The U.S. honors the victims of Sept. 11, 2001.
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I remember I was staying with my parents and we just got a new digital cable box. I wake up around 9:15am and turned on Comedy Central to see the World Trade Center buildings on fire. I thought it was a joke. I asked my dad what the heck happened.
The attack was inspired by men radicalized by the noise of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri. The 19 men dressed like normal travelers. They got on planes leaving Boston Logan, Newark Liberty and Reagan and hijacked the planes mid-flight. The first airline crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. As the New York authorities were trying to rescue those trapped in the building, another airline crashed into the South Tower. By that time, President George W. Bush was notified of the attack on New York. He abruptly left a Florida school during a reading session.
President Biden, Vice President Harris, former President Trump, Sen. JD Vance and Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg at 9/11 Ceremony in New York. pic.twitter.com/nK19YKABjB
— CSPAN (@cspan) September 11, 2024
Today, President Biden and I are traveling to the hallowed ground of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania to honor the victims and their families.
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) September 11, 2024
We will never forget the 2,977 lives lost on 9/11. pic.twitter.com/4jk1XYxjho
We will never forget the 2,977 precious lives stolen from us on 9/11.
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 11, 2024
We will never forget their families who still bear the grief of their loss.
We will never forget the heroic citizens and survivors who rushed to help their fellow Americans.
We will never forget. pic.twitter.com/6Y0WtQ5Zu3
During his briefing, another plane would crash into the Pentagon. The Pentagon was not destroyed but it sustained heavy damage. By that time Vice President Dick Cheney was notified to evacuate the White House and Observatory Circle. Congress was also notified and had to take evacuations.
The news was zeroed in on the World Trade Center. All the cable channels went to live coverage. CNN was the first network to report the airline crashing into the towers.
The Pentagon was heavily damaged by the attack. They rebuild the structure. |
These terrorists shook America and led our nation into war with two countries.
George W. Bush declared war on Afghanistan after the nation refused to handover al Qaeda leaders and funders. The war started in December 2001 and ended in August 2021.
The U.S. overthrown the Taliban and it held them out until the U.S. forces formally left.
The Taliban regained control shortly after U.S. forces left.
The Republicans used the Afghanistan war to promote Islamophobia, hatred of immigrants and called anti-war protesters, "traitors" and "enemies of the state." Fox led the way to generating public option and threw culture wars into the public discourse. It led to many noise makers using freedom and liberty as it was their rightful ownership.
Republicans would soon encourage the public to fight the war in Iraq. The U.S. was misled by allegations that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and allied with al Qaeda. That led us to a 8 year war that ended in 2011.
When Barack Obama ran for president, he promised that he wouldn't rest until the leaders of al-Qaeda were captured or killed. His political rivals thought he was naive and foolish at the time. They were wrong.
After a landslide election, Obama was elected to be president. As the successor of George W. Bush, Obama inherited two wars, an economic crisis and congressional gridlock.
Passengers managed to force the terrorist to divert his plane from the intended target. |
Obama was really aggressive on disrupting al-Qaeda and its affiliates.
Republicans then started the drum brat of the Benghazi attack. It damaged Hillary Clinton in 2016 when she ran for president a second time. Republicans obsessed over Obama's handling of the attack and threatened impeachment for it.
September 11, 2012, the U.S. diplomatic mission in Cairo, Egypt was mobbed by protesters apparently in response to an anti-Islamic online video known as Innocence of Muslims. A group scaled the embassy wall and tore down the American flag to replace it with a black Islamic flag. This incident (and the coinciding armed attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that was widely misreported as a reaction to the film) launched a series of worldwide demonstrations against the film outside diplomatic facilities of the United States and other Western countries. However, other underlying issues of discontent have fueled the protests in some countries. The protests that continued in the ensuing weeks also expanded to other Western-related locations, some of which turned violent, resulting in dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries.
The protest lays down in the groundwork for a sneak attack to infiltrate the U.S. Embassy compound in Libyan by militants. They ended up killing four Americans which included J. Christopher Stevens, a longtime ally to the president.
Obama's political foes in the Republican Party wish Osama bin Laden was still alive. They refuse to credit him for giving the orders to take out the world's most wanted terrorist
Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri were both killed by U.S. forces. |
The Republicans could never take responsibility for a tragedy. They'll blame the Democrats for every domestic or international incident whenever there's a Republican president. They scapegoated immigrants, Muslims and people who opposed war for being on the side of terrorists.
George W. Bush ignored the Richard Clarke warnings. He ignored the Bill Clinton memos. He wanted to chart his own goals. He should have been impeached for that.
President Joe Biden, former president Donald J. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris together. Rare. |
Republicans place the blame of the Los Angeles/Rodney King riots, the Minneapolis/George Floyd riots, every war that doesn't go as planned, every mass shooting, every government shutdown, every man made disaster on the Democrats. Every wildfire, volcano, earthquake, tornado, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Maria is blamed the Democrats. They blame Democrats for crime and gun violence. They claim it was the Democrats most responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, mask mandates and closing businesses when it was a Republican president and most Republican governors who ordered shutdowns.
Now 23 years later our current president Joe Biden, former president Donald J. Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio senator J.D. Vance are honoring the memories of those lost on 9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012.
Once again, Harris, the Democratic nominee shook Trump's hand. Trump is the Republican nominee.
We will survive. |
President Joe Biden ordered the killing of al-Zawahri in 2022. The former leader stayed in a luxury apartment in Kabul, Afghanistan. The death really shook al-Qaeda and they have no strong voices to radicalize.
Biden finally ended the war in Afghanistan and Republicans led the way to criticizing and blaming the president for the swifty evacuations and attack on 13 military members being killed by a suicide bomber.
A moment of clarity for all of us.
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