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DID BRIAN WILLIAMS JUST SUGGEST THAT THE WTC TERRORISTS WERE NOT COWARDS?
Me

Posted on 09/18/2001 5:15:26 PM PDT by TheTopRead

Thought I heard him suggest that attributing it supposedly to "others."


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An old liberal trick.
1 posted on 09/18/2001 5:15:26 PM PDT by TheTopRead
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'SharkFRee' making sure there are no 'FReeploading mullet' here.

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2 posted on 09/18/2001 5:17:26 PM PDT by d14truth
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Well, someone who cares about his cause enough to die for it can hardly be called a coward. Dedicated, fanatical, even, but I have a hard time attaching the word cowards to the people who took over the airplanes.
3 posted on 09/18/2001 5:21:10 PM PDT by NovemberCharlie
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I heard William Bennett also state the same thing the other day.

He said "their not 'cowards'...their 'fanatics'".

I tend to agree with this...

4 posted on 09/18/2001 5:21:42 PM PDT by RCW2001
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Actually, he's right. Would you have the guts or motivation to fly a plane into a building, ending your life?

Moreover, these guys knew, five years ago, that they were going to do this.

That's not cowardice.

It's misguided and criminal, but it's ballsy.

5 posted on 09/18/2001 5:21:52 PM PDT by sinkspur
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Like the abortion crowd who disdains human life, the terrorists see nothing wrong with losing their own life. This is bravery?????????
6 posted on 09/18/2001 5:22:23 PM PDT by OldFriend
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Anybody who calls the front-line jihadist a coward doesn't know what the hell he's in for in this fight. Osama bin Laden = perfumed prince. Someone working for bin Laden who's willing to blow themselves up = not my first choice for someone I'd want to tangle with.
7 posted on 09/18/2001 5:22:56 PM PDT by American Soldier
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What a beautiful flag picture!!!!!! May I use it?
8 posted on 09/18/2001 5:27:34 PM PDT by Helix
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9 posted on 09/18/2001 5:30:24 PM PDT by 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember
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A surprise attack on defenseless citizens is the act of a coward. What does dying for a cause have to do with anything? By this logic, the Columbine shooters could have claimed they hated schools, so shooting defenseless students was somehow the act of a brave man.

Fighting in a war against soldiers is one thing. Attacking and killing non-military people is quite another.

10 posted on 09/18/2001 5:33:46 PM PDT by NittanyLion
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Not Fanatic, nor coward.. Just plain determined and focused. Which I am not.. We all have given up on God in this country. We allowed the fanatic groups to sway the public that prayer was bad in school and sucking the life out of the womb was the right thing to do. We are told to change things by way of the Law and the Court. But when the fanatics live in both houses how can one set things right.

I head a man chant this the other day..
Our flags fly high in the sky..
for the internal revenue service we must pay or die..
they tax away our liberty..
and teach our children it's democracy..

Profit?

11 posted on 09/18/2001 5:37:16 PM PDT by BigDogFlyBoy
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If you have the stomach.. check out this site..

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12 posted on 09/18/2001 5:38:58 PM PDT by BigDogFlyBoy
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"President Clinton, er, Former President Clinton...Brian Williams here at Ground Zero of what they may call the worst day in American history, that is to say, a day in history that will be bad, what say you on this holy day, that which they may call the holy day of Rosh Hashana about the 33%of the population that say, if given the choice, that is, if they were allowed to pick and choose, they would select you, the Former President of these United States, to lead us, the American People, out of this nightmare of epic proportions, that is to say that fully one third of the population would select the 42nd President of these United States to lead them out of this day they call one of the worst acts of brutality ever seen, that they may call a horrific act on a scale not yet seen in this part of the world, relegated to the crusty landscapes of the opposite side of the world, but in the same latitudes..."

"Welp, sorry Former President Clinton, we have run out of time, we need to go to the Pentagon and Jim Micklasehwski, what's goin' on Mick?"

13 posted on 09/18/2001 5:40:35 PM PDT by Benrand
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I flipped over to PMSNBC from The Factor long enough to hear Brian Williams' interview with Jimmy Breslin. I got so enraged that I came in and fired off an email to him...it was the most disgusting piece of slop I've heard all week. Breslin was objecting to the use of the word "crusade" by the President and saying he was afraid no one in charge knew what was going on...My comments to the both of them are not printable here on the FR...
14 posted on 09/18/2001 5:41:50 PM PDT by rwgal
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Many conservatives have made that statement, including Bill Bennett. They are fanatics and evil, but not cowards. They will give their lives to destroy Americans and our nation and they must be eliminated by any means necessary.
15 posted on 09/18/2001 5:44:57 PM PDT by Ol' Sparky
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To: NovemberCharlie
I have a hard time attaching the word cowards to the people who took over the airplanes.

Yours is one of the more offensive and naive statements I've read this week.

Due to the perverse erotic teachings of the Koran (there are several references posted here on FR), these psychopathic Nancy-boys decided to pile into the WTC offices of Cantor Fitzgerald at 400 MPH - thereby macerating 700 defenseless civilians - simply so they could get some nookie in "Paradise."

What you don't understand is that these perverted Islamic suiciders would rather kill you, your family, and your entire damned neighborhood than to suffer the indignity of asking a girl (or as is insinuated in the "holy" Koran, a boy) for a date.

As they veered in on the WTC, this suicide squad of little Islamic wusses were completely revved-up by the vision of the imminent and unending sexual orgy with "bashful, dark-eyed virgins, as chaste as the sheltered eggs of ostriches," (Koran 37:40-48) while "..round about them will serve boys of perpetual freshness." (Koran 56:17).

They are much worse than mere cowards: they are murderous and unspeakably selfish perverts.

16 posted on 09/18/2001 5:57:36 PM PDT by angkor
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They were not cowards. They were cunning and ruthless. Precisely targeting our weaknesses. Calling them cowards only does us a disservice, causing us to discount and underestimate our enemy. Welcome to the world of Asynchronous Warfare. A world where David does challenge Goliath, but only because Goliath has tied his own hands behind his back for fear of upsetting liberals and their egalitarian ideals.

BTW Since there has been no strike as of yet, there will not be one of a magnitude sufficient to deter future acts of this kind. We are seeking coalitions with our enemies and therefore I believe the war has already been lost.

17 posted on 09/18/2001 5:59:04 PM PDT by okie_tech
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They are total cowards. Faceless cowards. Freaks.
18 posted on 09/18/2001 6:00:18 PM PDT by Republic
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Other things I don't want to hear anymore:

This was a tragedy --- no it wasn't it was an atrocity.

America will never be the same --- Yes it will, or better.

We can't attack these guys, they might get mad and hurt us --- They can't hurt us after we kill them.

My government didn't protect me --- You've been voting for the wrong people sucker.

I'm so afraid --- of what? You're still 8 times as likely to die in your car.

Anybody else hear anything else that treatened the existence your TV set?

19 posted on 09/18/2001 6:00:58 PM PDT by John Jamieson
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They were not cowards.

Yes, they are the worst of cowards, and we need to kill them ASAP.

20 posted on 09/18/2001 6:02:25 PM PDT by angkor
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