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In reply to the discussion: Were you swept up in "fear! fear! fear!" because of September 11, 2001? [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)because as an older DU'er I had known that we put many "systems in place" to ward off Nuclear/Terrorist Attacks since our "Cold War Days" after WWII.
There was NO WAY all our efforts to Protect our Borders and have Flight Alerts and Multiple Surveillance that we kept paying for from the time I was a Kid...would have allowed an ATTACK on US SOIL...taking out WORLD TRADE CENTERS....Would have EVER BEEN ALLOWED.
Sorry for shouting...but you would have to have grown up after WWII to understand the Outrage some of us feel that this could have HAPPENED and that BUSH ADMIN was NEVER HELD ACCOUTABLE.
Yes...I'm Shouting...because...WE SPENT MONEY TO STOP THIS...and it came out of all our Salaries and Lifestyles for OUR Generation just as it has for the generations since for War Protection...that we were the Greatest Democracy on Earth and we spen our money on Nukes and War Armaments to "Keep us Safe."
"9/11" was a FUCK UP of the WORST ORDER! And all we did was Invade Countries who had Nothing to do with how WE FUCKED UP.
Heads should have rolled...but, they didn't and a couple of Generations have Paid for some mismanagement of our Government that THEY didn't keep us SAFE when we kept paying into TAXES for Military Buildup our Whole Lives (those of us War Babies, Post War Babies...and our Children and Grandchildren.
Apologize for Shouting..but I and others are Damned Angry about this these days...and we shouldn't SHUT UP about it.