> No matter what your views on President Bush's
> statement of upcoming war,
> this, from an English journalist, is very
> interesting. Just a word of
> background for those of you who aren't familiar with
> the UK's Daily Mirror
> this is a notoriously left-wing daily that is
> normally not supportive of
> the Colonials across the Atlantic.
>
>
>
> Tony Parsons ... Daily Mirror ... September 11 2002
>
>
>
> One year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of
> broadcasting -- the mass
> murder of thousands, live on television. As a lesson
> in the pitiless
> cruelty
> of the human race, September 11 was up there with
> Pol Pot's Mountain of
> Skulls in Cambodia, or the skeletal bodies stacked
> like garbage in the Nazi
> concentration camps. An unspeakable act so cruel,
> so calculated and so
> utterly merciless that
> surely the world could agree on one thing - nobody
> deserves this fate.
> Surely there could be consensus: The victims were
> truly innocent, the
> perpetrators truly evil.
>
>
>
> But to the world's eternal shame, 9/11 is
> increasingly seen as America's
> comeuppance. Incredibly, anti-Americanism has
> increased over the last year.
>
>
> There has always been a simmering resentment to the
> USA in this country;
> too loud, too rich, too full of themselves, and so
> much happier than
> Europeans -- but it has become an epidemic. And it
> seems incredible to me.
> More than that, it turns my stomach. America is
> this country's greatest
> friend and our staunchest ally. We are bonded to the
> US by culture,
> language and blood.
>
>
> A little over half a century ago, around half a
> million Americans died for
> our freedoms, as well as their own. Have we
> forgotten so soon?
>
> Then, on 9/11, thousands of ordinary men, women and
> children -- not just
> Americans, but from dozens of countries -- were
> butchered by a small group
> of religious fanatics. Why are we so quick to
> betray them?,, What touched
> the heart about those who died in the Twin Towers
> and on the planes, was
> that we recognized them. Young fathers and mothers,
> someone's son and
> somebody's daughter, husbands, wives, and children,
> some unborn. And these
> people brought it on themselves? Their nation is to
> blame for their
> meticulously planned slaughter?
>
> These days you don't have to be some dust-encrusted
> nut job in Kabul or
> Karachi or Finsbury Park to see America as the Great
> Satan. The
> anti-American alliance is made up of self-loathing
> liberals who blame the
> Americans for every ill in the Third World, and
> conservatives suffering
> from power-envy, bitter that the world's only
> superpower can do what it
> likes without having to ask permission. The truth
> is that America has
> behaved with enormous restraint since September 11.
>
>
> Remember . remember ... remember ... the
> gut-wrenching tapes of weeping men
> phoning their wives to say, "I love you," before
> they were burned alive.
> Remember those people leaping to their deaths from
> the top of burning
> skyscrapers. Remember the hundreds of firemen buried
> alive.
> Remember the smiling face of that beautiful little
> girl who was on one of
> the planes with her mum.
>
>
>
>
> Remember . remember ... And realize that America has
> never retaliated for
> 9/11 in anything like the way it could have. So a
> few al-Qaeda tourists
> got locked up without a trial in Camp X-ray? Pass
> the Kleenex ... So
> some Afghan wedding receptions were shot up after
> they merrily fired their
> semi-automatics in a sky full of American planes? A
> shame, but maybe next
> time they should stick to confetti. AMERICA could
> have turned a large chunk
> of the world into a parking lot. That it didn't is a
> sign of strength.
> American voices are already being raised against
> attacking Iraq -- that's
> what a democracy is for. How many in the Islamic
> world will have a minute's
> silence for the slaughtered innocents of 9/11? How
> many Islamic leaders
> will have the guts to say that the mass murder of
> 9/11 was an abomination?
>
> When the news of 9/11 broke on the West Bank, those
> freedom-loving
> Palestinians were dancing in the street. America
> watched all of that -- and
> didn't push the button. I still find it incredible
> that 9/11 did not
> provoke all-out war Not a "war on terrorism." A
> real war.
