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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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