Anger at Moussaoui sentencing...NO anger at Bush War On Terra.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

No anger over the fact that bin Laden is alive, well, and still making tapes? No anger over the fact that the Bush administration reportedly had al-Zarqawi "in their sights" for a YEAR or more and didn't kill or capture him? No anger over the lies that took us into Iraq instead of keeping us in Afghanistan and following the trail into...oh, let's say SAUDI ARABIA?



Regenhard with a picture of her son, who was killed in the 9/11 attacks

‘Truly a Mistake’
A 9/11 mother expresses her anger after Moussaoui was sentenced to life instead of death.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12632463/site/newsweek/

May 4, 2006 - Sally Regenhard was always opposed to the death penalty. But she changed her mind when she traveled to a Virginia courtroom and came face to face with convicted 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui in March. “It was clear to me that if one of those assigned couldn’t have made it, he would have been ready in a heartbeat to jump in,” says Regenhard, whose 28-year-old firefighter son, Christian Michael Otto Regenhard, was killed at the World Trade Center in the September 11 attacks.

NEWSWEEK: What was your first reaction when you heard the verdict Wednesday?
Sally Regenhard: Initially I thought: OK, let it be. But I hear now that Moussaoui is continuing to mock the verdict and this country. And his mother is now saying she will apply for him to serve his sentence in France. Now I feel the decision was truly a mistake. If there is any possibility that this man could someday get out and get pardoned, I think it is outrageous.

Some have argued that if Moussaoui got the death penalty, he would be viewed as a martyr.
When I hear about him being made a martyr and that it will give others a reason to justify attacking this country, it really irks me. Anyone who is under the assumption that by us sparing his life it will in any way ameliorate the feelings of the terrorists and what they want to do to this country is grossly naive … As we speak there are tens of thousands of radical Muslims who are training and conspiring to attack us again—not just here, but around the world. No one should think that letting this guy off the hook will help us.

You used to oppose the death penalty. What changed your mind in this case?
I am not a bloodthirsty person. I was against the death penalty before this, and I am sure my son was, too. . He was a lover of life and freedom. But my son got no chance at life. He did not escape the death penalty, and Moussaoui should not have either.

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. Correction: The media does not cover approval of the Moussaoi sentence...

Nor is it covering the very widespread anger over the war on terror. After all, just five conglomerates control nearly every media outlet in the country, and all five are heavy GOP supporters.

[eyesroll]

2. Let the woman have her grief.

I generally give people who lose their children a pass on what they're allowed to be angry about.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. No, I agree, that's not the point...

Yes, this woman should be allowed her grief, no question about it.

I'm just saying that Newsweek could have done a BIGGER PIECE on the issues I raised.

By focusing on this ONE person's reaction, it narrows the issue.

[Virginia Dare]

4. What about the guy who actually KNOWS something about 9/11?

The one they caught in Pakistan? Wasn't he the mastermind behind the whole thing? Put HIS ASS on trial, then we're getting somewhere.

Moussaui had NOTHING to do with the 9/11 plot--what did this trial accomplish?

Oh that's right, we don't want anybody who knows anything talking, do we? We want to continue the smoke and mirrors and the bullshit lies, we don't really want to get to the truth do we, silly me!