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July 09, 2005

River Bend: 'Now 9/11 Is Getting Old'

River Bend at Baghdad Burning, whose blog I was unable to access for the last seven days for some reason, critiqued U.S. President George W. Bush's June 28, 2005 speech at Fort Bragg, N.C. I found her opinion on this Bush statement: "The troops here and across the world are fighting a global war on terror. The war reached our shores on September 11, 2001"--particularly interesting.

"Do people really still believe this?" she asked in a July 1, 2005 post, adding

In spite of that fact that no WMD were found in Iraq, in spite of the fact that prior to the war, no American was ever killed in Iraq and now almost 2000 are dead on Iraqi soil? Its difficult to comprehend that rational people, after all of this, still actually accept the claims of a link between 9/11 and Iraq. Or that they could actually believe Iraq is less of a threat today than it was in 2003.We did not have Al-Qaeda in Iraq prior to the war. We didn't know that sort of extremism. We didn't have beheadings or the abduction of foreigners or religious intolerance. We actually pitied America and Americans when the Twin Towers went down and when news began leaking out about it being Muslim fundamentalists- possibly Arabs- we were outraged.

"Now 9/11 is getting old.," River Bend asserted. " Now, 100,000+ Iraqi lives and 1700+ American lives later, its becoming difficult to summon up the same sort of sympathy as before. How does the death of 3,000 Americans and the fall of two towers somehow justify the horrors in Iraq when not one of the people involved with the attack was Iraqi?"

For more see "Unbelievable..."

Posted by Munir Umrani at July 9, 2005 04:00 PM

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