>
> The fundamentalist dudes are talking about "opening
> the gates of hell" if
> America attacks Iraq. Well, America could have
> opened the gates of hell
> like you wouldn't believe. The US is the most
> militarily powerful nation
> that ever strode the face of the earth. The campaign
> in Afghanistan may
> have been less than perfect and the planned war on
> Iraq may be
> misconceived. But don't blame America for not
> bringing peace and light to
> these wretched countries.
>
> How many democracies are there in the Middle East,
> or in the Muslim world?
> You can count them on the fingers of one hand -
> assuming you haven't had
> any chopped off for minor shoplifting. Countries
> that spend their oil
> wealth on weaponry instead of on their people who
> survive without health
> care, education for females, comfortable housing and
> enough food.
>
>
> I love America, yet America is hated. I guess that
> makes me Bush's poodle.
> But I would rather be a dog in New York City than a
> Prince in Riyadh. Above
> all, America is hated because it is what every
> country wants to be ---
> rich, free, strong, open, optimistic. Not ground
> down by the past,
> religion, or some caste system. America is the best
> friend this country
> ever had and we should start remembering that.
>
>
> Or do you really think the USA is the root of all
> evil? Tell it to the
> loved ones of the men and women who leaped to their
> death from the burning
> towers. Tell it to the nursing mothers whose
> husbands died on one of the
> hijacked
> planes, or were ripped apart in a collapsing
> skyscraper. And tell it to the
> hundreds of young widows whose husbands worked for
> the New York Fire
> Department.
>
>
> To our shame, George Bush gets a worse press than
> Saddam Hussein. Once we
> were told that Saddam gassed the Kurds, tortured his
> own people and set up
> r*pe-camps in Kuwait. Now we are told he likes
> Quality Street. Save me the
> orange center, Oh Mighty One!
>
>
>
> Remember . remember ... September 11. One of the
> greatest atrocities in
> human history was committed against America.
>
>
> No, do more than remember. Never forget.
> statement of upcoming war,
> this, from an English journalist, is very
> interesting. Just a word of
> background for those of you who aren't familiar with
> the UK's Daily Mirror
> this is a notoriously left-wing daily that is
> normally not supportive of
> the Colonials across the Atlantic.
>
>
>
> Tony Parsons ... Daily Mirror ... September 11 2002
>
>
>
> One year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of
> broadcasting -- the mass
> murder of thousands, live on television. As a lesson
> in the pitiless
> cruelty
> of the human race, September 11 was up there with
> Pol Pot's Mountain of
> Skulls in Cambodia, or the skeletal bodies stacked
> like garbage in the Nazi
> concentration camps. An unspeakable act so cruel,
> so calculated and so
> utterly merciless that
> surely the world could agree on one thing - nobody
> deserves this fate.
> Surely there could be consensus: The victims were
> truly innocent, the
> perpetrators truly evil.
>
>
>
> But to the world's eternal shame, 9/11 is
> increasingly seen as America's
> comeuppance. Incredibly, anti-Americanism has
> increased over the last year.
>
>
> There has always been a simmering resentment to the
> USA in this country;
> too loud, too rich, too full of themselves, and so
> much happier than
> Europeans -- but it has become an epidemic. And it
> seems incredible to me.
> More than that, it turns my stomach. America is
> this country's greatest
> friend and our staunchest ally. We are bonded to the
> US by culture,
> language and blood.
>
>
> A little over half a century ago, around half a
> million Americans died for
> our freedoms, as well as their own. Have we
> forgotten so soon?
>
> Then, on 9/11, thousands of ordinary men, women and
> children -- not just
> Americans, but from dozens of countries -- were
> butchered by a small group
> of religious fanatics. Why are we so quick to
> betray them?,, What touched
> the heart about those who died in the Twin Towers
> and on the planes, was
> that we recognized them. Young fathers and mothers,
> someone's son and
> somebody's daughter, husbands, wives, and children,
> some unborn. And these
> people brought it on themselves? Their nation is to
> blame for their
> meticulously planned slaughter?
