent -- the Cheney administration just got to kick back and chuckle at the predictability and gullibility of Americans.

And even though tens -- possibly hundreds -- of thousands took to the streets yesterday to show their opposition to those very policies, because mass media didn't cover it, it didn't actually happen in the very real sense that if something doesn't appear on TV news, it only emits the sound of one hand clapping.


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