Violence begets violence, and hate begets hate.
We as Americans were hated by a group, so now we are filled with hate. They have brought violence to us, and now we prepare our own violence. There is a matter here I feel I need to address however, and that is how we direct our hatred. Many Americans do not know who Bin Laden is, they see only a man on the news, with a beard and turban. Consequently many people are beginning to direct hatred toward this image. I have a dear friend who is already having trouble because of his appearance, but he is not even Arab, he's from India. And many Arabs domestically and abroad may not agree with American policy, they may even hate America. But they are still human, and are also sickened by this act. It is important to direct hatred and violence where it is warrented: against the individuals who organized this terror, and the organizations and leaders of nations who supported them. I have confidence that our government leaders will not seek to place blanket blame, or see this as an excuse to seize territory.
As a people, lets show our friends of the free world that we are above such concepts as 'blind vengence', and instead seek swift and accurate justice.

I am one of the many Americans, Citizens of this great country, who is unable to give blood. I've tried in the past, and was finally told not to try anymore (my veins collapse easily, and I never am able to give enough). There are many more who have various health related issues that are unable to give blood as well. Please think about donating to your local red cross instead. A dollar, or five, or more can go a long way to buying the orange juice and cookies or chips that are given to all donors. It's such a small price to pay in the face of this tragedy. Our nation always needs blood donors, moreso in times of tragedy, but at all times. Try to make a date to give blood or donate a little bit of time, or money to this wonderful organization. And no, I do not work for, or have any assocation with, the Red Cross. I am just one of millions touched by this horrific horrors that happened on Tuesday. One of millions who sat and was just completely shell-shocked. And I am one of probably hundreds of thousands who is unable to donate blood, but want to help, so will donate a little bit of money.

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I do not want to seem on the side of terrorism, but I want to say something. I also do not approve of the people who did this, and I want them to rot in hell.

I live in New Jersey, near Newark. In Newark the Islaamic center of the country is located. It is a good group of people, who are NOT AT ALL involved in the terrorist bombings. People were abusing and destroy the property and the people on it. In school ( Yes I a Freshman in High School) people were ready to kill, even though they did nothing. We are also not at war with Afgan. just the terrorist group that operates from there.


If you are in the New York area, are 17 or older, and can legally do so, please donate blood, they really need it.

As the FBI continues to do its job more and more evidence is collected...and from what they will tell us the evidence is pointing more and more in the direction of Bin Laden...couple that with the fact that hes missing and the afghani's are denying knowing where he is and I start to have a problem with this. If he is found in Afghanistan there will be hell to pay. For those of you who dont know there was supposedly some bombings in Afghanistan the night of the WTC attack. Could it be that people were trying to get the government to give up bin laden? Could it be that Bin Laden in all his terroristic glee killed those people as well? As of now I have no idea. all ive heard is speculation and 2nd hand reports.
And for those of you saying that the US should do nothing...I wonder if you would be saying that if it had been your family in that building. If someone you had been close to had died when the building collapsed...estimated casualties are now expected to be over 20,000...for comparison roughly 2,400 people died in Pearl Harbor. Terrorism should not be accepted by anyone. For those of you who believe that those responsible and those who aided them should not be held responsible and killed...what are you thinking? As for you who say that everyone thinks we should wipe Afghanistan as a country off the map, yesterday and perhaps earlier today I would have to agree with you. Mostly because I was blinded by sheer anger at the loss of life, but now honestly I think any sort of bombing would be to quick of a death for these men, who do not seem to value human life at all. Instead they should be made to suffer. Made to see what they did and how wrong it was. As for the Afghanistan people, if what I have been told is true and that they attempted to stage a coup(sp?), and overthrow their government...I believe we should back them. If the current government would condone this sort of act and harbor such men...then they are no better and deserve the fate destined for the terrorists responsible for the deaths of over 20,000 civilian lives.

As most of you heard at one of the many press conferences the secretary of defense(i think, so many people too little time) was asked(also not perfect but the general sentiment)"Will our retaliation lead to the death of civilians where we attack" He answered a very swift "yes" and for this i agree. Many politicians have called this an act of war. In war civilians are killed, it cant be helped. We have to let the world know that one can not kill many thousands of americans and get away with it. Retaliation must be quick and severe, if bin ladin did it and the afghans supported him then, well, we do what we did to Iraq except a thousand times worst. During desert storm there was alot of opposition. Now I believe that nearly the entire country will back our leaders. Desert Storm was because of happenings thousands of miles away. Now the unthinkable has happened, an attack on United States soil has killed many americans. Instead of the other side of the world it has happened in our own backyard. Im sorry, I know many of you will disagree with me but I find this unforgivable.

