... those questions, and hundreds more, just bug me.

and not for the reason that i think they're appropriate, but rather cuz it just pisses me off that people are so fucking conspiracy-sworn and anti-establishment and negative, etc, etc, etc.

do you honestly, for one second, believe that if the government KNEW that 9-11 would bring the death of several thousand people, they'd let it happen anyway?

yes, i know, there are flaws in our countries. loop holes, problems, snafus... we didnt need this to bring it to our attention. MAYBE it will help hi-lite some of the weaker points. ... but just because something is weak doesnt mean that there are better solutions.

lets look at it this way -- what could 'they' (our gubment) have done?

like i've said before, lets say on august 11th, osama personally called up georgie boy and told him he was gonna fly planes into buildings, kill people, and destroy the US.

later that night, georgie would start a plan to spend billions of dollars recruiting new armed forces and using the existing ones to set up perimeters all around washington DC.

additionally, he could have started up forces to attack the mid east and find osama. above and beyond that, he coulda cancelled all flights for the rest of the year.

had the government done that, they would have been brilliant leaders and saved us all from the horrid attacks of that day. thousands of lives would still be here, ny's skyline would be unchanged, and millions of people would be slightly less afraid.

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but millions of americans woulda hated bush for spending needless money, cancelling vacation flights, and protecting only himself in DC. millions more would hate our actions for attacking the mid-east unprovoked.

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bottom line, there IS no right answer. did we know something? maybe. but no matter what, it would have been a bad move, and guys like TTT would post tons of articles about others' with perfect hindsight.

at that point, there really was no reason to take all of the threats seriously. obviously, now, we know that we should have -- but in retrospect, we didnt do anything wrong.

if we investigated EVERY threat on our country to the fullest extent, we'd have no cops left to handle regular, ever day events. everyone would be busy watching someone else. security, everywhere, would be bumped up to prison level. most everything outdoors would be cancelled, and nothing on a large scale would ever be planned.

and even then, with all that 'safety,' people would hate the government cuz of their 'big brother' aspects. people would look around, see no crime or terrorism, and ask why we're spending all this time and money on stopping it. TTT would find an article about how there's no osama bin laden entitled 'wheredy go?'

no matter what happens, people will doubt or question or find fault with. people will always know that joe montanna shouldnt have thrown jerry rice that pass in 1989 or that you should have turned at the corner deli to get there faster.

hindsight is perfectly lucid.

mebbe tomorrow, everyone else will realize that.