Ted Rall for November 19, 2009
Transcript:
Just to be annoying, the terrorists re-attack the site of the world trade memorial hole. The losses are staggering: tens of thousands of dollars in earthmovers plus 4 constction workers, 3 of whom were standing around smoking while the 4th one worked. A re-shocked nation reels. Then seethes. Finally, it is inspired. (Barack Obama: 8 years of progress have been lost. But we will re-beuild this hole!) But only one thing can heal America's wounded pride: retaliation against people who had nothing to do with it. (Try planning your wedding parties now, Afghan scum!)
There are a lot of very suspicious aspects to the events of 11 September 2001 in the United States, and it is extremely unlikely that anyone posting to this site can unravel them all. But one thing seems to be certain - none of thehijackers were Afghanis or, for that matter, Iraqis. It might therefore be questioned whether bombing Afghanistan and starting a war of aggression against that country and, two years later, Iraq was a rational response on the part of the US government, but if one considers that its leaders had an agenda (PNAC) which long predated and had nothing to do with these events, that particular little mystery is speedily resolved….
Henri