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U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3797Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 3Total 3800Latest Coalition Fatality: Sep 25, 2007The Charge Of The Light Brigadeby Alfred, Lord TennysonMemorializing Events in the Battle of Balaclava, October 25, 1854Written 1854Half a league half a league,Half a league onward,All in the valley of DeathRode the six hundred:’Forward, the Light Brigade!Charge for the guns’ he said:Into the valley of DeathRode the six hundred.’Forward, the Light Brigade!’Was there a man dismay’d ?Not tho’ the soldier knewSome one had blunder’d:Theirs not to make reply,Theirs not to reason why,Theirs but to do & die,Into the valley of DeathRode the six hundred.Cannon to right of them,Cannon to left of them,Cannon in front of themVolley’d & thunder’d;Storm’d at with shot and shell,Boldly they rode and well,Into the jaws of Death,Into the mouth of HellRode the six hundred.Flash’d all their sabres bare,Flash’d as they turn’d in airSabring the gunners there,Charging an army whileAll the world wonder’d:Plunged in the battery-smokeRight thro’ the line they broke;Cossack & RussianReel’d from the sabre-stroke,Shatter’d & sunder’d.Then they rode back, but notNot the six hundred.Cannon to right of them,Cannon to left of them,Cannon behind themVolley’d and thunder’d;Storm’d at with shot and shell,While horse & hero fell,They that had fought so wellCame thro’ the jaws of Death,Back from the mouth of Hell,All that was left of them,Left of six hundred.When can their glory fade?O the wild charge they made!All the world wonder’d.Honour the charge they made!Honour the Light Brigade,Noble six hundred!
More than six years after the September 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden remains free.
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26 September 2007, 22:37
Yes indeed. After six years, 600,000 Iraqi deaths, and 3800 American casualties, the man who purportedly was the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks is still at large.
But instead of concentrating on finding and hunting not only him, but his cohorts, they decided to wreak havoc instead.To the rest of the world, the US is very much like a drunken giant tearing everything before its path, forever crying ’9/11, 9/11’; a sad lonely, pathetic giant who apparently doesn’t care for the consequences of its actions. or even if it finds the real criminals.
The US is dying giant (considering it is no longer is the world’s largest manufacturer of anything, considering that the dollar continues to fall every year) that doesn’t care all about real justice, so long as it kills and maims as many Muslims as possible.
Yet, insane as this must sound, the neocons use this same man, Bin Laden as their favorite poster boy whenever any of their ill-though out plans start falling apart. Which of course, means virtually all of their poorly thought out plans.
It has always astounded me that the supposedly loyal opposition, the Dimocrats, never took up the rational idea of taking on the neocons for this stupid blunder on their part.
This would have been an easy lay up for them.
IF what US intelligence agencies have been telling us for years is true, that it was Osama who was the mastermind behind 9/11, then this demented President and his entire administration are a sham, a total failure.
He did not succeed at all in capturing the real culprits in the crime
But then again, he never cared to.
This war was never about attacking terrorism, it was and remains a war of aggression, a war to steal another country’s resources.