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It's an act of War
Americans will not put up with this crap

As I was watching the wall to wall television coverage on the recent terrorist attacks to our country, my 6 year old son told me something that really kept me thinking.

He mentioned on how fake the special effects looked on the images the stations were showing on and on. I asked him to explain to me what he meant since he did not seem to be too shaken by the whole experience. He said; "Mom, this looks really fake, Independence Day (movie) was so much better".

That comment got me thinking, thinking about really, everything. I was glad in a way, that what he felt it was fantasy and not the reality most of us were feeling.

I most tell you, I was disturbed with total sense of disbelief. Who in the right mind could do such an atrocious thing. Hitler, Stalin and Napoleon have all been long dead.

How about Husein or Khadafi? Naw, this has to be somebody really evil. The last two are just clowns we have bombed in the past and "somehow" escaped our armed forces. They probably know better, so who the FUCK would do something like that?

Most of the experts seem to believe that Usama bin Laden is responsible for this. Who is this punk, and why would he even want to get something started againts the U.S. Destroying the World Trade Center and crashing the Pentagon with our own commercial planes is not right.

Usama bin Laden is a rich jack ass, who because of oil, has money to train weak-minded fanatic individuals into suicide missions to further his own agenda. This Saudi born imbecile believes that we as Americans, we are the "evil of the world". He feels that he has the self-righteousness to punish us and our way of life.

The truth of the matter is that, just like many before him, he is a shamless coward. He hides like a rat and feels great pleasure for the deeds he has done. On top of that, he then takes refuge under Allah as if he was doing all this because of some religious crusade. Memo to Usama and his gang of fools; I have never heard of any religious leader that approves of murder.

Well, I don't want to bore you with useless rhetoric. I do want to express to Mr. bin Laden my own take about his supposed actions:

• First of all, people who commit terrorist attacks like these must take complete responsibility for their actions. You have not done so, as of yet. This makes you a coward.
• If you feel so strong about what you say, then come out and fight yourself. Don't hide like a pussy!
• Americans do not put up with this shit. We will crush you, believe me, we will.

As a country, we will rally up and get back on our feet. I will personally will not allow some turban wearing loonie to dictate how I should live my life. I think we should try to mourn now and get back our lives.

Many believe that there will be many forthcoming changes as far as how we are going to live from now on. People on the news are talking about waiting 3 or 4 hours prior to take a flight. We are Americans, we won't put up with that!

We, as Americans, have been through similar situations in the past and have ultimately come on top. We have many allies that give us the edge to beat this brut.

As far as my son, well, perhaps he is too young to really understand this episode of American History. He keeps telling me that, is all make believe and the Red, White and Blue will prevail. If this is true, Will Smith... where are you?

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