Now one questions why we entered world war 2, it was because we were attacked, and Japan and Germany payed dearly. At pearl harbor something like 2500 people were killed. If estimates are correct 10,000 people have died in new york. I believe we will make whoever did this and those who supported them pay dearly also. If your argument is that we will kill civilians from that place that had nothing to do with it, well, we killed japenese by the thousands with the A bomb and they didnt have a desicion about attacking pearl harbor. When at war the entire, whether it be country, city, or extremist group, is the enemy. The goal is to be the enemy into submission, to me we are now at war, they made the first strike, they to say "open the can of worms." We made the japenese sorry and i hope we make afghanistan, or Iraq, or whoever did sorry as well. Flame away, I really don't care.

What happened on September 11th was horrendous, thousands died needlessly, something must be done, but does mass murder constitute more mass murder? Obviously the US government could completely remove any nation on this planet from the maps if they wanted to, but is it the right thing to do? Its hard to make a decision on how to react to the attack, I dont want to see war, and further death and destruction, but it seems inevitable. All very confusing really, hopefully all turns out well in the end.......


( please pardon any and all spelling mistakes, :P )

Here in Puerto Rico we share the same grief and sadness with our brothers in US. There's no one here that doesn't have a brother, sister, aunt,, uncle, any family living in NY and some of them even worked at the Worl Trade Center. My girlfriend, as an example, is staying with her sister for a few weeks while receiving treatment for her cancer. You can imagine my anguish when I couldn't get a hold on her by telephone, not until midnight. Those hours were like eternities to me. But thank God she was fine all the time.
I know many people didn't fared as well as me and for them are my prayings that they can find peace in their hearts.

Here we're doing what we can to help. The governor sent today 400 members of the National Guard along with the Special Rescue Team from our Civil Defense full with specialized rescue equipment and a team of 250 doctors and nurses to help in everyway they can. Beleive me we, the people of Puerto Rico, will be at your service for as long as we're needed. I will be donating blood tomorrow so I will be contributing in some humble way.

We have to remember this: religions don't kill people but fanatics do. I was passing today in front of a store owned by two arabians. They were celebrating as well. Did I stormed into their store and wiped their smiles out of their faces? No. You know why? Because I will be giving them an excuse to do the same thing to me.
What will I do? I will not buy a single item from their store even if it was the only one standing among the others. That is my way of punishing them.
Why do I tell this you may ask? Because I fear that the american goverment will retaliate drasticaly and killing a lot of people in the process. Make no mistake, The responsible one should be haunted like a dog and bringed to justice. But I wish that we don't start the spiral down to the point of no return.
May God bring peace to the whole world.

Stupid move you made bro... you'll soon enough find out how dumb it was to disrupt the greatest power on the face of the planet... You messed with the wrong peeps, and someone's gonna get their *** beat BIG TIME!

I'm sorry... you don't just do some stupid f**king s**t like and begin to celebrate! You may be celebrating now... but that is because you got a cheap shot in... now get ready to feel the pain! Evander Holifield vs. "Glass Jaw" Joe... Jaws vs. The Little Mermaid... Godzilla vs. Barney the Dinosaur... The US vs. you! You and terrorists alike are going down so fast, you're going to have wind chill factor!

Quote me if you'd like... the only way to cure a problem where citizens commit acts of terrorism as acts of warfare, is to first destroy the government, and second annihilate the country...

IMO we should not be the world's "advisor" or "babysitter" but more or less "Warden"... ***** up... you belong to us now...

Someone once said "You're in our world now"... nowhere else should that be more true...

Watching the News and seeing the horrific sights of terriorism, my heart sinks. There is a pattern here that only seems to be getting worse and no matter what we do it will get only get worse until we change...how we need to change i dont know but if we contunie without change the acts of terriorism will only get worse. Just look back in history in early terriorism, it wasnt that bad thes Oklahoma was bombed now this. Farther back in history in world war 2 about 6 million jews were killed then under Stalins rule god knows how many people were killed while he was around. "If we do not learn form history we are doomed to repeat it." i hope to god that we do what needs to be done to prevent a tradgity like this from ever happening again.

I have, like many of us out there, read nearly all of the posts shown. I agree, and disagree on some, others, just don't read because i know what they are going to say. So here is my thoughts, read them if you would like, it's your time.

War, although it probably will happen, is not always the right answer to a problem. Death to those who have done this, may be a quick fix, but it's not really going to help anything. So what do i want to see? I would like to see the terrisom stop, thoughout the world. But i know it will never happen, because i see myself as a realist.

terrisom is not a get even thing, it's there for the people who have been asking for help, for so long, and not seeing anything done about it, that they go nuts, and destroy others just so that they know how they feel. this is wrong, never has it been right, nor will it ever be right. but i look at what we would like to do, as in a sence, the same thing.

for years, we have been saying 'stop the terriosm' but yet we see it every day in the news. we read about it in the paper, and hear it on the radio. what we the United States want to do is go out, and KILL others. how can i say how wrong killing others just to prove a point is. we are seeing it first hand peope! it just happened to us! if we do it to others, what is going to stop them from doing it to us again, and again? it's a circle you see, we say no, they say yes, they bomb, we get mad, and bomb back. we calm down for a little bit, then they say something, and it starts again.

so what can we do to stop this? morals, that's all, learn the basic morals that each and ever person should have. i can give you my ideas, on morals, but they would not be liked by all of you, so why waste my time. you see, that is the problem, no one wants to listen anymore, to anyone, and that is why we as a world are in anger. we don't want to listen to one another, so we fight over it.

