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theferrett is also wise.
See for yourself. He gets at many of the points I've been trying to get at, too.
" 9/11 didn't make me angry so much as it made me motivated. For the first time in my generation, someone had attacked us and struck hard enough to paralyze the entire nation. This was, as the television was repeating endlessly, our Pearl Harbor. This was a turning point in America's history.
And so I was ready. Whatever my country needed me to do, I'd do it. I sat in my house, awaiting orders.
No one was more surprised when none came.
The defining hallmark of the Bush administration is that it's never asked anyone to do anything they didn't feel like doing."
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" 9/11 didn't make me angry so much as it made me motivated. For the first time in my generation, someone had attacked us and struck hard enough to paralyze the entire nation. This was, as the television was repeating endlessly, our Pearl Harbor. This was a turning point in America's history.
And so I was ready. Whatever my country needed me to do, I'd do it. I sat in my house, awaiting orders.
No one was more surprised when none came.
The defining hallmark of the Bush administration is that it's never asked anyone to do anything they didn't feel like doing."
Tags: Politics, Links, Quotes, Economics, The Environment