RE: [cobalt-users] OT: Hoping you guys are okay

["Vachon, Scott" <Scott.Vachon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> makes a change for Americans to be awake when it comes to 
> world events.....

Really ? Seems we step up to the plate every time the world screams
injustice. Israel/Palestine, Haiti, Somalia, Serbia, Afghanistan (to help
them repel an INVADING FOREIGN ARMY). I'd say we always are aware of world
events.

> 
> take a look at http://www.counterpunch.org and tell me again 
> how things
> are...

Be nice if the site was working...

> and what about the 35 minutes between when the US knew the 
> planes had been
> hijacked and they actually hit? 

That was our oversight in self defense. We don't normally patrol our free
skies with fighter jets as we don't make it a common practice to shoot down
our own citizens. Unlike some other countries, we choose not to live under
martial law. Not easy to scramble fighters not on alert in that amount of
time.

> 
> it was a human tragedy on a large scale and must be f*****g 
> unbearable for
> those directly involved, including relatives of those few 
> hundreds heroic
> firemen and police who entered the WTC and never came out, 
> but PLEASE stop
> the knee jerk nonsense and convenience of blaming everything 
> on some greasy
> crazed arab, and thereby totally exonerating our own 
> governments, security
> departments, foreign policies, etceteras....

We know our vulnerability is our fault. That does not excuse the attack on
innocent Americans. And you just stated above that Osama told us he would do
it. So why don't you "wake up." I didn't blame Muslims (killing is forbidden
in the Koran I believe), I didn't blame individual countries ( I do support
a free Palestinian state). I blame the militant criminals that commit these
crimes.

> 
> Mark my words, instead of the WTC site being turned into a 
> memorial to those
> souls lost, it will be rebuilt bigger and taller and brasher 
> than even, with
> mebbe a handkerchief sized patch of astroturf with shitty 
> canned music and a
> fountain as a "memorial"....

Had to go for the cheap shot eh ?

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> please do so
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> 

Well at least my real name and a good contact e-mail addy is associated with
my post. 

God Bless,

Scott

Disclaimer: My own two cents.