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 Jefferson
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FurrowedBrow said:
I remember driving down main street in my hometown and there were American flags EVERYWHERE. I mean literally on almost every car, house, and business I saw. It was intense.
Did anybody else get sick and tired of seeing those fucking American flags? What statement were they trying to make? We're americans, we're americans and we're scared, we're americans and we're pulling together, we're americans and we love fads, you attacked us and this is how we retaliate, well my neighbor did it now I have to do it otherwise they'll think I'm with the terrorist. I swear my apartment was the only one in the complex that didn't have an american flag.
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THEBats
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 Re: The 9/11 thread  [Re: Jefferson]
#475631 - 09/11/10 03:50 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nationalism at it's best. I bet who ever manufactured those made a lot of money. Nothing pulls a nation together like a national tragedy.
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kickin-two-hundo said:
you know what i did in english class? I came to class stoned out of my mind every day, i chugged vodka in the back of class, i put dead fish in the ceiling tiles. i put a gallon of old milk and orange juice in the file cabinet before winter vacation. i brought snakes in a tied up sweater and let them loose during class. i didnt go to school to learn, i went because i had to. i didnt care, and i didn't fucking listen to that stupid bitch. and i still don't fucking care. i tore the pages out of her books and burned them, and threw away all the books in the class, two books per day. 
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Re: The 9/11 thread [Re: THEBats]
#475640 - 09/11/10 03:58 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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It was just after dawn in Woody Creek, Colo., when the first plane hit the World Trade Center in New York City on Tuesday morning, and as usual I was writing about sports. But not for long. Football suddenly seemed irrelevant, compared to the scenes of destruction and utter devastation coming out of New York on TV.
Even ESPN was broadcasting war news. It was the worst disaster in the history of the United States, including Pearl Harbor, the San Francisco earthquake and probably the Battle of Antietam in 1862, when 23,000 were slaughtered in one day.
The Battle of the World Trade Center lasted about 99 minutes and cost 20,000 lives in two hours (according to unofficial estimates as of midnight Tuesday). The final numbers, including those from the supposedly impregnable Pentagon, across the Potomac River from Washington, likely will be higher. Anything that kills 300 trained firefighters in two hours is a world-class disaster.
And it was not even Bombs that caused this massive damage. No nuclear missiles were launched from any foreign soil, no enemy bombers flew over New York and Washington to rain death on innocent Americans. No. It was four commercial jetliners.
They were the first flights of the day from American and United Airlines, piloted by skilled and loyal U.S. citizens, and there was nothing suspicious about them when they took off from Newark, N.J., and Dulles in D.C. and Logan in Boston on routine cross-country flights to the West Coast with fully-loaded fuel tanks -- which would soon explode on impact and utterly destroy the world-famous Twin Towers of downtown Manhattan's World Trade Center. Boom! Boom! Just like that.
The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.
It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden may be a primitive "figurehead" -- or even dead, for all we know -- but whoever put those All-American jet planes loaded with All-American fuel into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did it with chilling precision and accuracy. The second one was a dead-on bullseye. Straight into the middle of the skyscraper.
Nothing -- even George Bush's $350 billion "Star Wars" missile defense system -- could have prevented Tuesday's attack, and it cost next to nothing to pull off. Fewer than 20 unarmed Suicide soldiers from some apparently primitive country somewhere on the other side of the world took out the World Trade Center and half the Pentagon with three quick and costless strikes on one day. The efficiency of it was terrifying.
We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or what will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once. Who knows? Not even the Generals in what remains of the Pentagon or the New York papers calling for WAR seem to know who did it or where to look for them.
This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.
Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy.
OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing.
The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators.
The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy.
~Hunter S Thompson
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kickin-two-hundo said:
you know what i did in english class? I came to class stoned out of my mind every day, i chugged vodka in the back of class, i put dead fish in the ceiling tiles. i put a gallon of old milk and orange juice in the file cabinet before winter vacation. i brought snakes in a tied up sweater and let them loose during class. i didnt go to school to learn, i went because i had to. i didnt care, and i didn't fucking listen to that stupid bitch. and i still don't fucking care. i tore the pages out of her books and burned them, and threw away all the books in the class, two books per day.
