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Shame on you American-hating Liberals (a truly great article from England)
Daily Mirror (United Kingdom) ^ | 9/11/02 | Tony Parsons

Posted on 10/09/2002 5:09:23 PM PDT by Wolfstar

A friend of mine, brought this article to my attention, and I thought it was worth posting for fellow FReepers. Wish I could see an article like this in the American Press!

A thoughtfully written piece in one of the most left wing newspapers in the UK. Just a word of background for those of you who aren't familiar with the UK's Daily Mirror. This is one of the most notorious Left wing, anti-American dailies in the UK. Hard to believe that the Daily Mirror actually published it, but it did.

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ONE year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of broadcasting - the mass murder of thousands, live on television.

As a lesson in the pitiless cruelty of the human race, September 11 was up there with Pol Pot's mountain of skulls in Cambodia, or the skeletal bodies stacked like garbage in the Nazi concentration camps.

An unspeakable act so cruel, so calculated and so utterly merciless that surely the world could agree on one thing - nobody deserves this fate.

Surely there could be consensus: the victims were truly innocent, the perpetrators truly evil.

But to the world's eternal shame, 9/11 is increasingly seen as America's comeuppance.

Incredibly, anti-Americanism has increased over the last year.

There has always been a simmering resentment to the USA in this country - too loud, too rich, too full of themselves and so much happier than Europeans - but it has become an epidemic.

And it seems incredible to me. More than that, it turns my stomach.

America is this country's greatest friend and our staunchest ally. We are bonded to the US by culture, language and blood.

A little over half a century ago, around half a million Americans died for our freedoms, as well as their own. Have we forgotten so soon?

And exactly a year ago, thousands of ordinary men, women and children - not just Americans, but from dozens of countries - were butchered by a small group of religious fanatics. Are we so quick to betray them?

What touched the heart about those who died in the twin towers and on the planes was that we recognised them. Young fathers and mothers, somebody's son and somebody's daughter, husbands and wives. And children. Some unborn.

And these people brought it on themselves? And their nation is to blame for their meticulously planned slaughter?

These days you don't have to be some dust-encrusted nut job in Kabul or Karachi or Finsbury Park to see America as the Great Satan.

The anti-American alliance is made up of self-loathing liberals who blame the Americans for every ill in the Third World, and conservatives suffering from power-envy, bitter that the world's only superpower can do what it likes without having to ask permission.

The truth is that America has behaved with enormous restraint since September 11.

Remember, remember.

Remember the gut-wrenching tapes of weeping men phoning their wives to say, "I love you," before they were burned alive. Remember those people leaping to their deaths from the top of burning skyscrapers.

Remember the hundreds of firemen buried alive. Remember the smiling face of that beautiful little girl who was on one of the planes with her mum. Remember, remember - and realise that America has never retaliated for 9/11 in anything like the way it could have.

So a few al-Qaeda tourists got locked without a trial in Camp X-ray? Pass the Kleenex.

So some Afghan wedding receptions were shot up after they merrily fired their semi-automatics in a sky full of American planes? A shame, but maybe next time they should stick to confetti.

AMERICA could have turned a large chunk of the world into a parking lot. That it didn't is a sign of strength.

American voices are already being raised against attacking Iraq - that's what a democracy is for. How many in the Islamic world will have a minute's silence for the slaughtered innocents of 9/11? How many Islamic leaders will have the guts to say that the mass murder of 9/11 was an abomination?

When the news of 9/11 broke on the West Bank, those freedom-loving Palestinians were dancing in the street. America watched all of that - and didn't push the button. We should thank the stars that America is the most powerful nation in the world. I still find it incredible that 9/11 did not provoke all-out war. Not a "war on terrorism". A real war.

The fundamentalist dudes are talking about "opening the gates of hell", if America attacks Iraq. Well, America could have opened the gates of hell like you wouldn't believe.

The US is the most militarily powerful nation that ever strode the face of the earth.

The campaign in Afghanistan may have been less than perfect and the planned war on Iraq may be misconceived.

But don't blame America for not bringing peace and light to these wretched countries. How many democracies are there in the Middle East, or in the Muslim world? You can count them on the fingers of one hand - assuming you haven't had any chopped off for minor shoplifting.

I love America, yet America is hated. I guess that makes me Bush's poodle. But I would rather be a dog in New York City than a Prince in Riyadh. Above all, America is hated because it is what every country wants to be - rich, free, strong, open, optimistic.

Not ground down by the past, or religion, or some caste system. America is the best friend this country ever had and we should start remembering that.

Or do you really think the USA is the root of all evil? Tell it to the loved ones of the men and women who leaped to their death from the burning towers.

Tell it to the nursing mothers whose husbands died on one of the hijacked planes, or were ripped apart in a collapsing skyscraper.

And tell it to the hundreds of young widows whose husbands worked for the New York Fire Department. To our shame, George Bush gets a worse press than Saddam Hussein.

Once we were told that Saddam gassed the Kurds, tortured his own people and set up rape-camps in Kuwait. Now we are told he likes Quality Street. Save me the orange centre, oh mighty one!

