The Dusty Dog

The Tragedy of 9-11

There is a ton of press and editorializing about 9/11 today. It's September 11, 2006, the 5th anniversary of that tragic event. But, we're no safer today. On the contrary. We never caught the perpetrators of that horrific act of destruction. On the contrary. Instead, we're embroiled in a war that has nothing to do with 9/11, but was initiated using 9/11 as the excuse. Turns out it was a BIG FAT LIE FROM DAY ONE. Of course, anyone who reads real news, is curious about world events, is NOT a jingoistic lunatic bent on revenge already knew it before the march to war. We all knew the Niger documents were forgeries. We all knew that there was NO CONNECTION BETWEEN IRAQ AND 9/11 before this nation invaded Iraq. We knew. And, if we knew, sure as shit dubya and his dick and all the other fascist neocons knew.

The fascist neocons had effectively duped Congress (who clearly was asleep at the switch) and the entire nation, who was already tasting the blood of revenge for 9/11. That, in and of itself, has now become the larger tragedy, and I do not mean to dishonor those victims and their families who suffered and died from those terrorist actions of 9/11. But, the tragedy we have now certainly overshadows that horrific act of terrorism. In fact, we've now taken good ol' American terrorism and sent it to Iraq, wherein almost as many American soldiers are now dead as those who died in the World Trade Center. And, tens of thousands of Iraqis have paid with their lives for an act that had nothing do to with them.

So, here we are today, with a falacy of a movie about 9/11 which aired last night, such fiction that even Disney agreed to air statements during the movie three times saying that it's not a documentary. But, the statements weren't really strong enough. And goddess can only ask who really read them? What they didn't say was that it's a biased pile of bull. The fact that it's being aired one month before the midterm elections, makes it a tragedy unto itself.

It's a tragedy because it serves nothing but to bias peoples' minds before the midterm elections, by making the Clinton administration, and by association the Democrats the number one target of blame for 9/11. Yet, the Bush administration callously allows Bin Laden to walk free today, and Al-Qaida is as strong a threat as ever. Where's the freakin' justice? But, ever since dubya and his dick were elected to office that sad, sad day six years ago, they've done their damnedest to blame Clinton for every single debaucle that they themselves have embarked upon. This tragedy of a mini-series, of which part two airs tonight, is nothing but a huge political ad for the repukes. That's all it is. A big, republican, totally free, political advertisement, thanks to Disney.

One of my favorite bloggers is Taylor Marsh. I am quoting her latest (as of this writing) blog entry, because she says, so succinctly, what is on lots of our minds.

People will say I'm being political, that I hate George W. Bush. What people think of me is immaterial. The truth of it is that today I am simply an American who doesn't understand why we let the man who perpetrated the American massacre on 9/11 get away. It infuriates me, sickens me. It's not that I think it would change the attacks in Iraq, or solve the Middle East challenges. It's because when someone commits mass murder on American soil he doesn't get to walk away free and negotiate safe havens with our "ally," while American soldiers continue to die for retribution that was way off target.

But the worst of it is that upon the dead of 9/11, George W. Bush has now placed the bodies of 2,668 American soldiers, including thousands of wounded and maimed, while perpetrating a fraud on the American people who trusted him to make the wrong right. It doesn't get any worse than what George W. Bush did after 9/11. He has dishonored the victims of 9/11, then added insult to murder by taking us into a war for vindication when the real enemy hid elsewhere. We now have the proof, which makes today all the more painful.

Today, I am marking the tragedy of 9/11 by remembering who is really to blame for the mess we're all in, as a nation, today. I remember those who died on 9/11, and I remember those who continue to die today because the events that happened on 9/11 enabled this dubya regime to engage in an oil venture that continues to cost tens of thousands of lives today. For that, I continue to be truly saddened. But, I will vote in November 2006, and I will vote in November 2008. I will hold these fascist neocons accountable.

posted by Dusty Dog at 9/11/2006