(shortly after 9/11)\n\n.....and now?
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Was for it in 2003.  Was for it in "Operation Desert Fox" in the 90s, was for it every time the US threatened to take action during Saddam's many violations of the 1991 Cease Fire.  That's 12 YEARS where he voilated the cease-fire and 12 YEARS of him starving his own people so he could buy gold toilets, tanks, and assorted military hardware.  Anyone else wonder how he had so many Russian/Chinese tanks?  Amazing so few outside the military put 2 and 2 together there.  Here's a hint:  If there was an arms embargo, how did Saddam get all those tanks and the MIG-25s???\n\nI joined the Army after the Gulf War (I turned 18 in 1991).  Am still in the Army, and Still support the war.\n\nAnd yes, I lost very close friends.  I almost lost family on 9-11, but they got out in time.  I visited a few of my departed brothers this Easter weekend at Arlington.
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Sorry I haven't seen it, but I've read something about it. I've also read and I heard some shocking stuff about 9/11 you may want to check into the websites below. It's a lot of reading, but you can limit your reading by searching or getting into the archives.\n\nI do hope we don't get abusive remarks from other yahoo answers because we are looking at the "other side' trying to make some sense of what's going on - I believe we owe it to ourselves and it's healthy to question what's going around us because it does affect us all and all we really want is to get to the bottom of this and end all this chaos. Thanks for caring.\n\nI am trying to download it now.
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These events are only significant to the extent that those dates are meaningful to you.  If 9/11 and 6/6/06 and your (unstated) birthday have a particular and common meaning, then yes they are significant.  But, to you, not universally.\n\nPersonally, I believe that everything happens for some reason, because there is nothing in physical reality that is expempt from cause and effect.  Nothing.  Even if we aren't aware of the causes and effects.  It's possible, indeed likely, that there are other significances to those events aside from the dates on which they occurred, if you were to examine them from different perspectives.\n\nEnjoy that settlement!  :)
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War in the Middle East was only ONE of the pretexts. I've said it before, and I'll undoubtedly say it again: 9/11 mainly happened as a pretext to getting the Patriot Act passed. The Patriot Act was originally written up following the Oklahoma City bombings but was considered too reactionary. I mean, the Global Agenda has been calling for "Big Brother" type scenarios all over the West, not just the States. So, they needed something bigger to further their Agenda. Hence 9/11. It got people to say to the government, "Do something!!!!" so they pulled out the Patriot Act and formed the Department of Homeland Security in order to justify widespread wiretapping and surveillance of the American people. And it's not really "terrorists" HS is after, people. It is domestic dissenters, grassroots left wingers and the militias, all of whom are the REAL threat not only to the governement but to the military industrial complex which is really running the show. Under the Patriot Act, people like ourselves, who are on this site, answering THIS question, and thereby questioning the gov't's actions are committing a terrorist act. So, therefore, any of us can expect to have our phones and internet lines tapped. This, folks, is the post 9/11 world we live in. I know, some people are in total denial about it and simply write off people like myself as "conspiracy theory kooks" and "left wing nuts", but lemme tell ya, it's us kooks who are going to have the last laugh in the end, because we'll be laughing at all those poor fools who'll be saying, "Damn, I should have listened to the conspiracy theorists; they were right after all!"\nMyself, when the fit hits the shan and the police state really starts kicking in, well, I'll be long gone by then, headed for the hills somewhere and dissappear off the face of the earth. Because I sincerely believe that within the next five years, ten tops, the world we live in and take for granted will no longer exist. We'll all be living in a variation of Nazi Germany; kiss our civil rights and freedoms goodbye. \nThe irony is, unless incontovertible evidence is produced, the real truth behind 9/11 will never be officially exposed. It's worse than the JFK assassination and the UFO question put together, because if the truth ever did come out, well...I think America would turn into 1789 France overnight. I hope...
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I think you mean culturally like how we viewed Eisenhower in the 50s and the early part of Kennedy,\n\nI would view the 90s in this way.  This is the era before the GWOT (war on terror) just like Eisenhower and Kennedy was just before vietnam.
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Bush said he doesn't care about where he is and this was only a few months after 9/11 happened. I still can't believe people would vote for him after that. It's time for a change. Remember the saying, absolute power corrupts.
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I have tossed this one back and fourth for some time. I don't think our Government is responsible for the events of 9/11, but there are some holes in the official report. Those holes lead people to believe that this Government is covering things. We may never know in our lifetime what actually happened beyond the obvious, but I am 90% certain that we did not do this to ourselves.
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I think we are wary of muslams, it is a normal reaction to and action the way I see it. If 9/11 never happened it might be a differant story. But it did. I think to err on the side of caution is probably the right thing to do. Even though it probably doesn't matter who runs the ports.
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Hindsight is 20-20, but I'm not sure. We still would have lost American lives so it seems like we would still have gone. However because of how brutal and devastating the attacks were that they hit a target and how they have permanently scared DC and NYC, those things might have had a larger effect on the decision than the acts themselves... OK, I think we would have no matter what. I believe Bush wanted to go to war and unfortunately 9-11 gave him an opportunity to do so without a fight from government or the American people.
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Radical islamic terrorists were responsible for 9/11. Not Bush.\n\nAnyone that says otherwise is a partisan a-hole.
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That's a little over 5 years, so is it Fair to give Bill Cinton credit for no attacks for the 7 years from 1993 to 2001? If you're logic isn't flawed both are true, also if Ronald Reagan hadn't fled Beirut would that have prevented attacks on American soil in the first place?  After all it was that incident the Bin Laden states poved to him Ameican had no stomache for casualities and escalated the threat. I can use your logic to extrapolate to the same type of conclusions you're reaching for but reach an entirely different conclusion
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Unless you have been living under a rock for the last 5+ years, you should be able to answer this question for yourself. \n\nHow do you think 911 has changed? \n\nWhat new policies are in place becuase of the events of 911?\n\nIs the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA just an illusion?\n\nIt seems so obvious to me that things have changed - however unless you live in the United States, you may not see it quite the same as I do.
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Good question. At this point there is no expected date yet
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I'm sorry I don't have the time to read all of that right now, but I plan to.  Quick question, does it define what terrorism is anywhere in there.  If it does, please tell me where so I can read that.\n\nIf not, There is my issue with it.
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off the rails at this point.The 9/11 controversy,afghanistan and Iraq have not contributed anything positive
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They already have.  From the Carter administration through the Clinton administration there were terrorist attacks on U.S. soil every 18-24 months.  Since 9/11 there have been none.  I would say that they are doing just fine.
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Please calrify your question.\nAre you trying to JUSTIFY 9/11??????