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People should watch the BBC documentary or any number of documentaries on 9/11 to remember what is and has been at stake for all of these years. Maybe then you would be concerned by Obama's preoccupation with everything domestic. People who live lives free from terror have such short memories.

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  • People should watch the BBC documentary or any number of documentaries on 9/11 to remember what is and has been at stake for all of these years. Maybe then you would be concerned by Obama's preoccupation with everything domestic. People who live lives free from terror have such short memories.

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    • Laura?

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      08.11.09, 10:54 AM Flag
      • ??

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        08.11.09, 10:55 AM Flag
      • You are disgusting. You think sympathy and understanding of what happened that day and its sheer impact on us as a nation and what it says about what could happen tomorrow should only be acknowledged for a few months? Nice attention span. Go back to watching E television

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        08.11.09, 10:57 AM Flag
        • np: i think reference was to Laura Ling.

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          08.11.09, 10:58 AM Flag
          • i thought laura was laura bush.

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            08.11.09, 11:09 AM Flag
    • Short memories as in they can't remember that their president was at a US-Canada-Mexico summit only yesterday?

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      08.11.09, 11:07 AM Flag
      • Oh yes Canada and Mexico are the answer. Super powers.

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        08.11.09, 11:15 AM Flag
        • Please name some countries/world leaders that he HASN'T already met with during his eight months in office that you feel he's neglecting...

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          08.11.09, 11:40 AM Flag
          • Meeting with people, having 'beer summits', what a child, is not foreign policy.

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            08.11.09, 11:43 AM Flag
            • Would you like to answer the question or do you just want to be snarky? Sounds like the latter to me. Name a leader you think he should meet with who he hasn't already met with.

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              08.11.09, 12:34 PM Flag
              • hello? anyone? it is amazing how quickly right-wingers disappear from the conversation when you ask for any kind of specifics or actual facts...

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                08.11.09, 12:44 PM Flag
        • Most people think they're sort of important to homeland security.

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          08.11.09, 11:40 AM Flag
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      08.11.09, 11:13 AM
      • antisemite

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        08.11.09, 11:15 AM Flag
        • It's possible to disagree with Israel and at the same time not hate all Jews.

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          08.11.09, 11:16 AM Flag
          • agreed but the term "non-chosen people" makes me think the poster is an anti-semite.

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            08.11.09, 11:17 AM Flag
        • Israel is a Democracy and we need to support all democratic countries and yes the post does sound antisemitic.

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          08.11.09, 11:17 AM Flag
          • Israel is hardly a democracy. They employ SS methods to drain out who the claim to be 'suspected' terrorists who often turn out to be weak old, female and or young fmily members who they torture for information. Read a book

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            08.11.09, 11:26 AM Flag
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        08.11.09, 11:17 AM
    • Right. We need to go back to the Bush era when everyone hated us.

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      08.11.09, 11:18 AM Flag
      • You think they love us now? When was the last time you were in the ME because I am every month and they laugh at our choice of president and think it will be so much easier now. It isn't about the man

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        08.11.09, 11:26 AM Flag
      • you are so ignorant. 9/11 didn't happen because people disliked Bush. That was brewing since the 80s

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        08.11.09, 11:27 AM Flag
        • oh good god...when did the right wing start frequenting this board?

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          08.11.09, 11:39 AM Flag
          • I see you don't have an answer. Typical Democrat. So when did your bleeding heart who cried for all those souls that day harden and decide it no longer mattered?

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            08.11.09, 11:41 AM Flag
            • ugh. you're hopeless and I don't have time for this right now.

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              08.11.09, 11:55 AM Flag
    • I NEVER KNEW: that the stairs in WTC 1 and !! were not continuous. Stairs only ran for a few floors and then you had to cross the building to another stairwell to continue down. How awful

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      08.11.09, 11:32 AM Flag
      • I haven't seen the documentary. I was in a stairwell in 1 WTC from 38 to the lobby. Didn't have to change at all so it was more than "a few floors". I know people who changed stairwells because the firemen said others were less crowded. I'm not trying to lessen the impact of this, I just feel we should be aaccurate when describing it.

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        08.11.09, 11:39 AM Flag
        • Ok I take your word for it The BBC doc said that not all stairwells were continuous and some only went ten floors or so before you had to switch. They also never put an evacuation plan in place which I find so strange in the worlds tallest buildings

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          08.11.09, 11:47 AM Flag
          • I have no idea if my stairwell went all the way to the top. Someone I knew who was up much higher had to switch once. I haven't heard about a lot of switching, but then again I haven't talked to that many people who weren't on my floor. AFAIK there was no evacuation plan. Thank God those of us inside had no idea the building would collapse so we were all fairly calm.

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            08.11.09, 11:53 AM Flag
    • I wasn't one of the people right after 9/11 who was visibly upset or talked about but I will never forget what they did, what it means and how it changed the world and our role in it. That the democrats have forgotten is what will be our demise.

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      08.11.09, 11:35 AM Flag
      • OMG! Did you stumble on UB from a cave?

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        08.11.09, 11:39 AM Flag
        • Gasp, why don't you address the issue.

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          08.11.09, 11:41 AM Flag
          • Gasp, because you sound like Chicken Little. This admin has had the worst domestic issues to deal with in a generation. What the F*ck would you like them to be dealing with. Killing more ppl around the world. Spreading our hegemony around the world with more war?

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            08.11.09, 11:50 AM Flag
            • Are so myopic that you do not understand that foreign policy is not about reacting but building resources and securing position? Or are you just uneducated?

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              08.11.09, 11:52 AM Flag
              • Nice try with your striving use of myopic. You come across as a smug asshole but in anycase - this admin is doing plenty on the FP side. What are you so fearful Obama is ignoring in particular?

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                08.11.09, 12:00 PM Flag
                • Trust me sweetie myopic was not a stretch for me but it seems for you it is. Everything Obama has busied himself with is a waste of time.

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                  08.11.09, 12:23 PM Flag
                  • Are you the sweetie creep? you sound illinformed and much like an old bitty. Explain what he has done that is a waste of time? Go for it. Show us myopes what you got!!

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                    08.11.09, 12:33 PM Flag
                    • Sweetie must be tending to her crickets. That or scratching her yellow belly.

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                      08.11.09, 12:37 PM Flag
      • Who is "they?" You probably still think it was Saddam Hussein in the pilot's seat...

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        08.11.09, 12:36 PM Flag
    • What is with the number of bored, angry right-wingers posting the past couple of days? And what is it exactly that we should be remembering about 9/11? Is there an expensive NEW war we should be starting somewhere? And again--please brush up on the number of world leaders that Obama has already met with--he is hardly preoccupied with only domestic affairs.

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      08.11.09, 11:39 AM Flag
      • ITTTA. Seriously, this place has lost all it's shine. Full of wing nuts and haters. Get the F*ck out of UB. You're not our ilk, tool.

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        08.11.09, 11:41 AM Flag
      • No but we shouldn't be IGNORING foreign policy and spending all the precious little $$ we have on BS domestic issues.

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        08.11.09, 11:42 AM Flag
        • NP: What's amusing about this is that you're probably the same person that accused him of being on vacation with his family while he was at the G-8 summit.

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          08.11.09, 11:45 AM Flag
        • Please state what domestic issues you consider to be BS.

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          08.11.09, 11:52 AM Flag
        • How on earth is he "ignoring" foreign policy? Are you having some kind of deluded flashback to the summer of 2001 when GWB was so busy on his vacation that he ignored all the warnings and memos on a potential terror attack?

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