Unleashing a Terrorist | The New American

Oh, wow. This article is a revelation. I've always held that many in the government were criminally negligent in the failure to prevent the attacks of 9/11. Finally, after six years of waiting and wondering, the facts are starting to trickle out.

Not surprised.

Those sick depraved demented evil diabolical madmen had definitely unleashed and unspeakable reign of terror that day totally far beyond comprehention!!

Imagine how all those poor souls on those planes, in the towers and at the Pentagon must have felt, knowing that they were about to die an unimaginable horrible death!! To die from a disease or a gunshot wound is one thing. But to just be vaporized and vanish into thin air from something like that is just total anhilation!!

Those attacks have change this country forever!! Stuff started being closed that we were so acustomed to having open like the obs decks, Lady Liberty, state and federal offices. Now we are forced to go through metal detectors for acess to just about everything under the sun! We've lost our freedom, dignity and respect because the lazy gov't just didn't bother to get off their butts and try to stop those attacks from taking place!

A friend and I was going to take the Hard Hat tour at the Hoover Damn in April '03, but decided not to. The following year while vacationing in Las Vegas, we went back there and found out that the tour was killed because of 09-11! I was so pissed off to no end!!!

I hope that EVERYONE involved gets what's coming to them, up to and including Osama BinLaden!!

It can easily be said that one way it has changed the country is to have woken up a lot of people to the fact that there is a big picture outside their own lives. No person, or country, lives in a vacuum.

The loss of freedoms etc etc is really due to the Government's reaction, and in a way amounts to letting the terrorists win (at least partially). By making those kind of changes, the terrorists have forced fundamental changes in the American way of life. I mean, the 'Patriot Act'?

Monday morning quarterbacking is an easy sport to play, but not that fun for thinking people to watch. I really doubt if Bush Sr., the Clintons, or Bush W. had any knowledge a terrorist attack was going to happen they'd have done nothing about it.

I hear a lot of conservatives try to pin blame on Clinton - I'm not fan of Clinton, but 9/11 wasn't his fault and it wasn't the fault of either of the Bush presidents either. We can look at what should have been done differently, but indictments - no.

Did you read the article, or is that your normal knee-jerk reaction?

They had plenty of fore-warning that something signifigant was coming. They had numerous opportunities to do something, anything, with the intel. It's willfully ignorant to believe otherwise.

John Ashcroft and many other U.S. officials knew not to fly that day. The Mossad were crawling all over New York City waiting to witness the attack.

It wouldn't be so irresponsible to ignore the facts, if many of the same people weren't still in power, still putting us at risk with their incompetence, negligence, poor judgement, and questionable character. Of those, too many to remember are now in positions to do even worse damage to our national security.

It's not about assigning blame to a single person. It's about a system that has failed, more than once. Rather than reform it, or at the very least remove those responsible for it's complete and utter failure, we have promoted the worst offenders to positions where they can cause more harm.

In that case I mostly agree with you. Another example is the Fort Dix six. These guys had been in this country illegally for something like twenty years, and dozens of run-ins with the law, and were knee deep in planning a terrorist attack when they were caught.

The German nazis who snuck ashore in New York and Florida with equipment and plans to sabotage were caught within a couple weeks and tried and executed within a few months.

Something has gone wrong with the system.

Bah, those guys were idiots. It was blatant enticement. Their immigration status should have been the begining and end of that case. They were the proverbial low-hanging fruit.

It made a good sound-bite for a couple of days, but it doesn't hold up under scrutiny. Two words: Agent Provocateur

The "pizza plotters" had no real plan, no real weapons (though they did shoot some paintball guns) and no real leader except the guy sent to bust them.

When I think of those low-lifes who had nothing else better to do in life but to create mass murder and madness, it just pisses me off to no end!!

The fact that our supposedly brave & fearless gov't just stood by, did little or nothing to lay the smackdown on those madmen and then had the balls to just let that all happen, I mean, what in the Sam Hill were THEY thinking?!!

They might just as well have said; "Come on in!! Welcome to our country. Help yourself to a few planes and crash them wherever you like!! But go get trained first so that you can fly the planes properly.

We know that you hate this country, but we're willing to let bygones be bygones as long as you do this just this one time only, and that's all."