Originally posted by PhlabibitRed Night Seal of Approval
Pearl Harbor, December 8th... a day that will live in infamy. I know the day well every year. If someone were to start a thread on that day, I'm not going to piss all over it.
Elvis died 30 years ago... I didn't piss on those threads that day.
Christmas, 2000 years ago. I don't piss on those threads.
You are free to think 6 years is a long ti ...[text shortened]... ead of course your going to get some negative feedback from some people who still care.
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Originally posted by CrowleyDo you feel the same way about the millions who suffered through decades and decades of Apartheid?
Do you also feel the same way about the thousands of innocent people (many times more than the number lost in the WTC) who have lost their lives or loved-ones in Iraq and Afganistan when the US decided to use the 11-9 attacks to attack the 'terrorists' in those countries?
Originally posted by zakkwylderYou are an idiot. Find a village that is in need of one.
I have nothing but sympathy for the loss endured by those in the 9/11 attacks and their families... however, it is 6 years ago. Time to move on. When exactly does it become acceptible to stop taking a moment of silence for them. Which while I'm on the subject, I guarantee you a good amount of those who claim to be so sorry about what happened are only thi ...[text shortened]... who are continuing on with life. If we don't, life is just going to continue on without us.
Originally posted by Red NightThere have been hundreds if not more cases of ethnic ostracism all around the globe over the course of recorded history, and I'm sure even before then.
Do you feel the same way about the millions who suffered through decades and decades of Apartheid?
Try being white in the U.S.A. these days, you'll see my point.
"The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective—a new world order—can emerge: A new era—freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, east and west, north and south, can prosper and live in harmony.
A hundred generations have searched for this elusive path to peace, while a thousand wars raged across the span of human endeavor, and today that new world is struggling to be born. A world quite different from the one we've known. A world where the rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle. A world in which nations recognize the shared responsibility for freedom and justice. A world where the strong respect the rights of the weak...
...The test we face is great and so are the stakes. This is the first assault on the new world that we seek, the first test of our mettle. Had we not responded to this first provocation with clarity of purpose; if we do not continue to demonstrate our determination, it would be a signal to actual and potential despots around the world.
America and the world must defend common vital interests. And we will.
America and the world must support the rule of law. And we will.
America and the world must stand up to aggression. And we will.
And one thing more: in the pursuit of these goals, America will not be intimidated.
Vital issues of principle are at stake. Saddam Hussein is literally trying to wipe a country off the face of the Earth.
We do not exaggerate. Nor do we exaggerate when we say: Saddam Hussein will fail.
Vital economic interests are at risk as well. Iraq itself controls some 10 percent of the world's proven oil reserves. Iraq plus Kuwait controls twice that. An Iraq permitted to swallow Kuwait would have the economic and military power, as well as the arrogance, to intimidate and coerce its neighbors—neighbors who control the lion's share of the world's remaining oil reserves. We cannot permit a resource so vital to be dominated by one so ruthless. And we won't."
George H.W. Bush
September 11, 1990
Originally posted by zakkwylderI thought you were leaving...don't you have to get that march in Skokie?
There have been hundreds if not more cases of ethnic ostracism all around the globe over the course of recorded history, and I'm sure even before then.
Try being white in the U.S.A. these days, you'll see my point.
Originally posted by PhlabibitDecember 7
Pearl Harbor, December 8th... a day that will live in infamy. I know the day well every year. If someone were to start a thread on that day, I'm not going to piss all over it.
Elvis died 30 years ago... I didn't piss on those threads that day.
Christmas, 2000 years ago. I don't piss on those threads.
You are free to think 6 years is a long ti ...[text shortened]... ead of course your going to get some negative feedback from some people who still care.
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