The anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States is a time for Americans to remember they are "one nation under God" — no matter what that God is called, U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday.
Saturday will mark nine years since the deadly attacks, committed by Islamic militants, which killed nearly 3,000 people in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Penn.
In recent months, events like the proposed burning of the Qur'an in Florida and the outcry over a proposed Islamic cultural centre near Ground Zero have uncovered deep-seated feelings of suspicion and resentment toward Muslims.
Obama attributed those feelings in part to the struggling U.S. economy.
"I think that at a time when the country is anxious generally and going through a tough time, then fears can surface, suspicions, divisions can surface in a society," Obama told reporters at a press conference Friday morning.
He harkened back to the days and months following the Sept. 11 attacks, praising then President George W. Bush, whom he more often criticizes, for being "crystal-clear about the fact that [America was] not at war with Islam."
"And I will do everything that I can … to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation," he said.
"I think it is absolutely important now for the overwhelming majority of the American people to hang on to that thing that is best in us, a belief in religious tolerance, clarity about who our enemies are — our enemies are al-Qaeda and their allies who are trying to kill us.
"We have to make sure that we don't start turning on each other."
As in other years, official ceremonies are planned Saturday in each of the three locations that were struck.
Obama will attend a commemoration at the Pentagon, while Vice-President Joe Biden will attend the ceremony at Ground Zero. First lady Michelle Obama and former first lady Laura Bush will travel to Shanksville to observe the anniversary there.
In other words let's wait until the 10th anniversary to start our war on Islam. Let's face it, Al-Qaeda is a terrorist organization that burst forth on the scene many years ago as a minor threat to the US.... Just because they planned and somehow carried out the worst attack on US soil (with or without the help of US official competance), doesn't mean they are some how as strong and anywhere equal to the US in anything.
Face facts - the only thing that keeps alqueda going is the fact that their troops live in the Afganistan/Pakistan border area, and their true power lives in Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries.
How else would these cave dwellers managed to carry on the Jihad, but mainstream support from these countries? It is well known that Pakistan is on one hand an US ally on the war on terror, and on the other hand actively supporting the alqueda and taliban.
The time will come when the US will say enough is enough and start an all out war with Islamic countries that don't want to tone down their support for Islamic terrorist organizations.
The end of combat operations in IRAQ, give me a break. That country will slip into another dictatorship when all the western forces leaves and the most powerfull warlord flexes his muscles.
And what of Afghanistan, the country that we tried to adopt and change for the last number of years? That country too will be powered by whom ever has the most forces when we finally leave.. And training them will only benefit the warlords that these citizens back up...
The whole thing is shite,, and it should have been left as shite on Sep 10th,, good one you guys,,,, but can you hear me over the jet engines warming up on our B-52, B-1,and B-2 bombers?
And fucking George and his links to Osama? It may take a lot of years, but if there are still folks living in the year 2075, they will shake their heads as to how this costly enterprise came to be. And at the same time we will be under German control, of course. The future is already being foreshadowed, because Canadian Forces are riding around in state of the art Leo 2A6 Panzers! But I'll save that for another rant. And you know its coming..
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