Comments on: Bush: 'The War Is Not Over'

On 5th Anniversary Of Attacks, President Says U.S. In 'Early Hours' Of War

[kwlambi]

Why does the media want to turn W's speech into a political blog for a bloody election? The whole political agenda is boring, old and the SOS. I am beginning to believe the war on terror is going down the same road as the war on drugs. The gOVT IS SPENDING OR WASTING ALOT OF MONEY ON IT. Its unlikely that 9/11 will ever happen again here in this country because there has been progress in communications. I dont think we will be training terroists too soon in anything, like we did before. However all the effort over there in the peasants fields hasn't achieved very much. They are still there, and growing in numbers. What we need to do is break their will, we are far from doing that. But so were the *** long ago....

[rlpace1]

What unbelieveable BS.
This is the same speach he gives constantly, for the past months and years. Where has he been?

[ronniehm]

terminalman, I know there are people who think Bush planned and executed the destruction of the towers, but I haven't been able to find a single one of you who can explain why the terrorists were receiving flight training years before Bush ran for president. Can you explain that? You see, it's not a valid theory unless it fits 100% of the evidence. If even one piece doesn't fit, you must be wrong.

[brit4578]

I have never seen the Twin Towers but I know that ereryone in New York City had loved them and if I had lived in New York City I would of them to very much and I would of cared about the people who had tryed to get all the people out of the Twin Towers.

[terminalman1-2009]

The man that killed over 3 thousand people on 9/11 visits the scene of the crime and lays a wreath where he killed all those people. Wow!!! I thought O.J. Simpson got away with murder. George Bush has no conscience, to be able to go to the scene of the crime and lay a wreath I'm still stunned. Then the same man starts a war for no reason at all and kills thousands more innocent people. He's a mass murderer in every sense of the word. God see's everything. He will pay one way or the other.

[fmventures]

Almost 3000 of us died in one day on 9.11
We went after them in Iraq and Afganistan.
In Iraq alone, 45000 civilians died in a three years period. Will they have a day to remember, or an eternity to hate us?
And in Iraq alone another 3000 of our sons and daughters died. Will they also have a day to remember?
Was it worth the price? Are we better now than we were then?

[salemwriter]

The war on terror should include our effort to heal our nation from the effects of terrorism. In other words, we should fight terror in the way that FDR said that we should fight fear. The constant bombardment of 9/11 stories to me tends more to memorialize terror than to heal. If anything I would rather see some shows on how we as a country can heal from being victimized by our own media machine through a steady stream of horrific images and cowboy talk.

[grazinggoat]

All my condoloscences to all lost, maimed lives, and relatives in Ground Zero New York.

Tomorrow 12 septembre 2006, exactly TWO MONTHS ago, the Israeli Defense Forces has had started a TERROR attack on the land of Lebanon. ONE THOUSAND innocent victims unwillingly paid with their lives. There has been 15,000 (fifteen thousand) residential units destroyed, LEBANESE infrastructure: roads, bridges, hospitals, highrises, dairy manufactures, etc...

Total loss: more than fifteen billion dollars (15,000,000,000$) as per estimates of United Nations and Lebanese governement experts damage assessors.

Lebanese citizens are sharing the sorrow of the USA lost citizens, and adding up their fresh sorrow to the tragic human experience. The problem they are facing now is defining the ONE GROUND ZERO of their own. One tends to think there are as many as 15,000 of them on Tiny Lebanon land.

GOOD WILLS AND PEACE ON ALL OF US UNTILL ETERNITY COMES, UNTILL ETERNITY COME; WE ARE AND SHOULD STAY ONE EARTH NATION.

[beauford11]

My prayers and thoughts go out to all those that were touched by 9/11. However, it is time to let those wounds heal and start to rebuild. Five years have gone by and still, we are hearing reports as if it happened yesterday i.e the resent 911 tapes made available. That is private and families of those that lost their lives should have been the only ones to have been given the opportunity to listen and not the public. Let the families heal those wounds. Why do we need to reopen those scares!!! The other night, a competitor aired a 9/11 special about the children of those taken that day. I think they summed it up by basically saying "...leave us alone to rebuild our lives..." Out of the mouth of babes. I feel we need to contiune to go after those responsible for that terrible day, but let the nation heal and stop resurrecting that terrible day. We all remember it and always will, we don't need to be constantly reminded.

[ronniehm]

It does seem like each anniversary is a bigger TV event than the one before. I would probably just broadcast the ceremonies and leave out the history lesson. News networks should be showing news, not managing our grief.

[waterwhenwet]

Let's get real. I know it was a horrific thing that happened to us, but lets leave the greiving to the families. Let's not start showing the planes hitting the the Trade Center over and over again; we all saw it live on TV and we saw it for weeks on end. It is marked into our memories forever. Let's stop using this day as a political instrument, and please never make this a National Holiday before we make Pearl Harbor one..

[nserrano1-2009]

The events of Sept 11 are extremely painful for me because I had interviewed the men that drove these planes and attacked the twin towers. I was working at a College in tampa, when I was called to the front desk. I saw a young, husky Arab-looking man with glasses and another young, serious guy with jet-black hair. I shook their hands and I gave a Questionaire to Marwann Al-shehi. I recall giving these men a tour of the College. There were three of them. I noticed that they were intimidating and there faces were stoic and without reaction. I also sensed a foreboding of evil in the presence of these young men.They seemed very interested in plane simulation. They gathered all of the information and asked me if I knew of any other schools that offered flight training. Weeks later, they tragedy occurred and I was interviewed by the FBI. For many months after 9/11 I felt as if I had interviewed a couple of "Lee H. Oswalds" I will never forget this experience.

[tvrvixen]

Rejected But Not Forgotten!

Like so many of us, my life forever changed on September 11th, 2001. After days of anguishing and searching for an answer, it suddenly came to me. That is, to erect a free monument to the thousands of lives lost.
So the next day, I went around to area companies for their support and help. And to my jubilant surprise, they too were anxious to get involved.
An area steel company offered to construct, erect, and even maintain forever the towers. Their workers even volunteered to come in on their days off to hand build the structures. "After all," they said, "we are steel workers and it was steel workers who built these buildings, and it was steel workers who came out voluntarily to clear the rubble and look for survivors. It's the least we can do."
A local stone company readily donated all the limestone materials and other companies offered their assistance. I really thought our message to the fallen would finally succeed. I was so wrong. I had no idea that this simple and quiet symbol and act of remembrance would solicit so many objections from civic, community, religious, government, and institutional groups as "inappropriate", "offensive to Moslems", and even, "out-of-character" by one community.
"Offensive," I asked, "to whom?" "Out-of-character? Inappropriate?" I wondered, "How's it possible?"

[rntcastro]

I am writing from Brazil and our prayers are with all, the american people in this moment. We, as the rest of the world, will never forget this sad day.I have been to this country last June .I loved this country and I love my american friends.I am sure America will win this battle through peace and patriotism.God bless you all.Love from Brazil to you, Renata Castro

[islandman56]

The only thing I can say is my prayers and thoughts of what happened on 9/11 go out to all who lost someone close to their hearts. We, as Americans, should and will remember that day. God Bless all of you and God Bless America