I agree with your post. Those 3,000 would not have wanted 300 million Americans to lose the guarantees of the Bill of Rights. You're right. 9/11 was never the REASON for invading Iraq. It was an excuse to lead us into the war Bush planned all along. I was actually opposed to our invading Afghanistan. It seemed like a lost cause to me, a lost cause that had already brought the Soviet Union to an end...THAT was a positive result, though. Our goal there was to get Osama and his fellow terrorists whom that govt. purportedly harbored. None of which has been accomplished, and now Bush has created a new haven and breeding grown for terrorists, Iraq.
IMO, not enough has been done to find out what REALLY happened 9/11. And just now, we learn that the FBI could have thwarted the perps, but because of bureaucratic egomania, that didn't happen. And are we any safer from a terrorist attack now then we were then. Absolutely, NO. Homeland Security got a D-, which equals complete failure to protect us.
Yep, our prisons house one/sixth of the world's prison population. And yet Americans only comprise about five percent of the world....are we that bad! that so many need to be locked up?!!!
My dad was a meteoroglogist stationed in Hawaii, after a couple of years, he was sent to the South Pacific, where he got "jungle rot." I'm not sure what that was, and I don't know much more than that, as I never really asked, and he's gone now. Once a priest whom he'd met in Guam came to dinner. I don't even know how my dad got to be friends with him. He wasn't even Catholic. BUT, he was a great guy and the best dad in the world. And I know he'd be appalled to at what's happened to this great nation for which he and your dad fought. :( |
