12 years ago

Guitar92player

fear4freedom wrote:

Which is why the war in Afganistan had major support from most of the world! If you supported the initial response, then you supported the war! You cannot say YES, then NO when it comes to military action The Democrats hated that we were united on 9/12 and Bush had MAJOR support with his leadership that he displayed. Everyone forgets that on 9/12 they were very much in support for Bush and retaliation! Most Democrats voted YES and once you vote Yes you cannot take it back. We all knew it was going to be a 10 year war and once one votes yes, they are a YES for ten years whether they like it or not! Lesson learned here is that many politicians AND people take back their vote when it seems comfortable to do so!

Got to stand for something and if you do, then you might get something done!

are you one of the many people who changed their mind due to what the media was pitching you?
are you one that changed your mind after a year or two?
are you one that changed your mind after you were fed the realities of war?

Cant change your mind people......grow up and understand reality!

Thanks for your random post trying to stir something up in a post about 9/11.

But since you are talking about war...

We shifted our focus from Afghanistan to Iraq, which was stupid. I bet we could have killed Osama much earlier if we didn't focus on Iraq.

So it looks like Bush changed his mind on what was important...

jethrojam420

As a sophmore in college, as per usual I wanted to sleep in. So I woke up 5 min before class and was running out the door after the second hit. my suitemate shouted about it to me, but it just didn't register to my hungover mind until I got to class. That 930 class let out early (10). Was glued to the tv and phone ever since on that day.


In the week plus before the attacks, my friends and I would play the board game Risk, and attack from the center (middle eastern area) with fury and always with a alalalalalalalala shout.

Never played risk again after sept 10.

I dunno why I always think of that stupid game, and how it was forever ruined. With so many lives affected, I can only be so lucky.

Byrnzie

fear4freedom wrote:

Which is why the war in Afganistan had major support from most of the world! If you supported the initial response, then you supported the war! You cannot say YES, then NO when it comes to military action The Democrats hated that we were united on 9/12 and Bush had MAJOR support with his leadership that he displayed. Everyone forgets that on 9/12 they were very much in support for Bush and retaliation! Most Democrats voted YES and once you vote Yes you cannot take it back. We all knew it was going to be a 10 year war and once one votes yes, they are a YES for ten years whether they like it or not! Lesson learned here is that many politicians AND people take back their vote when it seems comfortable to do so!

Got to stand for something and if you do, then you might get something done!

are you one of the many people who changed their mind due to what the media was pitching you?
are you one that changed your mind after a year or two?
are you one that changed your mind after you were fed the realities of war?

Cant change your mind people......grow up and understand reality!

No, I thought it was a bullshit war from day one, and still do. Just as Iraq was a bullshit war. They were both about securing access to resources, and had both been planned years before 9/11.

9/11 conveniently gave them the pretext the neo-cons needed.

You don't apprehend criminals by dropping bombs on a country.

By the way, skip to the present: interesting to see the U.S supporting Al Queda in Syria. How does that tally with your simplistic Star-Spangled chest beating?

lcusick

Guitar92player wrote:

fear4freedom wrote:

Which is why the war in Afganistan had major support from most of the world! If you supported the initial response, then you supported the war! You cannot say YES, then NO when it comes to military action The Democrats hated that we were united on 9/12 and Bush had MAJOR support with his leadership that he displayed. Everyone forgets that on 9/12 they were very much in support for Bush and retaliation! Most Democrats voted YES and once you vote Yes you cannot take it back. We all knew it was going to be a 10 year war and once one votes yes, they are a YES for ten years whether they like it or not! Lesson learned here is that many politicians AND people take back their vote when it seems comfortable to do so!

Got to stand for something and if you do, then you might get something done!

are you one of the many people who changed their mind due to what the media was pitching you?
are you one that changed your mind after a year or two?
are you one that changed your mind after you were fed the realities of war?

Cant change your mind people......grow up and understand reality!

Thanks for your random post trying to stir something up in a post about 9/11.

But since you are talking about war...

We shifted our focus from Afghanistan to Iraq, which was stupid. I bet we could have killed Osama much earlier if we didn't focus on Iraq.

So it looks like Bush changed his mind on what was important...

I was always against us going to war with Iraq and protested with my children against it- in downtown Cleveland. Also, I always believed we should go to Afghanistan and get Bin Laden. My friend's son was in special forces in Afghanistan. They had Bin Laden surrounded for days, but were never given the order to take him out. He explained to me that he could see Bin Laden through his scope and the frustration he felt never getting the order to do anything. Many, many years later, they finally got Bin Laden. So Bush blew it many times. We totally got side tracked going to Iraq. The anniversary of 9/11 should be about appreciating all the heroes on that day.

PJ_Soul

I woke up to something weird on my clock radio and turned on the TV to see live footage of people jumping. I was so upset that I didn't even want to go to work, but had to. Saw the first building fall right before leaving. Took the bus up to work, and halfway there the second tower fell, and the bus driver pulled over and asked for 2 minutes of silence. A completely packed bus just sat there on the side of the road, stunned dead silence. It was a really impactful moment.

Dirtie_Frank

I am a little late to this topic, but I was at my first training excercise for my first duty assignment in Germany. We were setting up our tents when the news was passed. Being from the NJ area and only 30 minutes from NYC the attacks had big impact on me. My grandmother lived on Grand Street in Jersey City, and I could still see the towers as we went to her brownstone. I first returned that December and it was very weird landing in Newark and seeing the NYC sky line for the first time. :(