I seem to rememeber a certain Mr Bush saying after 11/9 that Osama Bin Laden was their number one priority, that he wouldn't rest until the man had been caught/killed/squished whatever. Amazing how, over a year on, old Bin Hidin' is no longer even on the political agenda. Strange how a war detracts from other less successful enterprises...
didn't Bin laden have kidney failure or something? By now he's either dead in cave somewhere or hiding in a private hospital somewhere as "Mr Smith"... He is a CIA trained multi millionaire, after all. 11/9 hurt America really badly and they're looking to lash out and hurt someone in revenge - they never caught Bin Laden, so they have no sense of closure from blowing up Afganistan and can easily transfer that anger onto Iraq. I'm just worried that Bush 'll introduce a "National Hate" day on 11/9 where people scream in anger, rage and frustration and images of Bin Laden... IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
The hatred against people who even look like Muslims has already started. I found a friend of mine in the USA saying the other day that she'd seen a group of Muslim women in her store and wished that they'd 'just go home' and 'what use are they to anyone' because 'they don't contribute anything at all.'.
I told her she scared me and to please not speak like that again, at least not to me. Not every Muslim is a terrorist, as indeed not every white person is a Christian kind of thing. I had enough racism growing up, I didn't need to hear it from the mouth of a friend.
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Date: 2003-02-26 11:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-27 01:50 am (UTC)He is a CIA trained multi millionaire, after all.
11/9 hurt America really badly and they're looking to lash out and hurt someone in revenge - they never caught Bin Laden, so they have no sense of closure from blowing up Afganistan and can easily transfer that anger onto Iraq.
I'm just worried that Bush 'll introduce a "National Hate" day on 11/9 where people scream in anger, rage and frustration and images of Bin Laden...
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
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I told her she scared me and to please not speak like that again, at least not to me. Not every Muslim is a terrorist, as indeed not every white person is a Christian kind of thing. I had enough racism growing up, I didn't need to hear it from the mouth of a friend.