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When I got up that morning and turned on the news and heard a commercial airliner had hit a WTC building I immediatley knew it was a terrorist attack, I speciically remember turning to my then wife and saying, “it was no accident, we’ve been attacked!”

While I was far away from the actual events that day the haunting images of innocent people leaping to their deaths and the outrageous and brutal slaughter of 3,000 of my fellow innocent Americans has never faded.

Eight years later those images are still forever seared into my very soul and the anger and rage that I feel inside has not abated and will not abate until the scourge that is fanatical Islam is wiped from this earth, then and only then will my thirst for justice be quenched, then and only then will my soul be able to heal…

God bless all those innocent people taken from us 8 years ago, God bless their family and friends that still mourn their loss, and God bless America, land of the free and home of the brave!

I’m pretty sure the guys who carried it out ended up in tiny pieces on 5th avenue.

Vashta.Nerada on September 11, 2009 at 2:12 PM

Clinton had the chance to take out OBL, and he let him get away. After the first WTC attack and the Saudi Arabian embassy bombings.

simplesimon on September 11, 2009 at 3:44 PM

Rudy Giuliani was the mayor of NYC on 911. While I think most of his referring to it constantly on the campaign trail was more a plug for his security firm than actually running for the presidency, I respect what he has to say about this time as we remember it as a nation.

Giuliani showed leadership that day. When will we see Obama stand up for America?

Ahh, Rudy Giuliani. Captain 9-11 himself. Hero.

simple343 on September 11, 2009 at 3:44 PM

Also had a 76% approval rating, something your hero O’bama will never see.

All very very true, but the MSM and ACCORN would have killed him with Bernie Kerik, his marriages and his kids endorsing the “O”. I’m a New Yorker and believe me when I tell you the NYT, Daily News, and all 3 networks were waiting, just waiting… it would have been really ugly.

blue1 on September 11, 2009 at 3:50 PM

Yeah good thing we nominated a guy with a perfect marriage record and no corruption history /sarc

It all boiled down to abortion. John McCain is vaguely against it and Giuliani didn’t care enough to pretend.

Think Rudy would choked and floundered when the market cratered in Sept, like the nominee did? Think he would have refused to talk about Maobama’s radicalism, like the nominee did? Think he would have been unable to articulate his economic message, as was the nominee?

Missed opportunity for us.

james23 on September 11, 2009 at 1:03 PM

All very very true, but the MSM and ACCORN would have killed him with Bernie Kerik, his marriages and his kids endorsing the “O”. I’m a New Yorker and believe me when I tell you the NYT, Daily News, and all 3 networks were waiting, just waiting… it would have been really ugly.

Hero.

simplesimon on September 11, 2009 at 12:56 PM

Go get a breathalyzer, or an inhalator, not a breathalyzer, in all 57 States.

God Bless You and Thank You Both, Rudy and President Bush!

A little OT admittedly, but has anyone else noticed…When these Kossites “discuss” something, it’s merely a case of 1 asshat making a 1 sentence comment, then everybody responds (with their own 1 sentence comment) Example:

“The morning of Ted Kennedy’s funeral, I listened to all of his speeches, and tears of awe were running down my face”

“WOW! I had the exact same identical similar reaction, and all I could think was: Would I ever cry over a speech by Bushitler”

Think Rudy would choked and floundered when the market cratered in Sept, like the nominee did? Think he would have refused to talk about Maobama’s radicalism, like the nominee did? Think he would have been unable to articulate his economic message, as was the nominee?

Missed opportunity for us.

james23 on September 11, 2009 at 1:03 PM

But but Rudy wanted the states to decide abortion and gay marriage and gosh darn nit that’s just not enough. We need a former pastor.

Yeah I’m still bitter too. Talk radio in Iowa crucified Rudy for not being “conservative”. It’s odd how little the word “conservative” has to do with the Barry Goldwater movement and how much it has to do with Christianity where I live.

Can you imagine a ticket with him and Sarah Palin? WOW!

atheling on September 11, 2009 at 1:08 PM

I can imagine! Long live the US Constitution.

Good point.

National Geographic’s Inside 9/11. It’s available on DVD and is shown once in a while on NatGeo TV.

It should be in every school and public library.

Nice song.

Where were you when the world stopped turning? – 9-11 tribute

Well said. Continuing to Read My Pet Goat for 7 minutes after being notified of the attacks shows the cowardice and helplessness of the former male cheerleader.

simplesimon on September 11, 2009 at 12:36 PM

If you’re going to be a giant, gaping a$$hole, at least be an accurate one, it was exactly five minutes, not seven. Had he jumped up and panicked like you would have, he would have terrified those kids for no reason and you’d be complaining about his lack of ‘cool’ now. You suck.

Thanks for that link. I hadn’t heard. Glad to know. The kidnappings, murders and thieving from Mexican drug cartels along the border are so far out of hand! Obama go to hell holding Kay Bailey in your handbasket, ignoring the security of Americans, particularly in Texas.

Perry said the effort also would focus on remote areas where farmers and ranchers have complained of being overrun by smugglers and gangs from Mexico in numbers that also overwhelm local law enforcement and border patrol officers.

“Washington is shortchanging them, not giving them the support they need,” Perry said. “As a result, we’re having to dedicate our resources to deal with the challenges we have along the Texas-Mexico border and ensuing issues that porous border has created all across state of Texas.”

He said the state would pick up the tab of $110 million, allocated by the Legislature in the past two sessions.

Perry’s announcement drew immediate criticism from U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is running against the two-term incumbent in the March GOP primary.

Even Clinton set up failure for our law enforcement in Texas when he ordered the armed force rookies from elsewhere, all hyped up, trained for warfare, to enforce border control, killing a goat herding boy.

Border Patrol and Texas Rangers know the score on the border, and don’t target an American citizen lone boy herding goats.

Damn Hutchison’s sell-out.

The best documentary I’ve seen on 9/11 and how it came to be is National Geographic’s Inside 9/11. It’s available on DVD and is shown once in a while on NatGeo TV.

This show goes WAY back in time to look at how we came to be attacked. This did NOT start under the Bush administration (either Bush) and while our situation was worsened by the non-action of the Clinton administration, the birth of what would eventually be the 9/11 attacks came a long time before.

This documentary takes the viewer back to, I believe, the Carter administration and draws a very compelling, easy-to-understand path that leads right up to that horrible day.

9/11 happened as a result of years and years of people looking the other way and ignoring warnings and other attacks because they did not want to deal with the hard, cold truth that is terrorism.

If we do not educate ourselves and those around us, we are going to see this happen again. Please, let’s do what it takes, whatever it takes, to make sure that doesn’t occur.

Get Inside 9/11, watch it, learn from it and pass it on so someone else can. It’s one of the few documentaries that is willing to look beyond the partisan BS and into what really caused this to happen.