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Offline Chris_

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After 9/11 Attacks, Obama Wrote of Need to Understand ‘the Sources of Such Madne
« on: September 11, 2009, 07:08:54 AM »
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After 9/11 Attacks, Obama Wrote of Need to Understand ‘the Sources of Such Madness’

Washington (AP) - On Sept. 11, 2001, Barack Obama was driving to a state legislative hearing in Chicago when he heard the first sketchy reports of a plane hitting the World Trade Center on his car radio. The 40-year-old state senator spent the afternoon in his law office watching "nightmare images" of destruction and grief unfold on TV.
 
Within days, he'd issued a statement about what the nation should do next.
 
Beyond the immediate needs to improve security and dismantle "organizations of destruction," Obama wrote, lay the more difficult job of "understanding the sources of such madness." He wrote of "a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers," of "embittered children" around the world, of the seeds of discontent sown in poverty, ignorance and despair.

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Obama's goal of shutting the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba within a year is bogged down in case-by-case complexities.
 
The phrase "war on terror" has fallen out of favor: Obama avoids using it, he says, to keep from offending Muslims.

Hey Barry.... :bigbird: ....and you ain't getting an apology.

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Re: After 9/11 Attacks, Obama Wrote of Need to Understand ‘the Sources of Such Madne
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2009, 07:49:14 AM »
Quote from: lug-nut on September 11, 2009, 07:08:54 AM
Hey Barry.... :bigbird: ....and you ain't getting an apology.

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...and a few for the Muslims.

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...and no apology.
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Re: After 9/11 Attacks, Obama Wrote of Need to Understand ‘the Sources of Such Madne
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2009, 07:52:57 AM »
Yeah that^^^

I'm too pissed off to even put in the effort to flip him the bird.
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Re: After 9/11 Attacks, Obama Wrote of Need to Understand ‘the Sources of Such Madne
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2009, 09:59:55 AM »
Quote from: DixieBelle on September 11, 2009, 07:52:57 AM
Yeah that^^^

I'm too pissed off to even put in the effort to flip him the bird.

So which do we believe...what he said then...or what he was saying at the Pentagon this morning?
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Re: After 9/11 Attacks, Obama Wrote of Need to Understand ‘the Sources of Such Madne
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2009, 12:03:18 PM »
Quote from: TxRadioguy on September 11, 2009, 09:59:55 AM
So which do we believe...what he said then...or what he was saying at the Pentagon this morning?
We need secret decoder rings apparently. :whatever:
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