Remember, remember, September 11. One of the greatest atrocities in human history was committed against America.

No, do more than remember. Never forget.


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britian; liberals; mirror
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This article is about a month old. I did a search on FR for this article's title, but the search came up empty. So forgive me if this has been posted earlier. A friend of mine called it to my attention today, and I thought it worthy of wider attention here on FR.
1 posted on 10/09/2002 5:09:24 PM PDT by Wolfstar
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2 posted on 10/09/2002 5:10:45 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Wolfstar
Posted here.
3 posted on 10/09/2002 5:12:54 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: Wolfstar
Yes, it is a great article. It was posted last month, I don't know why it doesn't come up in the search. If you would like to read the comments you can go here...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/749304/posts
4 posted on 10/09/2002 5:14:29 PM PDT by LisaAnne
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To: Wolfstar
Remember those people leaping to their deaths from the top of burning skyscrapers.

Approximately 200 went to the next life in this way.

When I think of 9-11, I think of the approximate 11 seconds it took for these souls
to reach ground level.

(USA Today researched the subject...civil authortities agree that their estimate is
reasonable.)
5 posted on 10/09/2002 5:15:32 PM PDT by VOA
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To: Wolfstar
Interesting Article
6 posted on 10/09/2002 5:15:41 PM PDT by Fiddlstix
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To: Wolfstar
Thanks, that article is a keeper.
7 posted on 10/09/2002 5:16:06 PM PDT by Eva
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To: Eva
I missed it too. I am glad it was posted again.
8 posted on 10/09/2002 5:22:23 PM PDT by Ronin
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To: Wolfstar
Once every 30 years or so they get it.
9 posted on 10/09/2002 5:27:46 PM PDT by mdittmar
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To: Wolfstar
A VERY VERY worthy post. That it was posted before is irrelevant, as so many didn't see it. It is worth the bandwidth. Thanks for posting it. I would never have seen it, and it lifted my spirits.
10 posted on 10/09/2002 5:44:12 PM PDT by Vets_Husband_and_Wife
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To: Wolfstar
I am A conservative 68 year old and have been most of my life.When I see a liberal stand up and say the usa should not go to war with saddam all i see is red.All i can think of is kicking their ass.I greive for the family of 9/11 and pray for thier souls and have a hard time not thinking bad thoughts of all the people say we brought this on ourselfs to that i say B$llS#it.
11 posted on 10/09/2002 6:27:23 PM PDT by solo gringo
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To: VOA
Quite a few pinned scraps of paper or business cards bearing their names to their clothes before they jumped. That was the only hope they had left -- that their remains could be identified so their loved ones would have something to bury. I heard this from the husband of a senior Marsh & McLennan executive who was speaking to some of the employees by phone as this was going on.

We owe it to these people to utterly destroy radical Islam.
12 posted on 10/09/2002 6:49:50 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Wolfstar
Thank you for posting this article.

I believe we have shown an incredidible amount of patience in this country.I also believe our patience is justifiably at end.The USA has never desired world controll.We will not be "controlled " by "world" opinion.

President Bush called it correctly.You are either with us, or you are with the terrorists.

Choose.

13 posted on 10/09/2002 6:51:38 PM PDT by sarasmom
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To: Wolfstar
Thank you for posting this article. Its the first time I have seen it. It is comforting to know that there are some who are behind us.
14 posted on 10/09/2002 6:52:46 PM PDT by BlueAngel
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To: Wolfstar
bump
15 posted on 10/09/2002 6:58:07 PM PDT by reformed_dem
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To: Wolfstar
Thank you, Wolfstar. I missed it the first time around, and it really deserves attention.
16 posted on 10/09/2002 7:22:47 PM PDT by reformed_democrat
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To: Wolfstar
Thanks for posting. I never saw it before.

To our shame, George Bush gets a worse press than Saddam Hussein.

And to our shame too. I take this personally. They may be bashing the American government, but I vote for that American Government, so I take this as a slap at me.

I really hold a lot of the American press responsible. They have trashed President Bush since well before the election. They have set him up in the eyes of the world as an idiot cowboy. Shame on them. Their "reporting" is nothing more than personal assaults on his character. It is disgusing. Some free press. The only parts of the paper or news that I take as gospel are the baseball scores, other sport scores, and the obituaries.
17 posted on 10/09/2002 7:40:41 PM PDT by baseballmom
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To: reformed_democrat
Worth of re-posting, great article to encourage us that there are those in other lands who will continue to call good what is good and evil what is evil.
18 posted on 10/09/2002 7:41:06 PM PDT by Hila
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To: Wolfstar
Splendid writing. Is it any wonder that the tiny islands of Great Britain have produced a disproportionate number of the world's greatest writers and thinkers? (Including their rougher cousins on this side of the pond.)
19 posted on 10/09/2002 7:49:16 PM PDT by Vigilanteman
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To: Wolfstar
Thank you for posting it as I didn't see it before. It's a wonderful article, I wish I could tell the author!
20 posted on 10/09/2002 7:59:32 PM PDT by potlatch
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