>
> These days you don't have to be some dust-encrusted
> nut job in Kabul or
> Karachi or Finsbury Park to see America as the Great
> Satan. The
> anti-American alliance is made up of self-loathing
> liberals who blame the
> Americans for every ill in the Third World, and
> conservatives suffering
> from power-envy, bitter that the world's only
> superpower can do what it
> likes without having to ask permission. The truth
> is that America has
> behaved with enormous restraint since September 11.
>
>
> Remember . remember ... remember ... the
> gut-wrenching tapes of weeping men
> phoning their wives to say, "I love you," before
> they were burned alive.
> Remember those people leaping to their deaths from
> the top of burning
> skyscrapers. Remember the hundreds of firemen buried
> alive.
> Remember the smiling face of that beautiful little
> girl who was on one of
> the planes with her mum.
>
>
>
>
> Remember . remember ... And realize that America has
> never retaliated for
> 9/11 in anything like the way it could have. So a
> few al-Qaeda tourists
> got locked up without a trial in Camp X-ray? Pass
> the Kleenex ... So
> some Afghan wedding receptions were shot up after
> they merrily fired their
> semi-automatics in a sky full of American planes? A
> shame, but maybe next
> time they should stick to confetti. AMERICA could
> have turned a large chunk
> of the world into a parking lot. That it didn't is a
> sign of strength.
> American voices are already being raised against
> attacking Iraq -- that's
> what a democracy is for. How many in the Islamic
> world will have a minute's
> silence for the slaughtered innocents of 9/11? How
> many Islamic leaders
> will have the guts to say that the mass murder of
> 9/11 was an abomination?
>
> When the news of 9/11 broke on the West Bank, those
> freedom-loving
> Palestinians were dancing in the street. America
> watched all of that -- and
> didn't push the button. I still find it incredible
> that 9/11 did not
> provoke all-out war Not a "war on terrorism." A
> real war.
>
> The fundamentalist dudes are talking about "opening
> the gates of hell" if
> America attacks Iraq. Well, America could have
> opened the gates of hell
> like you wouldn't believe. The US is the most
> militarily powerful nation
> that ever strode the face of the earth. The campaign
> in Afghanistan may
> have been less than perfect and the planned war on
> Iraq may be
> misconceived. But don't blame America for not
> bringing peace and light to
> these wretched countries.
>
> How many democracies are there in the Middle East,
> or in the Muslim world?
> You can count them on the fingers of one hand -
> assuming you haven't had
> any chopped off for minor shoplifting. Countries
> that spend their oil
> wealth on weaponry instead of on their people who
> survive without health
> care, education for females, comfortable housing and
> enough food.
>
>
> I love America, yet America is hated. I guess that
> makes me Bush's poodle.
> But I would rather be a dog in New York City than a
> Prince in Riyadh. Above
> all, America is hated because it is what every
> country wants to be ---
> rich, free, strong, open, optimistic. Not ground
> down by the past,
> religion, or some caste system. America is the best
> friend this country
> ever had and we should start remembering that.
>
>
> Or do you really think the USA is the root of all
> evil? Tell it to the
> loved ones of the men and women who leaped to their
> death from the burning
> towers. Tell it to the nursing mothers whose
> husbands died on one of the
> hijacked
> planes, or were ripped apart in a collapsing
> skyscraper. And tell it to the
> hundreds of young widows whose husbands worked for
> the New York Fire
> Department.
>
>
> To our shame, George Bush gets a worse press than
> Saddam Hussein. Once we
> were told that Saddam gassed the Kurds, tortured his
> own people and set up
> r*pe-camps in Kuwait. Now we are told he likes
> Quality Street. Save me the
> orange center, Oh Mighty One!
>
>
>
> Remember . remember ... September 11. One of the
> greatest atrocities in
> human history was committed against America.
>
>
> No, do more than remember. Never forget.
