My First Real Post

Ok, for my first real post. For those of you who don't know, the attacks of September 11th, struck a deep chord with me that angers me to the bone. It seems like everytime there's evidence that something could have been done to prevent it, someone is either too chicken shit to do anything about it (Clinton) or the threat is too vague to point to know exactly what's going on. There are many Democrats that say "There were plenty of warning signs there, but it's all Bush's fault that the attacks happened" What I'd like to know is, where in all of this mountain of evidence, and there's plenty, does it say "On September 11th, 2001, 19 people will hijack commercial aircraft and slam them into buildings" Sure, there's evidence that something was going to happen, and that something involved airliners. Everyone involved thought this was a run of the mill hijacking. The hijackers said they had a bomb on board and they were returning to the airport. Pretty standard stuff in the world of hijackings. When the first plane struck the World Trade Center, then people started to realize the true nature of what was happening.


Personally, I want to know what the airport screeners think. I've seen the security footage of the hijackers going through the metal detectors and being waved on. The one that bothers me the most is one where the hijacker has set off the metal detector, but the screener doesn't bother to wand the guy properly and sends him on his way. What does this man think today? Does he have nightmares that his lack of duty caused the deaths of hundreds of people? I say hundreds because he didn't screen all 19 people. Sure, razorblades were not on the list of things that were banned at the time, but if he had any kind of concience, it would certainly haunt him for the rest of his life.

I think people need to put into perspective on what George W. Bush did in the following weeks and months of the attacks. I also think that they need to understand that those in Afghanistan got off extremely lightly. Personally, if I were president, I would have given the ultimatum; "You have 24 hours to hand over Osama Bin Laden, or I am going to drop a very large nuclear weapon on one of your cities. I will continue to drop nuclear weapons on your cities until he is either handed over, or your country is a parking lot full of radioactivity for the next 10,000 years." This in of itself would have given the Taliban more then enough reason to hand over Bin Laden. We have the largest and most powerful military on the face of the earth, and sometimes people need to be reminded that an attack on an office building in the middle of the day is significantly worse then an attack on a naval destroyer while in port. Had we dropped any nuclear weapons that day or threatened to, it would have made terrorists think twice before trying something like that again. That is something you want to do in a fight. Bloody up thier nose brutally in round 1 so they don't want to come back for round 2.

Travis