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 niteowl
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Re: The 9/11 thread [Re: NizzyJones]
#475830 - 09/11/10 08:19 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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I was on my way to the hospital to get my gal bladder removed when this all went down. The talk on the radio was it may have been a small plane or a fighter plane. It wasn't till after surgery that I found out the whole story. It was a surreal day that I will never forget 
I knew then that something was fishy about it. I knew that the Muslim fanatics had been trying to attack America for some time, but never something this organized.
I had a hard time swallowing the 'official story' then and now.
I believed that it was far too easy to acquire some nuclear material.
So why something so dramatic, with so few lives lost. Much more could have been done with that kind of organization. A dirty bomb in New York would have been MUCH more disruptive. With much less planning.
It was an excuse to go to war.
The man who was supposed to be the master mind of the attacks is still not in custody, while Saddam is in jail.
WTF did Saddam have to do with 9/11
Yea, it was all just an excuse to start a fucking war 
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Re: The 9/11 thread [Re: niteowl]
#475836 - 09/11/10 08:34 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Saddam is not in jail, he is 
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Re: The 9/11 thread [Re: niteowl]
#475840 - 09/11/10 08:35 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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niteowl said:
The man who was supposed to be the master mind of the attacks is still not in custody, while Saddam is in jail.
Dude Saddam was hanged in Iraq.
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Re: The 9/11 thread [Re: Jefferson]
#475841 - 09/11/10 08:37 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Jefferson said:
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niteowl said:
The man who was supposed to be the master mind of the attacks is still not in custody, while Saddam is in jail.
Dude Saddam was hanged in Iraq.
hung*
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Re: The 9/11 thread [Re: iStoner]
#475844 - 09/11/10 08:45 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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yep. they even got videos.
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kickin-two-hundo said:
you know what i did in english class? I came to class stoned out of my mind every day, i chugged vodka in the back of class, i put dead fish in the ceiling tiles. i put a gallon of old milk and orange juice in the file cabinet before winter vacation. i brought snakes in a tied up sweater and let them loose during class. i didnt go to school to learn, i went because i had to. i didnt care, and i didn't fucking listen to that stupid bitch. and i still don't fucking care. i tore the pages out of her books and burned them, and threw away all the books in the class, two books per day.
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Re: The 9/11 thread [Re: Jefferson]
#475847 - 09/11/10 08:53 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Jefferson said:
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niteowl said:
The man who was supposed to be the master mind of the attacks is still not in custody, while Saddam is in jail.
Dude Saddam was hanged in Iraq.
 what the fuck? How could he not know that?
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Jefferson
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Out of the loop I guess.
Saddam got hanged.
Saddam got hung.
Hanged just sounds right to me for some reason. Then again I'm not an english teacher.
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Re: The 9/11 thread [Re: Jefferson]
#475851 - 09/11/10 09:05 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: The 9/11 thread [Re: iStoner]
#475854 - 09/11/10 09:13 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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I fucking just watched that on my own. Tough to watch.
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iStoner
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Re: The 9/11 thread [Re: Mr. Kite]
#475856 - 09/11/10 09:14 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Mr. Kite said:
I fucking just watched that on my own. Tough to watch.
you cant help but feel bad for those people suffering in there.
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impgl
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i was doin the usual, playing x box 360 and surfing the growery
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iStoner
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Re: The 9/11 thread [Re: impgl] 1
#475859 - 09/11/10 09:18 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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impgl said:
i was doin the usual, playing x box 360 and surfing the growery
growery wasnt alive yet 
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Re: The 9/11 thread [Re: iStoner]
#475908 - 09/11/10 10:27 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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or xbox 360.
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iStoner
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yeah so what the fuck
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Re: The 9/11 thread [Re: iStoner]
#475910 - 09/11/10 10:29 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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bad joke I reckon
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Re: The 9/11 thread [Re: iStoner]
#475932 - 09/11/10 11:02 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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No, I believe he thought you were asking what he did TODAY on 9/11... Just a guess I could be wrong.
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