I don't care about realigon, it's just a guy/girl standing up on a stage saying crap to me. i know that some of you care about that, and that you like to hear that, and thats great. it's just not me. maybe that is what this is all about, we the US did not help one group enough in raising their reliagon, or maybe we helped the wrong group, i don't want to hear it, it's not my thing. but if this, war, fighting, terrisom, anthing that deals with hatred towards others, is what you call realigon...why would you want to be a part of it? are you not just causing hate though it? who know's, maybe i am just not looking at it the right way, your way, his way, her way,...who's way am i looking at now? you see, making everyone happy, is just not possable. it can't be done, so deal with it.

Just my thoughts again, but killing more people over this crap isn't going to help much, because once one group thinks they got the world under it's control, the world will bite it in the ***. then they will grow in size, and they too will take control.

So be kind to others, don't tell them what to do, or what to believe in, help them. give them love, caring, whatever you can spare, and maybe, even if you can't spare it, give it, because that will make you better. sometimes you have to give away your best things, to get the best back.

Just my thoughts. Hope this all turns out on a high note.

I, like everyone, was shocked and saddened to be woken up on Tuesday morning with every television channel, radio station, and website with the awful news about the US terrorist attacks. Almost everyone says that, and almost everyone truly means it. It's awful.

But in this aftermath of tragedy, it would be pertintent to remember some things. Firstly, when it comes to armed conflict, I am on America's side. My country is part of NATO, and I believe that most of the time that roughly sits on the side of good. Yet to hear words like those of Allakhazam's webmaster that "America is the greatest country the world has ever seen" and "fear us" is just disturbing on so many levels. In part because it is heard so often by those of us who live outside the US.

America isn't totally innocent. No country is. Some of America's history is awful, as is my country's. Noone outside of the US is under the misapprehension that the US only acts for altruistic motives and has never stooped to torture/murder/espionage etc. *Some* of the anti-US sentiment in this world is justified, and America *had* better look at it and ask itself some hard questions. America is not synonymous with "good". They are not the same word and are not always on the same side of the line. American is not first in importance.

Your country, while being powerful now, is hardly the most powerful the world has ever seen. It's all context, and both the Roman and Sumerian empires covered much more territory in their time before the US was ever conceived. This parochialism that comes from the US (based on so much ignorance - there are many other countries in this world besides the US, and many other peoples), coupled with the idea that America is always good and always right and somehow "God's country" is as frightening to me as the "Holy war" rhetoric that comes from the Middle East. There's no difference just because it's said in English.

All violent acts are awful. This one in particular is unspeakable. The Palestinians who danced in the streets (and I am suspicious of that as there was only ever one image played over and over again, and who knows *why* those people were actually dancing) themselves would have wondered how the US could stand by in support of their enemies while their countrymen were murdered. If you have lived in a war zone all your life, watched your friends and families ripped apart by bullets and bombs, you are hardly going to take an objective view. Of course it's not sane. None of this is.

I and the rest of the sane world waits in anticipation for the culprits to be found and brought to justice. That has nothing to do with this act being perpetrated against the US. It has to do with justice, truth, and goodness. I also wait for those acts of violence and barbarism perpetrated *by* the West to be brought to light and justice. This is not the US as "the only good" against the east as "the main evil" - and we do not yet know for certain who did this. This is all honest, decent human beings standing against the horror the human condition unleashes when it is out of control.

In that, the US has the undivided support and heartfelt sympathy of the rest of the free world, and probably the genuine support of many of the people not in free countries. That isn't a mandate for unlimited violent action.

At my school, every one is talking about how the "damn afgans should be nuked off the face of the earth" while in reality it is one or more people residing in afganistan, and i am sick of death.
There was also a very good point that my speech team director brought up relating to this topic, it was, people will manipulating their hate towards a current topic, because it is so easy to say "stupid sand suckers, thinking they can blow up our buildings, well there gay (person then pauses to bask in the laughter he recives from his/her simple minded friends)" but in reality, non of them suck sand, and most of them actually like america. It is just the radicals that every socity has (but history proves that radicals from that area seem to be a little more violent, extreme and technoligical).
So my point is, judge be for you act, for yeh who judges may be judged him self.

Snoogans (soon to have last name as Brodinoogans)
Rodcet Nife

Everyone is enraged, as am I. "Americans have faced great evil, and we will live to do so again, and survive," was said at the prayer vigil. I agree. But, instead of bombing indiscriminately those that have wronged us, I say let them rot a mile beneath the ground in Langley, Virginia. We should break them, and use them against their own people. That, my fellow Americans, is the worst possible punishment I can imagine, being used as the tool of my partners' demise.

Let our prayers and thoughts be with all of those, and let us all be safe from the "faceless cowards" of the world.