[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: September 11: The Intent

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
September 11: The Intent 
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1189566158.shtml


   This being another Tuesday, September 11, it seems especially
   important to remember what happened six years ago. It seems a long
   time now, largely because there hasn't been a successful such attack
   since. With time, the 3,000 souls we lost seems increasingly less
   important, and maybe that's as it should be.
   What we should remember is the intent of Al Queda. Not only did they
   target and bring down the two towers, I think it's pretty clear that
   the Capitol and The White House were the other two targets. Poor
   navigation and the heroes of United flight 93 left both standing while
   the Pentagon became a secondary target. Imagine if they had succeeded,
   or now succeed on a larger scale, with a dirty bomb in a harbor
   somewhere for example.
   The body count in New York could have also been much higher, if the
   towers hadn't stayed up as long or had not pancaked almost straight
   down. In fact, go back to the 1992 bombing that came uncomfortably
   close to toppling at least one of those towers onto the New York
   streets.
   There is no limit to the carnage that these Islamic terrorists would
   inflict on us if they could. We must remain vigilant. The 3,000 we
   lost then and those since then serve to remind us of the stakes.
   We must never forget.