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My MIL brought up some video in YouTube that she said her cousin put together -- A 9/11 We Will Not Forget video. The munchkins were asking "What's that?", "Is that happening now?" and MIL answered that bad guys bombed us back on 9/11.
I'm sorry. I just could not hold it in any longer. I said, loud enough for everyone to hear, "That's not true. A few bad terrorists, mostly Saudi terrorists, under the direction of Osama bin Laden , hijacked some commercial jets and flew them into the Pentagon and the towers. We're the bad guys with the bombs in Iraq the past 5 years." MIL countered with "But 3000 of our people died in those attacks". I volleyed back by telling her the 3700+ American soldiers who are dead from this resulting "War on Terror" will never see their families, their children, their friends again, and the number rises daily -- For what? While our sons/daughters are dying in a country not related to 9/11 except by this administration's wishful thinking, B* is playing kissy-face with the Saudi royals, jetting them out of the country when no American was allowed in the air, dreaming he's at an OPEC meeting instead of APEC, and OBL is still floating around out there somewhere."
My BIL said Bill Clinton had a chance to get OBL 2 yrs before he left office, and he didn't, so he's to blame too. I said don't hold him at fault, GWB has had the past 6 years, billions of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and he hasn't gotten him either.
Then I left. I hope they have a nice trip. This was a send-off family dinner for their 3-month retirement camping excursion. At least it will be memorable. ;)
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