What Americans should aspire to be!

Jarod

Jarod

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"...if you want to know who we are, what America is, how we respond to evil, that's it. Selflessly, compassionately, unafraid."
 
I am so happy GWB is not president, because I have no fear that we are going to go attacking some Country that is entirely unrelated to this attack in Boston and lose more than 4,000 innocent American lives in the process.
 
Jarod said:
I am so happy GWB is not president, because I have no fear that we are going to go attacking some Country that is entirely unrelated to this attack in Boston and lose more than 4,000 innocent American lives in the process.
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So you are yet another moron that is going to politicize this tragedy. Way to show your true colors.
 
Libertad! said:
Slaughtering civilians overseas is compassionate and selfless?
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That's why the title to this thread is, "What Americans should aspire to." It's not what we were after 9/11 but it might be what we are growing into.
 
Superfreak said:
You are not discussing politics, you are being a partisan douche bag who is trying to score points off a tragedy.
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No I was making a comparison to remind Americans of a terrable mistake made in the not too distant past when a slightly simular situation arose. I know this and 9-11 are not much of a comparison to eachother, but to shock people with the embarrassing way we reacted when we were attacked in 9-11 is patirotic, not contemptable.
 
Jarod said:
No I was making a comparison to remind Americans of a terrable mistake made in the not too distant past when a slightly simular situation arose. I know this and 9-11 are not much of a comparison to eachother, but to shock people with the embarrassing way we reacted when we were attacked in 9-11 is patirotic, not contemptable.
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Am I the only one who doesn't think that our initial reaction to 9/11 wasn't embarrassing? Afghanistan seemed quite legitimate at the time but in hindsight, not so much. Iraq was definitely unnecessary...but as to our initial reaction ... I wasn't embarrassed a bit. I was proud of the New Yorkers who ran to the rubble and proud of the rest of the country, scores from my home state, who flocked to New York to help. It was not unlike this or any other tragedy ... People usually rise to the occasion and do what they can.
 
leaningright said:
Am I the only one who doesn't think that our initial reaction to 9/11 wasn't embarrassing? Afghanistan seemed quite legitimate at the time but in hindsight, not so much. Iraq was definitely unnecessary...but as to our initial reaction ... I wasn't embarrassed a bit. I was proud of the New Yorkers who ran to the rubble and proud of the rest of the country, scores from my home state, who flocked to New York to help. It was not unlike this or any other tragedy ... People usually rise to the occasion and do what they can.
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There were many things I was proud of.....

But, Bush's first reaction to 9-11 was a promise of vengence.

I was talking about being embarrassed by what we did in Iraq. Personally, I still support what we did in Afganistan. I am proud of the way many New Yorkers and others reacted. I was embarrassed by those who cowered at home, who called any dissent unpatirotic, and those who supported lashing out at Iraq.
 
leaningright said:
Am I the only one who doesn't think that our initial reaction to 9/11 wasn't embarrassing? Afghanistan seemed quite legitimate at the time but in hindsight, not so much. Iraq was definitely unnecessary...but as to our initial reaction ... I wasn't embarrassed a bit. I was proud of the New Yorkers who ran to the rubble and proud of the rest of the country, scores from my home state, who flocked to New York to help. It was not unlike this or any other tragedy ... People usually rise to the occasion and do what they can.
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No, our initial reaction was spot on what we should have done. Jarod is trying to pretend we immediately jumped into the Iraq war. He is trying to be the biggest partisan douche bag on the board. Jarod wants to forget the Iraq war didn't begin until over a year after 9/11.

Going into Afghanistan was the right thing to do. Jarod wants to pretend we just went into Iraq.

People do rise to the occasion in situations like this. Decent people put politics aside. But some morons are intent upon politicizing these events in the immediate after math, because they think they are clever.
 
There's every chance this is domestic. If I was forced to put money on it, that is where mine would go, but that'd be a bet, I am not saying I know one way or the other.

If it should come to pass that this is not domestic, and should they tie it to a outside terrorist group, it will all depend upon which group, and where we can pin their "base of operations" at. (doesn't matter if it's a real base or not). If it were the IRA, we will not bomb Ireland. If it's middle-eastern...and there is a country we want to bomb the shit out of anyway, then we will "discover" that the terrorist group is headquartered there, and we will bomb them.

We might not send in ground troops ala Bush, this way "liberals" can claim that we didn't invade and of course, it is totally right that we bombed this country, because after all we had to respond. A lot of children will burn to death in the bombings, and democrats will vote for it, and liberals will defend it.

This is how it will go.
 
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