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What We Gonna Do America?

First let me say that, "I'M PISSED!" Second let me say that, "I'M SAD AS HELL!"

I'm having this bi-polar battle going on in my head. One moment I want to volunteer to strap a 500 pound bomb on my back and guide it down over them sons of bitches who organized and supported and still continue to support this cowardly bullshit.

I want to scream profanities and flip the bird......but.......then as quickly as I want to "strap up", I begin to feel this uncontrollable wave of total sadness and break down and cry. Its all so god damn sad to me. I'm sad, your sad, we're sad, they are sad, it's all so god damn depressing to me.

What more could our enemies ask for? We allow them into our country, no problem. We train them to fly our planes, no questions asked. We easily let them on our planes so they can hijack them, fly them into buildings and kill thousands of us. Anything else we can do for them?

66% of the people who responded to a Washington Post/ABC News Poll said they "would be willing to give up some of the liberties we have in this country in order for the government to crack down on terrorism." But which freedoms do we relinquish? The freedom to speak our minds? To practice any religion we desire? To associate with whomever we choose? The freedom to sleep at night without fear of overzealous law officers kicking down our doors?

Are We Tough Enough for the Sacrifices Ahead? Does America really have the backbone for this? I mean, the kind of unabashed resolve that we claim as part of our heritage, that we glamorize in our movies but which we have not been called upon to prove. How much freedom are we American's willing to sacrifice in hopes of avoiding another week like the one we just sat through?

As fear again focuses the never ending US debate over rights and responsibilities, citizens must make hard decisions about how they want to live.

Terrorists and their organizations absolutely must be eliminated and the countries that harbor them should be punished. No one who threatens national security should be allowed to waltz across US borders to visit, study or work. But the domestic battle against terrorism must not become an assault on this nation's values.

I just think that its our values that have to be examined. Maybe we all should individually examine our own immediate lives and throttle back some. Take a moment of silence for those departed souls, then take a moment of silence for ourselves...... and throttle back some.......let up on the gas a little..... So, What we gonna do America?

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