"In a speech to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Mr Bush said many terrorists blamed for plotting the 11 September attacks remained in hiding." BBC Report / Dec. 8, 2001 And then, a few days later, President Bush delivered a speech to students of Citidel military college in Charlestown S.C. In the rowsing speech, of December 11, 2001 (the three-month anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon) he again compared the events of September 11 to Pearl Harbor and called for more military spending. His analogy is perhaps fitting as our country is now plagued by a barrage of fear-mongering and pro-war propaganda to drum up support for territorial war efforts. And, this all conveniently follows the recent release of a new special-effects thriller called - Pearl Harbor. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, our country reached new lows of racist scapegoating, decimination of falsified information and devestating attacks on civilian centers. Ultimately, the American government opted to lock up Japanese-American citizens here and to abrubtly end the war (that our generals were so eager to get us into) by dropping two nuclear bombs on civilian cities to scare the Japanese so badly that they would stand down and let good o'l Uncle Sam be the dominant power in the Pacific. That is the definition - the paragon of terrorism. Two nuclear bombs that killed 250,000 people, out of a total population of 70 Million. Nagasake and Hiroshima are the preimminent and grandest terrorist attacks of modern history. The destruction and senseless death that they wrought have held the world in fear of nuclear devestation and have provided the horrible backdrop of what came to be known as the "cold war."

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