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In an interview, George W. Bush, speaking about the 9-11 exhibit at his new library, says, Its very emotional and very profound, One of the reasons it has to be is because memories are fading rapidly and the profound impact of that attack is becoming dim with time. (I haven't provided a link, but if you Google the quote you'll find dozens upon dozens of articles in which the quote is reported.)
Am I the only one who finds that statement to be utterly appalling? I mean, for starters, the suggestion that the memories of 9-11 are "fading" is simply ridiculous -- no one who lived through it will ever forget the events of that day. But the suggestion that, after 11 and a half years, we should still be wallowing in the complex swirl of grief, fear and anger we experienced in the immediate aftermath of those events is frankly just twisted and sick. It is made all the more so when it comes from a man who so shamelessly manipulated those emotions in order to lead the country into a PRE-PLANNED war of aggression against a country that had never attacked the U.S. and had nothing whatsoever to do with the events of 9-11.
Bush and his cronies in the private defense contracting industry want to keep us, collectively, in a perpetual state of 'fight or flight,' all the better with which to manipulate us into their next war-for-fun-and-profit. Our 'fight or flight' response is a great evolutionary tool for survival should we happen to find ourselves confronted by a hungry lion on the African plain. But it serves no useful purpose whatsoever in determining how to approach threats over the long term, and it's a really shitty basis on which to base policy decisions.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Everything in George's world is dim.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)markpkessinger
(8,381 posts)Read full article here.
Wednesdays
(17,249 posts)waddirum
(976 posts)"My Pet Goat"
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)and damn the saps who think otherwise.
Skittles
(152,967 posts)and I was in Texas when it happened
the memory of my country being systematically destroyed by a sociopath who was INSTALLED into the presidency will never dim either - I can still feel the same rage and disgust whenever I see or hear about him
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)My husband didn't know if his wife and child were dead or alive for a couple of hours. I assure you the Memory of the day will never fade.
I was pulling into North Parking when the plane hit, on the side of the Pentagon I worked on. Had I not been Preggers, I would have been in the building and hour earlier. But I had to eat breakfast before I left the house, because walking to the building from the parking lot, on an empty stomach would make me nauseous.
So I watched the news while I at cereal and I found out about the first two planes in New York. That small change in my Routine saved my life.
I never ate breakfast before I was pregnant.
And i can recall every second of that day as clear as a bell no fading Bush None
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)The Pentagon didn't want to save any lives. They never should have been hit at ALL. All that money for defense, and they couldn't even defend themselves. But I'm happy you are safe.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)is shaped like a giant bulls eye.
Actually thanks to the money they spent renovating the building, and re-enforcing the structure it stood for 30 mins before that section collapsed.
I had heard some Generals wanted to spend the money on really expensive unnecessary things like Mahogany Walls, and Granite desk. Oh brother
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Graduating HS seniors will within a couple of years have absolutely NO personal memories of that day.
Even seniors graduating this year were only about 6 yrs old that day.
To a growing number of adults, the NY Skyline will have always looked like that.
In that way...it will fade in time. Of course it will.
Remember the Alamo!
Remember the Maine!
Remember Pearl Harbor!
In time, all who could remember are memories. And then not even memories. Just stories.
But none of us alive when that happened will ever forget. I know I am still shaken when I see a movie that features a shot of the NY skyline I remember.
But, this maudlin focus on 9/11 and that we are expected to be in griefcasm and murderous rage...forever and ever.
Disgusting.
How long after Pearl Harbor was that monument built? Because that is just simple and profound.
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)Was watching a game show not too long ago where one of the contestants named "Robert" Kennedy as a past president. She obviously was not alive in the 60's and JFK means little to her. Eventually 911 will go back to simply being the number you call in an emergency. The circle of life
markpkessinger
(8,381 posts). . . and that's exactly how it should be.
Wednesdays
(17,249 posts)(Jess and Harry are discussing a very young woman Harry has been dating.)
Jess: Emily is terrific.
Harry: Yeah. Of course, when I asked her where she was when Kennedy was shot, she said, "Ted Kennedy was shot?"
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)He wants that back. Why do the people hate him so much. He was the ONE who had to deal with 9/11. It happened to HIM. So feel some sympathy for him.
cprise
(8,445 posts)...over and over when he spoke to various groups of people around the country.
Wednesdays
(17,249 posts)cprise
(8,445 posts)I had not picked up on that before... Thanks.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)I mean, Giuliani claimed there were no terror attacks under *, and most Republicans would *kill* for the Messiah Reagan--who supported Gorbachev, Pol Pot, Saddam, Iran, and the proto-Taliban
pacalo
(24,721 posts)is part of the country's healing process.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)So that they can rewrite the narrative.
Wednesdays
(17,249 posts)They want everyone's memories to be dim so that the narrative will never be questioned.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,790 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)prosecuted for the war criminal he is?
NoMoreWarNow
(1,259 posts)like the PTB want us to be.
He's a sick sick man.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)He's a cold blooded murderer! I sociopathic criminal!
NoMoreWarNow
(1,259 posts):/
zeeland
(247 posts)remind that stupid little prick we are still at war over 911.
I suppose in his isolated world the war is a dim memory as
well.
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)We'll always remember your Trifecta!
Samantha
(9,314 posts)But let me tell you my first independent thought at work when I saw on a TV screen Bush* sitting in Florida reading to the school children: he knew this was going to happen and he got the heck out of town without as much as a "heads up" to the rest of us. I was so angry at the theater that had been staged, I repeated that verbatim that evening to a person employed by the State Department. His response was absolute silence.
Sam
DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)Milan Kundera wrote in his novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting
Singer-songwriter Casey Neill captured the essence of this quote in a song entitled Memory Against Forgetting. The first verse/chorus is
The history of the world is writ, laid down in reams and tomes
Rows and rows for dusty books for the scholars to comb.
Organized, digitized each one in its place,
The events according to the conqueror and the rest has been erased.
We are memories, against forgetting
Still we hold the line
The true and honest history
In the ocean of time.
The memories that have been recorded by people in replies to this post are vital evidence of struggle against forgetting. Of truth against the rewritten word.
sunwyn
(494 posts)have been rolling around in all that cash they made off the ensuing wars that happened in the wake of 911.