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Remembering September 11th...
Authored by: vonleigh on Sep 11, '03 06:29:32PM

Today, tomorrow, the next day and so on, each one of these days over 20 thousand people will die of hunger or hunger related illness. These people have led painful lives and will die in a horrible way most of us couldn't imagine; can the same be said of the victims of september 11th?

I admire rob and his convictions, plus I completely agree with his right to hold a day of mourning on the site. However, I think we should give deeper thought to these issues: 3 thousand people from the US are not more important than 24 thousand from other parts of the world.



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Remembering September 11th...
Authored by: Ionas on Sep 11, '03 07:36:12PM

Incredibly well said. It would be doing all the dying & dead of the rest of the world a monstrous injustice to, in any way, assume that the 3000 victims of 9/11 are more significant than other victims of violence and ideological warfare around the world. I find the thought of a 9/11 memorial a bit misplaced, as there have been ample & plenty of opportunities for similar and even greater (and more terrible) grievances all around the world for the past 20 years. But I suppose distance is everything here, as this is the first time such a catastrophe has struck americans, in america...

As an european, however, I'm amazed at the number of crime experts, terrorism analysts and political commentators *in America* that belives the attack was planned and staged by the bush regime (just as I'm amazed by the number of americans that still think Saddam is connected to the world trade center thing). I can certainly buy some of their arguments as to what the government had to win from doing such a thing...



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