The Aerie
It has been five years. What has been accomplished?
The World Trade Center Site is still a hole in the ground.
The firefighters and workers who labored on the ruins are sick, but they aren't being treated.
Anne Coulter has labelled the windows of the 9/11 victims as "witches." Yet she is still asked to appear on television programs.
Osama binLaden is both still alive, and still free.
The record national surplus has become a record national debt.
We've lost an entire city.
We've lost an entire planet.
We've lost our soul.
We have lost so much. What have we gained?
Are we safer?
Is the world a better place?
Does the "War on Terror" show any sign of ever ending?
What would the end of that war look like? How could it manifest itself?
Tonight two programs aired: on CBS, a documentary about the firefighters on 9/11. On ABC, a "docudrama" about the events preceding 9/11.
The CBS program was simple, and it was heartbreaking. It was true.
The ABC program was dramatic, and it was a thorny crown of lies on the brows of every person who died that awful day.
On the Fifth Anniversary of 9/11, ABC decided to honor the occasion by rewriting history to suit the Bush Administration.
CBS simply aired the truth.
And the truth is, five years after 9/11 there's something terribly wrong with this nation.
For nothing has been accomplished. Nothing has been gained. We are not safer. We are not freer. We are not a better people today than on 9/10/2001.
We have allowed ourselves to be seduced by lies and silenced by fear. We have allowed evil men to seize and exercise power in our names. We have allowed a fool to act as President, and a thug to rule from the Vice President's chair.
And we've done it. We've let this country go to pot. We've jumped in the handbasket for the trip to Hell.
We've made this mess - the Bush Administration has merely wallowed in it.
But it's 9/11. November is coming. And it's time to clean up our mess.
Here's your agenda.
TO DO
November: Vote
January: Impeach
And start taking this country back from the thugs and idiots. Start making this country something great and honorable again.
Posted by Albatross at September 10, 2006 9:55 PM | TrackBack