From:	shadowrn@*********.com (Steve Collins)
Subject:	Oh my god!
Date:	Tue Sep 11 15:20:01 2001

----- Original Message -----
From: david lowe-rogstad <dlowe@****.com>
To: <shadowrn@*********.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: Oh my god!


> At 12:20 PM -0500 9/11/01, J. Keith Henry wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Peter Andersson" <wolfbane@********.se>
> >Subject: Re: Oh my god!
> >> Here in Sweden they are drawing pararrells(sp) to Pearl Harbor. Does
> >> anyone have anything "better" to compair to?
> >
> >The news are making comparisons to Oklahoma City bombing a few years
> >previously. And in no disrespect to that incident, the scale of this one
is
> >far bigger. I can't find/recall another terrorist event of this scale
> >anywhere. Anyone else?
>
> i wouldn't even put it close to pearl harbor. pearl harbor was an
> attack by on country's armed forces on another's. historically, in
> fact, most civilian casualties in peal harbor were from friendly
> and/or accidental fire.
>
> whether terrorist or military, this has no comparison to any other
> peacetime attack. estimated death tolls are at 10,000+ civilian and
> civil servant casualties. short of hiroshima or nagasaki (ahem), i
> can't think of any single attack of such magnitude on a civilian
> target.
>
> my biggest fear, as an american citizen, is who we have to lead us
> through this crisis. to quote my wife "fortunately, bush doesn't
> really run anything anyway, lets just hope the people who run
> everything do the right thing."
>
> d.
>


There were a great many attacks on civilian centers in WW2 that resulted
inmore deaths than this, Hiroshima and Nagasaki as you mentioned but also
the Rape of Nanking, the firebombings of Tokyo and Stutgart? The Battle of
Lenningrad.

That said while all of them may have been atrocities they were at least
commited in the prosectuion of a war and do not come close to a terrorist
attack. The closest indeed is Pearl Harbor but even that involved mostly
military deaths, in reality there is nothing whatsoever in history to
compare to this.


And finally while I may not be much of a Bush supporter lets not have any
political bashing of him in here as I guarantee there are plenty of his
supporters in here who would quite likely be offended by it and it can lead
to nothing but a flamewar.


Steve