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>This is a great read!! AMEN!!!
>
>Incredible Article from an English Newspaper, THE DAILY MIRROR Well
>worth the fewminutes to read Just a word of background on the Daily
>Mirror, a ewspaper which is published in England. It is a notorious
>left-wing daily and is usually very anti-American. In other words, the
>Daily Mirror is much like most of the U. S. media. It's kinda hard to
>believe that they published this editorial. Wouldn't it be nice, just
>once, to have the NY Times, CNN, or Peter Jennings express an editorial
>like Tony Parsons of the Daily Mirror does in what follows:
>
> "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 "Tis the
>star-spangled banner, oh! long may it wave, O'er the land of the free,
>and the home of the brave. " 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 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 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 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. "
>
>Tony Parsons, Daily Mirror England
>This is a great read!! AMEN!!!
>
>Incredible Article from an English Newspaper, THE DAILY MIRROR Well
>worth the fewminutes to read Just a word of background on the Daily
>Mirror, a ewspaper which is published in England. It is a notorious
>left-wing daily and is usually very anti-American. In other words, the
>Daily Mirror is much like most of the U. S. media. It's kinda hard to
>believe that they published this editorial. Wouldn't it be nice, just
>once, to have the NY Times, CNN, or Peter Jennings express an editorial
>like Tony Parsons of the Daily Mirror does in what follows:
>
> "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 "Tis the
>star-spangled banner, oh! long may it wave, O'er the land of the free,
>and the home of the brave. " 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 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 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 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. "
>
>Tony Parsons, Daily Mirror England
