what more could i possibly say? it's fustratingly pathetic. the biggest disaster to happen in u.s. history & we, the pulbic, get nothing but spinning & jigoism. i can well tell you that the whole nation was/is in shock, disbelief, dispair & grief. and what do we get? well, during the terror, nothing, b/c the Bush Baby took off in a plane, just flew the coop, voosh*vamoose. so th u.s. public is left with no one in charge, while we were left to wonder if this was just the beginning of an all out attack on the u.s.? who was behind it all? is this a chemical/biological attack? who is in charge? no offical came on the radio/air for almost 2 hours after the attack. the full scale of the pentagon attack was only released slowly throughout the day. hearing the terror attacks adding up on the news, first the towers, then the pentagon, then the reports of pittsburg, & the fact that there were many more unidentified terrorists on the loose all over the country, made the public panic rise in the face of no official response. when they did prop Bushy up to the mike, he was only allowed to say a few very vague rehearsed sentences, lest he say something incredible stupid, callous,or unintelligible (as usual).

we, the american public, are in shock over the attacks & all Bush Baby can say to us by way of explaination is "they hate our freedom (*smirk*)". jesus*christ*on*ice, i mean, tis this guy for real? the biggest horror to transpire on our soil, & they (we are well aware it's not him. he couldn't tell you what his middle name is without prompting. when our d.c. press corp asked him after Blair's speech to your parliment what he wanted the taliban govt to know, he sat there blinking & looking around at a couple of his aides to either feed him a line or rescue him. it's too embarassing to even watch. and by the way, it is rare that we see him in front of ANY live journalists at all. when he is, he has very short, simple rehearsed statments & he won't take live questions.)want us to swallow that crap??? as if there is no backstory, no past, no information whatsoever on who did it? what the reasoning might be? the mass news outlets are tabloid whores, plain & simple. they dragged out grieving family members of the victims to parade them in their shock over the air waves with pictures of the missing, as if we the public, who cannot help, are going to get off over that. they gave their coverage snappy titles like AMERICA ATTACKED! & whatnot. they didn't really seem to hold to any journalistic ethics, either, by leaking a supposed picture of palestinians cheering in the streets over the bombings, before the facts of who did it came in, & full well knowing that it would inflame the public against Arab Americans.

A toast, no less, from 1953. IMC - as relevant as ever.