9/11 Tribute

Emotions can color perception to an amazing extent. On occasion, people who come to know how deeply anti-Bush I am (and how I have been unalterably opposed to the Iraqi war since long before we started it) seem to think I am unmoved by the horrors that took place on September 11, 2001. Some people cannot separate the "war on terror" with the September 11 attacks.

I do, indeed, believe that the horrors of September 11 were beyond comprehension. No person with rational thought could have been involved in the planning or execution of the attacks. But there was never any relationship between those attacks and Iraq. Sure, Sadaam was a bastard, a dictator, and a killer. But there was no 9/11 link. There were no WMDs. There was no justification for what we did, just as there was no justification for what the September 11 attackers did. No matter how miserable this administration has been and is still, there is no justification for that horrific attack. And there is no justification for the response launched by George Bush. I think Bush and his followers share many character traits with bin Laden and his followers: they are all idiot fanatics who base their decisions on misguided interpretations of perverted religious frameworks.

Back to my original point. As much as I hate our reaction to the September 11 attacks, I grieve for the victims and their families. I cannot imagine what it must have been like to perish in those attacks; I cannot imagine what the victims' families have experienced. As a tribute to the victims and their families, I signed on (through a blog dedicated to this purpose) to pay tribute, through this blog, to a victim of the attacks. I will research and write a tribute to Daniel Hal Crisman, age 25, who died in the World Trade Center attacks.

You can expect to read that tribute on September 11, 2006.