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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MJ who wrote (28272)	10/9/2004 9:51:35 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

We choose how to react to 911. I didn't care much about politics before I saw the effects of 911: - I saw arabs and those who appear to be 'arab' being harassed by their neighbors and the police. I was stunned to see that the lessons from the Holocaust had been forgotten yet again. That made me furious AND frightened. The idea of 'never again' and especially in the USA went right out the window. - I saw that the government was fanning the hysteria and, more importantly, people around me were buying it. I saw people willing to give up all of their civil liberties just in case a bunch of strangers were planning to drive planes into their houses. We should be more rational about our reaction especially 3 years after the fact. I am now really angry that Bush is using 911 for political gain and lying about it even though he's been proven wrong. Apparently some 60% of Republicans still believe that Saddam Hussein planned and/or was actually involved in 911. Bush, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and even Cheney (finally) have said there is no connection. - We deserve to be smarter than this. We have the net, we have media, we have knowledge of history.