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Date Posted: 09:28:36 09/15/01 Sat
Author: mitch slotnick
Author Host/IP: spider-wm084.proxy.aol.com / 205.188.199.189
Subject: A NEW TYPE OF WAR

As of the last few days as I process the images forever burned into my brain by Islamic fundamentalists who hate our values, our freedoms, and our way of life, I wanted to post this message on our Canarsie website. I have never been PROUDER to be an American.The unity we have seen all over our country only steels my resolve. The enormity of our new reality is just now starting to sink in and my anger is growing. The tears are starting to come now, several times a day, signaling my change from shock to sadness and ultimately rage and anger.I hope that my Canarsie brothers and sisters can deal with the grief that has occured and probably/definately will continue to occur with a balance of unity, collective comfort and steel resolve to go on and do the grim tasks that we must do now.Look around you and see that the mourning, the volunteerism, the blood giving, all trancsend race and politics. For me, this is the only upside to the brutal attack on our country by a large, well financed, well coordinated group of TOWEL HEADED, JEALOUS,HATEFUL, PIECES OF SHIT!!!!These bastard mongrels will soon cease to exist.I am very happy to have George W Bush as Commander in Chief.We must all support him now.

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Re: A NEW TYPE OF WAR -- DAWN, 19:04:49 09/15/01 Sat (spider-tk011.proxy.aol.com/152.163.206.176)

BEAUTIFULLY SAID !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I HAVE ALSO NEVER BEEN PROUDER OF MY COUNTRY AND MY PEOPLE.
THEY WILL FEEL THE ALMIGHTY................................
"WRATH OF AMERICA"

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[> Re: A NEW TYPE OF WAR -- Vito Gaudino, 21:50:42 09/17/01 Mon (ool-18b8e1f8.dyn.optonline.net/24.184.225.248)

We should take a nuclear bomb and SEND IT IN!!
I was sent this article in an email and I would like to share it with everyone,. It was a letter sent to an editor of the Seattle Times.

You monster. You beast. You unspeakable bastard. What lesson did you hope to teach us by your coward's attack on our World Trade Center, our Pentagon, us? What was it you hoped we would learn? Whatever it was, please know that you failed.

Did you want us to respect your cause?
You just damned your cause.
Did you want to make us fear?
You just steeled our resolve.
Did you want to tear us apart?
You just brought us together.

Let me tell you about my people. We are a vast and quarrelsome family, a family rent by racial, cultural, political and class division, but a family nonetheless. We're frivolous, yes, capable of expending tremendous
emotional energy on pop cultural minutiae, a singer's revealing dress, a ball team's misfortune, a cartoon mouse.

We're wealthy, too, spoiled by the ready availability of trinkets and material goods, and maybe because of that, we walk through life with a certain sense of blithe entitlement. We are fundamentally decent, though - peace-loving and compassionate. We struggle to know the right thing and to do it. And we are, the overwhelming majority of us, people of faith, believers in a just and loving God.

Some people - you, perhaps - think that any or all of this makes us weak. You're mistaken. We are not weak. Indeed, we are strong in ways that cannot be measured by arsenals.

Yes, we're in pain now. We are in mourning and we are in shock. We're still grappling with the unreality of the awful thing you did, still working to make ourselves understand that this isn't a special effect from some Hollywood blockbuster, isn't the plot development from a Tom Clancy novel.

Both in terms of the awful scope of its ambition and the probable final death toll, your attacks are likely to go down as the worstacts of terrorism in the history of the United States and, indeed, the history of the world. You've bloodied us as we have never been bloodied before.

But there's a gulf of difference between making us bloody and making us fall. This is the lesson Japan was taught to its bitter sorrow the last time anyone hit us this hard, the last time anyone brought us such abrupt and monumental pain. When roused, we are righteous in our outrage, terrible in our force. When provoked by this level of
barbarism, we will bear any suffering, pay any cost, go to any length, in the pursuit of justice.

I tell you this without fear of contradiction. I know my people, as you, I think, do not. What I know reassures me. It also causes me to tremble with dread of the future.

In days to come, there will be recrimination and accusation, fingers pointing to determine whose failure allowed this to happen and what can be done to prevent it from happening again. There will be heightened security, misguided talk of revoking basic freedoms. We'll go forward from this moment sobered, chastened, sad. But determined,
too. Unimaginably determined.

You see, there is steel beneath this velvet. That aspect of our character is seldom understood by people who don't know us well. On this day, the family's bickering is put on hold. As Americans we will weep, as Americans we will mourn, and as Americans, we will rise in defense of all that we cherish.

Still, I keep wondering what it was you hoped to teach us. It occurs to me that maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of your hatred.

If that's the case, consider the message received. And take this message in exchange: You don't know my people. You don't know what we're about. You don't know what you just started.

But you're about to learn.

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[> Re: A NEW TYPE OF WAR -- STEVEUSA, 23:59:30 12/26/01 Wed (spider-tp031.proxy.aol.com/152.163.204.186)

> As of the last few days as I process the images
>forever burned into my brain by Islamic
>fundamentalists who hate our values, our freedoms, and
>our way of life, I wanted to post this message on our
>Canarsie website. I have never been PROUDER to be an
>American.The unity we have seen all over our country
>only steels my resolve. The enormity of our new
>reality is just now starting to sink in and my anger
>is growing. The tears are starting to come now,
>several times a day, signaling my change from shock to
>sadness and ultimately rage and anger.I hope that my
>Canarsie brothers and sisters can deal with the grief
>that has occured and probably/definately will continue
>to occur with a balance of unity, collective comfort
>and steel resolve to go on and do the grim tasks that
>we must do now.Look around you and see that the
>mourning, the volunteerism, the blood giving, all
>trancsend race and politics. For me, this is the only
>upside to the brutal attack on our country by a large,
>well financed, well coordinated group of TOWEL HEADED,
>JEALOUS,HATEFUL, PIECES OF SHIT!!!!These bastard
>mongrels will soon cease to exist.I am very happy to
>have George W Bush as Commander in Chief.We must all
>support him now.
Awesome post Mitch. This is far from over and people can't forget the feelings you put down when it was fresh in your mind.

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