This was written by a "liberal" journalist from England, kind of gives you something to think about.
Subject: Fw: Subject: Must Read -- Message from England
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> >
> >
> >Subject: Must Read -- Message from England
> >
> >No matter what your views on President Bush's
> >statement of upcoming war, this, from an English
> >journalist, is very interesting. Just a word of
> >background for those of you who aren't familiar
> >with the UK's Daily Mirror. This is a notoriously
> >left-wing daily that is normally not supportive of
> >the Colonials across the Atlantic.
> >
> >Tony Parsons ... Daily Mirror ... September 11, 2002
> >
> >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 recognized them.
> >Young fathers and mothers, somebody's son and
> >somebody's daughter, husbands, wives, and children,
> >some unborn.
> >
> >And these people brought it on themselves? Theirnation
> >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 realize that America has never retaliated for 9/11 in
> >anything like the way it could have.
> >
> > So a few al-Qaeda tourists got locked up 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 center, 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. >>
>
> __________________________________
Subject: Fw: Subject: Must Read -- Message from England
>
> >
> >
> >Subject: Must Read -- Message from England
> >
> >No matter what your views on President Bush's
> >statement of upcoming war, this, from an English
> >journalist, is very interesting. Just a word of
> >background for those of you who aren't familiar
> >with the UK's Daily Mirror. This is a notoriously
> >left-wing daily that is normally not supportive of
> >the Colonials across the Atlantic.
> >
> >Tony Parsons ... Daily Mirror ... September 11, 2002
> >
> >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 recognized them.
> >Young fathers and mothers, somebody's son and
> >somebody's daughter, husbands, wives, and children,
> >some unborn.
> >
> >And these people brought it on themselves? Theirnation
> >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 realize that America has never retaliated for 9/11 in
> >anything like the way it could have.
> >
> > So a few al-Qaeda tourists got locked up 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 center, 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. >>
>
> __________________________________
